At a key early show at Vino’s in Little Rock, we really wanted to make a splash. I have always loved having strange props on stage (like a Windex bottle full of blue cream soda to swig out of between songs) and was looking for something that would make people think “wow, what the hell is THAT doing on stage?”

I turned to my buddy Jon, who was the manager at a local Harvest Foods, who I figured might have some random and sufficiently strange in-store promotion stuff that I could borrow. In fact, he did: a GIANT Kellogg’s Cornflakes box. It must have been 3′ tall or so. There was one catch: it had to be returned in pristine condition, so I had to be super careful with it.

We hoisted the box onto stage, in front of the 5th TSEP member, Eric, who played keys for that show. (Unfortunately, keyboards didn’t fit into the nascent TSEP sound, so that was the only gig Eric played with us; but he, being a music mastermind, went on to much bigger and better things)

During one of our feistier songs (maybe 24?) a mosh pit emerged, and some guy grabbed the box from the stage, threw it down on the floor, and stomped it into oblivion. I can still see Jon in the back of Vino’s with his head in his hands.