Alright so last night im embarked to St. Louis to catch the bigwig and stereotyperider tour, now mind you i saw this tour sometime last year, and i wasnt impressed with Stereotyperider, or the fact bigwig had some "personal" bouncer guy. Fortunately this was not the case tonight, no bouncer guy, and a misfortunate set by Stereotyperider, which ended up making me enjoy them less.

So the show took place at the Creepy Crawl, now if any of you have been there, you know this place sucks for shows, especially shows in which National Touring acts are playing. This place cannot hold more than 300 at most and when big acts roll through, it gets terrible. The plus sides are, no barricades, no shitty bouncers, the sound is pretty decent and at least its not the Pageant.

First up "Off By One" played, never saw them before but all i can think was "man, i hope you play another good charlotte cover , or maybe mix it up with a blink 182 one" one word for this band "lame". I dont know where they were from, maybe local? Point being, if you see this band billed on a show, i warned you, unless you're a fan of pop punk, you will not enjoy this.

Its weird how everytime i have seen a show lately another band pops up last second on the bill, in this case it was "Off By One", so to get the show i wanted to see started for real, "Red Light Runners" were up next. These guys had that Fat Wreck bands sound to them, mixing it up now and then with a few amateur Reggae vibes "for the ladies", yes thats right, if you are a lady at a punk rock show you are only there for the "smooth reggae vibes" according to this band. The plus sides to their set, they gave everyone in the crowd a free cd, mine of course was knocked out of my hand and broken, i'm thinking no big loss.

Next up were our friends all the way from AZ, Stereotyperider, now if you've seen them and enjoy them good for you, but being one person who did not enjoy them last time and attempting to give them a second chance, i would have to say i was disappointed. They had way too many problems with their equpiment, so they played about 6 songs and had to call it quits, of course stacking all their guitars on each other in a pile on the front of the stage, of course with all their effects pedals turned up. Why was your equipment broken you morons? Of course this wouldnt be any in the slightest bit of an indication, would it be?

Amazing Transparent Man, is definitely the only pop punk band i can really enjoy. I dont know what it is about these guys, but they put on a great stage show, alternatiing instruments in between and playing fast paced jams. Complete with matching costumes and guitars this band is sure to have your approval if you're a fan of pop punk, or just good music. They played a cover of "Bitch" and mostly newer stuff, from the second cd, but, as always, closed with the ever popular song "Cheerleader".

And finally gracing the stage's presense was bigwig, at this point i was so burnt out from the lame movement of the crowd i decided to move up to the front and sing along. Something strange about them this time though, they were 1 man short, they informed the crowd he had broke some fingers, so of course everyone called him a pussy. Then they later informed us that they'd sound cooler if they said he "OD'd" on Heroin. So anyways, we got bigwig rockin the 3 piece, and also this time with a new drummer. Now i'm not a musical Genius, but if you're a fan of bigwig, you would know that the only original member left in the band is frontman Tom. Old or new, these guys are still amazing, they played everything i could think of from stuff off "Unmerry Melodies" to "Stay Asleep" and "Invitation to Tragedy" , also chiming in a few covers including a cover of Operation Ivy's "knowledge". All in all a good show, lame crowd, good bands, lame venue.

So if a moral needed be here, it should be don't go see shows at the creepy crawl, unless you really like the band (unfortunately this happens to me a lot) and try not to see a show with the first 2 bands on the bill.

Off By One - 2
Red Light Runners - 5
Stereotyperider - 4
Amazing Transparent Man - 8
Bigwig - 10