This past weekend has opened my eyes to a few new paths of thinking and reasoning when it comes to Scrub Club.

You have to understand, I mean this truthfully when I say that our four days at Gen Con were the biggest, tightest bonding experience we’ve ever had together as musicians and friends. The Friday night show AT Gen Con was the best, most fun show I’ve ever performed, seen, or been involved with in over nine years. It’s not like it was a 30,000 attendee sold out show or anything, and the equipment we were provided was sub-par… but the VIBE. The vibe was through the roof. The vibe from the crowd and our fellow Scrubs pierced Heaven and whatever other afterlife you may believe in, all in a big, long row like a delicious beef, chicken, shrimp, and veggie skewer. And then it all wrapped up with a fun time performing our first outside set at Scotty’s in downtown Indiana, which felt more like a supportive family reunion than anything.

So when I say that we’ve reached some kind of new turning point and I feel that big, biiiig stuff is coming… believe me. The next level of Scrub Club Records is here.

First, let’s start with the props to the people that helped make this happen:

D20 and Untested Methods – Thank you so much for being the actual building block here. Those who don’t know, these two gentlemen basically went into debt just to make this event happen with no expectations to get their money back. We love you guys and you did amazingly well for your first event. Also many props to their crew, especially Corey, who was a killer resource and driver for us all weekend. You guys took this seriously and stayed on top of the plans all weekend, and made sure us out-of-towners weren’t completely batshit lost, which we would have been without you.

Derek at Gen Con – Major props to you for giving us a chance. Looks like it all paid off, eh? Thank you for always staying in contact and for having a badass mohawk.

Scott and Dave at Scotty’s Brewhouse Downtown – When our other second performance fell through, you guys picked us right up in four days flat. We have major respect for you guys and appreciated the ability to rock your patrons on Saturday. It’s amazing that you guys can keep a full house inside (that’s about the size of four of my hometown restaurants) AND an outside patio of 150 people under control, in a speedy fashion, and with some delicious stuffs. There’s not one place I’ve ever been to that could handle something like that so well. You guys are great, keep up the good work, and we hope to help you kick off your next location in style! Oh, and also, the amazing waitresses that treated us like Kings and Queens and always kept the pitchers coming. Especially our main girl. I can’t remember your name at the moment, but I hope your newfound Krondor Krew ninja sword helps you take out your less desirable customers from this point on.

Kyle Mistry and Suzi – Thank you for amazing professional shots over the weekend. Can’t wait to share them with everyone, you guys really captured the best moments. I can’t stop laughing until tears come out on some of these pics. You may think it’s just taking photographs, but the truth is that people like you are generous enough to actually chronicle our history for the entire internet. Bravo, bravo.

Shammers and Lefthand – Thanks for the extra “local dude” help that was provided, as well as Shammers volunteering to drive people around out of nowhere. You guys were great company, shirt-off-your-backs as always, and made the weekend all that more enjoyable. You guys rock.

Tom Croom from Wasabi Anime – Thank you for staying in contact and for apparently sending a big chunk of crowd our way after the panels on Friday. When we reached out for any possible support and guidance from people who had attended Gen Con in the past, you were the first and best to respond. Here’s hoping we can actually have the time to plan out some sort of combo event next year!

The director of Gen Con – I forget what your name is, and couldn’t find a directory on the site to refresh my memory, but thank you for stopping by our show right when our big group set was in full force. Just knowing that you want us back next year bigger and better lets us know that we did a good job and can only make our events at Gen Con even more epic in the years to come!

To our unbelievable fans and friends that made it out – Thank you for helping us out, passing out flyers, and getting people hyped for the show. Especially people like Britsy and Suzi, DemonstrativePronoun, or Yellapaint and his homies. And the homeboy from Bloomington that came to rep POWERLIFTER. Or that crazy bastard Brian Himes and his buddies Kristina and Jarrod. You guys and everyone else I failed to mention by name are all so damned amazing and we would pour our heart (and sweat) out for you on stage any time you’d have us.

And also to all of our new fans! Just in the day I got back into town I noticed 35 or so brand new people on the Facebook, and I’m excited to see if there was a spike in downloads since the show. Much love to YOU guys for coming up to us and telling everyone what they liked about the show, asking fresh questions we’re always more than happy to answer, and sharing some good laughs with us. Feel free to get as deeply involved as you would like, you are our new family! Spread the good word!

Oh, and FRED! Fred the soundguy will Machete your ass!

I’m much too busy with preparing for the upcoming Wichita Scrub Club Celebration to write a full review, so I’ll just stream a highlights reel right from my brain and into the monitor. Pardon me if some of it doesn’t make sense.

Astounding amounts of inner-memes were created, modified, or thrived this weekend: Phil is 60. Fuck chairs. The surprise was genuine. Waft. White Castle was the biggest mistake. Monocle Smiiile. BOOM! HEADSHOT! Fuck doctors. PIZZA. That chick’s got a butterbutt. BIG. PHAT. SUB WHOOFAHHH. WUB WUB WUBWUBWUBBUWUBWBUWUBUWBUBWUBUBW. Dubstep turtle. Spark Kent. This place smells like White Castle, beer, onions, and puke. Oh yeah, that’s because I puked, dude. Sorry. One merriorn twoops. Wowwwwww. JESUS CHRIST I JUST KEEP FINDING ONIONS IN MY BEDSHEETS. You pwess xxx,yyy,xxx,yyy, you get sucked. … Right? Not funny. Not funny. Free lemonade? FREE lemonade? I loaf you. Masurao doesn’t get bacon, fuck that guy. I’M BACKING UP HATTER I’M BACKING UP HATTER I’M BACKING UP HATTER I’M BACKING UP HATTER. Just how many of us have rapped about DeLoreans? Seriously, bro? Are we doing this right now? TLC match. Let’s just find a ladder to fuck and we’re good. Kyle Mistry is a Lakitu, he throws porcupines at peeps like I don’t give a shit, homie. TRAITOR! SPICE GIRLS! IMPOSTOR. And pasta. What’s the deal with marinara sauce lately? Nice elevator show, Ke$ha. Mmm, this chicken is to dick for. I meant Die-no-wait… yes, to dick for. Can I cancel her special? Can I cancel that cancel? MORE FUCKING HUMANS? Come on bro, you gotta have some Orcs. How can we hear Nintendo sounds if there’s no power. “You hear the voice of a 6 year old girl.” “SHOOT HER IN THE FACE!” King Pheenix… You are a… 16 year old hacker… Male or female? Spooky, stop spending money, no seriously, you can only wear one leather mask at a time. Stop it. HAYYY NERDS! *crickets* “Hi, I’m YellaPaint.” … “WHAAA?!” BLMAOD. Sir, can I ask you to please lower your skirt? Thanks -WHOA! Deafinition, you’re a hairbeast. I give great ninja head!

And also, the one mirrerion in-jokes I can’t currently remember before I’ve had lunch.

Seriously, though, best weekend ever for Scrub Club Records. And with that, the bar has now been raised against difficulty of joining or being part of the label. Our family is simply too strong to just let any artist with talent in. My promise is that from now on, any future artist, model, or business partner will be looked at with utmost scrutiny, and only those that would be a perfect piece of the puzzle will be allowed your trust and respect.

We love all of you, and thank you for making Gen Con the best thing to happen to us to date. Just you wait for what we have in store now that we’re running full steam!