June 24th 2001 w/The Planet Smashers, General Rudie, and the Dynamics Show Highlights: Our first show. It's at a Skatepark which is as good a place to start as any. Scott falls down, we cover the Dead Boys and Fear along with our 3:30 version of the 13 minute Bauhaus classic "Bela Lugosi's Dead". Also unveiled for the first time is the Strawberry Quik which is now of staple of every DeadFucks show. When the Smashers get on stage Matt Collyer says they couldn't believe it was our first show. That was cool and we appreciated it, but we always had the feeling that the closing act saying nice things about a band onstage after their first show is kinda like having a stripper tell you how attractive you are, they just do it 'cause they're supposed to. September 10th 2001 w/Wesley Willis and Grand Buffet Show Highlights: We'd been pushing Wesley Willis' music on anybody who'd listen for years, so we probably would have all hung ourselves outside 53rd and 3rd if we didn't get to play with him when he came through town. Grand Buffet from Pittsburgh were with him and were super-nice guys. We all had their song "Candy Bars" in our heads for weeks afterward. Scott was wearing saran wrap underwear which he threw at the crowd during our closing song "No Cause (at all)". (You can download the live MP3 in our MP3 section). Our first act of hardcore onstage nudity. Grand Buffet rocked harder than ExciteBike (if that's possible), and as expected Wesley Willis was one of the best performances I'd ever seen. After the show, Wesley was singing a song about the DeadFucks to Dan that he made up on the spot in classic Willis style. If nothing else ever happens to this band, we can always say Wesley Willis made up a song about us. November 1st 2001 w/The Real McKenzies, Fabulous Disaster Show Highlights: Our streak of getting better shows than we deserved continued when we landed the Real McKenzies/Fab D show. A quick trip to the local shopping centre before we got onstage proved to be the perfect place to acquire women's panties in man-size. And a trip to the local grocery store in the aforementioned shopping centre was the perfect place to acquire bananas, whipped cream, maple syrup and strawberry quik to put in those "manties". Al puts the crowd in their place, Dan makes a statement about teenage love when you're 24, Scott makes a banana split in the panties he's wearing and Will hides behind the drums. Fabulous Disaster were so good their CD is still in Heavy rotation in DeadFucksville, The Real McKenzies got the crowd elbowin' each other and gave our little one Starbuck town a lesson in alcohol consumption. December 14th 2001 w/Purple Knight Show Highlights: The Strawberry Quik fueled mayhem continues as due to heavy requests from people in the know, we take on a cover of our favorite local band The Mansons song "Platonia". We decide to break the trend and get the crowd really messy which either went really well or really bad depending on who's opinion you ask. By far our messiest show to date. Purple Knight did what they do best and everybody dug it as usual and we were right up there. There's not enough bands that set out to try to do something no one else is doing, Purple Knight have been doing it since 1974. The show was to help fund the first Purple Knight CD (finally!). Not sure how much they got, but we got more for that show than any of our previous outings (who cares?!) December 28th 2001 w/Hope, Livids, No Control. Show Highlights: Up until then we hadn't really had a chance to play with many bands that were our friends so this was a swank chance to do it at all ages show. Bar shows suck compared to all ages shows 'cause everyone is so enthralled with drinking they could give a fuck about what's going on up on stage. All ages shows the kids will dance which makes it 1000 times better. And the tasty little girls, did I say that? Anyways... The Livids were the shock of the night and instantly made themselves one of the punk rock bands to watch out for around these parts. No Control played at lightspeed and had the crowd knocking their mohawks into each other eyes by the time their first note played. We tamed it down for the all-ages show as to not get arrested/never get to play an ages show at that venue again. Pulled out a record setting amount of food. Strawberry Quik got on the insanley high ceilings which Will mopped up after show standing on a giant PA. Also, a piece of balogna we threw at the crowd came back and slopped onto a picture of Queen Elizabeth behind the stage in a piece of punk rock imagrey that would make Penelope Shpeeris try to include it in the Directors Cut of Suburbia. Hope came on and played some new stuff, which is actually some our our favorite stuff they've done. The show was starting to run late by this point though, a few kids had trickled out. We still bopped around a bit after we got our gear moved.