The Blind King @ the Lizard Lounge
After dinner at Cambridge Common with Editrix and Summervillain, Saturday night we went to see Kevin’s band The Blind King at their CD release party at the Lizard Lounge. I liked them a lot; they set up a coffee table (with flowers, carafes of tea, and a bottle of San Pelligrino which no one drank that I observed) and sat in a circle around it, which gave everything a relaxed, rehearsal feel. They have a large membership, and sound a bit like a very relaxed Calexico with the country elements emphasized.
Why did I wait so long to see a show at the Lizard Lounge? Not sure. While Miss Tess was playing their set as we came in, I was briefly fooled into thinking I was in that alternate reality in which Rock never happened that I sometimes long for, where there are night clubs, where people in feather boas and sunglasses sing jazzy songs to the beat of wire brushed drums and an upright bass.
Alas, we found out too late that Terri’s camera was not charged, so no photographic evidence of the whole thing for you.
January 19th, 2006 at 12:21 pm
I still don’t really believe that you wish rock had never happened. Bunch of hooey. Can’t we all live together? No more guilt on the camera thing, please–I can’t take it! There will be more pictures, you can be assured.
January 19th, 2006 at 12:58 pm
It’s only sometimes. And it’s not so much rock itself. It’s just amplifiers. And recording equipment.
It’s like that Jonathan Richman song says “Today people would rather watch TV than hear a real person sing”. Isn’t it fun to imagine a world where if you wanted to hear music you had to play it?
(and see, Jonathan Richman is pretty old-fashioned rock and roll, so it’s not the music itself…)
January 19th, 2006 at 5:42 pm
And as far as the “bunch of hooey” thing… I suspect that you have figured out by now that you are married to an Unreliable Narrator here when it comes to this kind of talk…