Annoyance Lore & Hippy Lunch at Kopi

Just back from a lunch date with Joe Bill. In a nod to my hippy-dom, we went to his friend Al Rose's crunchywonderful restaurant in Andersonville called Kopi. Turns out, Al ended up play music for early Annoyance shows. He sort of fell into the role of playing the opening for the first  Splatter Theater in their original production of Metraform or, as they call it, "Annoyance before it was Annoyance." I got to sit there as Joe and Al played "back in the day," remembering the craziness of the show, their youthful foolheartiness, the fact that they pushed on ahead because they were too young, overly confident and ignorant to know it couldn't be done. They just did it because they didn't yet know they couldn't.

I especially loved the story about the intermission-type act that they threw in there to allow them to change costumes. It was a "puppet" show called Meat Puppets featuring a pork chop and a hot dog. Oh, and by the way if Joe's memory is correct, the pork chop was played by David Pasquesi and the hot dog by Tim Meadows.

                                                       Al talked about this gig with us.