Scott's II 12-31-08 Idle Americans

Scott's II
7070 Port Tobacco Road
Welcome, MD

Our fabulous drummer, founding member of IA, Mike O'Donnell played his last gig with us on New Year's Eve of '08. Responsibilities got the better of him and playing as much as IA does wasn't possible anymore. Thanks for sticking it out as long as you could, Mikey!


Oh, and Scott gave me shit for not mentioning him yet, so I'd like to welcome for the world our new drummer Scott Rabino. Perty, huh?

New Year's Eve gigs are unavoidable and dreaded. Unavoidable because everyone has one and the pay is usually double. Dreaded because it's amateur night at the Apollo.

Take Wednesday for example. In between our sets, there was a DJ that played the sort of songs that I would be forced to endure when chaperoning 7th grade dances in my previous life. We played a good set but the fact that the song that had the most dancers was "Electric Slide" (5 hops this time!) had my shoulders shrugging their hardest.***

All in all, from the meatballs (which were good!) to the grinding hillbillies (which were not good!) to the bikers that came out to see us (which was awesome!) to waking up staring at a 100-year old carousel horse (which was not awesome!), a surreal night.

Next: Thursday w/ Pessimist at Sidebar

***Apologies to Dancin' Doug--you're the man.