Poison Control Center at the Larimer Lounge Oct 3, 2010.
John and I went pretty late on a Sunday night. I stopped off at an apartment on the way and bought a Beatles Rock Band kit from a craigslist ad. So hyped for that! Ha, it’s one of the first times we are way ahead of the schedule on her birthday gift.Anyways, we missed a couple opening bands, but on came local band Pacific Pride. I had listened to some tunes on myspace and thought they sounded decent. They had some weird stage props that weren’t really even worth shooting photos of. It seemed like all of their friends came to the show and they were all the overly hipster dancer types.
Neither John or I were very impressed. A couple song sounded ok to me, and they were clearly having fun, but for the most part it was boring and contrived. Maybe they didn’t put much effort in because it seemed like John and I were the only ones there not in one of the bands that played.
Poison Control Center came out blasting. I took pretty much all of these photos within the first two songs. It was insane. They were doing acrobatics on stage and going crazy. There was so much energy it was almost overkill.
Yes, they were seriously doing shoulder stands and not losing a note.
I’ll give them some credit they managed to keep it up throughout their set.
I was kinda hoping at some point the drummer would play with his feet or something, but nope, he just kept it real.
This dude only took breaks from doing the splits, shoulder stands or whatever this is to sing.
See, the splits! Ouch!
Whoa, they were all just standing there like a normal rock band!
John thought this guy was an ultra hipster. I figured he was just a Iowa music dork. After seeing him dance for a whole song I’m pretty sure I was right.
Some dudes from Pacific Pride jumped on stage at one point and air guitar’d while PCC did acrobatics. What is the world coming to?To sum it up, wow, what a show. Sure it made for lots of interesting photos and conversation, but did they really need to do acrobatics to sell these songs? No, they sounded pretty good as is. Sure it was exciting, I’ll give it that. And some of it was awesome, but everysong was over kill. I was also bummed on the lack of songs off the new album. Only two songs when your on tour to support a new album is whack. No one manning the merch booth is whack too.I promise to take better photos if I bring my camera again. You have no idea how shy I am when it comes to shooting photos of non skate stuff.