as recounted by Dale, the Toe bass guy
an incomplete list

• Bowieoke 2006! At the Lime Spider. You can never be too Bowie or too Oke, I always say.
  
• Christmas Day, 2006! It's us and the fabulous Same Things for an awesome Christmas Day show at the Lime Spider. I came down with the flu halfway through the show so I don't remember a whole lot about it. Except that we rawked.
• October 10, 2006! Joeyoke! At the Lime Spider! And you haven't lived until you've heard our legendary cover of "The KKK Took My Baby Away"
• July 28th, 2006! We open for the legendary Hammer Damage. One of the few times we've opened for someone at the Lime Spider. We rawked, natch!
  
• Christmas Day, 2005! The Patrick Sweaney Band opens. We rawk out the rest of the night. The Lime Spider hosts.
  
• December 21, 2005! We're at the Zephyr Pub with a rockabillyish band whose name escapes me.
• December 17, 2005! We revisit the Maple Grove with 4 Degrees by Sunday. Rawking ensues.
• December 10, 2005! We play Square Records with the legendary 0dfx.
• December 9, 2005! Joeyoke! We oke! At the Lime Spider.
  
• November 23, 2005!  We kick off the Xmas season at Thursday's Lounge. Jeff almost gets into a three-way.
  
• July 29, 2005! An awesome Christmas in July show with Plane at the fab Lime Spider.
  
• April 29, 2005! It's a rockabilly plus us night at the Lime Spider. We open for the Lords of the Highway and the Gore Gore Girls. The Gore Gore bass player broke a string and had no backup, so she had to borrow my Rickenbacker. Which sounded way better than her Gretsch. And my bass still has the faint scent of Gore Gore Girl.
  
• Christmas Day, 2004! Another awesome Christmas show at the Lime Spider with Interfuse. We thought we rawked the house, but the Free Times gave Interfuse the better review. Which started a feud which as lasted to this very day.
• December 23, 2004! We rawk the Voodoo. The metal chicks don't know what hit them.
• November 27th, 2004! We play the Bing, which is in the spooky part of Akron. Some guy wants to sleep with everyone in the band but me.
• November 24th, 2004! We kick off the holiday season at Thursday's Lounge.
  
• September 25th, 2004! We played up for the second night of the F.I.M.P. Comp 2 release party. I'm glad we played early as it was a long night.
• September 17th, 2004! Bowieoke! We were the last act. Which really should have been the band that didn't exactly play any Bowie songs, rather than us.
  
• September 3rd, 2004! We rawked the Luna Grille in Canton. And ate pasta.
  
• August 14^th, 2004! Another summer, another Maple Grove show. We played with The Totally Wired and Dropgun. One of our better performances this year, I thought. I remember sweating a whole lot, either from the sheer intensity of our rock and roll or because it was hot under the stage lights.
• July 23^rd! Our annual Christmas in July show at the Lime Spider. We headlined, Broadzilla  and  The Betty Fords opened. The Betty Fords were kinda pissed they had to go on first. Little did they know.
• July 16^th! We played the fab Luna Grille in gear Canton, Ohio. And they fed us!
  
• April 10, 2004! We opened for The King Dapper Combo and the Hillbilly Varmints at the Luna Grille. I really enjoy playing the Luna even if it is one heck of a long drive down there.
  
• January 3rd, 2004! We played Bowieoke put on by the fine folks at the Ohio Hysterical Musick Society. There were lots of bands and lots of people oke-ing that night.
  
• Christmas Day, 2003! According to the Free Times, we were "rock and roll incarnate" that night. Hopefully that link will stay up for a while, as we like to have proof that we are "rock and roll incarnate".
• December 19th, 2003! Another Special Power Trio show, this time at the Luna Grille in Canton and this time with me on bass and without James on lead guitar. Not a bad show considering we were at half-strength guitar-wise. The folks there liked the show and the owners asked us back! Now that James has a job he really needs to get his priorites straight. What's more important, Missile Toe or feeding your family?
  
