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The members of Mountain Tamer show up to talk about their first show being a pool party, and how one of the best shows ever was after moving to LA, and playing a show with Mondo Generator. Then the many, many misadventures in Las Vegas.

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Isaiah from Radkey, hops on the phone for a quick chat (our shortest episode yet) to share the stories of his first, best, and worst shows of all time. From thinking they were famous opening for Fishbone, to the crushing reality of only drawing two people to a show, the life of a performer is at the very least interesting. 

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This week on 3 Gigs, we chat with director Tabbert Fiiller, about his documentary on John Lydon and Public Image Ltd., The Public Image Is Rotten. We talk about his transition from cinematographer to the director's chair for the first time and the best time! As well as some of the struggles as being a cinematographer working with inexperienced directors. 

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Audio Karate stops in for our season 2 finale, and Art Barrios talks about his first show at 14 years old, at an abandoned house, and filling in for Audio Karate (called The Goons back then) as their singer, while Jason Camacho joined The Goons to play a talent show, though they lost…they still had everyone dancing. Then they both agree that one of the best shows was Manchester in 2003 supporting The Ataris while they were wasted.
Jason talks about how one of his worst shows was a show at a bar in the Midwest with only 6 people where he made Art really mad, even though Art doesn’t remember it. Then Art shares a story of performing after drinking Absinthe in Europe.

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Commander Angel Nova & Leftenant AR-7 from The Phenomenauts stop by to share the origins of the band as street musicians, and Leftenant AR-7 being built for a Christmas show with The Vandals in San Diego with a mystery opener. How the best show ever was a tiny bar in Germany. Though the Metal Festival in the Black Forest was pretty epic too. They also share the art of “Commando Shows”. Then finally, the SF Weekly award show, where just no one helped and the time AR-7 just wanted to give up.

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Shawn Peter, vocalist and guitarist for GHOST TOWN REBELLION shares with us the difficult path the band took to come together, and a first show that was also was kind of the worst show, since they surprised a crowd that may have expected something different. How their best show was one of two great moments...

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Enon Gaines stops by 3 Gigs Podcast to tell us stories about their first show was at the LA TIMES FESTIVAL at USC, and it wasn't what they expected. Then his best show was performing at Oakland, CA FIRST FRIDAY Festival on his birthday! Finally his worst show was when he discovered you can get WAY too drunk on red wine and waffles before playing a show in SF on a rooftop.

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Kid You Not's vocalist/guitarist Patrick Drury and bassist/backing vocalist Justin Pritchard stop by 3 Gigs to talk about their first show ever that happened to be opening for the band, Face To Face! Learning the hard way why white shirts don’t sell. How some of the best shows ever have been the times they played The Fest in Florida. As well as a sad tale of a crazy show where they realized a member had to go.

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Guli Remondi, guitarist of Sketchy stops by and tells us about being 14 years old and terrified while playing a backyard show. Getting paid the headlining bands pay by mistake. Bringing his family to see him perform at Punk Rock Bowling in front of 2500 people, and having them all wish his 4 year old sister a happy birthday. Then some stories of how bad it gets when everything goes wrong, and what you do when the promoter of the show tries to run away.

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Former guitarist for Tsunami Bomb and currently releasing music as Tame Adult, Mike Griffen visits 3 Gigs to talk to his former bandmate Dominic Davi for the first time in over a decade. Telling stories of his first show with a Jazz band back in Texas, to wearing the wrong shirt to 924 Gilman at his first Tsunami Bomb show. The hidden intimate glory of basement and house shows, and the moment in Boston where both Dominic and him let family problems get the best of them. Listen in on this intimate conversation between two old bandmates talking to each other for the first time. 

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Pop singer and drag queen, VIZIN stops by 3 Gigs Podcast to tell us stories about  what it feels like to play her hometown for the first time, to playing Long Beach Pride with Chaka Khan, and how trying to have a pop show in Florida after a hurricane, is not always a great idea....

