Apehangers 1-23-09 Idle Americans

Apehangers
Rt. 301 south of La Plata
Bel Alton, MD

Apehangers is a biker bar. There are no two ways about it. Every conversation going on outside while people were smoking involved either bikes or ink. Needless to say, the Idle Americans are not standard fair for this place. The impression that I got was that most bands in there have there Marshall half stacks, Ampeg 8x12s, subwoofers on the PAs playing their Nickelback and Monster Magnet covers (for the uninitiated, REALLY loud, REALLY generic rock).

At places like this, generally the only people that like us are the doormen and bartenders because we're something different. This is also the same reason that we don't go over so huge with the regs. We did manage to make a couple new fans with our obscure covers and a couple of fans from other venues down-these-parts showed up. All-in-all though, the place was kinda empty and we don't bring heavy drinkers. But, the regulars in the back did stick around all night shooting pool and shimmying to our Ramones cover. I'd be surprised if we got another gig here, which is fine by me, but a payday is a payday.

To give you a flavor for the night, in-between songs, Zach launched into the head for AC/DC's "Hells Bells". That's funny if you're playing at, say, Bangkok where it's assumed that you won't play Hells Bells. But, at a place where it's assumed you will play Hells Bells, it just comes off as disappointing. Though, as Wolf pointed out, Zach is more than welcome to play Hells Bells if he sings it.