Juno "and this is the way it goes and goes and goes"

I first heard #juno from a 7" I received to review for a fanzine.  The a-side "Venus on 9th street" became a favorite of mine and I included it on a bunch of mix tapes in 1998. So when my band got asked to open for them when they came through town I was pretty pumped.  The show was in a basement in Buffalo's University Heights neighborhood.   All I really remember from the show was that it was comfortably cramped and I played through a borrowed fender bass cabinet that I absolutely hated. The other thing I remember is that Juno had three guitarists and the woven playing was something to behold live.  Recordings often have multiple tracked guitars, so the effect on the album doesn't have the same magnitude, live however it was really remarkable.   It was alot of fun being a part of the music scene in buffalo at that time.  There was a great culture around it, shows got booked at venues and houses, people came out to each other's shows. We made friendships with touring bands and traded shows in other cities. It really felt like it was adding up to something.  To quote Emett Otter's mom: "the fact that it didn't doesn't seem to matter much"  And to quote Penny Lane from the movie "Almost Famous"  "whenever you get lonely you can just go to the record store and visit your friends".