Dsan/Lord Lounge Halloween 2006: First Time Release!
Friday, January 29, 2010 at 7:03PM 
We were digging through the miles of file cabinets holding old WBT shows when we realized that the 10/28/06 show from the Dsan/Lord Lounge had never been properly released in full, and so now we aim to rectify that! The show came near the end of the power trio years, and thus, has a nice cross
section of Green songs, still being fleshed out at the time, and songs that disappeared completely with lineup shifts. Despite the transitional elements, the show was an important one for the band, in terms of stretching out compositions and segues, and maybe a pinnicle of our nights at the Lounge. The DLL was an apartment venue about 2 blocks south of Central Park, and in the end WBT played about 5 shows there from 2005-2007, including the Green release party. 
From the owners:
John "Dsan" Dennison:
The Dsan/Lord Lounge - Many of you may not know that I had a love/hate relationship with the DLL. I would love the fact that a show was approaching and I could do all the things I felt were necessary to throw the bash. I would hate that this process would consume me to the point of thinking only about the night for a full week before, and wishing the following week that it was still happening. That's a full two weeks of 
thought! It was worth it. I didn't even have to invite anyone. You all just showed up! That's the amazing part. The shape of the room was a rectangular cube. You could have picked it up and put us on a flatbed truck. More than half was taken up by humans. Instruments and equipment took up an incredible amount of space. The rest was sound. But somehow it all worked. Everywhere I looked people would be doing their thing, whatever that meant to them at the time. For me, I could have been doing any of 10 different things at the same time, my favorite of course was going on stage and interacting with the band. Because the Wounded Buffalo theory would be doing their thing - playing whatever the hell they wanted. That was my other favorite part of their shows at the lounge. Their dynamic range as a band was greatest in this space, and yes I mean both ends of the range. There's a spacious quality found throughout this show - MDMA, Lies, NF and the Pledge all open up real wide. Even Putin Bay opens up nice. The fun is in Thriller and Elements because Shamellow free verse over wbt is just too good. Elements feeds off of that. So does the the remainder of the show, for that matter. When I think back, this was probably the most successful night there. Unless, by successful, you mean raising money to cure cancer, which we did there as well.
Eric Lord:
There are many responsibilities that come with being one of the Co-Founders of the Dsan/Lord Lounge-. From supplying enough booze to intoxicate a tiny village to scraping Rob off the couch and the booze off the floor- it’s no easy task. But the best job, hands down, is that we are forced to be there from the opening note (the tapping of the keg) to the very last guitar lick (me throwing up in a trash can in my bedroom). As fans come and go throughout the night (as alcohol runs out and is replenished), we, the proud Co-Founders, are there from start to finish (mostly because we don’t trust the Buffalo fans to be alone in our apartment. Word on the street it that they’ll steel from their own grandmothers just to get their next fix.).
Over the years, I tend to forget most of the shows I’ve been to (I’m usually so drunk I forget the name of the band I’m there to see). But this show, Halloween ’96, is one I will never forget (and boy was I wasted!).
So enjoy some older Buffalo on your cold weekend, for the first time released online, 10/28/06 at The Dsan/Lord Lounge.
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