Tuesday, July 15, 2008

bernie's big birthday bash

i grew up next to _the_ skate ramp in my city (Lincoln, Nebraska), so I got to hang out with all the local punks on a daily basis.

My 13th birthday was the same day that everyone's skate-punk hero's at the time, JFA, were playing the soon-to-be infamous Brickyard, that empty shell of a building/former warehouse which was rented out for punk shows for a couple years.

Anyway, Al (singer of the band Baby Hot Line - a band I joined the next year) noted on the flyer that this was bernie's big birthday bash

mom dropped me off at the show.

I did my first proper stage-dive.

My life was forever changed.

25 years, and one week ago tonight.



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5 comments:

  1. Anonymous1:56 AM

    Fantastic. Happy birthday, Bernie. Miss you, man.

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  2. Anonymous2:28 AM

    that's fucking awesome.
    happy birthday bernie.

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  3. Anonymous12:12 PM

    Remember no beer or alcohol at the brickyard. Happy bday bernie jr

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  4. 11:116:17 PM

    I was there and still am.

    had a nice chat with your mom the other night. . . .Thanks for being born Bernie.

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  5. sockrider8:43 AM

    I was never there, but I've heard about it:

    http://www.brickyarddaze.com/

    http://www.myspace.com/brickyarddaze

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