Ben Weasel at the Knitting Factory

I forgot my camera, so you'll have to deal with this cell phone photo. (He actually looks a lot better than this wack image...) It wasn't bad not being able to take pics. I could kick back and just soak in the show instead of stress over getting a good angle, decent pose, etc.

This show was actually a big deal for me. Unlike a lot of other, um, "classic" punkers coming through town, Ben Weasel isn't someone that I saw back in the day and am seeing on a nostalgic reunion tour. He never played L.A. with Screeching Weasel or The Riverdales, and this was my first chance to see him live. Most of my music is in storage--and hardly any of it is converted to MP3s--but I totally got the chills when I heard "Peter Brady"...



What guy can't relate to that? No "I Wanna Be a Homosexual" or "Totally" in the set (which was just like last night's show) but he did sing "Every Night" which made everything good.



"Tonight and every night/I will analyze everything/And make myself count the ways/I fucked up today..." No fucking up tonight--a great show by a punk rock god.