888, y'all!  PGTR will be bringing some hot musick to your loving and eager ears.  We're playing this Friday with our friends The Chop at the Hotel Utah in SF.  

According to my gematria database, the number 888 is associated with the following:

• revelry, debauchery, riotousness, rant, jinks, skylarking; boisterousness;
• to diaper, swaddle; wrap up
• egg, ovum
• be scorched, singed, burnt
• to terrify, scare, alarm, frighten

I interpret this oracle to predict the following about the show, mark my words: The rock that we are bringing this Friday night will get you totally worked up and incite you to offer your drink unto Bacchus.  Some of you will become pregnant, and some may need to change their diapers because we will put a fresh poop in them.  Since we are going on first, we will leave the stage a smoldering heap, and inspire fear in those at the club who are afraid of the blitzkrieg spearheaded by two men with the three amps.  We may never be asked back to the Hotel Utah, so be the first and probably last group of people to witness the spectacle.

We're going on first, and are pretty different from the rest of the bands, so you can either look at it as "Diversity is a good thing, I like all kinds of music" or "Who would win in a streetfight between King Diamond and Elvis Costello?  I'm leaving once the still-beating heart is removed from the ribcage." 

We're going on first, here are the standard details:

Friday August 8th, 2008 Hotel Utah 500 4th Street, SF CA

9PM, 21+

The Chop + Goodbye Nautilus + Pegataur

Hope to see you there!

So, it's been almost a couple weeks since the show at the Hemlock, but for those of you who missed it, it was a great first show!  I'm trying to be objective, here, which is hard.  My own subjective experience of it would be to say that I feel we were a little out of control initially but rapidly seized the reigns and locked in after a few songs - I don't think anyone else would've noticed (except my friend Tim who suggested we were perhaps "stiffer" at the beginning).  Otherwise, I am totally proud of the set, energy, and execution, plus there was a great turnout (70 people, according to the club) and the other two bands, Black Budget and Floating Goat, were awesome, loud, tight, and heavy.  And, as evidenced from this photo, the ruling spirits of the tunes were effectively evoked and released from our musick and floated above my head for most of the set.  Thanks, guys.  More...

This is our first show and I'm super excited about it.  We're opening and it should be awesome.  The other bands, Black Budget and Floating Goat, sound pretty rad.  It's also looking like we'll have CDs and stickers at the show, too.  Hope you can make it!  It will be a night of great rawk.

By the way, the album art is totally amazing and was executed by our good friend James Kafader of The Chop.  I will be posting about this separately soon.