Punk Rock Karaoke

last night I met up with andy, luis, and alex to see punk rock karaoke play at spaceland. the group consisted of eric melvin (nofx), steve soto (adolescents, agent orange, 22 jacks), derek o'brien (social distortion, D.I., agent orange), and Greg Hetson (bad religion, circle jerks). What they do is play punk covers and let people come up and sing. There's a sign up sheet that is passed around and people can pick songs that they want to sing. we got there around 9, but were met with the news that the show had been moved to 11. so, we wandered around silverlake looking for anything that was open; we had no luck, but we did find a skunk. we then decided to wait it out inside the venue for the next hour and a half...not a bad decision since there were free vegan tacos waiting for whoever finally figured out they were free. I know that there's no such thing as a free lunch....but it was actually dinner....
Greg ended up not showing up (he was driving from san diego to the venue, but never made it), but the band played on without him. They played for a good two hours and the people were really into it; drunk singers and all.
they're playing tomorrow at the Avalon with the Bouncing Souls and Flogging Molly..it's sold out though, so no dice.
Oh yea, here's Andy singing the Misfits song "Skulls". He was going to sing "Bullet", but the band had called it a night before he can make it to the stage....no dice: