Hillltap Tavern/June 4, 2011

Hilltap Tavern in Queens
June 4, 2011

DIS-CON
RETRO-VIRAL
NO VICE
SECOND BEST (PA)
CAUGHT IN A TRAP
Yo!SCUNT
(A)TRUTH
SEIZURE CRYPT
ENDANGERED FECES

Alright so growing up i didn't have too many of those things called friends and i spent a lot of my time living under a rock (and in and out of psych wards and on people's floors/basements) so i hadn't really been to too many local shows until a friend of mine took me to a basement show in st. James long island where i was introduced to zombie culture and retro viral. Now this was impactful because it was one of my first shows and it was when i was re introduced to this guy who i met outside of the pizza shop in my town (justyn kiddo). He asked me to join his band and the rest is history. 

Well although this was a very important show to me it's not the one i hold most memorable. The one i hold most memorable if i had to pick one it would be the Yo!$cunt cd release show. Now me being new to the scene it was a night of firsts and as it turned out a night of a few lasts. 

Now this was the second time i ever saw yo!$cunt and it was also the first time i went to the hilltap. Two things that would become staples in my time spent going to shows. What was most memorable at this show was that i spent a good portion of it making friends who i consider to be righteous individuals but i also spent most of that night talking to a young lady by the name of sarah B who i had a crush on since my first show with retroviral. The night was fun, she gave me her number and two and a half years later we're living together happily in queens.

What was also great about this night was how amazing everyone played. It was probably the best set i had ever played with retroviral, every note on every song was exactly the way i wanted it to sound and everyone at the show got in on the pit and it was over all the most fun i ever had in that band. Unfortunately it wound up being the penultimate show for retroviral and the last show for no vice. Just before we both were scheduled to play punk island. Although both great bands (in my own opinion) ended, that night will always be a great memory for me.

-Rob Miller - the imaginary friend