Post Show Banter >>>>

Sidehatch wrote:

Yada wrote:

sweetcell wrote:

Sidehatch wrote:

sweetcell wrote:or: ween.

? is that like aspirin is good birth control
or is that crafty speak for a snip snip

as in, listening to ween = 0% of getting any = no pregnancy concerns.

I beg to differ!

There is even a ween dating site on Facebook
I can't confirm if yada started it tho…

Likely started because weeners can't even get a date…

rumors  are that the David Byrne show is stellar!

Seeing him Wednesday in Hershey.  Will report back.

Yada wrote:
rumors  are that the David Byrne show is stellar!

Yada wrote:
rumors  are that the David Byrne show is stellar!

The clips on Brooklyn Vegan make it look phenomenal.

Celebrity spotting at Black Cat Nada Surf show:

Beer/fashion icon and fellow upstate New Yorker Greg Engert was in the house. Greg was rocking a Tecate tallboy and a dark zip up hoodie. I was also rocking one of the same items.

I loved the show. 60 minute set of Let Go, 17 minute intermission, and 90 minute second set. My second favorite Black Cat show ever (#1 was DBT on the SRO tour), even ahead of Broken Social Scene. The sound still sucked and wish it had been at 9:30.

Oh, and if anybody finds my missing glove in the 14th Street corridor, PM me.

Who?

Who two

So I saw the David Byrne show yesterday at the Hershey Theater.  I have mixed feelings.  The setlist and music is great.  Good mix of Talking Heads music in the set.  New songs really work well.  I'm not sure how I feel about the stage show.  (SPOILER ALERT)  Anyone who looked into the show is aware that the concept of the stage show is that the stage would be empty with the musicians moving around freely; no amps, monitors, instruments, etc.  At first I found it interesting and intriguing, however after a while it started to resemble a mix of a marching band (they had 6 percussionists) and a broadway musical.  Just to clarify, the musicians are on stage, but with wireless mics.  I kept asking myself if I would like it better with just a normal band playing on stage in the usual setup.  I still don't know the answer to that.  That being said, it was interesting and enjoyable, and I'll be seeing it again at MPP.

jeffml wrote:
That being said, it was interesting and enjoyable, and I'll be seeing it again at MPP.

If you're willing to see it twice, then that speaks for itself!

ggw wrote:
Who?

If you live anywhere around the Mid-Atlantic and you care about beer – you already know who Greg Engert is. He’s the face and the voice of craft beer in the nation’s capital and a rising star nationally. While pursuing his masters at Georgetown University, Greg spent his evenings working at Washington DC’s legendary craft beer emporium, The Brickskeller,  where he quickly rose through the ranks while gleaning just about everything that he could about beer. In 2006, Greg was hired as the Beer Director for the Neighborhood Restaurant Group (NRG), a powerhouse organization that now oversees 18 restaurants, bars, and retail outlets, including beer-centric venues like the award-winning ChurchKey. In 2013, Greg–now a Managing Partner for the Neighborhood Restaurant Group–oversaw the opening of Bluejacket, Washington DC’s exciting new boutique brewery!

Did you get his autograph?

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ggw wrote:
Who?

If you live anywhere around the Mid-Atlantic and you care about beer – you already know who Greg Engert is. He’s the face and the voice of craft beer in the nation’s capital and a rising star nationally. While pursuing his masters at Georgetown University, Greg spent his evenings working at Washington DC’s legendary craft beer emporium, The Brickskeller,  where he quickly rose through the ranks while gleaning just about everything that he could about beer. In 2006, Greg was hired as the Beer Director for the Neighborhood Restaurant Group (NRG), a powerhouse organization that now oversees 18 restaurants, bars, and retail outlets, including beer-centric venues like the award-winning ChurchKey. In 2013, Greg–now a Managing Partner for the Neighborhood Restaurant Group–oversaw the opening of Bluejacket, Washington DC’s exciting new boutique brewery!

*Also known for this love of 19th century attire and cival war reenactments

ggw wrote:
Did you get his autograph?

No, but he offered me a sip of his Tecate when he saw that I was wearing a brewery shirt.

March is "Americana" month here at ChallengedCo:

I went to the NCTA benefit at the Hamilton last night. It was led by Jerry Douglas, and featured Jason Isbell and Amanda Shires, Phil Wiggins, and a jazz guitar duo of (oh shit forgot their names). The highlight besides Isbell/Shires was a duo of children from Nashville playing "old timey" music. Giri and Uma Peters.  Worth a google/youtube-ing. Hamilton was way over sold. I have never seen it so full.

Night before I saw I'm with Her at 930. Also oversold, jammed on a Tuesday night.  I would go to see Sara Watkins sing the hop varieties on all that fancy microbrew you all drink, but the 3 of them together are really great. Outstanding players, great harmonies.

Anyone going to McMurtry/Moreland…?

MGMT were all right at the Anthem.  I thought they could have played a bit longer than an hour and 10 minutes considering they now have four albums to draw from (only one song from Congratulations :( ). I preferred their Merriweather show in 2010.

Time to Pretend and Kids were epic🎶💕🎶


The problem is they have one album everybody loves with two millennial anthems and that is about it… Personally I thought one of the new songs sounded great…people were ready to go after one hour…mass exodus…

Really enjoyed Kristin Hersh and Grant Lee Phillips. Pearl Street is a cool venue. Seemed like a really quick show, but it sounded good.

3/17 Shabazz Palaces, Millenium Stage

These guys are a two piece Irish band from Seattle, Washington. Black Irish, that is. I was totally expecting them to be settled and staid, but they were more funky and dissonant.

My wife liked the poppier/funkier songs more than the dissonant ones. My daughter said to her mom, "This sounds like that bad 90's music you listen to." And to her dad, "This isn't hip-hop, it's rap." And I just sat there wondering if they've gone fly fishing with Sweetcell.

To finish the night off, we stopped by Foggy Bottom Whole Foods, mashing up food from there as well as Sweetgreen, and washing it down with a Bells' Hopslam for my wife and a Hardywood Kentucky Christmas Morning for me. And the guy was kind enough to fill the 16 oz plastic cups all the way, even though it was billed as a 12 oz pour.

All in all, a good family outing.

Lots of power stances last night at Judas Priest..had not seen that many since Maiden and they have 8 guitarists now

challenged wrote:
Night before I saw I'm with Her at 930. Also oversold, jammed on a Tuesday night.  I would go to see Sara Watkins sing the hop varieties on all that fancy microbrew you all drink, but the 3 of them together are really great. Outstanding players, great harmonies.

But unusual for a club show it was more crowded upstairs than downstairs. I went downstairs after Andrew Combs and got halfway to the front.