First of all- I'm so sorry to everyone who came out and had to leave. I don't really want to talk about that part, but thank you to everybody who stayed, thank you to everybody who came and couldn't stay, and thank you to all our friends and family just for being so awesome. We love you all!
Second of all- other than going on at 10:20PM instead of 8PM, last night was pretty awesome. :)
We don't have a permanent bass player. We haven't in a long time. We have a lot of bass players that we prefer working with (Jim who is on our new album KICKS, Chris who is just awesome, Ray better known as "the dude with the 6 string bass.") But tonight we played in Philly and all our regular bass players are in New York so we had to find someone new. That someone was Carter Fox. Yes, say it with me folks, Carter Fox. Because we had never met or played with Carter before, I set up a rehearsal in West Philly earlier that day not too far from the club itself.
Now, as some of you may or may not know I am a huge fan of The Dead Milkmen. A huge, ridiculous, die hard fan of The Dead Milkmen. The Dead Milkmen are an 80's punk band from Philadelphia that everyone in Philadelphia seems to know about but no one (or very few people) from everywhere else seem to know about.
So get THIS: I found this rehearsal space on Craig's list that was actually a recording studio. We show up that afternoon and we're setting up and the engineer/owner guy says something about a "punk rock girl" and I said, "I love being in a city where people know what that means" ("Punk Rock Girl" is probably The Dead Milkmen's only "hit". That and "Bitchin' Camaro") Anyway, so then he says, "You know they recorded here."
WHAT?!?!
Turns out yesterday I practiced in the recording studio, THE recording studio where The Dead Milkmen recorded their first two albums, "Big Lizard in My Backyard" and "Eat Your Paisley".
Now... that probably isn't really a big deal to anybody but me, but honestly, that was a pretty big deal. It didn't really hit me until later, but now I am PSYCHED! :)
Anyway- World Cafe Live. This place is AWESOME. We played upstairs and the sound is great, the bar is really nice, my pomegranate martini (thank you Jaime!) was awesome- all in all everything necessary for a great show. And the best part about it was that I was surrounded by people I love. Matt and the gang were front and center and we had a blast listening to the band before us. ("Rock and roll!") All the girls from work were dancing in the back (thank you ladies!) And my mom, aunt Louise, and mom's friend Sam were all quietly supporting from the side.
Again, thank you so much to everybody who came out. I'm sorry I was in such a funk, but thanks for helping drag me out of it! Nothing like good friends, good conversation and a little alcohol to make even the most stressful times feel like a breeze. I ended up having a blast and I hope you all did too!
Set List:
-Consider Me Gone
-Goodbye
-Ride the Wave
-Same to You
-Gone
-My Name is Jonas
-Dance With Me
-Who We Are (Dance Remix)
ps- Dear super cute guy at the bar who knew all the words to all of our songs- I heart you. I wanted to come find you afterward to tell you how much I heart you, but you disappeared like an angel, so instead I have to reach out into cyber space and heart you here. So much heart. ;) Thank you!
