Ever get that “Did I really do anything with my life?” feeling?
Making lists can help.
I made a somewhat incomplete list of all the Short Dogs Grow live shows I did. Afterwards I felt a little …nutso…….so I shared it with Tom Pitts, who seemed to understand. And then I thought, what the hell, might as well put it on the internet for the 
insominacs. So, take a look…. find your first gig, find your band, or find the show of the night you lost your virginity! And then tell me the story of the gig, cause I don’t sleep well either.
These are just the Short Dogs shows. I’ll get to all the other bands later.
1985
Aug 8th The Reign of Lee Kwan, and Erik Meade at the Sound of Music
Aug 24th Adolph and the Gasser, the Reign of Lee Kwan at Hotel Utah
Aug 30th Black Flag, SWA at the Farm
Sept 3rd Morally Bankrupt, Tales of Terror and Drunk Injuns at the VIS Lounge
Sept 24th– The Afflicted, Our Lady of Pain and Test Subjects at the VIS Lounge
Oct 5th Adolph and the Gassers at Hotel Utah
Oct 12th Three Mouse Guitars and House of Wheels at the On Broadway
Oct 25th Social Unrest, Faith No More, Clown Alley and Frontline at New Method Warehouse
Nov 7th Rhythm Pigs, Afflicted and Soul Asylum at the VIS Lounge
Nov 8th Rhythm Pigs, Blood Sweat and Steeltoes, Soul Asylum at New Method Warehouse
Nov 12th Korphu, Rhythm Pigs at the Stone
Nov 15th Noize Boys and Jackals at the Mabuhay
Nov 30th Crash and Burn, The Rhythm Pigs and Faith No More at the VIS Lounge
Dec 8th SNFU, Rhythm Pigs, Clown Alley at New Method Warehouse
Dec 31st Adolph and the Gassers, the Barking Spiders at the Hotel Utah
1986
Jan 10th New Method Warehouse With 7 Seconds, Youth of Today, Violent Coercion, Christ On Parade and Yo
uth of Today
Jan 18th Hotcombs and Noise Boys at Hotel Utah
Jan 25th Helios Creed, Half Blind at Hotel Utah
Jan 31st Verbal Abuse at New Method
Feb 6th – Schrödinger’s Cat; 16th Note; 3160 16th St. San Francisco
Feb 8th Rhythm Pigs and Blood Sweat and Steeltoes at Hotel Utah
Feb 15th Rhythm Pigs, Spot 1019; Hotel Utah; 584 4th St. San Francisco
Feb 22nd Crockett gig with Bad Habit and Space Kats
Feb 26th Touch Me Hooker and Noise Boys at VIS Lounge
March 16th Tragic Mulatto, Noise Boys and Sluglords at the Farm
April 10th Mabuhay with ?
April 15th GASM, E-13, Schrodinger’s Cat at On Broadway
April 17th Tragic Mulatto at Mabuhay
April 20th Crash and Burn and RKL at Club Foot
April 27th Social Unrest, Doggy Style, RKL, Christ On Parade, Toxic Reasons, Desecendents at the Farm
May 11th R.K.L., Test Subjects, Giddy Up, MongrelvX10; The Farm; 1499 Potrero Ave.
May 23rd Mabuhay with Noize Boys
May 30th Owen’s Pizza with Miserable Sex, Rabid Lassie and Neurosis
June 6th ASF, Half Blind and Forethought at Club Foot
June 21st Santa Barbara, Dan Sites Show- Beyond Possession, Rat Pack, Vengeance of Snoopy, Fatal Vision
June 22nd, Bakersfield, Dan Sites Show with Scared Cattle, Rat Pack, RKL and Beyond Possession
June 28th El Paso, Sounds Seas with Wheaties
June 29th El Paso, Sound Seas with Hernia Briefs and Descendents
July 1st Austin, The Beach with Airhead
July 2nd Austin, The Beach with 2 new wave bands
July 3rd Houston, Party Owls, Bark Hard and The Descendents at Café Mode
July 4th New Orleans, The Descendents and Life Sentence at Café Brazil
July 6th Gulf Port, MS, Elijah’ backyard with Vomit Spots
July 7th Jackson Mississippi at WC Dons
July 9th Macon, Georgia, House Party with Bullwinkle
July 18th Romeo, Michigan at the Barn with The Offenders (not the Texas band)
July 19th Chicago with Fudge Tunnel, Ozzfish Experience, Dead Steelmill, The Gruesomes
July 22nd Madison Wi, Club DeWash
July 24th Greenbay Wi, Lefties with Jam Nation and Volume Unit
July 26th Des Moines, IA House Party at Beths with Sand in The Face (on acid)
July 27th Omaha, the Ski Lodge with A Child’s Trust In God and Sand in The Face (no acid)
July 28th Lincoln, NE House party- Paul’s house
July 29th Denver Co, The Funhouse with the Leaving Trains and Psychodrama
Aug 3rd Club Foot with Forethought and Rhythm Pigs
Aug 22nd The Farm with Frightwig, Sister Double Happiness, Spot 1019 and Tunnel Creeps
Aug 23rd The Farm with Descendents, Polkacide and Sea Hags
Oct 19th The Farm with Honeymooners, Unruly World, Sex Farm, Lot 13 and Dead Beats
Oct 25th Club Foot With Victim’s Family and the Mudwimmin
Oct 26th Reno, with Verbal Assault and Seven Yobs
Nov 9th Reno, at Daughter Judy’s with the Yobs and Agent Orange
Dec 26th SF Music Works with The Mentors and Brazos Balladeers
(Missing some of 1986)
1987
Missing some of 1987
Jan 10th Feederz, Mr. T Experience and The Undesirables at Gilman St.
