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2011

Glodie & Ghetto @ Teaks

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(Posted Under: Tempe Music Scene Tempe Music Scene, Music Music, Live Shows)
Tonight was night one of using our Teakwood's Groupons. With Glodie opening for Ghetto Cowgirl, it seemed like a good opportunity for it.

I'd decided hours before we got there that I wanted the fish and chips, and was quite happy that it was on the specials menu. Thank you Teakwoods, I love you. I have to re-iterate what an awesome idea jalapeno coleslaw is. Rocks my world. With that said, it was also almost the death of my tonight. The jalapeno in it was from the fiery depths of hell. Of course, I had no idea that it was until I'd finished the coleslaw and carelessly devoured the jalapeno. The tiny little jalapeno that set my mouth on fire for the next 20 minutes. I love them, but I often get one at Teakwoods (typically in the nachos or fajitas) that has a little bit of an extra kick to it. But more often than not it just causes my eyes to water for about a minute and prompts me to chug a little bit extra of my drink. Which is what I expected with this one. But no matter how much I drank, there was no putting out the fire on my tongue that this puppy had ignited. After 5 minutes with no relief, was I sure I wasn't going to die? Not entirely! After a decent amount of time and a ridiculous amount of both Pepsi and water, and then finally a cigarette, the flames in my mouth finally started to go out. Whoah.

Photobox ImageIt was really fun seeing Corey, especially since it's been so long between shows, both solo and with Strange Young Things. It was a quieter night at Teakwoods, which made for a set list customized for us. You can't complain with that. After about 45 minutes Corey called Katie up to the stage to ask her if he was done. Hilarious. What does she look like, Sara Cina?!? [smile] ha

Photobox ImageI'd totally forgotten about this, but last Saturday Norm announced to everyone there that if they didn't show up next week that he would kill himself. He hadn't forgotten though, bringing that up to the much smaller crowd this week. A lesser man would have taken it as blow and broken (to pieces [wink]). But not Norman. It was clear before he even took the stage that it was a challenge - to be even more rock n' roll and more ridiculous than if more people had shown up. And he proceeded to deliver on that challenge, giving a performance of ridiculous proportions and entertaining the fuck of out the 3 couches and few tables worth of people that were there. Last week was a hell of a lot of fun because so many people were there, tonight was so much fun because there weren't.

Photobox ImageHe proceeded to pull out all the stops - jumping on the couches to sing, jumping on the bar stool next to us to sing (and terrifying everyone, or at least us, that it was going to go horribly wrong), harassing Sara anytime she came close to the stage (but what's new? [wink]), doing 80's hair metal spins on the stage floor, hilarious banter and...well, just all around being all the Marc Norman he could be! Glorious. The rest of the band we're having a hell of a time also, with Thomas pulling out some absolutely ridiculous guitar solos. Even breaking out some finger tapping. Rock! On that note of Laufenberg solos, he stopped me on the way out to talk about the solo in Paralyse, which brought some exciting news.

Also walking out Norm handed me a t-shirt after bumming a smoke. Sweet. We actually wanted to pick up shirts tonight, but neglected to get cash this afternoon, so that worked out nicely. This whole unspoken and unplanned trade of cigarettes for Ghetto merch of late works out pretty nicely, I must say. [smile] ha!

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