Sunday, August 20, 2006

Ok, so this is sort of in response to something I heard/saw in the last few days/weeks... I was talking with a guy I know, Thursday night... Dub Miller was on stage and playing acoustic... He was playing Paying the Fiddler at one point and NO ONE besides the lil group I was in, was even paying attention... It was like no one in that bar knew or cared about who the guy was singing, they were just there to see and be seen... Drink and play poker... And I've noticed stuff like that happening more and more often... Mainly at the Armadillo Palace. But occasionally when Mark does his open mic thingy at Kays it happens... Which sucks big brown greasy monkey balls... But its like people don't go places to hear good music anymore... They go to whatever bar cuz its the trendy thing to do... What the heck is up with that? Do they not know they can go somewhere else if they want to drink or be seen or whatever (I've got a list of bars I don't go to because of the atmosphere being so trendy, I'll gladly share with them where they can go...). Its like a sign of disrespect for the musicians playing too and thats just not cool... These guys (and the occasional girl) work really hard to play music they hope people will dig and then most of the audience just seems to ignore them!?!?!?! I don't mind the few couples that seem to like to dance at shows, thats kinda cool (I wish I could dance...lol...) and it shows that at least they're listening to the music... But when Mike McClure or Dub or anyone of a dozen musicians I'll go see, play and no one but me is paying attention or into the music, it just really pisses me off....

Its part of the reason I don't go to a lot of shows anymore... (that and I'm trying to save $$$ since I'm unemployed....)

Last night though I went to the Palace with Richelle and Cheryl, fully expecting to be pissed off by the end of the night and fed up with people in general... We got there about 7 ish and sat at the bar and ordered some dinner... And an hour or so later we tried to sit at a table (they all had reserved signs on them, and half the place was sectioned off for a private party) but one of the waitresses was realllllllly rude to us about it... No one was sitting there so we figured what the heck, but we'd no sooner sat down then this waitress walks up and is like what party are you with? Don't you know this table's reserved? (we'd thrown the reserved sign up into one of the bar stools... lol...) Cheryl said something to her and the chick said something along the lines of "there's no need to be rude..." Whatever, dude... I didn't hear part of the conversation, otherwise I would have let the chick know we were with the birthday party... lol... I am a bit of a smart ass.... :0)
So we moved back to the bar stools and the bartenders there took forever on every drink order after that... And it didn't even really get crowded til almost 10 ish... Finally I moved up to the front row by myself (since someones I know were more interested in drinking than seeing the Trailers... And one was a Trailers virgin... Technically I think shes still a virgin since she never saw them...) where I proceeded to stay for the rest of the night... I swear I have never had sooooooooooooooooooooooo much fun.... At least not at a show and not lately... Part of the reason I didn't move was cuz I didn't want to lose my spot in the front, where I had a perfect view and the other was cuz I knew if the people in the back weren't digging the music then there'd be a fight, cuz no one comes to a Trailers show and doesn't have fun. Period, end of story... They did almost all of my favorite songs and Potters still pretty and Manny is still Manny, same for Ryder... Stokes and Drew looked better than the last time I saw them... They both look better with shaggy hair... And Jondan was a good addition to the band... And Ryder singing lead a lot of the time was amazing... Finally they did an encore with Ring of Fire and Fire on the Ponchatrain and it was all over with by 1... I got a tshirt and a sticker (though not the yellow one I wanted... They don't have those anymore...). Then I went back to the bar and Chelle, Cheryl and I hung out for a bit... I touched Potters ass, cuz thats just how I roll... lol... Talked to Stokes for a few.... And then we came back to my apartment.... Where we proceeded to stay up til after 3 am... I woke up at 8 when I heard them talking in the living room, then I walked the dog and Cheryl and I went to McDonalds for breakfast.... Came back, ate and I went back to bed, til they left about noonish... Then I went back to bed and woke up at about 2.... Walked the dog and I was pretty much useless all afternoon... I've only watched movies and blogged... Very overachiever of me I know...
Now its dinner time and I have no idea what I want... Maybe a grilled cheese...
Laters.

posted by Ali @ 6:36 PM

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