Also seeing Sunny Day Real Estate play their final (at the time) show opening for STT at the old Black Cat was terrific. More weird was seeing STT open for Foo Fighters at the Capital Ballroom.

I loved Shudder to Think and Jawbox when they were on Dischord and I was shocked when they put out LESS commercially accessible records on major labels. I loved Pony Express Record and I pretend that 50,000 BC never existed. Even more than their recorded output both were amazing live bands (I saw both many times but…