• December 12th, 2003! We close out the night at the Maple Grove following The Masons and The Totally Wired. Always fun to play the Grove, and playing with The Totally Wired is like a mini-PL3K reunion for me.
  
• November 26th, 2003! We played with Sky Chief and Waiting for Evangeline at Thursday's Lounge. The lovely Ann Spider was our barmaid. I had several very large Guinesses and didn't realize how hard they hit me until I tried putting my amp together.  Being drunk makes it that much harder to duck thrown panties.
• November 9th, 2003! Us and Mad Happy at the Lime Spider. I think we played by special request of an entirely different band who bailed on the show.  So we did a Sunday night with Mad Happy who I liked. Except for the poetry reading section. Not a huge crowd, but it was a Sunday night and we had played the week before. And by "we" I mean all my fellow Toes but me.
  
• October 31st, 2003! Special Power Trio show at the Lime Spider! I (Dale) was out of town at the time so I have no idea how much they rawked. James said the thrown pantie count was higher than usual. Hopefully, he will provide us with one of this famous Show Diaries.
  
• July 18th, 2003! Us, The King Dapper Combo and The Legion of Incredibly Strange Superheroes at the Lime Spider! It was the week before I moved and I was stressed out over the move so I don't remember a damn thing that happened. Except that we went on pretty late, Jeff wore a dress, and we rawked.
• Christmas Day, 2002! Lots of snow on the ground, yet the Spider was crowded.
  
• December 14^th, 2002! It was a big long messy night at the Voodoo in Akron. Up until 5:30 I did not think we were even going to play. Then I got the call-up, showered, dressed, headed down and neglected to eat. When I got there, I found out we weren't on the bill. We contemplated bailing, but realized we had a duty to all the metal chicks in the bar. So the night opened up with the Radix and First Offense, a couple of local punk bands. I liked the Radix a lot. Then we saw Sindust, a local metal band. And Stemm, who did a rap-metal thing. And then the Balboas did their mighty surf thang. And then we brought down the house. Lucky for us, the nominal headliner, Flaw, got stuck in Kentucky. So we got to play. A lot of the metal kids left when Flaw announced they would not be able to play. So they missed their chance to see the two hardest rocking bands to ever play at the Voodoo. Their loss. A strange evening all around.
• December 13^th, 2002! We played at a party in Akron. And my apartment got robbed. Earlier. I was kind of frazzled at the party because of that.
• November 29th, 2002! We start the Christmas season at Thursdays' Lounge in Akron. We rawked. 'Nuff said.
  
• August 9^th, 2002! Bowieoke at the NorJea Gallery in downtown Akron. Also appearing were C.D. Truth and AToMTwelve and a bunch of people, all doing Bowie covers. We played 5 or 6 songs and cheated a little by throwing in a cover of that Bowie/Crosby composition "Little Drummer Boy." Johnny Silver used my amp at this gig. Which is cool as I've used his amp at many gigs and even manier Toe practices.  Not so cool was carrying my gear up 3 flights of stairs. The next time we play a show here and C. D. Truth play I'm gonna make Johnny Silver bring the ampage, dammit! 
• July 31^st, 2002! The end of the 2002 Christmas in July season with a New Year's Eve in July Show at Thursdays Lounge in Akron. We played first and I completely cannot remember the name of the band who played after we did. Most of us absconded to the Lime Spider to check out the Candysnatchers after the show. 
• July 26^th, 2002! South Euclid. Christmas in July party hosted by one of James' co-workers. That is,  coworkers besides us, the Toe lads. James occasionally pretends he's a working stiff rather than full-time rock star to let him, you know, relate to ordinary people. We did a mix of Christmas songs and rock songs until the cops came. Which was in the middle of 'Ballrooom Blitz'. After that we had some beers and impressed the ladies. It was fun while it lasted.
  
