LOCATION: The Knitting Factory, Los Angeles, CA

LINEUP: Karin, Linford, Jack

REVIEW BY: michelle

I brought the Image magazine w/ Linfords memoir w/me on the trip
hoping I'd get to go home having it signed.  It wasn't a goal,
but a really big finger crossing.   He saw me take it out of the
bag and said "you actually mananged to dig up a copy of that?"
Something like that anyway.  Heck yea I did man!  I jumped on
the chance to read something written from Linford un-related to
OtR.  How many of you ordered that issue?  I *know* I'm not the
only one.  It was all just so far beyond anything I had wanted
to gain from going out there and I was on a serious fluffy
cloud, just ask Steve.  Poor dude had to be front and center
witness to all my flabbergastation (if thats not a word, it is
now cause i say so).

Went to the bar and met Listee Melanie and her friend Bryan.
And it just got better and better.  Walked on Hollywood Blvd for
a bit stepping on the stars and gawking at Marilyn Monroe's hand
and foot prints among others.

When we got back to Knitting Factory the first act was up.  Her
last name was Abacross(?), not sure.  I'm not being forgetfully
rude its just that we only caught her last 2 songs.  I liked her
voice a lot.  Then came Jim&Jennie and the Pinetops.  My god!
All that was missing was some Moonshine!  They were absolute fun
and sounded great.  Like Steve, I left the venue that night w/
both their cd's and a t-shirt.  Which I wore on the plane ride
home, btw. ;)

Then it was our favorite lil' band again.  All smiles and  ready
to go.  I loved hearing Go Down Easy as I really love that
little tune.  After Bothered (second song that night), Karin
said the next song was about travelling and that someone was
there that came all the way from Hawai'i for the show and that
I'd come to see them in San Diego the night before and that I
was definitely paying my dues.  And that my fellow listees, is
where my tear ducts burst right out.  Again, ask Steve.  Then
she said, "this song is for Michelle"  I could not believe it.
Just a big, sappy, overly grateful fan was I.

Someone in the audience bought and brought them up drinks,
setting them infront of each of them and sat back down.  After
the next song Karin thanked whoever it was that did that and
then after seeing who it was says... "Snoop?  Hi honey!"  Dude!
Steve and I both were like, "snoop?  snoops here?!  what
the...!?"  Being that Steve had never met Snoop Duggy Dug (which
I didn't know till after the show), he wasn't sure either.

Before they did Miles, Karin talked about the tribute CD ("i
thought you either had to 1) have a hit or 2) be dead, to have a
tribute cd") then said it was for the people who travelled Miles
to see them, smiled and mentioned my name again... the fluffy
cloud still lingers folks. :)  More great music, more little
snipets (the edward story, the panties story, talking about what
Ohio was about), and a last encore of Latter Days, the show was
over.  Melanie said something about setlists so I B-Lined it and
snagged one again for her.  She's a sweetie.  I think she and
Bryan left soon after that.

I had my Cheap Tattoo CD in my bag to catch Jack to have him
sign so while I was doing that, Steve found the one Karin called
Snoop and it was, in the flesh, Snoop Duggy Dug.  My god what a
character that dude is!  Big ol' smile and every word and body
motion he makes drips w/ energy.  He and his girlfriend left Las
Vegas that morning and coming straight to the show.  The
transformation in his face and actions when he realized who
Steve was and that he did indeed know of him too was worth the
trip itself, haha!  I'm a chronic archive digger.  So even
though I wasn't *here* when he was around, I know of and have
read the stories and posts and craziness.  I kept saying "I
can't believe I'm meeting Snoop!?", and he'd say "I can't
believe you're the one that came from Hawai'i!?"  He flung his
arms around Steve what? 2-3x out of pure "Dude! I know who you
are!!" excitement.

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