When Christina's band came on, I started laughing about how their guitar player looked like a tiny version of Scott. I was standing next to Scott who wanted to know why I was laughing. So I leaned over and was like "Look at the guitar player! He's like a tiny you!" It was really loud and Scott didn't understand me, so in an even louder voice I said, "Look at the guitar player, he's like you but a midget!" Scott heard me the second time. Unfortunately for me, me screaming the phrase "a midget" just happened to coincide with the song ending and so everyone else in the entire venue pretty much turned around to stare at me.
Christina Alessi is hands down one of the best singer's I've ever heard. She literally silenced the crowd with her fucking amazing version of Skid Row's "18 & Life." (Which in trying to follow in her footsteps has since become a karaoke staple of mine).
A short while later, fellow Roxbury High School alumnus Bev Chase and Christina Alessi showed up to represent NJ (Chris' band, Hey Tiger, had just finished playing a show over at the Mercury Lounge)
What's better than three Roxbury grads in one pic? How about six mothafucking Roxbury Grads in one pic? Insanity. Bev, Chris, Colin Badini, Ian, Emily and me.
...I more than made up for with the following amazing collection of "Hey, did I go to high school with you?" photos. Here's Ian Thomas with Chris and Max.
Right when we walked into Jimi, I heard someone yell my name. I was like, I'm in fucking Asbury Park, NJ...who the fuck knows my name? I turn around to see Max, Chris Silk and Christina Alessi, three people I went to high school with. Apparently, Ween was playing a show at the Stone Pony the next night and they were staying at a hotel around the corner with a bunch of people. Randomness.