Two Brothers, Lots of Fistfights, and a Crock-Pot: Ten Fucked-Up Stories from 20 Years of the Spits

• Dave Naz

“All I Want”

Here’s just one HI-larious Spits story from this week’s music lead:

Blackface, Seattle, 1999

Once at the Breakroom [now Chop Suey], we did a show as the “24/7 Spits”—sort of a tribute to 24-7 Spyz, a band from New York, mostly black dudes. We did blackface, surfer-dude shorts, and we spray-painted mop heads black and put those on our heads. That wasn’t maybe the best idea—when we hit the stage, half the bar just left. Walked out. We kept playing, and after the set, Steve Turner came up to me and said, “That was the best set I’ve ever seen, and those were the best costumes I’ve ever seen.”