3.13.04: Talking Head Club, Baltimore, MD

(Ground Monkeys [MA])

(Chester Wetlands @ Talking Head Club)
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In Late Winter of 2004 Human Adult Band did our first proper tour.  After hosting a noise show in New Brunswick a few nights before, we left for Baltimore. (Massachusetts' Ground Monkeys were on the noise bill in NB; ck Heat Retention Records for recorded evidence of that excellent band).  Selections from the Adult's Baltimore set are below. The day after the Baltimore show, HAB and our bandmates from other bands, Buckets & Batteries and Magnet City Kids, visited Fell's Point In Balt.  Some of us, including myself, set out to distribute our wares to the record shops.  Sound Garden (the store) took some.  So did Reptilian Records which seemed to specialize in noise rock.  I had an odd assortment of merch.  Save for a couple 3" CDrs reserved for select rockers, (like Steve O'Malley, who we'd play with in a few days), Human Adult Band really didn't put together a proper release for the trip.  We were spacy amateurs and didn't care.  I did, however have the Buckets & Batteries 7 inch which was recently out.  Most HAB members were on that.  Plus, I had a bunch of left-overs, comps and eps from my days playing more traditional punk in the late 90s.  When we were leaving Reptilian, with a 7 inch box that was now a few ounces lighter, we ran into Lubricated Goat, by chance.  They were excited about hawking their new cd. And you know what, I didn't even suggest doing a trade as I absolutely would have done now.  Youth is wasted on the young.
(Tape Pencil, Chester & Jake.  Early Humans.)


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