When I show my piece, complaints cease!

Because if there isn't a law saying it *specifically*, people will think they can outsmart the existing laws and next thing you know there are arguments about admiralty court and other bullshit about how "I'm not driving, I'm travelling."

Streetlight Manifesto.

Their first album showed that you can make incredible positive changes in other people's lives just by being true to yourself.

Their second album showed that you can question everything around, but still remain hopeful.

Everything else has just fucking ruled.

Drove a plow for a friend from 5am to 5pm today.

This is my first new England winter...no wonder everyone living here is so goddamn grumpy

Another Free State catastrophe.

Bears.

This is the same sub that says driving 90mph on rt16 is OK.

You aren't going to get much on this topic.

You will need to purchase the largest pickup truck known to man, put on snow chains, and make sure that you have 3 days worth of supplies in your vehicle to survive driving in NH on December 17th.

You'll have to make resos, otherwise you won't get it. Place is shoulder to shoulder during the US games.

If Mad Max was a former mill town in New England where nothing happens, you are correct.

It looks like the Fox Run Mall.

Except there isn't enough car storage in this photo.

You could try and sneak to the upper levels of the Laconia garage. The whole deal is pretty sketchy, and the ramps to the upper levels seem to be blocked off....

Honestly, the only difference is if people showed up and stayed for the show.

The Green Mountain Boys out of VT fly around the National Forest for training pretty regularly.

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I just moved here and live on the Seacoast. Pease is pretty crazy some days. A friend was telling me about how a European agency came over a few years ago and was buzzing around the mountains in Typhoons.

Bands should be happy just to have a gig.

I mean, they should also have to do presale.

Yeah, make the bands bring the crowd to your shitty venue that doesn't have a built in set of regulars/normal business. Those fucking bands should do all the work.

Oh man, you got band fucked.

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I can't say how many times the "frontman" of one of my old bands would let bands do that, leaving us playing to the bartenders, then try to justify it by saying "well, they'll hit us back next time."

We never got "hit back." We wound up becoming the local "filler" band that looked good on the posters and always ended up playing to nobody, having to provide either the full backline or bring all of our own gear, and get pushed out of shows because of bullshit reasons. I got kicked out because I started telling the bands that were pushing us around "no, fuck you," in front of the guy in my band. I had shit to do, and I was done with the bullshit. Alas, I was just the horn in a ska/punk band, so I was deemed replaceable.

So then you get bumped and it takes those guys an extra 40 minutes to set up, then 20 to break down...leaving you with a 10 minute set at 1215 when last call is 1230.

That is, if they aren't providing the back line

"OH, well since we already played, we're just going to load the van at the end of our set. Hope you brought your own shit, we gotta go cause work in the morning sorry have a good show, let us know when you want to play again. Our friends all have to get home early, too, so have fun playing for the bartenders."

But if we play last, everyone will have left already....

*sigh*

You must have an enormous penis.

I wonder how many of you "rugged individualists" would have just said "fuck it" and shot the dude.

Because you are internet/New Hampshire badasses.

I've been killing what I thought were allergies, but has become a full blown cold for the last week or so. It's not COVID (tested negative), but it has moved into my chest.

I got to the state a couple weeks ago and already caught the NH plague.

So you won't take a train to/from Boston because there are too many sketchy people on the Dover end.

I'm pretty new here, but North Station isn't exactly full of classy people and rainbows.

Wait - there is a train in Dover that runs after 10pm? The only one I've heard of is the Downeaster, and it has really limited times.

I saw some dude get tackled by police in front of Smiley's in Dover last week. I wonder what that was about.

So Somersworth isn't a good area?