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Simply put, I had a lot of time laughing last night. I like the beautiful trainwreck. I am not expecting excellence. I see music every week, live music three nights a week. So I want the unexpected. I want the outstanding. Everyone puts on there best show, and delivers the things at the best of the ability. Every now and again it is great when a great band cannot get there, but have so much fun trying. And there energy still sticks it out, and stays really positive.
So last night Sunspot showed up. They are tied for my favorite wisconsin band of the moment. Tied with Stall.(www.stallweb.com). They are a power pop thing, rocking and laughing and singing, and doing it all really fun.
So last night they started talking about how they just wanted to party and have a good time. And well I have an unlimited tab, and I just used it to no end. I totally fucked them up. They just had no more gas left. They were so drunk on stage, all the wheels came apart.
Ben the guitar player lost his shoes. I mean literally lost his shoes. They were gone. he could not find them, and had no idea of how they got off his feet. How does that happen really?
Mike the singer bass player, was shirtless and puking onstage last night. Throwing his shirt at the people unwilling to dance. Leaving song in the middle of a song to vomit.
Wendy, the drummer...she reverted to like a 12 year old girl at the music store hitting cymbals because they sounded pretty, and flicking me off from the stage. Now that is amazing.
At one point ben was playing one song, mike was singing a second, and playing a third, and wendy was just playing the cymbals.
We put together an after party, and after lots of vomiting...we got there. Everyone just laid down and went to sleep. The after party was like ten minutes of just me laughing and telling them how great tehy were. Then I leave and drive home. It was so great.
I mean I know the argument about being professional, and I totally know that SUNSPOT is amazing. Shit there the two time WAMI award winning band. They area amazing. So good it so rare to see something like that. But to see them blow one off, thats awesome. And its not like I dont see great bands every weekend.
David Lee Roths band played too. COOL HAND. I just owrry that he is just simply doing a Mike Ness impersonation. I mean there is nothing cooler than Mike Ness, but the fact I can think of how it is percieved to those around me.
I met a girl named Janet last night. it was her birthday. She was making out with the bartender Brent. So that was good for him. She is 32, and deserves a little bad boy bartender action.
I met some 22 year old punk rock girl named Melissa. She got so drunk she reverted to just hitting boys to get there attention. She was pretty cool when sober.
I met a few other people...Brandon Flowers brought some girl Melissa down. She seemed nice.
Posted by Radiofree at September 11, 2005 01:59 PM | TrackBack