I checked out Fall of Troy at the Social about a week ago with a buddy of mine. Since i had totally forgotten i was going, i was stoked to see Foxy Shazam! setting up their equipment. Foxy Shazam opened for Mindless Self Indulgence two years ago at Jannus Landing. They blew me away with a spectacle of utter chaos exploding on a stage while front man Eric Sean Nally was snorting his own mucus he had previously spat into the air and caught on the back of his own hand. This time there was less mucus and more insanity. The same ridiculous live set was topped off by a dramatic interpretation of the theme song to the Fresh Prince of Bel Air, which was performed by Nally using keyboardist Schylur Vaughn White as an imaginary keyboard. 

Next up was The Deer Hunter. I know next to nothing about them but it was a good first impression. The ambient riffs tied with the multiple delay effects was a calming, needed change from Foxy Shazam. My buddy Andy made friends at the show with a group of girls who went to high school with guitarist Erick Serna. This gave us the opportunity to go back stage and meet all the bands. I got pictures of Serna, Schylur Vaughn and Peter Pepper of Retatd-O-Bot who was hanging out with his friends Foxy Shazam.

The sold-out Social was waiting in antisipation for Thomas Erak to take the stage, seeing has how the other members had been on stage for almost ten minutes. The Fall of Troy's high energy stage show took a toll on the out of shape Erak. The all ready slow moving set was further prolonged by the five to seven minute breaks taken between many of the songs. As everyone waited for Erak to catch his breath and take shots of Jegarmiester, he rambled about internet cartoons. After making claims of writing T-Pains "Bartender" Erak covered "Big Me" by the Foo Fighters. He drug the two minute and thirteen second song into almost eight minutes of improvisation and stopping to talk to the crowd. The cover was the Highlight of their set.

After the show i spoke with Erak, who in his arragence, told me, to tell REAX to write more about him. He must have forgot the phone interview REAX did two days prior to the show.