• July 25^th, 2002! A hot and happening Christmas in July show at The Avenue in Kent with Sexual Tension (who I liked) and, I think, Kill The Hippies! We smoked. There were lots of cute girls there. I didn't stick around for Kill The Hippies for a reason that seemed very good at the time, but now only makes me feel lame. Something about having to work the next day and having to drive over an hour home. This show might exist on video somewhere. I think I saw Jimi Imij  taping us.
• July 20^th , 2002! It's the return of Sara's Christmas in July Party! On Cleveland's West Side! Where the cops don't care how much noise you make! For some reason I had to show up early to help prep for the party even though I'm no longer dating the hostess. Go figure. Lucky for her I'm such a nice  guy. We rawked, of course. The partygoers loved us. And there was beer and food a-plenty for all!
• June 29^th, 2002! At least I think that's the date. It was a last-minute gig at Cedar's in Youngstown and I wasn't feeling especially well and was planning on staying in that night like a sad little man. But when the call came I leapt to action, drove down to James' house, and we headed to Y-Town. James drove, I rode shotgun. James pulled double duty that night as the Mundanes played, too. I got to use the Mundanes' gigantic Ampeg tube amp and accompanying gigantic 8x10 cabinet and played my Rickenbacker so I sounded huger than usual. Had  a pierogie pizza at the eating part of Cedar's - I carb-loaded for the show. We played last. When the sound guy made us stop, the beautiful women who were dancing begged us to continue. I asked them to use their feminine wiles (of which there were plenty, I was surprised by the sheer pulchritude of the women at Cedar's) on the sound guy but it was no use. We left them satisfied, yet aching for even more. Also playing were Liquor Box, who are sort of in the same genre we're in except for the Christmas parts.
  
• June 1^st, 2002! Our triumphant return to the Lime Spider in Downtown Akron. opening was Shock Cinema who we've played with before. I'll have to admit, they're not my bag as they want to be Motley Crue in a non-ironic way. They were better than I remembered. But not my bag. I think the Trash Brats, a legendary glam band from out Detroit way, were supposed to play. But didn't get booked due to their rockstarish demands. Which is probably lucky for them as we would have just blown them away.
• May 25^th, 2002! This was our second show at Club Zythos in Pittsburgh. We played second, I think. Out of 3 or 4 bands. Don't remember any of the other bands names as I was majorly sleep deprived by then. Drove to Akron to get Mike and his gear, drove to Subway, drove to Pittsburgh, then drove Mike home, and then home myself. I like Zythos. We oughts to play there again someday. It was a pretty  fun weekend. Or it seemed fun because I got no actual sleep.
• May 24^th, 2002! We played Club Zythos in Pittsburgh with Zombo's Legion of Incredibly Strange Superheroes. They liked us so much they wanted us back the next day! Which we did. Also, the pizza place around the corner from Zythos has fantastic buck-a-slice pizza! Got no sleep that night. I drove my Saturn. Mike rode shotgun. Jeff and James rode in Jeff's Saturn. Mike has a Saturn, too. You think James would get one to fit in.
• January 26^th, 2002! It was the Shari Rose Birthday Celebration at the Lime Spider! We rawked out with the King Dapper Combo (who always rawk my world - and they do a bitchin' cover of 'Teenage Head'), the Cassettes and the Memphis Kings. The fine folks at the Ohio Hystairical Musick Society have put some nice pics of the gig up here. The bass player for the Cassettes used my bass amp at this gig. We played every non-Christmas song we knew, and even a couple that we didn't know. Another late night at the Spider.
• Christmas Day, 2001! Super special Christmas Day show at the Lime Spider with Strange Division. They rawked. We rawked until the cows came home. And then went out again. And came home once more. A video tape of this show exists courtesy of scene historian Jimi Imij. So I could in theory put together a set list so you would know what we played. I can tell you I played my customized red P Bass for the Christmas half of the show and my EB-3 for the secular half.
• December 22^nd, 2001! We played a Christmas party in Brecksville. It was lots of fun. I'd tell you more, but there would be legal repercussions.
• December 14^th, 2001! This was Full Wave Rectifier's show at the Lime Spider. but for some reason we played after them. Must be the 'nobody wants to go on after Missile Toe' syndrome that many bands suffer from. But the Rectifiers rawk mightily,  their fear is unnecessary. Opening was an alt.country band from somewhere called Say Zuzu. I think this was  the usual Spider 'play until it's very late and we start to forget the songs' show. So it  rawked. Played my Rickenbacker and wore my glasses  to be more FWRish.
• December 8^th, 2001! Sheer frickin' chaos! A typical Mantis Gallery show, I guess.  I remember not liking the first band, much. Don't remember who they were but they shoegazed a lot. And wanted to go on after us, which would have made them look even sadder by comparison. We were up second and, well, chaos reigned and we ruled. The crowd was nuts. And sweaty. And beer covered. Black Label is the beer of choice at the Mantis and it was all over the place. After us were Strange Division, who we liked enough to have them play with us, although later they dicked around with some of Jeff's gear at  a C. D. Truth show so I doubt we will play with them again.  I think later Kill The Hippies played, and this wrasslin' band played, too. Jimi Imij videotaped the show. I've got a tape. If it wasn't awfully masturbatory for me to do so, I'd watch the tape every frickin' day! 
• James' Show Diary for the December 8^th Mantis Gig
  
