I just received this in the mail today, and I am pretty stoked about it. I saw this tour just a few days before the date on the poster. It was at the original Bottom Lounge in Chicago. My friend Joey and I were supposed to be on the list, but for some reason Travis from Buddyhead forgot to add us (what an asshole!). Luckily though, we bumped into Don from Icarus Line (an ex-Ink & Dagger) and he was able to get us in. Good for us, since we only had beer money on us! Anyways, it was a great show. I think it was my first time seeing Battles, and I remember being completely amazed by them. They were a band that I had never heard of, but was mindfucked by them in the best way possible. That has never before happened to me at or show, and it hasn't happened since. Then Dead Meadow played, and I felt that just watching them allowed me to grow an awesome beard and just rock harder than any of you. Last, but certainly not least, was The Icarus Line. I have nothing but love for this band. It was a great show, so I finally spent the cash to pick up this poster. Kind of a creepy image, but when I was taking it out of it's tube, my grandma saw it and said it was "cute." My grandma for the win!
Oh, by the way it was designed by Aesthetic Apparatus, a great design company out of Minneapolis that also designed a lot of posters for the Metro. It's kind of awesome to see posters of shows that I actually attended.
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