Fun

When you think of Dead in 60 Years, I know what you think. You think of a group of drunken douches who deserve nothing but a giant lump of coal in their stockings for Christmas. Because we have sinned a lot this year, we're throwing a big charity benefit concert to make us feel better about ourselves!

When we host a show, we tend to do good things. We have some of the Valley's biggest bands:

• Fierce Creatures (OMG BITCHES- heroes are remembered, but local legends never die)
• Achievement House (Sultry hipster jam madness feat. Whitney Freeman)
• The Quiet Americans ("quiet" but they are a band... get it)
• Pinkeye (they may make your eyes itchy but will make your ears orgasm)

The idea had been bounced around for so long it is hard to remember its true origins.  It was probably, like most of our ideas, a product of our late night drunken idea factory. A broken levy letting our creative gold flow as we tried to sober up over a burrito at Robertito’s Taquaria.  We had been tossing the idea around of a race, but something different, something fun, and something us. The epiphany was simple, the route naturally laid out, and a group of people just crazy enough to make it work.  The product was The First Annual RoboRun !!!

If you're at all familiar with the Fresno music scene, you know about the problems venues are facing with having an all-ages show. It pretty much boils down to whether alcohol is being served or not. If it is, then sorry, no minors allowed.

So what do you do as a band if you don't want to exclude your young audience? We here at Dead in 60 Years have found the answer: play in a thrift store! YAY! The venue was pretty cool and made me think, "I wish there was a place like this around when I couldn't drink," but then I remembered I am able to drink, so instead of heading straight to the show, I went straight to the bar.

After catching a good buzz, me and the rest of the Dead in 60 crew decided to head on down to the show thinking Beta State would be on shortly. When we got there we got to see one other band (The Screaming Me Me's) and then watched Beta State bring that San Francisco vibe to our humble hometown.