Big V's
Saint Paul
Set:
| I'm a Bad MammaJamma (Who Works at Wendy's) | Found My Boogie | Refrigerator | Poet (Who Didn't Know It) | M'Lady | Last Night | Moon Over the Water | Aphrodite | Clone You | Soul Shaker | Downtown Liquor Store | Chosen Ones | Damn the Man |
We descended upon Christensen's Big V's in Saint Paul once again to bring the mighty rock. There was a much better turnout this time around. Last time we played Big V's it was during the week if I remember correctly and we played only to the other bands a couple regulars at the bar who were more interested in the ball game on television than in the music in the immediate vicinity. This time, the crowd only increased as the night went on. Also in the crowd were Cody M. and Ji-Yeon all the way from Aberdeen.
Before the show started, Tony, Anthony and Anna were quoting lines from '80s movies. Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure came up in the game and so I (tony) decided that I was going to open the show by reciting Abraham Lincoln's San Dimas address (also known as the speech Lincoln gives at Bill & Ted's history report). In case you forgot, the speech ends with "Be excellent to each other. And... PARTY ON, DUDES!" Then bam, right into "Bad MammaJamma." They didn't know what hit 'em.
There was a shortage of microphones tonight, so I had one in back, Nick went without, and Anthony and Dustin shared a mic in the style of Steven Tyler and Joe Perry. There's always that question of "will they accidentally touch mouths? If so, does that mean they kissed? And what if someone's breath is bad?" Maybe other people never thought that, but I did. And no, Dustin and Anthony did not kiss. Not tonight, anyway.
Remember the theme from Top Gun? So does Dustin. And tonight it showed up in the solo sections of two different songs: Last Night and Moon Over the Water.
We played "Clone You" by request tonight. I asked, "Have you loved anyone so much that you want two of them so you can have a little fun? Huh? You know what I mean, right?" Anthony emphatically responded, "SEX!" But I was talking about Scrabble® brand crossword board game. Sickos.
Also by request tonight was "Downtown Liquor Store." Before tonight we hadn't played this song (even in rehearsal) since December. When we had rehearsed it, we made all these great edits and made it more awesome. But we forgot all of them, so we played the old long version. But whatever. It doesn't matter because the song kicks ass, long or short.
Also appearing tonight were Velveteen, Good Luck and Godspeed and another act, the name of which I did not catch.
Lots of times at shows, I bring along my little low-end Hi-8 video camera for the purpose of documenting shows for my own records. Not good cinematography, just a static camera set up to capture what's going on. Well, tonight, a guy from the crowd we don't know asked Liza if he could film us. There's some interesting footage, lots of close-ups. More interesting than a static shot for sure. And he zoomed in on my wife's butt twice. So... thanks to that guy.
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