Could it really be
7 years. Astonishing. Yes, 7 years ago today,
I wrote a little page for this website about the
very first show at the CD101 Big Room. 7 Years later
it is "Countdown Entry #50" chronicling the move to
LA. What a long project this has been...
Introducing
50
entries, 50
videos (the
majority of which have never been seen on this site)
that cover 4tvs in 1999. Culminated from my promotions
log (84 pages by the end) I kept trying to get
4tvs off the ground, emails to the Late Show fans and
show descriptions I posted on the site. You may
remember me starting some of this from 2001 when
I talked of the "Negative
Entries".
At the time I had pieced together December '99
and first wrote about the project on the site, but was
never able to devote the time to it that
it needed. It is a monstrous amount of work,
which is funny because - it's already written. Heh.
Who knew?
On paper it looks
like you could very easily recreate the story in
"Journey Format" with such an abundance of
information. The entire last sentence is true except
the easy part. Since my promotions log was
sectioned off by each venue I was attacking, making
one entry required going to every single section and
reading up on it. You re-read hundreds of mini-stories
of dealing with bar-owners, and start to remember the
flow of it, then match it up with the other venues by
date, then you cut and paste all that into an entry.
Whew.
Then of course you
have the actual show dates which can account for
several entries, and of course the emails. What you
end up with, after weeks of agonizing trips down
memory lane, is an awesome story. I'd say it's
actually better in many respects than 2000. What's
funny is, you can do the whole year in an hour. LOL.
My idea of an entry in 1999 is pretty humorous. The
videos are also usually 30 seconds or under.
What stuck out
more than anything was a series of entries at the
beginning of November that are enough to make your
heart stop. You think this month has been up and down?
Shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit. Try this:
1) Being on the
verge of moving to Vegas, then getting an offer for
a full-time "Late Show" at CD101
2) Accepting
the position, making the official
announcement.
3) Next entry
LEAVING CD101 (I later admitted I was fired) and
writing that I'm going to LA.
4) After 2
months, finally put together a video editing
computer that works that allows me to even CREATE
4tvs sets after ABOT dropped out. This is the only
thing that kept us alive in LA.
5) Next entry
having my fuckin trailer stolen.
EXHAAAAALE. Talk
about fuckin' with your emotions man. It's why I STILL
contend that I'm not bi-polar, EVERYONE AROUND ME
is. LOL.
It really is
enjoyable to go back and watch those videos and see
the struggle 4tvs was in Columbus. After every entry
you find yourself going: "They're just bars in
Columbus Adam, you'll move on"...of course at the time
I had no choice but to play their game. Man some of
those owners were characters. I think I would still
spit on Flaherty if I ever saw him again. FUCKER.
Sorry. Anyway, no one is happier than Moose boy. He's
gonna be so excited goin' through all that. Those were
the days for us. All those different venues, setting
up. I can't believe it's been so long. Cassi was
thir-fuckin-teen. Whew. Enough of that
shit...
So
please take a moment and skim through it.
They really are tiny little entries, and
some of the videos are a riot. I'm using
the first one in December 1999 for this
entry's
video.
It's the top left TV from the "Day in the
Life" set during the "Foot on the
Gas" song. I thought it was a
funny parody of the Alanis Morisette video
to actually get out and run alongside the
car during the song in one of the TVs. By
this point in the video I had already run
for the beginning of the song and was out
of breath (and it was cooooooooold). I
laugh everytime I see this thing.
HAHAHA
God I miss
those days. Had we any idea what would've happened,
could we have possibly kept going?
