October 29, 2000: De Nada, Chernobyl Kids, What Lies Ahead, Gamewinner, Ampersand, Looks Like Rain, The Chase, Bloody Corpse @ UMD Food Co-op, College Park, MD

Halloween shows are almost always a blast, and this was no different. That's a pretty sweet line-up of turn-of-the-century Maryland hardcore bands. I have another version of this flyer that replaces Chernobyl Kids with Daybreak. I can't remember which was the correct line-up. Were you there? What do you remember?

October 28, 2000: Looks Like Rain, Avulsion, Ramona Forever, Willhold, Horror Business @ the Solar Haus, Blacksburg, VA

Looks Like Rain shows at the Solar Haus in Blacksburg, VA were always fun, especially since our drummer, Bryan, went to school there at Virginia Tech, and still had a lot of friends there. Pretty sure we did a bunch of Misfits covers since it was a Halloween show. Don't remember the details of this one much. I wonder if that house is still standing and if it's current residents have any idea of the fun that was had on that 2nd floor.

October 14, 2000: Acedia, Avulsion, From Earth to Ashes, Looks Like Rain @ Jamie's General Bean, Centreville, VA

To this day, this show is a favorite amongst Looks Like Rain members as a classic WTF story. Holly Le booked this at a coffee shop in northern Virginia. All of the bands were from Virginia except for LLR (Baltimore). About a week before the show she asked if I could provide a PA for the show. No problem. Looks Like Rain opens and then are followed by a bunch of Virginia metal bands (remember Tribunal Records?). (Aside: I don't remember Avulsion containing any members of Count Me Out, and From Earth To Ashes is a weird name for a band when there's already a band called From Autumn To Ashes that are on the same label as other bands on this show.) Anyway, the show ends and we're all packed up and Holly comes over and says 'Thanks for playing and bringing the PA. This is for you.', and hands me a 6-pack of raisins. Now, mind you, I've been in small bands for years and am used to not even getting gas money, but WE GOT PAID IN RAISINS! An experience I'll never forget.

October 7, 2000: The Assistant, The Convocation Of..., Charm City Suicides, Stormshadow, Cex, The Cable Car Theory, Michinoku Driver 3, Looks Like Rain, Gary Barrett, Chris Myers @ the Wilson Center, Washington, DC

Here's a couple variations of flyers for a marathon of a show at the Wilson Center in DC. I don't have any recollection of this show. I'm assuming it happened, but I really don't remember. Drop some comments below if you do.

October 1, 2000: Run Devil Run, The Warriors, Looks Like Rain, Klopek's Furnace @ 123 Pleasant St, Morgantown, WV

It's October of 2000 and Looks Like Rain are back in Morgantown, WV for the third time in less than a year. This time we're featured on the flyer! We weren't actually that big in Morgantown. The photo was taken the first time we played there during a Misfits cover. We did always have a good time at those Morgantown shows. Run Devil Run were a Krishna-core band from Cleveland. I think there was some Erie hardcore connection as well. According to Discogs, apparently Mike Ski (Brother's Keeper) was a member for a bit. Looks like they also featured members of Abnegation, In Cold Blood, and someone that went on to play in Mushroomhead. Can't say I remember what The Warriors (not the band from CA) or Klopek's Furnace sounded like.

September 30, 2000: Left Unsaid, the Overprivileged, Flirting with Disaster, Looks Like Rain, U.S. Agents @ the Vienna Community Center, Vienna, VA

Here's a flyer for a show in Vienna, VA with Looks Like Rain and a bunch of bands from NoVA. I have zero recollection of this show. May not have actually happened for all I remember. Only shows I remember playing in Vienna were at the Greenhouse. If you remember this one, let us know.

