The Milkmans Music Blog: Michale Graves August 9 2012

I don't remember much from this show other than disappointment. Tim was along with me as always since we both love The Misfits. The venue was super small and not very many people were there. Like twenty people or so. I was hoping to get a limited edition CD single, "Touch Me" that Michale had recorded with Sal Bee and Sardonica. They didn't have any left which is understandable, although one of the crew members offered to sell me his at a very inflated price. No thanks. I also wanted to get my CD of Famous Monsters autographed with this silver sharpie that I had had Dr. C.H.U.D. sign it with, but I forgot the sharpie at home. That's on me.

The opening bands were Dead End Drive Inn and Grave Robber. A couple of local bands. It has been 12 years since this show and I can't remember anything about Dead End Drive Inn. Grave Robber were pretty cool. A little more theatrical with the costumes. I remember the energy being there. I bought their CD "You're All Gonna Die" at the show, and I'll still give it a listen every now and then. Good Album.

As far as anything Misfits related goes, this was a very stripped down, no horror punk makeup, low energy show. Now, I don't understand what his reasons were, and I get that some artist like to do this, but Michale decided to change the arrangements on most of the songs from fast paced punk sound to a more depressing emo sound. I was really looking forward to hear "Dig Up Her Bones" as it originally sounded. It's a great song! This was not what we were expecting. I was so disappointed in this I didn't even stick around to get my CD autographed. I don't have the Set list from the show, but this one is from 3 days later. I doubt they changed it up to much. Thank you Setlist.fm