Loose Ends

January 16th, 2003

I thought I'd ramble on for a couple of paragraphs about things we've recently done. First off is a house party we played at the start of January. We got an email request to play in a basement in Ottawa south. There would be a P.A. and another band, it'd be fun! The guy who invited us (Duane) had remembered us from other bands we played in back in University, and thought it'd be great to have us play again.

So we packed up our stuff and arrived to find they had not only rented a great P.A. system, but also two racks of lights, controlled by a large pedal rack, a laser which oscillated with the noise, and a fog machine. They also had a foosball table, and beer. We were in heaven. Three of us anyway.

The basement was small, so the first thing that happened was a blown fuse. When that got straightened out, an all girl band called Nice Rack played a set of covers, ranging from Johnny Cash to The White Stripes. Good times.

Then we played a set, starting with mostly our own tunes, which then disintegrated into some covers which we screw around with at practice sometimes. Songs by Weezer, Guns n Roses, ACDC, the Police, The Cars... etc. Our horrible, horrible attempt at Thunderstruck was met by a crowd surfer. Doesn't work so well in an 8 foot basement. Basically they pinned him up agains the ceiling. He claimed it was the highlight of the night.

In all, good times, awesome times. Hopefully other people enjoyed it. I know Duane did, as he expressed amazement that we were "actually playing in my basement!!!!!!!!".

ON a side note, Chris destroyed the drum set provided by Nice Rack, which wasn't accustomed to such intense pounding. He replaced the skins and sticks, so we're all still friends.

-tk