Two nites! Two bands! Written days apart!!

Thursday Nite

On Thursday and Friday yesterday I was able to take in two shows. Thursady nite was the Bully Pulpit show in Evanston. Billed as their first show after maybe a decade, it really wasn’t: they played a few weeks previously @ a house party. They played @….Bills Blue Bar, which was just west of the Metra trax on Davis. Nice place- we could sit in comfort @ the bar whilst listening to the band. Band played well. They played my of-late favourite in a new guise- before it was just this lick; now they added a beginning to it and stretched it. I can deal with the beginning. They also played that one song that’d been played on the John Peel show “sight unheard”, or whatever his phrase was. Best song was a song I’m not familiar with- near the end, had a catchy yodel that vocalists would do more or less in unison. This was very catchy and obv. the prize song of the show. Oftentimes one can tell when a band is happy with their performance by their body language.

It was their first show in a long time!! It was a good show, but obv. not perfect. They were kinda like stix onstage. Music could be off. Sometimes the sound mismashed to-gether - way many guitars washing in @ same time. Didn’t play their bestus song- yellow and blue make green.

Nice crowd- those I knew and those I didn’t. Nice to see Gallo and Dragon and Blackie, but others from the LT crowd showed up-well, I guess to see loved ones play. It was a nice evening.
I cut immed. after show. Nice nostalgia Evanston downtown.


friday nite

this now was now the turn of the Broom Trusters. someone was smart and shacked them up in some glamourous nitehapping hopping place. i totally expected a shitty dark wooden shanty barn style for the show, but instead got a place i woulda loved to of hung around in when i was 20stylin'. air conditioned. roomy. chix a go go.

i got there kinda early and there were few there but the opening band. say, they were pretty good. an early song of there's was really groovy and i dug it- later someone said 'hey, they're pretty good' and i had to tell this person that they'd missed their best song. but the place filled p, and made me kindanervous at the fact that since there were many people, i'd have to talk and interact with them. y'see, sometimes i'm not so good in social situations, and these two nites were two of them. i did badly thursday, spacing out on the band and my thoughts, arriving during the show and leaving rite after-- friday nite was a grand challenge, because i was so early and there was plenty of time before the show. Plus loads of people i new came. but i did passable. in social situations i rely on gf a lot. it's not good to say, but i lean on her to do the talking for the both of us. she missed both nites, so i was by my lonesome. but luckily, my frenz are a bit of an outgoing group, so they make it easy.

like i wrote, lots of people showed up- a rare showing of loyola types Sleepy Eyes, Fritz, and Blaz. there was a lot of people so one could walk from one place and then hang out with people over there. lots more lt people this nite. indiana types- jimmy shoe. lots of cameras and flashes.

band was bigtrust tonite. drummer, bass, percussion, singer, dancer, multi guy adddd to dynamic duo. no horns. show started off kinda slow and it lasted three songs. my favourite song these days was the beginner, and it was an off version. funny, newsexytouch live is usually an improved versionover than on LP- funkier, faster, liver. i thought this version was maybe too fast. the bass couldn't be heard as well. the band chopped up making love in the natural light- another song that i though should have been liter. imagine me, wanting songs liter.

then the band finally started to rock swell. like a soccer team duing a game on, a so-so first half can turn into genius after half time. this nite, it was after three songs they trusted it up. this nite, the songs i wanted to hear didn't stick with me; song i rarely play in my mind were the ones i drove home thinking about. seems by acclaim the best song was stages- always liked it, but it made the crowd hot this nite.

i realise i like the bass playing a lot. it was really missing from nsexyt- something mechanical @fault this nite, i think. but this nite i realised its always an enjoyable part iof this group. i think that the bass-player-before (phillymac) in the band left a rather imprint on some of the songs- this being one 'o 'm. girl singer is outstanding as well. gf kept talking of her greatness after seeing the band in a basement a bit back. without thinking of what gf was saying, reflections fond she was rite. finally: wanted to hear the the congas. couldn't.

good nites. both nites beautiful.