I never got a chance to see The Deadly Snakes play live while they were around, partly because by the time I dis­cov­ered them, they were on the verge of break­ing up. In fact, The Deadly Snakes played their last show a mere 21 days before my 19th birth­day, and since it wasn’t an all-ages show, I didn’t get to go (the idea of sneak­ing into the Sil­ver Dol­lar never even entered my 18-year-old mind).

I kept lis­ten­ing to the Snakes, espe­cially the flaw­less double-LP ver­sion of Por­cella, and my wounds began to heal. After all, how many other great bands did I never get to see live whose music I still lis­ten to and love. The Snakes were dif­fer­ent in that I actu­ally had the chance to see them play, unlike say, Royal City, who broke up before I ever caught on to their music. Nev­er­the­less, after a few years I real­ized it was time to look ahead and put the whole episode behind me.

Of course, on Octo­ber 17th 2009 they played on-off reunion show… in Port­land, Ore­gon. So, good news I guess, at least they will play if some­one makes the right offer. Can some­one in Toronto please book them??? Until then, see­ing André Ethier sing Snakes songs with Steam­boat will have to do (I really appre­ci­ate it, guys).

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