• December 16^th, 2001! Another Thursdays show. For some reason I thought we were playing first, which was cool as it was a school night and I thought maybe I could get some sleep that night. I was oh-so-wrong. A band that I liked and can't even remotely remember who they were opened. Then we played. I was pretty pissed about having to stay up late. Except that Thursdays had the most beautiful barmmaid ever in the history of the world working that night. Which made it all worthwhile.
• November 24^th, 2001! We kick off the '01 Christmas Season with our first-ever Lime Spider show! Opening are  Headset and the Blow-up Dolls. And then we played into the wee hours. The night was notable for the return of Buffi a.k.a the "summer songs" girl who was featured  on the back cover of  the 'nice' version of Down On A Thistle. Don't know if she'll ever come see us again, though. It was 60 degrees that afternoon. I did a 25 mile or so bike ride in my shorts that day. Which did not really put me in a Christmasy mood.
• James' Show Diary for the November 24^th Lime Spider Gig
  
• August 25^th, 2001! 4 band show at The Avenue in Kent! Also up were Interfuse, the Chargers Street Gang and someone else who I liked but they were from outta town and I have not idea who they were.
• July 27^th, 2001! A Maple Grove show w/ Stab-O-Matic and Peep. At least I think it was with Peep. I'd had a long day at work and was incredibly tired and just wanted togo home and sleep during Stab-O-Matic even though they're real good. The guitarist from Stab-O-Matic played without his shirt and that was just plain wrong.
• July 21^st, 2001! Bingo madness at  the Nickel Bingo Hall in beautiful Pittsburgh, PA! Zombo set the show up, which had actual Bingo in between the acts. The Hillbilly Varmint's set it all up and then we brought down the house at  the end of  the night. Total and complete fun. One of our more memorable shows. There was a sign on the wall saying "Quickies Every Hour on the Half Hour"! I was there for three hours without a single quickie coming my way. Some guy tried playing trombone with us. Which was foolish as our arrangements are awful tight and he didn't add a darn thing. Plus, you couldn't hear him above the mighty fury that is Toe. Surprised  he didn't get a Les Paul upside the head. Oh, and they guy who owned the bingo place was one extremely cranky old man.
• July 14^th, 2001! Sara's first Christmas in July party! Featuring the musical majesty of Missile Toe, the bountiful barbecueing of Al, and the sushi chefery of Martin, Shawn and Ron. People came, ate, and then rawked out to Missile Toe. Great party, but the cleanup was a bear. And who did most of the cleaning? I did! And did I get credit for it? No! But I digress. It was a nice party. And we wowed  a lot  of people with what  I  remember as being a really good set. This was also the first and only time my parents saw Missile  Toe. They've since disowned me, and are now suing me.
  
