BANDS by Brynne Boltjes

There are rarely bands I want to see play in Spokane. We don't have the greatest music scene here. But when a band does come around that I like I make sure I make it there. So on a Monday night two punk bands were in town playing that I knew I wanted to watch. Granted they were playing at the Cretin Hop which doesn't seem to have heat and has a lot of little teenagers running around the place, but they do offer some great punk shows once in awhile. The main band I wanted to see was called The Cobra Skulls.

The first band to play was called Nuetral Boy, and they actually ended up being my favorite band to watch that night. The lead singer/guitar player Mike said they barely made it to the show because of a crazy story that actually happened. Mike told the crowd that his brother, the rody, beat up their drummer so bad he had to go to the hospital. They set the drummer up at Deaconess Hospital and Mike made his brother go to the train station to go home.

So the third guitar player ended up taking over on the drums and he did a great job. No one in the crowd noticed a difference in the music.

The crowd really started to hype up when the next band Cobra Skulls started to play. I couldn't believe how many people were taking pictures of the band at this time.

Wow that was a lot of picture taking for a punkrock band that is farely new to the scene. The last band I watched were called Teenage Bottle Rocket. They were pretty good but they had a part in there set that was the highlight of the night. A teenage boy from Spokane loved their band and knew how to play bass to every single song they had made. The boy had made YouTube videos of himself playing Teenage Bottle Rocket's songs and posted them on their myspace page and fan website. During their set the lead singer saw this boy and asked him to come play a song with them on their bass player's bass. The boys face was so excited that it was like a dream come true for him.

While the boy didn't know how to fix the bass strap to fit his size, or he was probably too nervous to mess with it, he rocked out so hard that the crowd went wild.