OOh, when popcanon played here, is was a more punk-y night than we were really expecting. So we thought it would be a good job to play more punk-y which just meant faster and louder. It seemed like a good idea at the time... As I recall, some in the audience were throwing things at us. I was wearing a diaper and nothing else for this show. I recall pouring beer down the front to see how much it would hold. by the end of the show I had taken it off and thrown it into the crowd. After then show, a couple people came up to me and told me to be careful, since I had apparently PISSED OFF some PUNKS by wearing a diaper. This made no sense to me. Were they incontinent punks, and therefore extra-sensitive to diaper-humor? Or maybe they were really skinheads, and thought i was some sort of abberation, which of course I am. In any case, I didn't get beat up that night. But it cemented my belief that the most punk-rock thing you can do is to OFFEND punk-rockers' sense of decency and aesthetics.

As I recall, when PopCanon played there, we took it for a punk crowd based on the way they were dressed and stuff, but it was really a "ska" crowd. There were six bands, and we were the only one of them that was not a ska band (one could argue, and some have, that Pain was not a ska band, but try explaining that to any of their 14 year-old fans). And, much like Michael Moore's Oscar speech, the negativity that seemed to take over the whole room really came from a very small number of loudmouths. Most of the audience, I think, was more dumbfounded by us than offended. I remember that Dan from Pain started off his set by asking the audience to flip him off, which they seemed to really enjoy, and he had written something akin to "fuck you" on his shaved head with a Sharpie.