August 25, 2000: Intention, On Deck, What Lies Ahead, Looks Like Rain, Nero @ Dave J's house, Bethel, PA

I had met Dave Jannes a few months before this show when Looks Like Rain played with Ensign and Shutdown in Hagerstown, MD and Dave had made the trip out for that show. He hit me up about playing a show at his house when his parents were going to be out of town. The flyer mentions "in cooperation with UKI". UKI was United Kids Incorporated, which was the name I gave to myself for the shows I put on. I don't remember having a hand in booking this, but I must have gotten What Lies Ahead on the show. Intention featured Zach Amster, who would later go on to play in Full Contant/Knockdown, Shark Attack, Violent Minds, and No Warning. I can't remember who else was in the band. Can't remember who was in On Deck, but I remember seeing them a handful of times at shows in Wikes-Barre. No idea who Nero were. I do remember Dave telling me that he did get busted by his parents for having the show, and to my knowledge, that was the only show that ever happened at his house.

Speedbump Productions Calendar for Aug/Sep 2000

Here's a calendar of shows put on by Craig Boarman for the end of the summer of 2000. I posted about the August 16th and September 19th shows previously, but there's some other really good ones on there. My favorite being the Samiam, ErrorType:11, and The Misery show.

June 25, 2000: Esteem, Gamewinner, The National Acrobat, Christiansen, Looks Like Rain @ The Sushi Cafe, Baltimore, MD

Looks Like Rain capped off our little weekend trip with a fun little show back in Baltimore at the Sushi Cafe. I'm not 100% sure Esteem played this show. Larry, who I think sang for Esteem, would later found Think Fast! Records with Ryan from Outbreak. Pretty sure Gamewinner's 7" did not come out at this show. Don't even think it came out at their actual 7" release show a bit later. The National Acrobat were the stars of this show. Super energetic set that blew everyone away. Photos from this show were used in the layout of one of their CDs. I can't remember if it was "Can't Stop Casper Adams" or "For All Practical Purposes, Is Dead". The National Acrobat were from Louisville, KY and featured Evan and Ryan Patterson (Coliseum, Young Widows, Black Cross, Breather Resist, Automatic, Fotocrime, etc.), Robby Scott (Christiansen, By the Grace of God, etc.), and few other Louisville kids that I don't believe did anything else. Christiansen would later go on to release a few records with Revelation Records.

June 24, 2000: Gunspiking, Looks Like Rain, The Deadbeats, Chase @ The Mr. Roboto Project, Pittsburgh, PA

The next day Looks Like Rain headed down to Pittsburgh for this show. I can't remember if the Chase listed here was the band from Maryland or not. I don't recall playing this show with anyone we knew. Gunspiking were a kinda screamy/chaotic local band. I don't remember what The Deadbeats sounded like.

June 23, 2000: Two Man Advantage, Phil Ashes with The Goods, The Falsies, The Cuban Music Crisis, Duct Tape Pussy, Looks Like Rain @ Colossal Taco, Cuba, NY

This is a show that Looks Like Rain hopped on after the flyer was made. I'm not sure The Falsies played this one. We may have taken their place. Ryan Cappelletti from I Object and Punks Before Profits Records may have had some involvement in this show. That was long before I would come to know him through his bands and label. I still have a scar on my palm from this show. I was circle pitting to 2 Man Advantage, tripped on the carpet, and gouged my hand on a carpet tack that was sticking up a little bit. My other memory from this show was staying at someone's house (possibly Ryan's) that night with the Two Man Advantage guys and watching a VHS tape compiled with what seemed like an hour of farting preachers. I have laughed that hard very few times in my life.

June 16, 2000: Atari, In Reach, What Lies Ahead, Looks Like Rain, Society at Stake, the Chase @ Sushi Cafe, Baltimore, MD

Here's another version of a flyer for this show I posted about a while back. xHead Onx took the place of In Reach, and I'm fairly positive that Atari did not play. Andy Norton (Desperate Measures, Champion, Praise, etc.), who I'm pretty sure played in Society at Stake, booked this one.

May 26, 2000: De Nada, The Chernobyl Kids, Awake, Looks Like Rain @ the Sushi Cafe, Baltimore, MD

This one is interesting to me because I'm pretty sure computerswilldestroyusATyahooDOTcom was Aaron Fishbein's email address, but I don't remember him ever booking shows at the Sushi Cafe. I don't remember if Sara Klemm or Sara Beauchamp did DC Books to Prisoners, but I don't remember either of them being connected to Aaron Fishbein either. Regardless, a show at Sushi Cafe with De Nada and Chernobyl Kids was most certainly a good time. Can't say I remember who Awake were.

