Apr
24
2010

Another Busy Saturday

Saturday, April 24, 2010 - 11:10:26 pm
(Posted Under: Tempe Music Scene Tempe Music Scene, Music Music, Live Shows)
Another busy Saturday today, that involved driving all over the Valley. Started off with a trip to Chandler to drop off the video camera with Marc who wanted to record tonight's Sand Rubies show. From 4here it was back to T Town, over to Tempe Beach Park for the Salsa Challenge. I was amazed with the complete cluster fuck it was. We went down after winning tickets from Facebok. On getting down there, the recommended parking was $5 (we opted for parking for free on 1st Street, which incidentally was much closer of a walk to Tempe Beach Park) and tickets at the door were $10, I know it was for charity, but I was really surprised at the sea of people, given the cost of it all - for salsa! I'm all about salsa, don't get me wrong, but I was quite surprised by the turn out!

And us such, it wasn't the most comfortable experience in the world, but all the same we samples some salsas and had a good look around.

Afterwards we headed home to kill some time. Now that we both have our acoustics here, we broke them out for jam, which was a lot of fun. After going through some stuff Katie knew (Without Warning and Mr. S.O.B), we turned to Angels Tonight - which is something we've never played together before, and I've got to wonder why. It waz really kick ass for me to jam that with someone else, Katie taking all the chords, letting me go to town on the leads and the arpeggios that make that song a masterpiece! Too much fun, that's definitely going to be a new go to song for us to play together.

Getting down with that just gave us enough time to choke down some dinner, and hit the road towards North Scottsdale. Author Laurie Notaro was doing a reading at Barnes and Noble at Desert Ridge. While I'm not particularly well versed in her books (save some specific chapters of Idiot Girls that I've read online), but am certainly more than familiar with her journalistic works, many to do with the local scene. As a matter of fact, some of the first stuff I read about Doug Hopkins when I got on the internet were written by her. Long ass drive up there, but definitalty worth it. Funnily enough, Strange Young Things were playing a gig at Dave N' Busters (but the $10 + 2 items of food entry wasn't in our budget(, and Katie spotted Adam walking around while we were looking for a park.

Laurie's reading was quite entertaining, as it was hilarious. Certainly listening to here made me even more bummed that Katie doesn't have her books here, because I'd certainly like to read them, and now even moredo than for just the Mill Avenue content.

From there we headed back down south to Teakwoods. The timing worked out pretty well, and while we got there early, it wasn't as early as we'd expected. Drinks at Teaks went down a treat I might add. While we only got there half and hour before show time, there was no opener, so Dead Hot didn't go on until 10. But the time passed quite easily. Great show, and I had been really looking forward to tonight, and tt dawned on me tonight that it's probably influenced by having not seen Dead Hot in two months, since we missed last weeks show. Despite the amount of stuff there was going on tonight, there was a decent turn out at Teakwoods. Highlight of the show was Kylie leaving the stage and rocking out a solo for Annma on the sofa, and then getting back on the and playing Brent's guitar - with Brent. Ahhh, the brothers Babb!

Dead Hot finished up at about 11:15, which worked out well for us, giving us plenty of time to get over to Yucca for Tramps. Again, given the big Sand Rubies gig at the Sail Inn it was quite surprising how many people were at Yucca! It wasn't long until Corey came over, at it was good to get to hear how their gig went tonight.

Tramps did a fun set (when is there ever not a fun set with Tramps @ Yucca though?), and there was much drunkard dancing. Not really the good kind, and it wasn't that surprising to anyone when it ended with at least one broken or sprained ankle...which most of the bar had seen coming most of the night. Both Norm and Corey got up and sang at one point. I actually loved that once they started playing one of their new songs (I don't know the name, but the ridiculously poppy one) I predicted to Katie that Norm would be inside rocking out. About 30 seconds later that prophecy had been fullfilled. [wink] There are some things about this scene that I can absolutely predict. [smile] Corey busted out his moves, illistrating how spot on Sara was with her depiction of him on last week's Teaks flier. [smile]

When all was said and done, Tramps finished at about 1:15, which was kinda strange to have had so much going on tonight, but still have the night end relatively early. Despite Katie really wanting to do something else, there wasn't much more fun to be had, so we headed home. But not before nabbing on of the huge cool Tramps fliers from the night.

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