Feb 28th Witnesses and Victims Family and the Sound of Music
March 15th SNFU, Honor Role, Forethought, Jello Biafra at Gilman St. (Jail Jello Benefit)
March 28th Skin Yard, Cancer Garden at the Sound of Music
April 3rd Rabid Lassie at Gilman St.
April 5th Dagnasty, Sea Hags, Sister Double Happiness, The Proper Shoes at the Mabuhay
April 18th Witnesses, Forethought and NOFX at The Sound of Music (our 1st record release party)
April 22nd D.O.A. Verbal Abuse, MDC at the Mabuhay
April 26th Portland, The Satyricon with Oily Bloodmen, Badlands and the Fugs
April 29th Vancouver B.C., at Love Club with The Scramblers
May 1st Vancouver B.C., The Arts Club
May 2nd Matinee show at ?
May 2nd Vancouver B.C., The Arts Club with Death Sentence
May 3rd Victoria B.C.
May 4th Vancouver B,C, The Savoy with DC3
May 5th Vancouver B.C. The Savoy with the Boilermakers
May 9th The Sound of Music with No Means No
May 10th Rough Trade In Store
May 15th L.A. The Anti Club with The Leaving Trains, Divine Weeks and Lexington Devils
May 16th Las Vegas at ?
May 17th St George Utah with Fuck Shit Piss, System Rejex and The Deviants at the Cotton Mill
May 21st Tucson Club Nino’s with Ghost of Elvis
May 23rd El Paso Sound Seas with Suicidal Tendencies, Nightmare and Petty Tyrant
(Joe quit so we cancelled Lubbock and went to New Orleans)
June 4th House party in New Orleans- 1st show with George
June 5th New Orleans at VFW Hall with Acid Bath
June 6th Pensacola at DMZ with Gruel
June 11th Gainesville FL with Psychic Violence
June 12th Miami, FL at Banal with The Roosters
June 13th Gainesville, Fl with Murphy’s Law, Cindy Brady’s Lisp and Mutley Chix
June 14th Daytona Beach at Penrod’s with Rollins Band, Descendents, Doughboys and MIA
June 16th Birmingham, AL
June 17th Atlanta, GA Metroplex w/ Electric Love Muffin
June 19th Raleigh, NC The Fallout Shelter w/ DT and The Shakes
June 23rd Roanoke
June 25th New Jersey The Dirt Club
June 26th New Jersey JP Trolleys with Bedlam
June 27th Albany, NY with Soulside and Life Sentence
June 28th Washington D.C. The Hung Jury with Ignition
July 3rd Minneapolis 7th St. Entry with The Magnolias and Blind Lemon Pederson
July 4th Detroit
July 5th, Chicago Medusa’s with Lost Cause, the Descendents and MIA
July 9th Des Moines
July 10th Lawrence KS The Outhouse
July 17th Chatterbox
July 18th Gilman St. with Half Life, Terminal Choice, FBI and Shattered Youth
July 29th Vancouver
July 30th The Luv Affair with Death Sentence and Gray Matter Bent
July 31st Vancouver
Aug 1 Vancouver
Aug 2 Victoria
Aug 4th Vancouver The Savoy with NG3
Sept 5th The Farm with Corrosion of Conformity, Capital Punishment, Frontline, Sacrilege
Oct 9th Gilman St. with Chrimpshrine, She Devils and Social Club
Oct 10th Gilman St with Capital Punishment, Sweet Baby Jesus, Sewer Trout and Poultry Magic
Nov 27th Mabuhay with The Brigade and Hell’s Kitchen
Dec 11th Chatterbox with Lazy Cowgirls and Crawlspace
Missing rest of 1987
1988
Jan 24th Music Works with Bad Religion and Tunnel Creeps
Jan 30th Music Works with Witnessess and Watchmen
Feb 13th Kennel Club with Ophelias and Opal
March 4th Firehouse with Frightwig
April 6th The Music Works with The Witnesses, MDC and Hellhound
