12/13/2023 0 Comments Millumin tour 2021How *dare* you give me money to play for *you*, like they were being forced to take money from Nazis or something. ![]() It felt like a personal attack on everyone in the audience, each of us individually, and all of us all at once. ![]() But at the time it was one of the most disrespectful things I'd ever experienced in my life, and the *only* time I've ever seen a band seem even a little bit angry to be up on stage being payed to play for people. I'm older now and have mood problems of my own so I can forgive them for losing their temper, being extremely depressed, who knows, and basically acting like being a paying audience was something we were doing to torture them. I didn't listen to them again after that night until a few weeks ago, when I got into revisiting my punk interests from my teens and early twenties because of a really well done acoustic cover of Bullion of all things (look up Eddie Booze on YT, the man is talented). did that thing with Millencolin just happen? Am I tripping? And they all said no, they saw it the saw way I did and it was completely confusing and massively disrespectful. I chatted up some random people after the Offspring played and the show ended (and sounded great and played with energy, both of which were unfortunately wasted on Offspring songs) and basically asked like, hey bro sorry to bug you. I'm not remotely kidding, like I said, find someone who was there and they can verify this. walk off stage after the second-to-last song and leave the drummer out on the stage by himself as they played the finale from backstage. It was just song into song into song, a silent break here and there, then song into song into song, eventually into. Nikola's little "screw you" intro talk was the only thing they ever said to us, not even introducing songs here and there. I've never seen a band anywhere remotely near the punk/metal world play with less energy: they stood motionless and stared at their feet the entire time. They at least weren't intentionally screwing up the parts or changing the lyrics to be about hating us or something, but that was about it as far as positivity. Like I said, the sound wasn't any different than usual. Marshawn Lynch's "I'm only here because I have to be" interview showed less disgust from someone who had to show up somewhere they didn't want to be. Before the first song Nikola comes up to the mic and says, in this snotty, sarcastic, passive-aggressive tone, "Hiiii, we're Millencolin from Sweden and we're SOOO happy to be here tonight, playing JUST for youuuuuuu". ![]() So it averages out to "alright." The problem was that, for whatever reason (saw or experienced something that made them hate our dumb little hick town and treat us at the show like garbage as collective punishment? axl rose level moody? angry they were opening for Offspring instead of the other way around? I really don't know) they were clearly ENRAGED to be playing for us that night. They sounded ok: the playing was fine, but Nikola sounds like garbage live 100% of the time and this was no different. And what went on was doubly horrible because I was there to see the Swedes. This was Millencolin in Ventura California in the early 2000s, opening with TSOL for the Offspring, and anyone who was there can verify this. Anyway this isn't about the Fake Misfits. Least enjoyable live experience I've ever had with a band, and I saw the Michale Graves Misfits, who sounded like dog vomit and had Only and Doyle cranked so loud that they blew little thin-voice midrangey Michale Graves off the stage to the point that it was effectively the first time I ever heard the Misfits play instrumentally.
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