#3 Iowa Beef Experience
Sunday, January 4th, 2009I saw Iowa Beef Experience in Sioux City Iowa at a club called Kings Court. For those of you who were lucky enough to experience a show there it was truly amazing. I remember driving up to the show with my friend John Kestner. He was in a local band at the time called Strychnine. I was totally stoked as we drove the 23 miles to Kings Court in his Dodge Sprinter with no heat blasting The Misfits.
This was one of my first shows there. I showed up at the club in awe of the venue. It was an old run down school. I walked in and paid the $5 cover to a guy who looked like he should be in a mental institution. His name was Pete Phillips. He commented on my coat which was a woman’s fur coat just barely big enough for me. I walked in from the foyer and looking into what was probably the concession stand upstairs from the gym where the stage was located. It was full of typical Sioux City kids, dirty and confused. From there I walked into the bathroom which consisted of a hole in the floor. Not sure where my piss went but didn’t care at the time. So I walked down the stairs to the gym and the place was packed. On the stage was Iowa Beef Experience. All I remember from their show was the swarm of kids slam dancing. The next band on the stage was Three Mile Pilot. To this day my ears still ring from that show. They were the loudest band I’ve ever seen. They all had hand made metal guitars and amps up to the ceiling and off to the left side of the stage was Pete peering over the crowd of people from top of the PA speaker. That show changed my life. Every weekend from then on I went to shows in Sioux City and to this day have never seen anything like it.
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