A Rainy Night At Deans
Hi Kids,Yesterday was "the first Thursday of the month" and the fact that Houston was nearing the end of a 48 hour downpour meant that downtown was VERY quiet. If you missed the show last night (and almost all of the planet did), you missed a really fun night. We started playing at our normal 10pm and there were less than 10 people at Deans. Well I guess you could count - LBP members, Steve (Deans Co-Owner/Bartender) and the Bar Back whose name I can never remember (I always have to ask him for stuff like drinks, help with gear etc...and I have to think of a new pronoun every time "hey Dude..., excuse me Bro..., YO G...") then the count was maybe 15. Like I said, we started at 10 and since Jim Morrison (Phyve) strolled in around 11, we had a lot of improving to do. Marc and Conrad have been on this kick to be "different" so our jams are starting to evolve. They are becoming a little less open and a little more structured. We started with an almost Salsa sounding piece that the two of them have been working on (it was cool, I felt like we were actually the Jazz band that we claimed to be in order to secure the Deans gig in the first place). That opened the way for an hour or so of cool jamming. If I have a complaint about LBP, it would be that we need to be as brave to go completely out on a limb at packed shows as we are when there's nobody there. So when Phyve made his rock star entrance we were ready to play an actual song or two (it's very easy to forgive him for being late when he walks up to the mike and sounds amazing as usual). We played a second set that started off fairly serious and ended up silly. Toby (Deans other Co-Owner and Mr. Rock Singer Dude) joined us on stage (I love it when he does) and we muddled our way through a few covers - The Doors, Hendrix, some 12 bar blues...we rock. Anyway it was fun and having Conrad's long distance lady in town and sitting at the end of the bar (Hi Debbie) made it that much better. Not to mention Lad sitting in with us on Jimbe (I doubt that's in spell check), it's always cool to have our friends jam with us. So now it's off to The Woodlands and San Antonio to open for The Allman Brothers and Lynard Skynard, like I said WE ROCK!!
So we'll see you all soon,
Thanx for your support,
Coy - LBP Bass
posted by Coy - LBP Bass @ 9:19 AM
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