April 28th Nightbreak with Osgood Slaughter and Pappa Wheelie
May 4th Berkeley Square with Mr. T Experience
May 16th IBeam with Soul Asylum
May 20th Covered Wagon with Scapegoat Lemonade and Noise Boys
May 28th L.A., Anti Club with Lazy Cowgirls
May 30th El Paso, Mesa Inn
June 2nd New Orleans, Paradise Club
June 4th New York, CBGB’s with Tim Lee and Love Shack, Salem 66, Hetch Hetchy and Downey Mildew
June 5th Boston, The Ratt with Hetch Hetchy
June 7th Morgantown West Virginia, The Underground Railroad with MDC
June 8th Detroit, Blondies with MDC
June 9th Kent, Ohio, JB’s Lounge with MDC
June 10th Dayton, Ohio, The Wildside with MDC
June 11th Cincinnati, Ohio Bogarts with MDC
June 12th Chicago The Iron Rail with MDC
June 14th Madison WI The Co-op with MDC
June 15th Milwaukee the Odd Rock Café with MDC
June 16th St. Louis MO Bernard Pub with Ultraman and MDC
June 17th Lawrence Kansas The Outhouse with MDC
June 18th Denver with MDC
June 19th Salt Lake City with MDC
July 2nd The Chatterbox with Johnny’s Problem
July 7th Portland
July 9th Tacoma Washington, Community World Theater with Dayglo Abortions, Hester Pryne, The Subverts, Abolishment, The Conditions, Frontline
July 10th Vancouver Club Soda with the Groovaholics
July 12th Vancouver at the Waterfront Caberet
July 13th Seattle The Vogue with the F-Holes
July 15th Spokane at 123 Arts with the Happy Dead Juans
July 25th Chatterbox with the Phantom Creeps
July 27th Berkeley Square with the Leaving Trains
Aug 20th Chatterbox with Lazy Cowgirls
Aug 30th with Screaming Trees at ?
Sept 3rd Covered Wagon with Doughboys and Big Drill Car
Sept 13th Kennel Club with Screaming Trees
Sept 30th Nightbreak with Das Damen
(we toured Canada in Oct)
Oct Van
Oct 20th Calgary at The National Hotel
Oct Winnepeg
Oct Toronto
Dec 10th Chatterbox with Holly Rock
Dec 31st Chatterbox
1989
Jan 2nd IBeam with Catheads
Feb 4th Chatterbox
Feb 7th Kennel Club with Sonic Brain Jam
Feb 18th Hey Juan’s, Chico
Feb 24th Gilman St with Sweet Baby Jesus
Feb 25th Pleasanton, Veteran’s Hall with Field Trip
March 9th Covered Wagon with The Fluid, The Hidden and Necromancy
March 18th El Rio
March 24th Chatterbox with Jackson Saints
March 28th Santa Fe
March 30th Fort Worth
April 1st Des Moines
April 2nd Lawrence Kansas
April 3rd Kansas City, MO
April 5th Omaha
April 6th Iowa City Gabe’s Oasis with Field Trip
April 7th Columbus, MO
April 8th Chicago
April 11th St Louis at Furst Rock with Field Trip
April 13th Minneapolis 7th St. Entry with Field Trip
April 21st Nightbreak
April 23rd Covered Wagon with Field Trip
June 9th Seattle Squid Row
June 10th Victoria
June 11th Vancouver Club Soda
June 13th Portland- Satricon
June 19th – Nightbreak with Electric Love Muffin
July 7th Chatterbox with Go Dog Go
Aug 7th IBeam with Celebrity Skin
1990
July 20th IBeam reunion show with Spot 1019 and Papa Wheelie
2008
Dec 19th, Chatterbox Video Release party, reunion gig at the Eagle, SF
2009
Oct 11th, Bottom of the Hill , Bike Messenger’s reunion gig with Mens Club, John Thaxton and the Street Lions
2012
June 17th Thee Parkside, Reunion gig for Mike and Carmela’s wedding , with Chain Breaker, Texas Thieves, Gang of 40, Meat Sluts and Spot 1019
Punk Rock Moments 