Lynn Twiss

This past weekend; Matt, Janessa and myself loaded up Matt’s “non-gendered” vehicle and headed down to Missoula to hear Brent Shultz’ band: Ass-End Offend play at the 2005 Punk Rock Prom. I lugged along my new 40gig iPod (aka: SMIVE 2.0), loaded to the edge of the plates with music, and we jammed out to music the whole way there. I had booked the hotel across the street from the Union Hall, where the prom was being hosted, under my pseudonym: Peter Lemonjello. Damn that Peter, always getting into trouble (see the “Boise Idaho, trans-gendered lobby attendant confronts Lynn aka. Peter & Sharon” story I will write someday).

The prom was not unlike it’s 2002 incarnation, that was held to benefit a local girl with cancer. The bands were pushed into a little corner of a cramped room, the humidity was high as well as the volume. This year the bend had a lottery month earlier and whatever band they pulled out of that hat, they covered two of their songs. It wasn’t just an event for the masses, but the bands enjoyed hearing reinterpretations of their own songs, performed by differing genred bands. My personal favorite was Bacon & Egg’s cover of Ass-End Offend’s: Skateboardings Not A Sport.

After cleanup and a few drinks down at the Union Hall, we made our way over to Tom’s house for an after prom party. click for images &

Here’s what Wantage had to say:

Just this past Friday was the Punk Rock Prom, the fundraiser to help get Ass-End Offend to Eastern Europe this Summer, went down really positively! 6 bands played, and with the exception the beneficiaries’ botching of one of their covers (insert akward laugh-cough here), the music was par excellence. Highlights are hard to hand out, but mine go like this:
the International Playboys handled some Live At Leeds styled Young Man Blues, Bacon and Egg slammed out a killer version of Becoming Our Destruction, Sasshole tore up Playboys Incorporated, Oblio Joes played Super Confident Guy without cracking an ironic smile, Volumen slayed the Sasshole theme, and Ass-End Offend’s take on Roll On Kentucky Moon was a fist pumper. The photo booth was great fun, the raffle was sweet too. Muchas gracias to all the bands, organizers and business sponsors.