Then he switched his guitar for a bass and Seth took over on vocals. These guys all play in a wedding band together and Dave thought it would be fun to play HIS OWN WEDDING! YES!
On Thursday afternoon, I got an instant message out of the blue from my friend Bev. Her boyfriend Adrian had an extra ticket to see Propagandhi play that night and she wanted to know if I was interested in going! Holy shit, yes!
Nothing made me feel older than not-knowing that one of my favorite bands of all time (that hardly ever comes to the States to play) was playing a show right down the street. The show was amazing.
After the Stellastarr show, we went over to Pianos and saw WOLFF play. It's this guy Brian Wolff's band. Just a drummer and him playing the tuba into a sequencer. I know after that description you might have a hard time believing this, but he's awesome. The loops he creates through the sequencer are beautiful. I'd never heard anything like it.
I'm writing this on December 11, 2010 - only 59 weeks 111 weeks later (thanks for the correction, Ralph. Bad math!), but I remember this night and it seems like a million years ago. Good times.
On Tuesday night I went out to Brooklyn to see StellaStarr play a small rehearsal show at a club in preparation for a few larger dates they had coming up.
She's an AMAZING singer. She and her band are getting ready to go out on tour this summer. Check out her bands' site - if they're coming near you, you should definitely check them out!
Dude, you gotta love the Fatty! Check him out here doing the old "I will shoot you with METAL!" move that he probably saw Billy Sheehan do in a Mr. Big DVD box set that he probably totally owns. Hahaha. SOOO GOOD!
Yay, it's November! On Friday night, we went to see Fiasco play a show at Crash Mansion. Crash Mansion has one of the best sounding rooms in downtown NYC, but the crowd there is always a little...
After getting our Bacardi Breezer buzz on, we decided to head out to the Green Mango area and see if anything was going on. We found an awesome cover band, but by the time we got there it was after 1am and they were finishing up for the night!
We got inside and it seemed like it was some kind of hooker bar. There was a live band playing, but no one else was in the place except us, and 20 young Thai women who were made up and standing on another stage adjacent to the stage the band was playing on. Even after it was established that we weren't there "for a good time," everyone working still seemed psyched to at least have any kind of patrons.
...it was time for the show! Ratt was the opening band! RATT! Hahahaha. Round and Round is a good song and all, but that was pretty much the only one I knew. (Fatty, on the other hand, has an impressive metal past and was knew all the words to all the songs!).
Posh and I got hooked up with wristbands! Wristbands provide you with two luxuries at Siren Fest: One, you get to drink for free at the backstage tent. Woooo! Two, you get to watch the bands right in front of the stage in an area block off from the rest of the crowd with gates. The downside is that it's WAY TOO LOUD. The upside is that it's not very crowded which means you don't end up trying to watch a band with sweaty bodies pressed against you in the July sun. Score!
A little after midnight later that night, we met back up and headed over to The Annex because Sarah and Karen were throwing a party there and they said there was a fun band playing.
But then as soon as the music was turned back on and the bouncer guy walked to the back of the room, a bunch of people went up anyway to help the band play the last few songs.
...and Jared was inviting the entire audience to join the band on stage. The bouncer dude had the sound guy kill the audio and ran up to Jared and was like "No. No way. Got it?" Hahaha.
The show started out like any normal rock show, but after only a couple of songs, Sexy Joe stripped down into his undies...and then a few songs after that...
I put "last show" in quotes because Group Sounds broke up like 2 years ago and they play a "last show" every six months. Hahaha. Every time I ask them about it they're like "Well, we might play another show in a like a year, but who knows! And if we don't, then this definitely will be our last show." (And they say that same thing EVERY time.).
A little after midnight on Tuesday, I went to Piano's to see Schoolyard Heroes, one of the new bands that Sarah signed to Stolen Transmission, play a show.
They really liked the publicity photos I'd taken of them a couple of months earlier and wanted me to shoot some pics of them playing live. I shot a ton of photos, but sort of hated them all. Meh.
If you like metal, GO SEE THIS BAND! (Figured I'd throw that in there just in case the electric-cello and double-necked bass/guitar combo didn't pique your interest).
On Tuesday night Meredith and I went to the Bitter End to see Caitlin sing (with "WHITEBOY" Mitch Mitchell on guitar!!! LOL!). It was a charity show to raise money for...
...don't forget, back in the late 80s, Fatty (fourth from left - check out THAT MANE!) was the main ax-player in Nasty Magic, the sickest metal band in the entire greater-New Milford area of Connecticut!
On Saturday night I went to a bar that's literally located across the street from my apartment to see unique musical stylings of Calisha Jenkins and Fabrisha Dankins, who are otherwise...
