A nun, a german shepard, and Clark Matthews walk into a bar…
Oh, you’ve heard that one?
The thing is, I haven’t really spent much time in bars since college. I don’t drink, so that doesn’t lure me. I’m married, so that doesn’t lure me. Typically, the only times I enter a tavern are at Christmas when my friends come home for the holidays and need a break from their families, and when I want to see a local band.
It is the latter reason that will see me at VZD’s (NW 42nd & Western) tonight. Technically a local band from Denver, Fighting for the Universe is the brainchild of Yukon native Dave Howell. Howell was also the frontman of my favorite band of the late-nineties, Fixture.
Truthfully, if it had not been for hearing Fixture when dragged to “Millerstock” in 1996, I might still have been one of those white guys who refuses to listen to anything other than gansta rap even now. During my college years, I followed the band the way modern day hippies chase around Phish. If they got a gig at a bar in Stillwater, I was there. If they rented out a Knights of Columbus Hall for a concert in Yukon, I was there. After they signed with One Ton Records and started playing all over Texas, I was there (often). When the band broke up after their lead guitarist graduated from college with an electrical engineering degree, married a veterinarian, and got a full time job designing construction equipment (the typical rock and roll story), I had to satisfy myself listening to inferior music like Dave Matthews and Green Day while holding sacred the the two albums they left behind.
Anyway, I encourage everyone reading this to get out to VZD tonight around 9:00. If you see a bald headed guy with the remnants of red hair bouncing ideas for the Justice League off complete strangers come say “hi”. I might even buy you a water.
P.S. Another band, Evenmark, started by Yukonites is actually headlining the show.
Odd that we both write about the local music scene within 12 hours fo each other,,,
A groupie is a person who, while he/she may be a fan at some level, seeks intimacy (most often physical, sometimes emotional) with a famous person.
That sounds about right.
Fixture stole our song. Shout, Shout, let it on out.
so, if I show up does that mean i get a cameo in the next installment of the justice league?
cause that would really make me giddy.
Who’s to say that isn’t already in the works? But showing up would certainly improve the odds.
yessssssssss
i just may go mad spending and buy you a cola
Hold up. Are you from Yukon, Clark?
I am not. I have been a northsider my whole life except for college and a couple of year long residencies in the Tulsa area.
Gotcha.
Kinda shocked to see another person that was at Millerstock ‘96 and knew Dave and Cody (Evenmark).