Back From Detroit.
Tuesday, May 31, 2005
I don't know why I'm awake so early.
Went to Detroit to play these gigs during Fuse-In weekend. The first party, TILT, was pretty good, promoter-wise. Matt was very professional. Problem was, no vibe. I mean, the crowd was beyond dead. After a while, I stopped mixing altogether and just played records up there to kill time. I was glad to be done with that set. We hung around for a while to make it look good then we were out.
There were problems with the second party, ENDURANCE. Those guys lost their venue (Masonic Temple) two days before the show so they had to relocate to Eastern Market. I don't know if people were told in time. The turnout wasn't what they expected at all. Half the people on the line-up didn't play. There were people who had travelled a long way to see me, though, so I played anyway. The crowd was very small, but they were true 313 heads. Plenty of vibe and people dancing. Sean Deason was there too, he's playing off a laptop now. He sounded great.
I wish John Patterson and the whole Electric Avenue crew good luck in the future, though. They don't deserve to go down. They are great promoters who push real music; Detroit's finest.
Didn't go to any other parties or even to the fest, though. People kept ringing my cell, wanting to hang out, but I wasn't feeling it. Instead, I visited my mom, went shopping (way cheaper in Detroit) and saw "Revenge of the Sith" with an old friend of mine.
"Sith" was easily the best of the prequel trilogy. What was great about it beyond the sci-fi elements was that it was a thinly-veiled allegory for Republicanism. Yes, Republicans are the Sith.
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Hey Brian, were you the cat who came up to me and apologized for how dead the crowd was at TILT? Glad you had a good time, though, it's people like you that keep it going in the USA. If there were more like you, I wouldn't have to move to Europe!
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Wednesday, June 01, 2005 3:33:00 PM
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Well, I do what I can. Thanks for the compliment!
By -AO, on
Thursday, June 02, 2005 2:14:00 PM
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