The Rev show at the Grand Emporium, Kansas City, MO

At the end of August I had plans to go back to Missouri to see my family. About three days before that, I found an apartment. It was more or less kind of an accident. When I went out looking, I wasn't expecting to find anything. Luckily I found one and moved all my stuff into it and then went to Missouri.
In Missouri me and my cousin, Mike, went to see the Silvermen and Reverend Horton Heat at the Grand Emporium in Kansas City. Pre-drinking a little at the hotel, we decided to get there a little early to insure a good seat. We made it there in a cab about an hour and a half early and sat down in the table closest to the band after the guy at the door said he'd get our tickets later. At the Ticketmaster website, it says that the tables up near the front were reserved. Asking the waitress verified this to be true. Or so we thought. Shamed, we made our way further to the back of the venue to sit in "General Admission" seating, and later asked the guy taking the tickets if there was reserved seating. He laughed and said, "Well, I'm not checking tickets. As long as you got one, sit where you want." Of course, this is about a half an hour later after two people already had our seat and the rest of the tables had filled up. We told our waitress and she smugly said it was our fault for not knowing because they were our tickets. Sure, we had never been there before in our life and you work there. We were wrong. I think we were the only ones there knew any songs. The majority of the crowd other than the people standing up right in front of the band looked like they were retards on meds. Trying to make the show as interesting as possible, during the Rev's set, we started yelling out song names and sure enough, the Rev heard us and played 'Bales of Cocaine' and 'Where Did You Go with My Toothbrush?' The people around us just stared as we kept on with our personal drunken chorus in the back. We couldn't have been happier. As somewhat of a surprise, after the show Reverend (Jim Heath) Horton Heat walked off the front of the stage to the bar to talk with people. As Mike made his way through the crowd, we basically walked right up to him. With a stolen flyer from the wall in hand, as an intro Mike said something about me being in the war earlier this year. The Rev said he supports what we're doing and shook my hand. As we asked him to sign our flyer, he put his small plastic cup of gin and tonic in his shirt pocket and signed our flyer. We noticed that some Mexican senorita was being pretty flamboyant in trying to take him away from the crowd and back to her place, so we promptly said thank you and scrammed. Such is the life of the lead singer and lead guitarist of the best rockabilly band ever. After that, I decided to buy the Silvermen album because they were really good. As I was standing at the merchandise table, they were standing right there and one of them said, "Wow, someone's buying one!" I told them I liked their show as they signed my CD cover and said thanks for the support. I've listened to that album about 30 times since then. After a cab ride to the hotel in the pouring rain, we found what I think is the only Denny's in the world that isn't open 24 hours. So we opted for a SoCal style taco shop in Kansas City, which despite the locale, was actually pretty good for Midwest Mexican food.

Here's the flyer from the concert, signed by the Rev himself: