awwwww shit.. last night was reeediculous. hell of a good time in chi-town. i had a little over 3 hours of delays at LAX and was sweating making the show on time. ended up touching down at o\'hare at about 9:00, got home at about 10:00, walked in at the end of CMSS at 11:12. was stoked to hear it was only the first tune i missed. a few quick notes:
Gravity was possibly the best version ive ever heard, the first jam took a totally new face for awhile and got faster than most. it was crazy, especially with the homeless guy in the window outside (who later introduced himself as Cornbread) playing along with adrain and cracking up showing his big-ass toof-less smile. btw, there was definitely a jam leading in to gravity.
the Phaddy segues were absolutely perfect. going into ATSD was sick, first time ive heard it live. and then LDZ fucking ripped straight through and dropped so nice back into the "na na, na na na na\'s" of Phaddy. place was going crazy.
Psygn is a hell of a tune, ive only heard it once through a stream so i didnt recognize it and once again thought it was a Beatles cover at first. great song.
the highlight of the night was no doubt Episode 3. bezerker asked me if ive heard it yet, i said no, and about 5 minutes later tim said, "here\'s a new one." un-fucking-real. i dont know what else to say about it, everything i hoped to hear and then some. such a cool chord progression that runs.. the blues.. the story.. the rips.. straight nasty.
score encore was great. first time ive heard it live. short but so sweet, got the place a bit sweatier before leaving.. bailamos.
al, to answer your question, when the place was packed to its peak there were approx. 65 heads, i counted but didnt look in the bathrooms. the tonic room was extremely small so it felt like it was a full house.
oh, ellis-d does a great job on lights. like i said the place was small and im sure he likes a little more room to let em breathe but i was impressed.
bought adrian a be-lated b-day shot of tequila, GSPhan a bomb. i kept asking people if they were G-Spon, obviously never asked her and then she sought me out after the show and said "you told me you were buying me a shot." at first i wanted to be like, "who da fuck is this?" ha! great night though. we finished outside with a streetside \'drum\' circle with Cornbread on harmonica, me on vocals, and timmy-p as lead dancer. intense shit.
even more pumped now for Friday>Saturday, madness in madison, insanity in iowa city.
