Available Lite - Did You Get Your Ears Lowered?

The other day I took Damek to go get his haircut . . or as every Grandfather used to say "to get your ears lowered" I wasn't prepared for the cuteness.

Available Lite - The Big Moe Down

Around Christmas time Andy, the lead singer of A Band Named Sue, mentioned that his friends touring band, MOE. was going to be playing in town. He told us that he was going to try to see if he could get A Band Named Sue to open for them. They were originally scheduled to play at Stubbs, but because of the weather, they move the show to La Zona Rosa . . . hmmmmm weren't we just there?

The whole thing went down at the eleventh hour and we weren't sure until the day of the show whether it was going to be, Green light go or abort, abort! But the good news is that we got to play the show. You can check out more pictures from the show on our band Blog at: Ablognamedsue

Here are a few pictures that I took with the camera phone.


This was the drum set that I got to play. It was one of the best drum sets that I've ever even seen. All the hardware was top of the line and the action on the bass drum and high hat pedal was really tight. This was right after our sound check. They were testing all the lights during our check so it was like a real show. The crew for MOE. was amazing!




I took this shoot from the view point of the drum thrown. It was before the doors opened, but they were still testing the lights. Even when the show started you could only see the first 3 - 4 rows of people.





This is another picture of the drum set. I took this picture to show all the lights that were used to just lite the drum set!





I'm not sure what this is for, but it was next to the guitar players amp. It must have been important!

Big Head Available Lite

Wow it's been a long time since I've posted and I've had to upload pictures to my phone about three times. I've been really busy at work, playing in a band and doing all the thing that you do when your wife is having a baby. Amber and I are both doing well and I think that she is counting down the days until her last official work day. I think that she could really use the time off to just get things settled before we are parents.

On February 11th, Amber and I trucked down to La Zona Rosa to see one of our favorite bands Big Head Todd and the Monsters. All signs indicated that they show was going to start at 9:00 and that the doors were going to open at 7:00. So we headed down to the bar to find a giant line all the way around the corner. Neither one of us took a jacket because we assumed that we could walk right in, but we had to wait about 15 minutes in the chill of the night, before the line started to move. Even though we were pretty far back, we were able to secure a good location for the show.

A young fellow named Jackie Greene opened up for Big Head and brought out Charlie Sexton for a few songs. It was pretty cool. I've lived in this town all my life and that is the first time that I've ever seen Charlie Sexton play . . .should have seen more live music when I was younger.

Anyway Bighead took the stage and it was a great show. We cut it short because Amber was getting tired and you can't blame her because . . . well she's pregnant and there really isn't any place to sit at the club. It was a good night and we were both kind of tired anyway.


This was the line when we showed up. La Zona Rosa is around the corner and down one block.





Jackie Greene and Charlie Sexton. Jackie Greene is sitting to the left of Charlie on the keyboard, while Charlie played guitar.



Big Head Todd Takes the stage.




I was able to get a little bit closer for this shot.