• May 19^th, 2001!  I rode my bike to Guitar Center West in North Olmsted and back (50+ miles) on my bike the day of this show. And it was pretty early in the biking season to be doing that, and then expecting to play rock 'n' roll that night. Pretty stoopid of me. I remember my legs were incredibly sore and I kept popping Ibuprofen all evening. When we showed up at the Maple Grove we found Shock Cinema's gear all over the stage. They were the headliner and would be playing last. There was no reason for them to have their shit on the stage, except that's what they do at Metal joints. This pissed us, the lads in Missile Toe, off. Eventually we talked to the manager, who's a nice guy named Nick, and he got the Shocksters to remove  their gear. And we set ours up as we went on first. And really, the other bands should have given up then. But it is to their collective credit that they did not. So we played, and this skanky girl kept yelling "Shock! Cinemaaaa!" after every one of our songs. Then were the Knockouts who I remember as being a pretty good rockabilly-glam thing, but they were kinda rockstars. Then came Shock Cinema, who wanted to be rockstars so bad you could could taste it and it made your fillings hurt. I talked to their bass player before the show and he told me they were influenced by bands like Motley Crue and Poison. And he wasn't kidding. I hid downstairs during most of their set. Which is kind of rude. But --- Motley Crue? WTF? It might be funny if you did a sort of ironic winking nnudge nudge Motely Crue-esque band. I have a hard time taking that shite seriously.
  
