Tuesday, May 25, 2004

Port Aransis extravaganza

From the halls of Montazuma to the shores of Port Aransis...LBP has been to the coast and brought the funk to the sand folk. We headed out around 1ish on sat and the fun didn't stop till we made it home that Sunday afternoon. First we should point out that the ride up there had several recurring themes. Most prevalent was my welcomed traveling habit of finding the filthiest smut available at the gas stations we passed. Getting out of Houston took awhile since it took like 4 stops to get everyone's bladder emptied and filled again with beer. In that time I took it upon myself to find what I like to call "conversational porn". This is porn that is in no way intended to arouse but instead to make one think. In addition to that there was a long discussion on the artist of particular song entitled "This is it". There was a 50/50 split on whether Michael McDonald or Kenny Logins sung the song. After some research I found out I was right and Kenny Logins is the one who wrote it.

When we got into town we went straight to the club aptly named "Neptunes". We set up and were generally pleased with the arrangement although we received a lecture from one of the owners about how loud we were allowed to get. From there we went to our good friend Trip's beach condo. It was very very nice I must say...while there we bull shitted and listened to Jeff go on about how he threw up at work and wouldn't lay claim to it. After enjoying our selves at Trip's beachside chateau we went to the club to play. Lucky for us we had an opener who was just our speed....an older gentlemen playing acoustic classics such as "The Oscar Mayer Song", "Budweiser King of Beers commercial theme", and many many other memorable TV jingles. Needless to say the 7 people in the audience were at the point of breaking with the amount of bitching showmanship that the opener provided so we had to muster the power to rock just as hard as he did.

For the entirety of the night we had about 10 people in the bar and held the attention of maybe half of them at any given point. The famous Red Hat ladies of San Antonio stayed until they had to take their teeth out and go to bed. All in all I must say that the trip was a success and we hope to return with greater numbers.

posted by Coy - LBP Bass @ 5:46 PM