Lawrence, KS - The Bottleneck
August 8, 1994

OFFSPRING
GUTTERMOUTH
BOY'S LIFE
August 8, 1994
The Bottleneck, Lawrence Kansas

What the in the flying FUCK?!?!?! You know, I could've seen some some great shows recently, but alas, ever since the ol' Outhouse (somebody FUCK Doug Compton repeatedly up the ass until it bleeds, please. Whoops! he might enjoy that too much.) closed down, I haven't been able to see any good shows. Rancid. Mised it. Vandals. My ride forgot to pick me up. So I'm going here thinking I'm going to see one of my favorite bands (The Offspring, you knob!! - before they went double platinum). We got there at 3:00pm and Shawn was already interviewing Noodles, so we hung out around the Bottleneck for a few hours. The highlight of this entire time was getting in for free and getting to listen to the soundcheck. I must say this was the best they played all night. I mean, c'mon! They play Jennifer Lost The War and We Are One NOW! and NOT DURING THE SHOW!

After sleeping through Boy's Life - you know something's wrong when guys with Birkenstocks and gold chains are in the "pit" (Hey, do they know the crowd's over here and not behind them?). The show's redeeming moment, Guttermouth, came on. I had never heard of these guys, but FUCK!!! These guys are GREAT!!! They got me in the mood to jump around and bash people's skulls in!! Particularly good were 1, 2, 3... Slam! (check out the Cinema Beer-tZą video review) and Asshole. But the best part wasn't the music, it was how bad they were insulting the crowd. They just ripped apart the jock-douche-bag-piece-of-shit-"hey, it's cool 'cause it's on the radio!"-dumb-fucks (hey, I wonder if they know a "pit" is supposed to be a circle). And the funniest of all, the stupid fucks didn't get the fact that they were being trashed! But, sadly, all good things must come to an end, and so did Guttermouth's set. The Offspring came on and I can't totally degrade them. After all, about half of their set was good. But, if I can hear something great, do I realy want to hear something that's just okay? Like I said earlier, their best shit was played during the soundcheck, before they started catering to their prep-jock-mentos chewing-guess jean wearing-the Gap shopping-MTV is God crowd. But, I can say I got to see them and got to scalp off 3 tickets for $20 a piece. So, if you get to go to a show then I'll see you there!

By Justin Hukle-VanKirk, from Life From Beyond - August 1994