• April 14^th, 2001!  I pulled double-duty that night as I played in both Planet Log 3000 and Missile Toe. Jeff pulled double duty as he played in both C. D. Truth and Missile Toe. As I recall, we had  the cute redheaded barmaid dancing on the bar during 'Balllroom Blitz'. With great power there must also come great responsibility.
• Christmas Day 2000! Our annual Christmas show. I showed up first, natch, at Thursdays' Lounge. Got there before the place even opened. Eventually someone showed up and let us in and we got set up. C. D. Truth warmed up. Or more appropriately, knocked 'em dead. Then we took the stage. It was a long night and one of those times where Sucker MCs should have called us all sire. I was playing the Danelectro that night, until the strap button broke right at the beginning of "Gloria" and I had to hold the frickin' bass up and play for the next eight minutes or so. James said "Those Koreans let you down, man!". Finished the gig out with the P bass. We played a long long time and eventually took a bathroom break around 1:30ish. Some geeky guy came up and tried to sing in to the mike and I think we might have even got partway through Blitzkreig Bop with him singing. We then got rid of him and finished out the night. By the end of the set we couldn't even start 'Born to Lose' properly. But we played it anyways. And rawked. One of our better, except maybe towards the end there.
• December 8^th, 2000! My first ever gig at the legendary JB's Down in Kent. Except now it's Grooveyard Studio One and owned by the Shawn guy from Cyde who recored our fab CD Down On A Thistle. We headlined. Opening were C.D. Truth, who rawked as usual, and the Crackhouse jazz Quartet. Then we played.  It felt good to be on that stage.  It was a cold, cold night.
• November 24th, 2000! Except for the fact that the people who ran Annabelle's were complete dicks and didn't pay us, this was one of our best shows ever. The folks who ran the bar thought Jeff had transgressed the unwritten law at a C.D. Truth show, and therefore were not going to pay us. Which is too bad as we drew a big crowd and entertained the hell out of everyone there. We smoked, everything clicked and we had more energy than a matter-antimatter reaction. It was Full Wave Rectifier's show that night and there was no point going on after us. And I think Jer of FWR said as much.. But go on they did annd they rawked. They're a great live band. It was one of those nights where my faith in rock 'n' roll pays off in spades. Except for the not gettng paid and not playing there again part. That bummed me out, but not until later.
• September 2^nd, 2000! Us, Peep and Full Wave Rectifier at Jillian's in Downtown Akron. Peep opens. James is pulling double duty that night - which means he's got the Matchless instead of the Marshall. James always said the Matchless has a better bloom and in the email for  the show I asked everyone to yell "Nice bloom, James!"in between songs. Then we played. Then Full Wave Rectifier played. This was back in the days when they did that cool song about shooting old people in to space. I like that song a lot. I think they stopped playing it just to spite me.
• August 24^th, 2000! We played the Outrigger out in Portage Lakes. A couple bands opened and played too long. We played last. It was a weeknight and  the Portage Lakes are very far from home.
• August 3^rd, 2000! At Jillian's with The King Dapper Combo and CD Truth. The Dapppers did a stunning version of "The Cat Came Back." 
• July 28^th, 2000! A big happy Christmas in July show at Thursdays Lounge with C.D. Truth and Kill The Hippies. This was before I liked Kill The Hippies. I dig them now, but was too square back in mid-2000. I'm less L7 now.
• June 15th, 2000! We did a lot of shows at Jilllian's in a brief period, didn't we? This tiime we were the opener for Man From Glad and Full Wave Rectifier. The only time I've seen my pal Chris' band Man From Glad although I'd really to see them again. Or play with them because they draw big. Think  it was a weeknight and there were still a ton of  people there. A young lady handed me a slip of paper that said "Play Some Ramones" and we complied.
• May 18^th, 2000! Jillians'. Peep. CD Truth. And us. This was the debut of the off-season version of Missile Toe.
• December 31^st, 1999! The last ever Nimrods show! C. D. Truth! And our special end-of-the-world tribute to the Rubber City Rebels featuring Pete Sake on the keys! We played last. I got home at 5 and my power was out. Apparently the power only failed on Y2K Day in 3^rd world countries like Cleveland Heights.
• Christmas Day, 1999! - Our second annual Christmas Day show, this time opening for Dink 2000 at Jillian's. It was mighty cold that night. I came to the bar straight from my parent's house so my family has seen me in my candy-apple red Christmas gear and I will never live down the shame.
• December 23^rd, 1999! We played the  "Live From Cleveland" show on WRUW 91.1 FM in Cleveland for the second year in the row. Somewhere I've got the show on CD.  Marty  and the other guys were great hosts as always.
• December 18^th, 1999! Our only show so far at the Highland Theater in my old neighborhood of Highland Square on the West Side of Akron. Zombo organized  the gig and I know there was a Christmas-related theme but I can't remember for the life of me what it was. We smoked 'em at this show - Ron Mullens a.k.a. Bodini a.k.a Pete Sake videoed the show  and just recently gave it to me on VCD and we just rawk everyone's socks off. Also appearing that night were the Balboas and KDC UK, the punk English King Dapper Combo tribute band, too. And some other bands.
• December 17^th, 1999! Another show at the now-defunct Blind Lemon with the now-defunct Nimrods and the throroughly funct Balboas. The Balboas declared it "Tain t Night" and there was much rawking. This show was  the debut of my shiny red vinyl pants.
• December 10^th, 1999! Part of the Nimrods end-of-life tour. They played. We played. Some earnest young men played and I felt kind of bad for them. They were good and all, but we smoked 'em that night. All at the late-great Euclid Tavern.
• December 3^rd, 1999! The "Down On a Thistle" CD release party at Thursdays Lounge in Akron. The Summer Girl was there and we collectively learned that her name was Buffi after only knowing her as "The Summer Songs Girl". We gave her a free CD since her picture was on the back of the "nice" edition and all. She becomes even more of a legend amongst the Toe brothers. And we rawk the house.
• November 26^th, 1999! We kick off the Christmas season with a benefit show at the now-defunctBlind Lemon. Jason from the now-defunct Free Times interviewed us before the show and then went to write a cool interview and a nice review of "Down On A Thistle". This was the first night we had discs available. Some of them were still wet from the printing process. We played an abbreviated set. When the guy said "one song to go" we of course played our ten minute version of "Gloria".
• October 23^rd, 1999! We play Annabelle's with James' art band Peep. Linda and I share amplification equipment.
• July 16^th, 1999! We rawk Thursdays with C.D. Truth. During our set, a cute blonde keeps coming up on stage and asking us to "play some summmer songs". Which we do not do. So she keeps coming back up. She becomes a legend amongst the Toe brothers and someone snaps a couple of pictures of her. She is known as "The Summer Girl" or simply "Summer".
  
