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• Spike Accidentally Sees A Couple of Bands at Summersault 2000 •
Summersault 2000 Ottawa Review

Went to the "big" summersault rock festival at an old racetrack in Ottawa with a bunch of guys. Of course the main goal of the event was to drink some beer outside while trying to avoid sunstroke. The bands were probably OK but we didn't watch them, instead we decided to scam our way backstage. After the usual failed attempts at pretending we knew someone in one of the bands and then pretending we were Dave Grohl we decided to sneak back. This was much easier than I would have thought. We just walked behind a tent and there we were watching Billy Corgan play ping-pong with some other band people.

This was fun for about five minutes until we noticed the roadies driving around in golf carts so we decided to take one. As soon as one roadie got out of his cart to deliver some bottled water, we jumped in and took off. He chased us but the carts were fast and before long we were doing donuts on the dirt horse track with some pissed of guy in a Guess Who rock jersey and a couple of cops screaming and chasing after us. Eventually we gave it back and we got kicked out.

Ten minutes later we were back again stealing cases of wine coolers and running around like a bunch of idiots. When I got stopped again the security guy just wanted to know what my old band (Jimmy George) was up to these days. After a while, when we couldn't find Dave Grohl to see if he really looked like my friend Tim, we decided to leave.

The show was really far from town so we decided to take someone's limo home. As you can imagine the driver got pissed off and kicked us out. Instead we pretended we had won some contest a local radio station had put on and got a drive home on a shuttle bus full of jar-head contest winners. They kept yelling "show us your tits" at all the women on the bus. My brother and I made the bus driver stop a few times so we could go piss on the highway and we kept giving wet willies to this drunk, semipassed out, jock in the seat beside us. I don't think he appreciated all the spit in his ears.

About the bands? Well as I said, drinking beer and getting backstage were more important than the music that day but the music provided for a decent soundtrack. We arrived at the show just as the second band, Treble Charger were finishing their set. I've always liked them though so I'll say that they rocked. Next up were a bunch of bands I don't really know or care about since I don't listen to modern rock radio that much. One of them (Perfect Circle) did a heavy metal-like version of a cure song that was interesting. Then it was the Foo Fighters… I did watch them and they did ROCK!

Dave Grohl promised to give anyone in the audience one of his stinky t-shirts if they could hit him in the head with a frisbee. Then he upped the ante by taunting the crowd to throw mud at him. Then he went and stood in the middle of the mosh pit with his guitar and mic and played a song while being pelted with sod and mud. It was cool. Our Lady Peace was next and lets just say that I was not a fan before and am less of one now. (If these guys were ten years older I'm sure they would have felt very comfortable playing in Honeymoon Suite or Glass Tiger.) And finally it was the Smashing Pumpkins… what can I say, they played their songs, they were rockstars, Melissa Auf der Maur was cool, they left...

I was late for work the next day.

Mike Lawson Email WWW

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