May 20, 2000: Kitty Badass, The Deacons, The Pac-Men, Tomorrow We Die, Looks Like Rain @ Newtown Teen Center, Newtown, CT

A week later and Looks Like Rain is up in Connecticut for a show in Newtown, a town to later become known nationwide as the location of one of the worst school shootings in American history. (Sadly coincidentally, I'm writing this post on the day of yet another school shooting in the U.S.) I don't remember much from this show except that I bought a cassette copy of "Age of Quarrel" off of someone selling a bunch of used records and tapes. Still have it. The Pac-Men were a rad hc/punk band, that I just realized featured ex-Pist member, and future WarXGames drummer, Brian Marshall on vocals. Neat little round-about Baltimore connection.

May 13, 2000: Ensign, Shutdown, Time Flies, Looks Like Rain, 200 North @ Kingpin, Hagerstown, MD

Here's another flyer for the show Looks Like Rain played in Hagerstown with Ensign, Shutdown, Time Flies, and 200 North. See my original post on this show for my recollections.

May 7, 2000: Kill Your Idols, Indecision, Down to None, Looks Like Rain, Fast Times @ 123 Pleasant St, Morgantown, WV

This was a really fun show out in Morgantown, WV playing with our friends in Kill Your Idols and Indecision. Artie was singing for Indecision at this time and had some classic between-song banter. I remember them playing on the floor, but can't remember if all the bands did or not. 123 Pleasant St shows were always a blast for Looks Like Rain and this one was no different.

April 28, 2000: Fast Times, Red Angel Dragnet, Worthless, Looks Like Rain @ Sushi Cafe, Baltimore, MD

Here's a show LLR played at the Sushi Cafe with Fast Times and Worthless from New Jersey and Red Angel Dragnet from Richmond. Bryan Flowers booked this show and made the flyer.

April 18, 2000: City of Caterpillar, No Solution, Looks Like Rain, Pollyanna's Lazy Eye Band @ Girls, Inc, Newark, DE

Looks Like Rain took a little trip up 95 on a Tuesday to play a show in Newark, DE. No strong recollections of this show.

April 15, 2000: Indecision, Walls of Jericho, Good Clean Fun, Onslaught, Battleground, Twelve Tribes, Not Waving But Drowning, Looks Like Rain, etc. @ Bellarmine University, Louisville, KY

Looks Like Rain's second out of town show was little festival at Bellarmine University in Louisville, KY. This flyer is on a fluorescent yellow/green paper that doesn't scan well, but is equally hard to read. The other bands on this show were Indecision, Walls of Jericho, Good Clean Fun, Onslaught, Battleground, Twelve Tribes, 502 Heads, Not Waving But Drowning, Supergrub, My Life Denial, Crestfallen, Skam Impaired, and the Bellarmine Jazz Trio. The best thing about this flyer is the band descriptions. Walls of Jericho ("rock"), Good Clean Fun ("pop rock"), Looks Like Rain ("indie rock"), etc. My favorite is the description for Onslaught ("Sean Nolph's band"), cuz, you know, everyone getting this flyer must know who Sean Nolph is. I don't think the Crestfallen listed here was the band from northern VA, but it's possible. If so, "pop rock" is another great description.

This was an outdoor show on a stage at the bottom of a hill. Probably great for jam bands, but not so great for a hardcore show. My memory from our set is covering Slapshot - "In Your Face" and getting picked up and carried around by a bunch of huge Courage Crew dudes. Either Onslaught or Battleground (or maybe both?) was a Courage Crew band. Full on hand-tattoo Xs and all. Since this was a college-sponsored show, we also got paid handsomely for being a band from out of town that nobody knew.

