Rise, Together We Rise, Together We Rise
Yesterday a buddy of mine from work and I went to Chicago to see the Flobots at the House of Blues.
The show was at 6:00. We both took half days and headed up at 1:00.
First we had to drop off like 5 gallons of frozen breast milk to a woman from Detroit.
Seriously, you can’t make shit like that up.
Somehow this woman got in contact with my wife and a bunch of women from Peoria donated the milk for this woman and her baby. The plan was to do it at a Burger King in McKinley Park, but when we got there around 4:00 she was heading East on 90/94 which was out of the city during afternoon rush hour. We told her to head towards downtown since she was never going to make it to us in time.
We managed to get her the milk and found a place to park near the HOB. We grabbed some bar food and this nice little hole in the wall bar.
We got in and found a place to stand about 15 min before the first opening band came on. The HOB is a cool venue. It was pretty small, I think I read it held 1000 people. We ended up like 15 feet from the stage.
Redneck Poets (or something like that) were OK. They were 3 MC’s and a DJ. Nothing incredible, but cool. They did some spoken word poetry a’La Def Comedy Jam.
People Under the Stairs came on next. They were fucking awesome. Two MC’s from LA. They were full of energy and got everyone worked up. I’m going to have to check out more of their stuff. It was pretty awesome.
The Flobots came on a little after 8:00. They also put on an incredible show. This is the smallest venue I’ve ever been to for a concert, and it was cool being that close to the band. The played pretty much everything off their current album and threw in a few I didn’t know which I assume are from Platypus. They saved Handlebars and Rise to the end of the show. After the little instrumental solo in Handlebars and the lyrics kick back in everyone was going nuts. For an encore their Viola player took the mic and covered Heartbreaker. She rocked it out. The show got over at about 9:30. It was one of the best shows I’ve ever been to.
I got home at around 12:45 AM. It was a good time. I’d never been to a hip-hop show. It was cool.
The show was at 6:00. We both took half days and headed up at 1:00.
First we had to drop off like 5 gallons of frozen breast milk to a woman from Detroit.
Seriously, you can’t make shit like that up.
Somehow this woman got in contact with my wife and a bunch of women from Peoria donated the milk for this woman and her baby. The plan was to do it at a Burger King in McKinley Park, but when we got there around 4:00 she was heading East on 90/94 which was out of the city during afternoon rush hour. We told her to head towards downtown since she was never going to make it to us in time.
We managed to get her the milk and found a place to park near the HOB. We grabbed some bar food and this nice little hole in the wall bar.
We got in and found a place to stand about 15 min before the first opening band came on. The HOB is a cool venue. It was pretty small, I think I read it held 1000 people. We ended up like 15 feet from the stage.
Redneck Poets (or something like that) were OK. They were 3 MC’s and a DJ. Nothing incredible, but cool. They did some spoken word poetry a’La Def Comedy Jam.
People Under the Stairs came on next. They were fucking awesome. Two MC’s from LA. They were full of energy and got everyone worked up. I’m going to have to check out more of their stuff. It was pretty awesome.
The Flobots came on a little after 8:00. They also put on an incredible show. This is the smallest venue I’ve ever been to for a concert, and it was cool being that close to the band. The played pretty much everything off their current album and threw in a few I didn’t know which I assume are from Platypus. They saved Handlebars and Rise to the end of the show. After the little instrumental solo in Handlebars and the lyrics kick back in everyone was going nuts. For an encore their Viola player took the mic and covered Heartbreaker. She rocked it out. The show got over at about 9:30. It was one of the best shows I’ve ever been to.
I got home at around 12:45 AM. It was a good time. I’d never been to a hip-hop show. It was cool.
Labels: Pure Gonzo Engineering, Vacation
posted by lawryde at
2:05 PM
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I was way up in the San Juan's near Canada in Puget Sound this weekend and rented a moped to kill time. I road by a bicyclist and yelled...
"I can ride my bike with no handle bars..."
I scared the shit out of him... it was funny.
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Steve, at 3:54 PM, August 21, 2008
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