Some Thoughts in Class

I'm just sitting in class and looking for something to do. So I'll update the blag on my concert last thursday.

Headliner: Sleepytime Gorilla Museum
Openers: Stolen Babies and Pleaseeasaur

Pleaseeasaur: The first "musical" act was this dude who came out by himself in a grim reaper costume that then turned into a cape for an awful disco outfit. He then proceeded to sing these weird ass songs about noodles, cobras being cool, Randy Normal designer jeans, and not taking candy from strangers. It took a while, but I FINALLY realized he was not being serious. Apparently he has a DVD out with Comedy Central, and I swear I've seen his emblem on Adult Swim on Cartoon Network. Overall, he was pretty freaking hilarious when I realized he was joking.

Stolen Babies: The second band, Stolen Babies, was AWESOME. The band includes a phenomenal bass player who pretty much lead the band, a drummer named Gil who tore that set up (literally; he busted a bass head in the first song), a keyboard player who made some seriously funky noises, the creepy screaming accordion girl, and the suckish guitar player. They played a lot of my favorite songs, including Filistata, Lifeless, and Spill!, and they even had a couple new songs that were REALLY fantastic. I was a little dissapointed with the sound of the bass player's upright bass in Filistata, which I could hardly hear, and Dominique's accordian playing wasn't mind blowing, but overall, I really enjoyed the show.

Sleepytime Gorilla Museum: Man, this band SUCKED. It was so much ridiculous noise and chaos, I couldn't listen to it. Stephen and I went downstairs and met the band.


Highlights: We got to meet the band! We went downstairs and the drummer laughed at me cause I accidentally bought the girls band shirt, and Dominique signed the raisin box we brought, and handed out the raisins out to everyone. It was hilarious!

That was the concert. On friday, we're seeing Opeth and Enslaved (who cares about enslaved)! Yay Opeth.


~wes~