Revolution Is Nice

We played a barn-burner of a set over at Revolution on Friday night. We did a double-bill with Strawberry Jam, and they did a heck of a job of getting the people out. Its always nice when people are all standing right in front of the stage waiting for us to start. It was a little too cold for outside, so we packed it into the bar area for the evening. We are continuing to enjoy playing the new songs--"The Sixer" was played for the first time ever. We have literally had this song on the back burner for about a year and a half, and this is the first time the song reared its head. I think we did pretty well on it (it's a complex song). We are pumped that the other new songs like "Loose/Tight" and "Guzzle it Down" are being extremely well received--they are funky little numbers. Strawberry Jam had a good show as well--and I really enjoyed hearing them play "Frankenstein" and "Benny and the Jets". At the end of the night, just as the bouncers were screaming for everyone to get the hell out of the bar, the power went out. At first, I thought it was a ploy by the bar to get people the hell out of there (Note to bar owners--this appeared to work, as people cleared out pretty quickly). Alas, my hopes and dreams were shattered as the power was completely knocked-out throughout the neighborhood.

For anyone who has never played in a band, what you all really need to know about taking down the PA and rolling up countless extension cords and microphone cords, and moving increasingly heavy speakers, amplifiers, monitors, etc. etc. is that it is really really really hard to do all of that at 2:30 am in complete darkness. That is, in fact, the dirty underbelly of rock and roll.