well i got there and it had sold out.. and i had forgotten to print my ticket and don't have a cell phone currently.. but the black cat people went to the back office and got my ticket.. which was nice
i went in and some band was playing... the opener band.. i think one of the guys in the band works at the record store joint custody...anyways they were fine.... then someone got up and said a few words about john stabb.. there were shirts and posters.. i bought a cool john stabb shirt.. really just to support the family as i have a million shirts... but they did it have it in a medium... got to support that..
then j robbins came up with a band.. i guess he is the guy from jawbox...he did a lot of songs.. i think alec mackaye also joined in for a few songs.. about a song into j robbins the door in the back opens and ian mackaye walks in wearing his unmistakable hat.. takes a spot on the side.. he's really into getting side views isn't he? a few more songs in and thurston moore walks in... i guess alec and j robbins had some nice words to say about stabb.... anyways thurston moore is so talll...so there i am 2 feet from the stage and 15 feet from both thurston and ian..... moore hangs out for most of j robbins set... then j robbins invites ian mackaye to come up.. ian comes up and talks about 5-10 minutes.. says some more really nice stuff about stabb....about the first time they met him.. about when he lived at dischord house... talks bout how he had been seeing him at the hospital...etc.... then i lose track but last songs from j robbins thurston moore comes up and does some punk song.. surely a stabb song but i don't know..i don't know much about the dc scene or bands really...one other guy also talked about how he got to live at the GI house even though he wasn't straight edge.... thurston sang the punk song with the lyrics in his hand
then a break.. moore comes up on stage with a drummer... says some more really nice words about stabb.. then moore does like a 20 minute thing i guess he calls "elegy for john stabb"..... my memory is not very good...as i was pounding the fosters oil cans... anyways it was the typical noise rock thing you'd expect from moore.. but not too loud... kind of soft.. i thought moore would do a full set but i clearly had no idea as the full set was by j robbins... anyways, moore did mention having left the states and settled in london which is why he didn't have a band with him.. i had no idea he had left.. he said something about trump (I guess how we might follow him out).... anyways once moore finished his 20 minute piece which was kind of moving he left the stage and went back.. obviously ian mackaye did not seem to stick around for moore.. but maybe he was just in the back... i went to the back and got thurston to sign my daydream nation (the 4 lp box) which i love...he was super cool...(i thought it might be awkward asking someone to sign at a "wake" so i was not entirely sure).. he told me i have a cool name.. which makes sense given my name is the same as his name! I was like "Thurston, WTF?"....i thanked him for coming. .he said it was nothing and "i would've come at the drop of a hat"
so that was it.. i noticed a lot of familiar faces but i don't know who they were... two people said hi to me but i did not know who they were.. one woman in paritcular when i figure out who it was i'm really going to feel very very stupid...
note: I did not say "Thurston, WTF?"
sorry for the crap report.. that is all i got.. i did tape the whole thing..but don't know if i'll ever listen to it