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Screamin’ E, vocalist for The Memphis Murder Men and co-host of Monster Candy Podcast, stops by 3 Gigs Podcast to tell the story of his first show in Pittsburgh, PA with The Brain Invaders, where according to rumor he may or may not have punched a kid in the stomach. To playing with The Misfits in San Francisco (where Dominic played too!), to an emotional memorial concert getting cut off before the end of the show, and this one night in Antioch where everything just went wrong…

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Long Beach, Ca band, Bella Novela stop by 3 Gigs and tell us stories about high school talent shows, and acoustic Hole covers. Having two sign language translators dancing like go-go dancers while they opened for Salt-N-Pepa, and how trying edibles before a show is not always a great idea. 

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Peter Niven, co-vocalist and guitarist for The Atom Age stops by this week before we play a show together in San Francisco, CA this coming weekend, to talk about Atom Age’s first show on Halloween and how they always get the cops called on them at house parties. What it was like to fix a vintage keyboard in France with seconds to spare, and how food poisoning and gorilla gluing a forehead shut a great show does not make.
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Sex Educators and Adult Performers, RAIN DEGREY & DEVILYNNE drop by the show to share what first, best, and worst performances mean for porn stars, and tell some eye opening stories about what it's like being a professional naked person. They let us know how they've taken those experiences and how they are now educating others how to embrace their kink safely and properly. 

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Sal Ellington of REBUILDER stops by 3 GIGS to talk about how he went from drummer to vocalist, and what they had to do about the old singer. How Virginia Beach became a second home, and sometimes anywhere is better then New Jersey!

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Jeff Dean of Airstream Futures and Dead Ending, talks about his first show ever with the band Tomorrow’s Gone, out in the middle of the desert between Boulder City and Las Vegas, to playing the Huntridge Theater with Jack Kevorkian and the Suicide Machines that led him to move north to Detroit (and eventually landing in Chicago). All Eyes West performing huge shows in Chicago and Minneapolis with his guitar hero Bob Mould, and getting to meet him over a busted pedal. What happened when they played Nottingham with Amusement Parks On Fire who staged a spontaneous reunion, just for that show. To playing a weird little bar on the North side of Chicago, when everyone left before they played and the power kept cutting out  and the drums slid everywhere…you can’t help but ask yourself….what are you doing with your life?

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Nymble Digitz comes to the show and tells us about his first show in Qatar in the Persian Gulf, and literally risking getting his head cut off by parting hard and throwing a party where he DJ’d for the first time. A huge party he played at Kingdom in Austin TX, with an incredible sound rig and a better crowd. As well as a terrible party he had to play where equipment crashed constantly and a VIP ticket only got them all one free drink. 

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Between the time when the oceans drank Atlantis, and the rise of the sons of Arius, there was an age undreamed of. And onto this, Holzfeuer, founder and vocalist of the greatest band of all time, ArnoCorps tells the stories of high adventure of their Austrian homeland for our season one finale. From the first American appearance at 924 Gilman St. in Berkeley, CA that illustrated the importance of building hype around your band and your shows. Having Flex Magazine do a story on the band before the first show. Holzfeuer makes a show changing suggestion for 3 Gigs and the quest to understand heroic archetypes. With the election of Austrian born actor and body builder Arnold Schwarzenegger as Governor of California, and ArnoCorps breaking into mainstream news, but did this lead to being banned from the city of Sacramento? However, rising above this…the best show ever happened just this summer in London, England…on their latest tour to support their brand new E.P. “The Unbelievable”, out on Alternative Tentacles Records. 

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** This episode was brought to you by Fresh Clean Tees! It's like a shaving club, but they bring you awesome, affordable, clean t-shirts! Check out Fresh Clean Tees at http://www.freshcleantees.com/ and get 20% off your first order with the code "GIG" **

Diego Medrano of the band Romona tells us how getting out of a relationship and playing a show became a focus for his anger, and making all his friends over the course of 8 songs very uncomfortable. Playing a show with everyone that mattered, but having some unfortunate racial interactions in Tacoma, WA. Yet despite that, the people of Tacoma made up for it in the end.

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** This episode was brought to you by Fresh Clean Tees! It's like a shaving club, but they bring you awesome, affordable, clean t-shirts! Check out Fresh Clean Tees at http://www.freshcleantees.com/ and get 20% off your first order with the code "GIG" **