3 gigs in 24 hours? Try 3 gigs in 10 hours! I’ll never top that.

So the Love Mon­key night at Trophy’s was a big suc­cess! The whole thing was really stress­ful, but really cool in the end. The stress started with my 2 hour pri­vate party gig with Alli­son that after­noon. It was at Water­loo up north on Bur­net, which is almost 20 miles from my house. Not that the gig itself was stress­ful (We had a big crowd, played well, and they had 25 cent wings, score!) But all the stuff sur­round­ing the gig was rough. For one, it took me almost an hour to get up there due to Austin Traf­fic. I also have bro­ken air con­di­tion­ing in my car, and it was super hot all day, so by the time I got there I was soak­ing wet. I was bring­ing the PA for this gig so I also had a ton of stuff to unload and set up. And just for fun it was pretty toasty in the club as well. It was so humid that I could barely play as my fin­gers were stick­ing to the strings. So then after the gig I also had to drive back in after­noon traf­fic, again with­out A/C. These are minor details, but I was feel­ing a lit­tle drained before the gig even started. I man­aged to get home and get a shower and light nap. Well, more like a lie-down. I don’t nap well, and I don’t think I actu­ally slept. But any­ways, I was feel­ing some­what bet­ter by the time I got to Trophy’s. For those of you who don’t know about Trophy’s, I wrote about it last year here.

My first nice sur­prise was that Trophy’s had a new toi­let in the men’s room. Much bet­ter. It even had a seat! We got Jenny set up, and off we went. One of the nice things about hav­ing the 2 hour gig ear­lier in the day is that it nor­mally takes me a few songs to feel warmed up and ready to play. But at this one I was ready to go right off the bat. In fact, I was prob­a­bly over­play­ing. But Ce’st la vie. We played a pretty good set, con­sid­er­ing it was only the 3rd full band gig. We got a late start, so we didn’t get through every­thing. I would of liked to keep going, but being that there was 4 bands I really didn’t want to get behind on this thing, and it was up to me to keep the trains run­ning, so to speak. But we played well. I’d post a photo, but none of them came out ter­ri­bly flat­ter­ing. But we were there, trust us. We even had some peo­ple. Not Trophy’s full, but not empty either. More then were ever there for my old gigs, any­way. So after Jenny’s set, up came Hum­ble, Jason’s band. Jason is the drum­mer with Allison’s band (as well as the drum­mer with Nobody’s Busi­ness, and the Groove-tones before that, so we go back about 5 years at this point. We also used to work together at Calu­sio, and he played on Jenny and Adam’s CD.) In Hum­ble he plays bass, and is seri­ously funky. In Fact, Hum­ble was really good, much bet­ter than they were the 1st time I saw them, which to be fair was over a year ago. They played a really tight set, fronted by the pure Bad-Ass LeAnn. I didn’t get to lis­ten as much as I would like because I was busy greet­ing, kib­itz­ing, and talk­ing to all the peo­ple who had shown up, which was a good num­ber by this point. All very cool. I also had to get ready to play my set with Adam and occa­sional Naughty Bit Gray. Gray played drums on the CD with Adam on a few songs, and since Scott couldn’t make it Gray filled in for the gig. He’s a great drum­mer, and I’ve always loved play­ing with him. Also a super nice guy, which makes it even more fun. He told us at rehearsal that he was wear­ing a Japan­ese base­ball Jer­sey to the gig, so Adam and I went with jer­seys from my own per­sonal Mets col­lec­tion (Best team in Base­ball right now!!!) and I think we look stylin’. Here’s me and Adam engag­ing in some extremely witty banter.

So we played a good set as well, a few hic­cups, and I was kinda toast at this point. Did I men­tion it was also really hot onstage here as well? My bass play­ing is always a lit­tle rough, and my hands were tired enough that it was a hard gig. I was happy to be done play­ing for the night, trust me. So I got to sit back and lis­ten to Kirk’s band, the Great­est Amer­i­can Heroes, for the first time. They were a blast, and here’s Kirk with a very spe­cial guest. This should tell you a lot about what kind of band they are:

This also when I had my tra­di­tional Cockaroach sit­ing for Trophy’s. This time he ran right across the Trophy’s sign on the front of the stage. I swear, they get bolder every time.

Any­way, over­all, we had some­thing like 50 peo­ple show up, which is pretty good if I do say so myself. That’s a good num­ber for my gigs. Sure, it’s not the Stones, but I can’t com­plain. It was a very long night, as I was at Trophy’s from 8:30 to about 2:15. In some ways it would of been good if there were only 2 or 3 bands, as not many peo­ple stayed the whole time, but Trophy’s gave us the slots, so that’s what I did. Thanks to all who read this and showed up. A splen­did time was guar­an­teed for all!

A few other things:

In my last post, I wrote about some com­ing attrac­tions I’ve been work­ing on. I haven’t made any progress on two of them, but posted one. I do have a few more ideas that haven’t been started, but will be post­ing soon. They’ll be shorter, I think. You never quite know until you start writ­ing. There’s no work done on these except in my head, so there’s no pre­view. Just a title to tempt your imagination.

Com­ing Attrac­tion #1: All hail the Glory of the Break­fast Taco!

Com­ing Attrac­tion #2: My beard Trimmer’s Chuck Nor­ris list.

Com­ing Attrac­tion #3: The saga of the Horse Crip­pler and his new side­kicks, the Base­ball and the Grafted. (does any­one have ANY idea what that means?? Bonus points if you can guess.)

Any guesses on these will be allowed, and encour­aged in the com­ments. Thanks for read­ing, as always!

P.S. Happy Father’s day Dad!!!