Million Kids
Don’t Threaten Me With A Good Time
Released September 6, 2011
Producer Josh Casper

BC Caldwell – Guitar, Vocals
Kim Masters – Bass, Vocals
Matt Irwin – Drums, Vocals
Josh Casper – Guitar

1. Boom Goes The Bomb 1:35
2. Summertime 3:28
3. Violence 2:19
4. Sushi 3:01
5. The Middle 3:04
6. The Devil 3:15
7. Love Vs. Hate 3:06
8. On The Brink 2:50
9. Dirty Dolls 3:46
10. Misfit Love 3:24
11. Vain 3:19
12. Reset 2:47
13. Wild In The Streets 3:01 (guest vocals by Hugh Asnen and Justin Meyers)

Right off the bat I have to say that the first two tracks, Boom Goes The Bomb and Summertime, need to be released as singles, and given a shit-load of airplay. I got a hold of this some month’s back and was blown away at how great the album starts out. With songs like this I would be afraid to put out a whole album, but Million Kids pull it off.

After years of listening hundreds of albums, and writing hundreds of reviews of bands trying to out-scream each other, it is very refreshing to come across a band that is playing honest to god punk rock. Just honest music.

If you haven’t given Million Kids a listen yet, check out their Facebook or Reverb Nation pages for a load of good music.

If you get the chance, give it a listen.

Rating: *** three out of three stars

On to the story . . .

PART NINE

Everything was pretty chill after that. Shortly after this is when father Tim came to Wayside and we experienced my second riot.

Father Tim was a short fifty-something year old man with a receding hairline. He looked like an accountant or a teacher. He walked into the barrack and looked incredibly lost and scared. I walked up to him and introduced myself and told him some of the rules of survival. He told me his name was Tim and he did some teaching and counseling in the Bay Area.

A couple of days later we were walking to lunch Tim confesses to me that he is a Priest from San Francisco. I asked him why he didn’t tell me when he came in. He said he felt he would be ridiculed or targeted and the biggest reason was that he was here. He felt that a man of God isn’t a man of God if he is in jail.

I ask why he is here. He explains that prior to becoming a Priest he had a drinking problem, but he was able to extinguish it. And go on to become a man of God. But a month before he landed in Wayside he received a phone call at his church that his parents had been in a car accident and they both died in the accident. Father Tim immediately drives down to identify the bodies and make funeral arrangements and to settle the estate. Turns out his sister was a district attorney and couldn’t get away to help.

I listened to father Tim as he told me his life story; he was filled with sadness and guilt. The loss of family and his feeling of letting down God. Then he told me that after everything was settled, he packed his car and headed back towards the Bay Area. Halfway home he passed a liquor store, he stopped and went in and bought a bottle almost every kind of booze they had. Three quarters of the way to Frisco he was pulled over for weaving up and down the highway. He was tanked. He didn’t mention he was a Priest or that his sister was a district attorney. He waived his right to an attorney and asked for the harshest punishment the law would grant.

He was sentenced to six months to a year. His sister had no idea what happened to him. He vanished. He called his church to tell them he had to face punishment.

I, kind of, took him under my wing. No one else knew he was a Priest. I told him I was going to let people know. At the time there were a few younger inmates that were bullying him; they always look for the weakest in order to look tough.

I explained to father Tim, that as he is being punished here, he could do a lot of good, start a bible study group or counsel some of us. Guys at Wayside were receiving divorce papers or break-up letters daily; I knew he could help people through this. After a day or two he agreed. I told him maybe he was here for a reason.

I sat in on a couple of his study groups; his understanding of the bible was astounding. The one lesson that sticks out in my mind was: “The meek shall inherit the earth.” Father Tim explained how the word meek has changed its meaning over the years. Meek used to mean faithful, now it means shy or bashful. So the term really means the faithful shall inherit the earth.

Father Tim got so comfortable in his ability to counsel that he forgot he was in jail. A race riot between the blacks and the whites broke out in our barrack, father Tim started walking back to where the riot started and I grabbed him and said “What are you doing?” He said, “I’m going to talk to them, this is silly.” Then I saw three or four black guys coming towards us, I pushed him against a wall and I took a few shots to the head, then I just shielded father Tim until the chaos stopped.

After a month or so father Tim received a visitor. He was surprised; no one knew he was here. It turned out one of the clerks in his sister’s office had run across his name when they were filing. So, she rushed up there. She said she “Was bailing him out.” He said “No,” he “did wrong and had to pay.” They went back and forth like this for another month or so. Finally, she took the case to a judge; the judges recommended a drug rehabilitation center and then have him returned to his church. When he was packing up to leave he apologized for leaving me there. It’s that last time I ever saw father Tim.

Because of the strained racial relations when I left, Red took me aside and gave me a word of advice, “Don’t come back.”

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