Quarry House AND! Bangkok Blues 2-8-09 The Idle Americans and Pessimist Parade

My first 2-fer (2 gigs in a day) since I started blogging!

Quarry House (2-6)
Georgia Ave & Bonifont
Silver Spring, MD

onto

Bangkok Blues (7-11)
926 W. Broad St.
Falls Church, VA

I am a big fan of playing shows at The Quarry House with both bands, The Idle Americans and Pessimist Parade. One of the biggest goals I've had since starting down this tortuous musical path is to unite the Skins (young punks) and Rockabilly cats (old punks) and playing shows with both bands is a big step towards that. IA played a great set (if a little long) that turned on some of the PP fans to us. It was frustrating to tell some of the skins for months that I was in another band that was really good and get shrugged off. But, the only way to change minds is for folks to see us play.

Pessimist's set was also really good (I remembered to stay sober!) until the last 3 songs. We had folks right were we wanted them, we were getting ready for the last 3 songs ANDDDDDDDDD...Wilson's bass broke. The ground came loose. So, after fumbling around for a couple minutes, losing everyone's interest and any energy we had in the set, we played two last songs as a trio and Rio and JJ did 'She Said' as a Lux Interior (RIP) and Hazel Atkins tribute.

*scramble, scramble, scramble*

By the time we got to Bangkok and played our opening set, we were all chugging Red Bulls, trying to keep some energy up. And poor Scott, it was his 3rd gig that day after doing his Sunday church service (I know, right?) in the morning.

This was also remarkable for being the first time in 3 days that I hadn't seen Mr. Enthusiasm.

Last gig for today coming up...