Sunday, October 19, 2008

fw burrito project benefit

i'll admit i've grown kinda weary of blogging shows i've played, but lemme just say that if you weren't there ("there" being the parking lot between 7th haven and poag mahone's on west 7th near monkey ward's yeserday), you missed it.

"it" being hot sets from the fellow americans (whose new rec debut no. 3 is killer and due momentarily; caleb the drummer has settled down, no longer feeling it necessary to frenzy out with fills, instead locking it in the pocket with hal the bassplayer behind frontman matt's monotonic menace on voxxx and molten blast on gtr), the great tyrant (for my money the best band in fort worth right now, always pulling something different and interesting out of the hat live; their full-length cd there is a man in the house would be top 3 for 2008 if they'd just release the damn thing, and they're about to go into the studio to record yet another), eaton lake tonics (their clever, quirky indie pop sounds a lot bigger and more forceful in the great outdoors with an andre edmonson mix), and, um, stoogeaphilia (the addition of richard hurley's gtr has made the sound huge; i particularly enjoyed the old fella -- a drummer himself, apparently -- standing behind us watching jon and matt work; first tony ferraro and then a lady from the audience playing tambourine; and seeing tommy atkins smile while we played). the li'l stoogeband had the biggest crowd by virtue of playing last when there were more bandmembers/significant others present. hopefully jimmy had a decent night after the parking lot was cleared; the burrito project got half the bar and all the tips that night. muchas gracias to the haven for their generosity, and big love to wizard o' sound andre and #1 stoogeband fan amy for making it happen.

my sweetie got some good pics, which in the fullness of time will be posted to her photo blog.

1 Comments:

Blogger Grubbermeister said...

We gave Caleb some Ritalin before the show to calm him down, but don't tell him...

8:14 PM  

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