Facial @ CBGBs 8-2-02

Widget, Timmer, and me hoped in the jeep and took off for NYC Friday. We took 95 North which eventually becomes 295 South for some damn reason. You are supposed to get off at 195 and take it back to 95 / NJ turnpike. Hey what the hell do I know, we just kept going straight. That fucking road make a god damn 180 and sure as shit we were heading south. All the sudden I noticed the the sun was on the wrong side of the truck. We decided to keep going anyway. We were drinking and I must have been wrong somehow. How could we be going the wrong way, we never got off of 95? Next thing I know we were in Camden. Holy crap, talk about a freaking detour! We almost just jumped on the AC expressway, blew of NYC, and hit the beach. We pulled a u-ie got on 73 and then the turnpike. A case of Yeingling later, we were just outside of the city and the rain started coming down. things weren't going well for us. Thank god we were almost done a case by then, because we didn't care one bit. We were having a blast. So what if our 1.5 hour drive into the city took us 3.5 hours. We had good tunes and good brews keping us busy.

We drove right the hotel and parked in the garage right next door. ($22 for 24 hours) The people at the Marcel were great and gave us one cool ass swanky room, corner room on the 7th floor. Perfect view right down 3rd. ($149 for a friday night, 1 king sized bed and a rollaway bed) Since it was still raining, we skipped the walk this time and caught a cab to CBGBs. The boys were right out front still, and we all hung out for awhile shooting the shit. We helped Sal and his crew carry in their equipment, then grabbed some beers and enjoyed the show.

CBGBs is the brithplace of punk and the punkers were out in full force. This chick from just outside the Czech republic was oinstage and she was great. band was called "the start" Sal's band Facial rocked.

All of the photos from the begining of the trip till this point in the story were lost. We had drunken camera trouble ande the battery fell out while storing a photo. It screwed up the film and when I got the battery back it, it automatically reformated the film. Anyway, here are the photos that made it. We had a great time and it was great to meet some of the new members and get to see old friends as well.

Just to get a feel for the bar, here's the mens crapper.
This is the only pic of Facial on stage that survived. The band is great and everyone says the same thing. "I can't believe how good they are." Check out http://www.facialband.com and click here to get their CD
The guy taking a photo of me is Dan the SongParodyMan

Widget & Sal on stage
I don't want to know whats going on here, but it looks dirty.
Timmer, Zolar, & Joey's buddy Mr Satrielli

SongParodyMan, dude I don't think you need those shades. it's night time. it's raining. we're inside a dark ass bar.
Sal packing up
Widget caught this pic us Zolar trying to get into my pants

Dan sharing some of his photos with us.
Don't remember her name. The best I can figure is she was the wife/girlfirend of some guy at he bar who liked the band. How's that for details.
Sal preparing his trademark smile

We closed the bar. I'm not sure when Facial loaded up all of their crap but I didn't help. Sorry, I think I was drunk by this point.
Here's my baby with her bag-o-band flyers. Last time we were at CBGB, widget brought a bunk a punk band flyer home for her oldest son. He really dug them so I grabbed him some more.
Sal's boy Graz and prankster Joey Boots

Widget really likes the band so much, she stole his Facial t-shirt.
By now they had the place locked up tight. Zolar was either saying "Look at me!" or "All hail Mutt"
Dan has some serious tattoos

Boots is getting restless
Nice to see the boys having fun
Here's Widget stipping yet another guy that isn't me. He kept his shirt.

The band after Facial had a little Doc doll on stage with them. Zolar was kind enough to swipe it for me.
Everyone took turns abusing it.
A clean shaven Mutt with the band, timmer, and Zolar's ass.

Dan got into this one and we got a clear shot of Boots.
Timmer, get out of the shot. We're taking a photo of Facial. Timmer, take a step or two the left.
Thats why digital camreas are so cool. Not even home yet and already enjoying the photos.

We wound up walking to a resteraunt. Widget and me were drunk and dead tired. We caught a cab back to the room. Sorry we couldn't hang guys. Hope ya had fun after we left. Next morning we drove down to Chinatown and walked thru to Little Italy. We had lunch a a nice little Italian joint. 1.5 hours later, we were home.

Nope

here's one of timmer grabbing your bare man asss

no cleevage shots, but here's one from a different trip


yep, dude in the front was a fan. husband / boyfriend of the unknown chick posing with Sal in a differnt pic. (I saw all of that with the strongest confidence, but in all reality I could be completely wrong. those 2 were togher, don't think they knew anyone, just fans)

Dan, if you can zip up the photos and email them to me, I'll host them at SFN. Once I get them up, I'll send you the url to the dir so you can make a post or I can post them just like I did these