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MisledMayhem	Date: October 1, 2004 @ 1:12 AM After the "Suckfest" fiasco and being banned from practicly everywhere in my small little town, here is a list of places we cannot play in! 1. My house (noise violation) 2. Anyone's house (noise violation) 3.Parks (500 dollar insurance) 4. Armory (500 dollar insurance) 5. Q-104 radio (too vulgar) 6. The Chenowith Grange (500 dollar insurance, because we look funny) 7. All local insurance companies (because we play punk rock) 8. Putting up posters on street posts (city ordanance) 9. Any Parks and Rec venue (500 dollar insurance) Pretty much, since we cannot afford 500 dollar insurance while in school and having no job, and the fact that it's impossible to get in The Dalles, OR, saying "umm, you need insurance" is french for, "No, you play punk rock." I also encourage you to find a curse word in our lyrics, it's impossible. Small town politics RULE! So basicly, we've been religated to one venue left in town, and maybe the two other granges if they don't find out we're funny looking....It was still a good show, even if we did get banned from the venue less than a week after it ended lol!
johnnygnote	Date: October 1, 2004 @ 4:36 PM Welcome to George Bush's Amerika, it will get worse before it get's better.
popdem	Date: October 4, 2004 @ 7:37 AM lol... what does that have to do with george bush?
Svensta	Date: October 4, 2004 @ 8:22 AM Popdem, anytime we get near an election, we get a series of pontifications. Hey, the landlord gets to choose. Bottom line. There is no inalienable right to being able to play on someone else's property. Landowning makes people into music critics, whatcha gonna doooo? They do the same insurance for city parks here (NYC) for the very same reason. Insurance. In case a stage dive goes wrong or some prominent family's teenage fan suffers alcohol poisoning. I think it's the law system's culpability more than everyone's favorite bugaboo, Dubya. /for the record, I ain't voting for Dubya
MisledMayhem	Date: October 8, 2004 @ 12:33 AM Ya it's just weird, because A. We said no alchahol(there was a little anyway as one could expect) B. I live in a town of 11,000 people, how crazy could it get? C. 500 dollars is an insane amount to pay for a free concert when the average annual income of a studant in my town is 1000 dollars. and lastly D. Even if we COULD get together enough money to buy insurance for a concert with less than 400 people, it's impossible to get in my town because all the insurance companies either don't carry it, or the franchise wont let them sell to punk rock bands. To the other guy, it has somewhat to do with George Bush even though he's not directly involved, because the people who suddenly "require" insurance are mostly middle-aged, white, born again conservative christians much like Bush, and they don't like the style of music generally because most of everything a conservative does not like was at that concet. Everything from Lesbians to Liberals lol Granted there were other factors other than "the man" putting us down, alot of it had to do with "the machine" aka burocracy and politics. Which is one reason i love the band that rages against it so much! But ya know, conservatives and liberals are not going to see eye to eye on practicly anything for a while, but the only thing I wish for, is that both parties at least agree to not try and supress what the other is saying. I'm not against conservatives, i don't perticularly like what they believe in, but the point is the should have the right to state their opinion free of road blocks, and so should liberals. If they wanna chant that god told them to go to war, then i better damn well be able to bitch about my "bleedin' heart" love of the environment and social rights for gays. lol As a side note I like christians too, I'm one myself, I just don't like it when they try to push it on other people, or try to justify killing other people on behave of it. Lastly, I just feel oppressed because before this concert, "Suckfest," got under the skin of conservative parents in the town there was no need for insurance, but almost immediatly after we started planing year 3 of it, we got slapped in the face with the whole insurance thing and being banned from the local radio station.

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