Live Music!

[RainDog]

My next-door-neighbor made me actually socialize with people last night. There's a fairly new place in town that plays jazz. It's located in an old train station and has a fine dinner menu, all sorts of martinis and varieties of wine by glass or bottle.

the group playing last night were "djangologists."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPG1OnOrhis

one of the owners... maybe the only one, I don't know, came over to our table and talked to us for about... I dunno, 30 minutes. Turns out she knows my other next-door-neighbor (small world) but I've never seen the owner in all the years I've lived here.

My neighbor and I talked about exciting stuff like jobs - and she was like an angel of mercy to me - I was so pumped with positive job-hunting adrenaline, I had to give her a big, cheap two glasses of wine hug when we got home.

SOOO... tell me about the last live music you heard... or other live event you attended that made you glad you went out.

[Bennyboy]

1. Live music is my thing!

Sounds like you gotta place to hang now! Django!

[RainDog]

2. the musicans are different every night

no house band.

I used to have a place I liked to go, then they starting putting up dark wood and soccer crap and then I didn't like it anymore... the whole place changed. over the last two years, I've been becoming more and more isolated, so it's nice to know the world still exists.

soooo, do you play music, or like to listen to it, or what?

...and I'm glad to know that at least one other lounge lizard occasionally goes out to experience a live event! ;)

[Bennyboy]

18. I go see live music as often as I can.....

Most fun you can have. I have seen them all in my day. I love the young up and comers best though. Cheaper and they are not just going thru the motions to make a buck...

[bbernardini]

3. Jim Boggia and Curtis Eller.

www.jimboggia.com
www.curtiseller.com

Jim was the headliner, Curtis opened. Both were absolutely brilliant.

[RainDog]

7. looks like that one would've been great

some nice friends, too. Jill Soboule's Merry Christmas From the Family is my favorite version of that song. Aimee Mann is nice company too. She's such a fine music, too bad she started hanging out with those german nihilist boys. I wonder if her toe ever grew back?

[mitchum]

4. Last night when I played at a benefit for the blind

thank you for not saying, "Haven't those people suffered enough?"

[RainDog]

5. what instrument do you play?

what sort of music do you play? is the music you play also your favorite genre... or even so, what other sorts of music do you like?

[mitchum]

9. The mc described it as "Americana from the twilight zone"...

and I'm cool with that!
jazz/blues/country/torch with some electronics. I play guitar and harmonica/harp in that project. It encompasses some of my favorite genres.

[RainDog]

10. diatonic or not?

[mitchum]

17. Of course, I like to bend those notes...

and it's damn near impossible to do that with chromatic ones :)

[RainDog]

19. I have a blues harp playing friend

and his guitar player always wants him to get chromatic harps for some weird reason (Stevie Wonder?) To my friend, whose god is Little Walter, that's blasphemy.

But he has the cutest little metal toolbox for all his different harmonicas by key. Have you ever heard Sam Evans play live? I've seen him a couple of times with Anson Funderburg and the Rockets. He's pretty amazing. -- they're all pretty amazing. Meyers has one of those bandoleros or whatever they're called to hold his harps and find them easily with his hands.

My friend got to jam with T. Model Ford one time and was in heaven.

I wish Fat Possum would put together some more tours of the old blues players. Haven't seen one for a few years.

[mitchum]

20. Your friend is right; that is blasphemy

I did hear Sam Myers play and he was great.
I carry my harps in a lady's beaded handbag, because it's so...incongrous

[DarkTirade]

6. I need to find live music in this area.

Haven't seen/heard any since I moved.

[RainDog]

8. where are you now?

(I know you're not too far from the Canadian border, but that covers A LOT of ground. :)

[DarkTirade]

11. Near Rochester.

So I'm sure there is some in the area. This city has some culture. I'm just not sure where to start looking. :P

[bbernardini]

12. Oh, there's a few places in Rochester.

I've only ever walked by them the one time I was there, but there's two I can think of...let me go look them up quickly...

Milestones is one, Water Street Music Hall is another.

[DarkTirade]

13. Yeah... I don't know where those are. :P

I haven't been into the city itself much. I live a bit to the south, and I go up right near the city during the week, but rarely venture in.

[RainDog]

14. You've got a jazz fest in June

http://www.rochesterjazz.com/

AL GREEN is gonna be there!! and tell GopSux that Sinatra Jr. is gonna testify for his daddy!
Boz Scaggs... yell "Harbor Lights!" for me. :)

Blue Vipers of Brooklyn look interesting... any band with a washboard...
Blake Tartare covers Sun Ra. Saxaphones are the tits. (Blue-Jay, I'm giving some props to you)
B. Dennerlein, from Munich, plays a hammond b3. she looks pretty good too!

http://www.rochestercitynewspaper.com/

BUDDY GUY PLAYED IN YOUR CITY ON MONDAY!!!!!! - I demand that you go back in time and see him!

the city newspaper site has a blog... you might find some fellow musicians there...

[DarkTirade]

15. I'm not much of a jazz fan, more of a rock and orchestral guy. :)

But I'll definitely bookmark that newspaper, I hadn't heard of that one. Only local paper I know of is the Democrat and Chronicle.

[Chan790]

16. well I saw Strike Anywhere live last year.

I got to break-in my then-brand-new ultramarine-blue synthetic-leather combat boots. The show was amazing.