April 14, 2000: Good Clean Fun, Monotonoushhh, Broadside, Looks Like Rain @ Vinyl Assault, Cincinnati, OH

This is the flyer for Looks Like Rain's first out of town show. We did a little two day out-of-town trip to Cincinnati, OH for this show and then played the next day at Bellarmine University in Louisville, KY. I don't remember a ton about this show other than that it was a little record store and that before the show we met up with Chris Penna at Xavier University, where he was attending college at the time. I've got a picture somewhere that Chris took of the members of Looks Like Rain standing on a giant X at the university's common area.

April 10, 2000: Daybreak, Ampersand, Innerside Burning, InSpite, Looks Like Rain @ the Sushi Cafe, Baltimore, MD

Here's a bunch of flyers for the first Four One Go! Fest that I put together for about 5 years. All locals on April 10th. I made the top two flyers, John Bachman made the third one, and Carl Caracia made the bottom one. I don't really remember any specifics around this show, so please share your memories in the comments.

March 26, 2000: Reinforce, De Nada, What Lies Ahead, Scream for Change, Looks Like Rain @ Sushi Cafe, Baltimore, MD

OK, we've wrapped up the series of (mostly) Chop Shop posters created by Damon Pieri and now we're jumping up a year and getting back into the recovered Looks Like Rain flyers. Here's a bunch of flyers for a show at the Sushi Cafe. If I remember correctly, Reinforce cancelled this show and it ended up as an all locals show. I know I have a handful of pictures from this show that I'll have to dig up. Pretty sure this was the show where a random guy from the neighborhood came in and started moshing with everyone during De Nada's set. This is the first appearance of Scream for Change on a flyer in this blog. The honorable Andy Norton played in that band, long before his stints in Desperate Measures, Champion, or Praise. I'm not sure who made the top flyer or the third one. I made the second one, and John Bachman made the fourth one.

March 19th, 1999: Kid Dynamite, Kill Your Idols, Fast Times, Grey Area, Good Clean Fun @ St. Andrew's Church, College Park, MD

Damon Pieri's flyer for the first show at St. Andrew's Church. Damon Pieri's misspellings of "revolution" and "Grey Area". One of my all-time favorite shows. Read my recollections in my original post on the show.

February 19, 1999: The Thumbs, Crispus Attucks, Daycare Swindlers, the Clancy Six, Sisters of Morrissey @ the Chop Shop, Baltimore, MD

Here's another Damon Pieri poster for an all-locals show that was supposed to happen at the Chop Shop. It's likely that this got moved to the Sound Exchange in Ellicott City as well, but I don't recall. Let us know in the comments if you remember this show happening.

February 6, 1999: In My Eyes, Ten Yard Fight, Brother's Keeper, Reach the Sky, Redline @ Phantasmagoria, Wheaton, MD

Here's three variations of the poster for one of my favorite shows I've ever booked. As you can see from the bottom two, it was originally scheduled to take place at the Chop Shop until it got shut down a couple weeks prior. It ended up at Phantasmagoria in Wheaton, MD thanks to Jamie Arthurs. You can read my original post for my prior recollections of the show. The last poster created, the one at the top, features the line up that actually happened. Damon Pieri drew the illustrated one. I made the one at the bottom.

Eric (EMS) from Brother's Keeper posted a few videos from this show...

Reach the Sky: https://youtu.be/NIcYRlwdcI8

Ten Yard Fight: https://youtu.be/KPxAl3KwceY

In My Eyes: https://youtu.be/6N7el8jJBxs

January 30, 1999: ErrorType:11, the Kill Quota, the Rookie Lot, the Cotton Weary @ the Chop Shop, Baltimore, MD

This show definitely didn't happen at the Chop Shop since it had gotten shut down the previous week. I can't remember if it got moved anywhere. Possibly the Sound Exchange in Ellicott City. Damon Pieri drew the poster and misspelled "Quota".

*UPDATE - Got some details from some fine folks filling in the holes on Facebook.

• The show definitely got moved to the Sound Exchange. Owner Josh Greenbaum posted some pics in the comments.
• Yearly may have also played.
• The Kill Quota featured 3/5 of Walleye, from Newark, Delaware. Their demo is up on Bandcamp.

