April 18th, 2001

WARSTARS, Helsinki, Bathtub Full of Sharks
Ash St Saloon, Portland, OR

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This show was even more amazing than the March 21st show. Kreist Gryndor and Battleship Potamkin both claim they were too drunk to tell one way or the other. Andy Warstar seemed relatively sober...until Slogbaud invaded his body... Anyways, the show kicked ass.

The Warstars played the same setlist as the last show. The main difference was that at this show, Kaptain Slogbaud made his first appearance. Donning the American Flag as a cape and a patton leather cod piece, Slogbaud proceeded to posess the body of Andy Warstar and create mass chaos.

Warstars opened the show with "Drums Of Death". Each band member had his own full size industrial oil barrel to bang on. Professional drum mallets were used, but Andy couldn't find his. So instead of mallets, he used a frying pan that he found in the back of his step-mom's mini-van. The handle broke off by the end of the first song. A Warhead proudly snatched it up after it flew off into the crowd.

By show's end, Andy Warstar (Kaptain Slogbaud) had smashed both his guitars. Andy, Kreist, and Battleship then took up baseball bats and smashed a computer monitor to hell (we don't advise doing this ever, as you'll end up breathing in atomized glass particles that make the air all sparkly, while shortening your lifespan).

Everyone's hands were bleeding from playing "Drums of Death" at the end of the show as well. Warstars finished their set with a noise rock "Teenage Lobotomy Jam" by the Ramones, featuring Andy on the megaphone screaming "Tumor-Syphillis-Itis-Osis!
Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious"
over and over and over...

After the show, a large African American accompanied by two "white devils" in khakis and white t-shirts tried to steal the Warstars megafone and some other Warstars equipment. Gryndor and Potamkin were ready to get into it, but Andy saved everyone a lot of trouble by going back inside and calling the cops... One of the few times cops have actually been helpful. Funny to see the cops reaction when he learned that Kaptain Slogbaud was the one to make the call for assistance.

This concert performance was dedicated to Joey Ramone.
R.I.P.

To see the photos, click HERE.

To see the original concert poster* click HERE...