May
22
2010

Strange Young Things @ Teakwoods

PhotosSaturday, May 22, 2010 - 11:53:14 pm
(Posted Under: Tempe Music Scene Tempe Music Scene, Music Music, Live Shows)
Such a good night.

We head over to Teakwoods from the ball park, got set up at a booth and had a great dinner there. At some point while eating I looked up at a TV on the far back wall and thought something about what was on was erriely familiar. Turned out to be an AFL game. Who would have thunk it? Anyways, both the nachos and chicken fingers were to die for. We'd love to have Teakwoods cook live with us. [wink]

Photobox ImageCorey was first up, acoustic, breaking out some covers and a bunch of new songs. The really cool part of his opening set was that throughout Adam and Patrick both got up and jammed on a couple of them.

Initially once the full band took the stage, it a bit of a different experience, and I wasn't entirely sure how it was going to go. Teakwoods is a lot more laid back than other places (which really works for me), but it was kinda weird to be seeing Strange Young Things and sitting down. But a couple songs in they got their groove, and we moved down to a free couch, which helped facilitate the rock. While we were still technically sitting down, once we moved we really felt like things were as they should be.

Photobox ImageMidway through the band launched into You've Tripped On My Words For The Last Time, which they'd promised they'd learn for us after a conversation I had with Adam about how I wished they'd do it. Apparently they first did it the other week at the Baers Den (which we didn't make it out too), and Corey announced it as "for Mark & Katie". It sounded fucking fantastic, and it was pretty obvious to both of us that that needs to be a regular set list item. There was much enjoyment both on stage, and on our couch.

A little while later, mid song, Rich dropped his drum sticks, jumped off stage, and went bolting out the back door. Anything can happen at a Strange Young Things show, you can't really be surprised by anything - BUT - it's usually (okay, well always) Corey with the unexpected antics. So to see Rich go bolting from the stage was very out of the ordinary! Once it was obvious that he was a man on a mission, I figured either someone was stealing gear, or doing something to his car. As it turned out, some crazy guy had started going nuts laying into the screen door to the patio! The band played on, not missing a beat, without Rich (ironically - get it? Not missing a beat - drummer being gone... [wink] ) while half of the Teakwoods stuff ran out to see what was going on. By the time I came back in from seeing what was happening, Adam had dropped the bass and jumped on the drum kit. When he eventually came back in, Rich went to pick up the bass, but the guys were right at the end of the song.

In addition to Tripped, we also got No Limits, No Law, which I've never heard them do before. Actually, the entire set list was certainly different from the usual, like not leading off with Bang The Dash - which this is probably the only show that I've seen where that hasn't been the case!

Photobox ImageThe accent point, and definitive touch that ensured that it was a Strange Young Things show was put on the night when they closed with Bring It On Home To Me, and Corey went wandering through Teakwoods with the microphone - managing to unplug it and have to run up to the stage and steal Pat's mic. And then wandering back to the stage at the end of the song, with the microphone stand draped over his back. Ahh, the night was finally complete. [smile]

Had a cool chat with the boys afterwards (where there was more Tripped congratulatory high fives [smile] ), and surprisingly learned that Bang The Dash is about not having a car stereo. Here I was thinking it was about fucking in the front seat of a car. [wink]

Photobox ImageWe headed off at about 1, it'd been a long day. It was definitely a "Belly Up" sort of situation though - it'd been such a fun night, y'know it was time to go, but you didn't really want it to be over. [smile] Good times! I really can't wait until the boys are booked to play Teaks again!

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