The Aquabats!

Date: August 24th, 1999

Location: The Nile Theatre

Bands: Dirtbike Kids, Turbo F*ckers, Poast Toasties & The Aquabats

Price: $12 (But It Was Supposed To Be $8)

Time: 6:00pm

With: Matt And Rachel

Bands I Saw: Dirtbike Kids, Turbo F*ckers, Poast Toasties & The Aquabats

Wearing: Shorty's Hat, Bullet In The Head Smiley Shirt & My Holy Jeans

SkaPunkMusicMan's Review

Ok before we left I was D.J.ing a b-day party for my friend Alicia & I got sunburned. Rachel was swimming at a friends house & Matt was at work. Then I come home call Matt & say "he dude, are we going to the show?" & he says "I don't think so dude." So I am like freaking out you know my favorite band is going to play in an hour & I can't go so I get all depressed & Stuart says "hey Ryan, why aren't you going?" & I said "because Matt doesn't have any money. so he says "what if I paid for you and Matt to go" & I said "oh man! that would be so great" & he gave me $20 & I already hade $8 so I was like cool I can buy a t-shirt too or something. so I quickly called Matt & told him that I can pay his way in & then we went. (NOW THE STORY BEGINS) now I read in the Newtimes that the price was going to be $8 at the door but we get there and they said no it's $12 & Matt brought $5 & Rachel brought $10 so we only had $7 altogether left over from buying our way in & so we all bought water which was $4 bucks left I was so pissed. So ok, we missed the first half of the Dirtbike kids but they still did a good show; on the guitar solo for a song the lead guitarist unplugged his guitar jumped off stage & played it while walking through the crowd. I was pretty impressive. ok then the Turbo F*ckers came & made the crowd angry the were all like "you guys suck cause you wont mosh to our songs" & they wouldn't stop yelling at us so everyone started Chanting AQUA-BATS, AQUA-BATS, AQUA-BATS! until the band left. it was so awesome. ok then the Poast Toasties came out & everyone was having such a good time cause they were cheering the audience on by saying "you guys are awesome" & "jump, jump, jump!" but then right in the middle of one of there songs the bassist for the Turbo F*ckers came & threw a pogo stick at the audience & said "who's the bad ass now!" & wouldn't leave until the audience started yelling AQUA-BATS, AQUA-BATS!...Again so then the Poast Toasties finished & said "don't worry The Aquabats are coming up next. & everyone was cheering so loud & Chanting AQUA-BATS, AQUA-BATS, AQUA-BATS!.........then suddenly smoke came from both sides of the stage & then there came a voice the voice of the one the only PROFESSOR CORNDOG! & The Aquabats all did flips and rolls onto the stage & started playing playdough (I think) it was so incredibly awesome. (HERE'S THE BEST PART) the evil El Demonico & his gang came out & got in a huge messy food fight with cupcakes, watermelon, LIVE squid!, bananas, apples, water, Gatorade & candy it was so awesome. After The Aquabats saved the day they left the stage; but we weren't ready for the end we wanted more so they all jumped out & busted right into Martian Girl & everyone was so happy it was great except at the end of Martian girl the Bat Commander did a back flip & landed on his back. I hope he's ok. Overall it was the funnest concert I have ever gone to even though all I bought was 2 stickers, lost all my money, came sunburned, got hit in the head with watermelon & missed most of the Dirtbike Kids. YEAH AQUABATS!