Kevin's musings

Just got back from the railroad earth show. Some impressions:

• Times. ok. I was spoiled last week at the show in boulder
  that said it started at 8pm and then really started at
  8pm. This show, the venue said it started at 9pm. The bands
  website said they “headlined” at 10:30pm. We got there
  around 10 or 10:15. The opening act was just
  starting. Railroad Earth didn’t go on until around 11:15 or
  11:20. I didn’t even care for that kind of junk when I was
  younger.
• The opening act wasn’t bad. The sound wasn’t the
  greatest, and I never could hear what they were saying when
  they were talking between songs, but they were good. They
  did a cover of an asylum street spankers song!
  (“Breathin”).
• The Drunk/Trippin/Stoned hippy that was careening through
  the crowd was somewhat amusing, but when he caused me to
  spill 1/4 of my beer twice I wasn’t too happy with him. You
  would think I wouldn’t have been someone he would collide
  with, being the 6’3″ large guy with the steel toed boots,
  but he didn’t seem to care. After the first two times I kept
  an eye out for him and made sure to hold my place and my
  beer when he came by. He seemed to move accross from the
  left side to the right side of the stage every few songs.
• The show was in denver, so: smoke. I never notice it when
  I am there, hell a smoker could blow a big cloud in my face
  and I wouldn’t care, but when I get home I reak and just
  want to take a shower. It especially gets in my hair.
• Railroad Earth was quite good. They played long and
  hard. Lots of dancing going on. We stayed until about 1:20
  or so, and they were still playing. (although the bar would
  be closing before too long, so they were probibly near the
  end of their set). Would have liked to have stayed, but
  everyone was getting really tired.
• Shortly after RailRoad Earth started playing, this artist
  guy setup a light and an easel and started painting. It was
  pretty cool. The first painting he did was a railroad going
  out into the sunset. He did at least a few more, but I
  didn’t see what those were. Not sure if he was with the band
  or the venue or just someone who liked painting to live
  music.

Time to go wash my hair and sleep.