Acoustic Show
Nesting Grounds
Wyoming, Minn.
Set:
| Spring Fever | Good Vibes | Share | M'Lady | Moon Over the Water | El Paso | Breathe You In | Crossroads |
Every band has on-nights and off-nights. Sometimes, it's not the fault of the band. The band can push through and play beautifully, but if there's literally nobody there, it's sometimes all for naught. Even the planning of this show started in strange chaos. The band that asked us to play it with them broke up after it was booked, but they didn't tell us. It was very weird. We kept the date anyway, because we have had this idea that playing acoustic shows could expand our exposure into more mellow coffee shop -type venues that don't cater to loud rock.
The Nesting Grounds is a fun little place. It reminded me somewhat of the Red Rooster in Aberdeen. It's a nice little coffee shop that also has a fair-trade gift shop. Furthermore, the staff was completely nice. So it's a nice place to go.
There were four acts on the bill. Forgive me (tony) if I forget their names. The first act was a solo acoustic dude, but the next two acts apparently didn't get the memo that it was billed as an acoustic show. There was a dude who programmed music into a Game Boy and played/sang along with it and a duo from Mankato that wore animal hats and were quite loud indeed. We always want to encourage young, independent acts, though. While not all of it may have been my personal cup of tea, it's good that they get up and do it.
Well, by the time we got up, most of the people that had been there (a majority of which were family members of performers) had trickled out. About mid-way through our set, all that remained were the two staff members of the Nesting Grounds, Anthony's girlfriend Katie and Nick's wife, Anna.
At any rate, our set was good. Included tonight was the first ever performance of "El Paso" which is to be included on the future release, Sonic Harmonic. Also included were a bunch of the tunes that we don't often play live, since they're not really bangers. We had had three other tunes on the setlist, but they were cut. For Anthony's part, he wanted to just plug through the whole set, since we were there anyway. It was a weird night, man.
The owner of the Nesting Grounds was very nice. He threw us a few bucks and apologized for the lack of people. We gave him and the worker girl each a disc and called it a night.
You win some, you lose some.
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