Big D and the Kids Table

Tonight, for the first time ever my band is playing with Big D and the Kids Table!? And surprisingly I have extremely mixed emotions. If I asked myself when I started this band what I would do if i were to play with Big D, I probably would've flipped a shit because back in the day they were a huge part of my life. Back in high school I used to listen to the Gypsy Hill EP front to back daily singing all of the words in my car on the way to and from school. Those guys were my local heroes, I really associated with what they were singing about because they totally felt for my teenage angst. There was even a point where I posted the lyrics to "Those Kids Suck" on the bathroom walls in hopes that the "white hat" kids who made my time at NHS a living hell would see them and feel like douche bags. After a two period effort of re-posting them after they would get torn down, I realized that THE MAN was gonna keep me down so long as i was in that school building. I saw them for the first time with my new friend Rory Nolan at BU Central my junior year in high school soon after we formed Interrobang!?. I felt so cool, we were on the guest list because Rory's sister Chloe was dating the Keyboard player for the opening band The Flamingos. Little did I know that these people would in time become close friends of mine. I think this was the first ska/punk show that I ever went to and I had a great time. BU Central was very cool place to see Big D for the first time seeing that there were probably somewhere around 30-40 other people there. I remember the moment I saw them walking in and I started to shake a little bit, I was just so excited I couldn't stand it. They came on and I had a spot right in front of trombonist Paul E. Cutler. Their set was awesome, raw, inspiring and totally on! I think that to this day that was the best performance I have ever seen from them. After the show I got myself a Big D T-shirt and a broken drumstick and Rory and I chatted with Dave for a good while. He seemed like a real honest and sincere guy, we even had an inside joke with him for the next time that we saw him. Where do the dogs go? To the pound [insert fist bump]. This was back when he had just started using the melodica and I had just ordered one online, so we talked about that and I was super pumped! This was such a  great night, I was in ecstasy the whole way home. It was strange seeing them the next time because they were headlining the Avalon, it really made me appreciate where I saw them for the first time and I still do to this day. This was also the downfall in my eye of Mr. David McWane. When we talked to him here, he seemed like he had better things to do and this was pretty uncool. Although he did give a shout out to his "melodica friends" when he pulled it out to play a track from their new Salem Girls EP. This show was very surreal for me because I was witnessing this band for everything that they were at the time, about to achieve great success and start traveling the country as a successful national touring band.

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