about rancid

What can I say about Rancid.
Once is clearly not enough.
So I have decided If I decide to see them three or four days in a row, I will see them in Hollywood, CA.

It’s not exactly my first choice but it is the most economical one.
I want to come back to London in January when the fares are like 500 USD.
To go in NOV. and JAN. would be a bit excessive and much of an overkill.
I haven’t set foot for more than several hours since 2006.
I guess I am due back soon.

Seeing Rancid in tropical London would be pretty rad.
But the problem is I don’t have the access there like LA.
Cause once you cross the pond, everything is different.
LA/NYC the worlds are more intertwined.

I really want to see Rancid in SF. Again that’s not economical either. Since I don’t know anyone in the city of San Francisco/. Hotels there are quite expensive.

I get away with charging plane tickets to LA like its nothing.
So that is part of the reason. And other reasons too.

Anyway, so yes I did see Rancid at the Electric Factory in Philadelphia, PA Sunday night. After two days of Radiohead, it was a nice change in pace. Rancid played all the right songs and made me happy for an hour. The openers they had were okay. They had Big D and the Kids table and some other band.

That song, LAX always makes me laugh.
The worst part is that one verse about high fiving the bouncers cause I’m on the guest list applies to me to shows in NYC most of the time especially irving plaza.
I guess to see rancid in LA, its something I always dreamed of since I was little.
To see rancid in LA and SF… but after seeing them at CBGB cured that desire to being content to seeing them in New York.
The 4 day bb Kings stint in New York was great back in 2006. I went to three out of the four dates- because when rancid is playing two blocks from your house you don’t miss it. It’s a crime.

They had the slackers open one day and h20 open another day. That was fun.
You’d see all the agnostic front dudes too enjoying rancid.
Cause that the east coast New york pride right there.
I had some partial los Angelino pride when I was younger but that’s gone.
I loved how Lars sang OP IVYs Knowledge at the show.
They did the usual songs Maxwell murder, time bomb, roots radicals, basically everything from out come the wolves, nihilism, salvation, red hot moon (holla video shoot), Hoover street, anthem, who would’ve thought, and blood clot, oh yeah I do 360.
Lars didn’t do a billy bragg cover like last time L
I’m probably going to miss out on a lot this week which is not making me happy.
Rancid is having h20, theo and the skyscrapers, westbound train, sick of it all, and madball open.
I have LA.
I have LA.
I will fulfill my old dream of seeing Rancid in LA- even though it is not as relevant as it was before 2003.
But right now, I’m on a plane to el Salvador and the song Hoover Street is comforting right now.
Hopefully there won’t be a glass pipe murder.
I can’t help thinking about that time many years ago I was going from sunset// Alvarado to wilshire / Alvarado on an LA city bus (yeah I know, who rides the LA city bus) and slept and missed my stop. As you go further south on Alvarado street, it turns into Hoover. I got off and saw a group of people wearing el Salvador shirts on hoover street.
That was one of those, OMG its like the rancid song nerd moments.

I mean sometimes every now and then I walk up broadway from my apt around the time people get home from work- 5-6 PM..
And around 52nd st, everyone in suits is rushing to get home.
So it’s watching a 1000 people go home from work.
As a kid, I’d always get a kick out of seeing rancid at roseland cause rancid is on 52nd and broadway. Yeah nerd moment, I know.

Last time I came to London and I was at Leicester square, I was looking for some punks on the subway and from chalk farm road it felt like a long way to go to get there.

I’ve also seen several Puerto Ricans on 6th street.
Never ran into lars down on 6th street, but I thought if that happened in real life that would be funny.
Tahira and Vicky always tell me that you never know where lars ends up.
My mate barrie once saw lars eat at Red bamboo- this vegan resturant on w 4th street.
If they ever come to new york I should take them to red bamboo. They’ll eat there once I go- “lars ate there once and barrie saw it”

They’re rancid nerds like that, I think.