It’s around dinner time as I sit down with Dan Keech, also known as Height, a Baltimore rapper who’s played every basement, community center, legion hall, and comic book store between here and Santa Monica for the better part of the last 20 years. We ordered a couple pizzas and drinks while waxing nostalgic about the many weird shows we’ve played together.
Well over a decade ago, I joined Height for a full U.S. tour. One night we’re at The Spazz in Greenville, North Carolina, setting up to play in a rowhouse-size living room covered in bugs and broken glass while Johnny from Death Set wails on a busted SM57 in midair clinging to a tenuous chandelier. The next night, we’re at a sports bar in South Carolina, competing with blaring TV sets showing Nascar races and football games right above our heads while bored customers look past us to catch the score.
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