VIGO, 10/4
Oh, Vigo. We’ve had some HUGE shows and some HUGE nights in this town. Vigo, being a port, has the right combination of transient populace, cheap and uncut drugs, and rabid rock fans that make it one of the world’s truly great cities. This time we were playing the Mondo club, a recently opened disco that seemed very glad to have us there. Oh, I should mention that Sergio took the day off to play with his band in Zaragoza, leaving us in the hands of Ellie for the day. Ellie was a great guy, too—very professional and hard worker. Cool. Anyway, this show—we had even MORE people than we did in 2005, and the show was WILDER and more intense. Even taking into account that in 2005 at La Fabrica de Chocolate we shoved our guitars thru the ceiling panels and left them hanging there—this was photographed and is now a huge poster on the wall of the club. But this show was hardcore. So many damn people! And we nailed it, merch wise. We had that shit DOWN.
Highlights included: a reggae/bob Dylan/audience member singing version of “Fight It”, and the climax of the show, a wicked White Stripes-esque jam on a made up song about Vigo…huge!
After the show we all went to La Iguana, where we had fantastic shows in 1995 and 2001. The 2001 show was virtual blizzard of drug-induced insanity. I mean that in a good way! The owners were very happy to have us visit their club, they all went to the Mondo show. Now, this place rocks til 6am, which was a bigger investment than I wanted to make, and they don’t serve wine. So I had my beer, one, and talked with the owners and went home in the cool of the night—a night, which for some Vigoese, was just beginning.
