Goodbye to Eastside Records

I'm not gonna get all sappy about Eastside closing. Enough people have done that. Yes, I used to ride the city bus 2 hours from West Phoenix to go there as a 14 year old. Yes, I learned a lot about Punk there, a musical subculture which has served as near-religion to me since. Yes, when I came back to visit, some 12 years later, they still had copies of obscure East Bay 7"s, that I had lost, still on sale for the original press price. But I'm not gonna get all sappy...enough people have done that.

Flagstaff/Vegetable/Feel Free

I snuck up to Flagstaff this week with Owen. He was charged with watching over Bobby's and house and his dog, Taffy. We holed up and wrote stories and played piano. Beer 'O Clock comes early in Flag so we also enjoyed ale. No need for a fridge, we lined our 6-packs along Bobby's deck.

Living up to it's stereotypes, I found Flag to be comprised pretty evenly of both anarcho-college Punks and Neal Young Hippies

Sunday night Vegetable from Tempe played at Cottage House with Feel Free. These are photos from that show.

VEGETABLE live at Cottage House/Flagstaff, AZ

VEGETABLE from Tempe ended up playing while Owen and I were up here in Flag. It was a house show with Bobby's band FEEL FREE.