January 19, 1999: Velvet, No Potential, Clancy 6, Slipstream, Churner @ the Chop Shop, Baltimore, MD

Here's a poster by Damon Pieri for a somewhat local show (York, PA, NoVA, and DC) that I have no recollection of. Not 100% sure this one happened. If I remember correctly, Velvet were an indie-rock band from DC. No idea who No Potential were. Clancy 6 were an noisy/grindy band from York, PA. No idea who Slipstream were. My memory of Churner is that they were a noisy hardcore band, maybe AmRep-ish, from norther VA. If anyone was at this show, please let us know what you remember in the comments.

January 15, 1999: Page 99, Orchid, Forthright, Seven Ages, Death Be Not Proud @ the Chop Shop, Baltimore, MD

Here's Damon Pieri's poster for the show at the Chop Shop with Page 99 and Orchid. The original post for this show has a flyer with a different line-up. I'd guess this one was the later one since the other flyer doesn't include Orchid. No clue who Death Be Not Proud were. The original post includes a few pictures I took of Page 99 and Orchid. Check it out.

Updates from Facebook comments:

• Death Be Not Proud included Jeremy Flynn and Al Charity who later played in Hobis and Dawn Treader. (thanks Ganesh K.)
• Forthright was a local band featuring Dan Owen, currently of Murder (thanks Dan O.)

January 14, 1999: Lounge, Erikson, Fair Warning, Lanemeyer, Houseboy @ the Chop Shop, Baltimore, MD

I'm not positive this show actually happened. The only band I'm familiar with on this poster is Lanemeyer. Don't remember who Lounge are but they seem to have popped up on a bunch of the shows I did around this time. According to this post, it seems that Houseboy was a band from New Jersey. If anyone remembers being at this show, please let us know in the comments. Damon Pieri drew the poster.

*Update based on some Facebook comments. I'm guessing this show didn't actually happen as Lanemeyer played the show the next day at the Chop Shop with Page 99 and Orchid. (thanks Bryan F and Andy B.)

January 13th, 1999: Saves the Day, Purpose, FSJM (Chernobyl Kids), Paris, Texas, the Cotton Weary @ the Chop Shop, Baltimore, MD

This is the poster that Damon Pieri drew up for the Saves the Day/Purpose show at the Chop Shop. Check out the original post for my recollections and some pictures I took. The Chernobyl Kids also played this show (before they had a name so I dubbed them "FSJM" [Funny, Steve, John, Matt]) but were added later so they didn't make it onto this poster.

January 9, 1999: Dillinger Escape Plan, Converge, Cave In, Torn Apart, Lynchpin @ the Chop Shop, Baltimore, MD

This is Damon Pieri's poster for this wild show that happened at the Chop Shop. I don't have a handbill version of a flyer for this show so I never made an original post on it. I remember having to leave during Cave In's set for a job I had working at 98 Rock engineering Dee Snider's syndicated radio show The House of Hair, so I don't remember much in the way of details from this one. I remember being told the next day that Jake threw up on the side of the stage right before their set. Jamie Arthurs booked this one so hopefully he'll chime in in the comments about his memories of this show. Sick line-up though. RIP Caleb Scofield.

January 7, 1999: Disenchanted, I Farm, Unfound, Devola, Red Sky, Splurge @ the Chop Shop, Baltimore, MD

I don't remember much about this show. It's basically a Long Island invades Baltimore show. Though I don't remember anything about Unfound or Red Sky. It's possible they were not from Long Island. This poster by Damon Pieri is the only flyer I have for it. I think I have some pictures of at least I Farm from this show. I also used to have a Devola t-shirt which I must have bought at this show as I don't remember seeing them any other time.

Let me know if you were here and remember this one.

January 1st, 1999: Reinforce, Until Today, the Bolshevics, No Dice, Born Under Saturn, Bull Roarer, Hovel, more @ the Chop Shop, Baltimore, MD

Here's Damon Pieri's hand-lettered poster for the New Year's Day 1999 show at the Chop Shop. This is one of those examples of a show featuring a band that is huge today playing a little show at a DIY venue as an opener. Check out my original post on this show for some recollections from myself and others in the comments.