• July 7^th, 1999! A Christmas in July show with C.D. Truth at The Avenue in Kent. Mike is sick as a dog so we have some members of the Legion of Substitute Toe Brothers drum for us at night. Most of the beat was kept by Gary "UFO" Boss  of Peep, Sunshine Suicide and Joy Circuit fame. Also drumming were the two non-Jeff members of C.D. Truth: Scott Schrade and Jonathan Lee. Thanks fellas. If this was a Captain America comic and you guys were policeman I'd be saying "You fellas are the real heroes!" except in all caps and hand-lettered. And I'd look a lot like Jack "King" Kirby drew me.
• July 2^nd, 1999! Our first out-of-town show. We play the Mad Lab in Columbus. James, our chauffeur Gary "UFO" Boss, and I get a hotel room North of town while Mike and Jeff drive in and out that same day. James gets his first ever Skyline chili and we hang out on High Street that afternoon. Before the show we try in vain to find somewhere to eat near the Mad Lab but to no avail. We drank a lot, though. Kind of made up for it. Fourth of July fireworks for that night. The local act, The Weird Love Makers, does not show. So it's us and Little Fyodr, out of Denver. The show starts real late and, without a local act, not a lot of people show up. Fyodr starts late and I found him to be the most annoying act we've ever played with. We were itching to get on stage and he would keep going on and on and all his stuff was real schticky and was probably unique during the Carter Administration. His last bit was "Dance of the Salted Slug" and he played a tape and danced kind of pointlessly around for 10 minutes or so. We eventually went  on. We rawked the world of everyone who was there. Then we went to a TJ's for a greasy breakfast at a table next to a lesbian softball team. I only say that because they said out loud (real loud, in fact) that they were a lesbian softball team.
• March 21^st, 1999! Our only night at the Dusty Frog in Akron. I have a CD of the show and it smokes. I think this was some kind of special Christmas thing for people who do restaurant and bar work and appparently do not have time to celebrate Christmas with the rest of us. Danny Basone mixed, I think.
  
• Christmas Day, 1998! It's the Joy Circuit reunion show at Wet, which is attached to a Panini's and used to be the new half of the Daily Double back in the day. Huge crowd. James was sick as a pack of sick dogs, yet he pulled through and everything came together. One of our best gigs ever from both a crowd reaction standpoint and from sheer smug self-satisfaction on our parts.
• December 23^rd, 1998! It's the Final Solution reunion show at the The Rock on Carroll Street in Akron. Our only show there.  It devolved into a late night drinking and dancing on the bar kind of night. And I saw far more of the barmaid than I wanted to. There was a sign, an ad for some beer, that said "Welcome Hunters". In the middle of Akron. I don't think there's a lot of hunting going on there. And I dunno if I want to be around guys with shotguns after they've pounded a bunch of Coors  or PBR or whatever.
  
• December 18^th, 1998! Thursdays! With surf gods The Balboas! We faced kinda catty-cornered this time.! Asian girls!
  
• December 10^th, 1998! We play "Live From Cleveland" on WRUW 91.1 FM. We had fun and I think Marty and the guys had fun. We have a CD of the show and it smokes.  You can download "Auld Lang Syne" from this show at mp3.com
• July 11^th, 1998! Our first Christmas In July gig! Jeff pulled double duty as C.D. Truth played. I pulled double duty as  Planet Log 3000 played.
  
• December 22^nd, 1997! We play Zombo's Mondo Record Party at Annabelle's in Highland Square, Akron. I left a Monster cable at the gig and it was lost for all time. Too bad as it was a pricey cable.
  
• December 16^th, 1997! We play with surf gods' The Balboas at Annabelle's. Our first gig with Mike on the skins.
  
• December 26^th, 1996! Our first ever gig and our only gig at the Daily Double. I did double-duty as the show was also the first appearance of Planet Log 3000, formerly Planet Log. And I think it was the first appearance of Sunshine Suicide. Our only show  with Rich on the drums. I remember not knowing the songs well at all, but carrying on anyways. It was sheer chaos.
  
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