December 12th, 1998: Kid Dynamite, Kill Your Idols, Fortitude, Daybreak, Lanemeyer @ the Chop Shop, Baltimore, MD

Here's the poster that Damon Pieri drew up for the Kid Dynamite show at the Chop Shop. Super fun show. Read my recollections on it in the original post. You can also see the screen-printed poster I reference in that post on Instagram. Turns out it was Dave Manganaro that drew it and David Hardy that screen-printed it.

December 11, 1998: Joshua, Somerset, Penfold, Yearly @ the Chop Shop, Baltimore, MD

I don't recall if this show actually happened. I don't have a handbill version of a flyer for this show, so no original post on it. I also remember liking some stuff I'd heard from both Joshua and Penfold, but don't remember ever actually seeing them live. If anyone was at this show, please let me know what you remember. Also, why is Penfold listed twice? Flyer by Damon Pieri.

December 5th, 1998: Good Clean Fun, Innerside Burning, Redline, Inspite @ the Chop Shop, Baltimore, MD

Here we have Damon Pieri's flyer for a little Baltimore/DC locals show. Check out my original post for my recollections on this one.

November 21st, 1998: Torn Apart, the Jazz June, Codeseven, Reach the Sky, All Else Failed, Last Days of August @ the Chop Shop, Baltimore, MD

Here's Damon Pieri's hand-lettered flyer for the Adam Doll Foundation benefit show at the Chop Shop. All Else Failed also played this show, but must have been added later. Check out my original post on this show for the details.

November 18th, 1998: Sam the Butcher, Subsist, Wretch Like Me, On Edge @ the Chop Shop, Baltimore, MD

Here we have Damon Pieri's flyer for the Sam the Butcher show I did at the Chop Shop. See my original post for my recollections on the show. Only update I have since that is that I moved to Colorado a couple of years ago and found out that Abe from Wretch Like Me has a new band called Joy Subtraction that are pretty good. They opened for Good Riddance in Denver a little while ago and although they played earlier than expected and I missed them, I got to chat with Abe a bit about this show, Wretch Like Me, O&O Records and Fort Collins punk in the late 90s. Solid guy.

November 11th, 1998: Boxer, Lounge, Mendoza, East Liberty, Gaffer @ the Chop Shop, Baltimore, MD

Here we have Damon Pieri's flyer for the Boxer show at the Chop Shop. See my original post on this show for the details I can remember.

November 9th, 1998: Jimmy Eat World, Coalesce, Jejune, Situation at 1200, Compression, Meatjack @ the Chop Shop, Baltimore, MD

Here's the flyer Damon Pieri drew for the Jimmy Eat World/Coalesce show at the Chop Shop. Can't remember why Jejune didn't make it onto here. Maybe they got added to the tour later. See my original post on the show for my recollections.

November 4th, 1998: Living Sacrifice, Six Going On Seven, the Kill Van Kull, Cheater @ the Chop Shop, Baltimore, MD

I recently found a box with a bunch of flyers that my old friend, Damon Pieri, drew for me, so I'm going to get even more out of chronological order for a bit and post these up. This one is for the first show at the Chop Shop (fka the Supreme Imperial). See my original post for my recollection of this show.

March 18, 2000: Looks Like Rain, Late Start, Splitsecond, Mountain Oyster Cult @ unknown, Westminster, MD

If I remember this show correctly, it was in an old barn that had been converted into a studio on a farm in Westminster, MD. I'm going to need Gus Bowman to corroborate that. I tried to find it on Google Maps, but it looks like it's a golf course now. I also have a memory that Late Start was a pop-punk band from Ohio that also featured JT Woodruff who played in Eyes Upon Separation and would go on to form Hawthorne Heights. No recollection on who Splitsecond were, but the name sounds like a ska band. I remember that Mountain Oyster Cult featured members of Ironboss, though I don't remember who. No idea who booked this. I think I met my friend Kim McCready at this show.