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My job is so fricking cool!
ahhh.
I got to hang out with The Church tonight (and some of the dudes from Swervedriver). I'm not a very "starstruck" person ever, but getting the chance to hang out with these awesome old bands all the time at work is just rad. I grew up with all that shit because of my dad and my uncle, so for me it's like these dudes make music that I've been listening to my whole life, I guess there's just something neat about that.
Anyway, I'm being a total dweeb right now.
There was a big The Church/Van Der Graaf Generator show in town tonight (at some music hall downtown) that my boss was presenting. So, since it was his show, the afterparty was at T.A.H. (the bar I work at). Adam Franklin of Swervedriver played, and it was a pretty cool show, actually. I had never heard Adam's solo stuff, but I ended up loving their set and my GOD the sound was amazing. Our sound guy Doug is a god!
The guys from The Church came for the afterparty because they're playing with Adam Franklin on their actual tour (the VDGG double bill was just a one-off thing), so I guess they're buddy-buddy with those guys now. Now, The Church are a freaking A-MAZING band and they come all the way from Australia so it was a cool experience hanging out with those guys. One of them rode my bike up and down the street, and the one guy was poking fun at my Canadian accent, saying it was "just great, just great, so cute". Haha. Whatevs, you silly Aussies!
AND the BEST part was that my uncle Pete came to the show to see me!
So, yeah my dad was a big punk and the main influence on my music tastes growing up, etc. etc. but maybe even more so of an influence on me than my dad was my dad's friend Pete/my godfather (I've just grown up calling him "uncle" Pete). Where my dad leaned a little more toward the proggy stuff, like Pink Floyd, Yes, Genesis, etc., Uncle Pete was always a fucking punk, in-and-out, straight up. And he knew so much about music, he was my freaking guru growing up. So, I kind of got more Pete's taste and my brother inherited my dad's love for prog.
Anyway, I guess Pete, my dad, their friend Steve (who also came with Pete tonight to the show, and was in town visiting from Edmonton, Alberta! Steve is my brother's godfather), and my brother all went to the Van Der Graaf Generator show in Toronto, but the show in Hamilton with the Church double bill was only a one-show deal that my boss put together, and Pete is an ENORMOUS Church fan (he is how I first got into them, of course), so him and Steve drove out to Hamilton to go to the show and made sure they came by the bar to see me for awhile. It was SO great to see Pete, I haven't seen him for almost two years now, and it is always verrry far in between that we see each other, and it's usually at xmas for like, 2 hours, barely. It's cute, he seems so proud of me for how I turned out, it's like he feels like he did me right by getting me into the music he got me into and now the bar I work at is totally his type of thing so he was all "Wow, this place is GREAT! I wish I lived in Hamilton, I'd be here all the time!" heheh.
What a cool night. I'm in a great mood. Rode my bike to work and back, saw a couple of friends at the show that I rarely ever see, met an online friend who I've known for awhile so that was kind of fun to finally meet him, had a few beers, had a great time with all of the awesome staff and show-goers there, just an all-around awesome night. Nice relief from my last shift, which was the night from hell as far as working there goes. Sheesh.
Last night Holly, Jeremy, Jeff and Ryan drove from London to have movie night with Dave and I. The only one drinking was Holly, I was the only one smoking pot, so it was a pretty mellow night as far as our movie nights go. My guacamole was a smash hit, though! We watched an episode of TV Carnage (which are always gut-busting) and our feature was "Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry" (Peter Fonda and Susan George, pretty cool movie), which I can now see that Quentin Tarantino ripped-off shamelessly with "Death Proof". Tarantino, I'm becoming more and more convinced that you're a hack, no matter how much I love Pulp Fiction and Reservoir Dogs. >:(
ahhh.
I got to hang out with The Church tonight (and some of the dudes from Swervedriver). I'm not a very "starstruck" person ever, but getting the chance to hang out with these awesome old bands all the time at work is just rad. I grew up with all that shit because of my dad and my uncle, so for me it's like these dudes make music that I've been listening to my whole life, I guess there's just something neat about that.
Anyway, I'm being a total dweeb right now.
There was a big The Church/Van Der Graaf Generator show in town tonight (at some music hall downtown) that my boss was presenting. So, since it was his show, the afterparty was at T.A.H. (the bar I work at). Adam Franklin of Swervedriver played, and it was a pretty cool show, actually. I had never heard Adam's solo stuff, but I ended up loving their set and my GOD the sound was amazing. Our sound guy Doug is a god!
The guys from The Church came for the afterparty because they're playing with Adam Franklin on their actual tour (the VDGG double bill was just a one-off thing), so I guess they're buddy-buddy with those guys now. Now, The Church are a freaking A-MAZING band and they come all the way from Australia so it was a cool experience hanging out with those guys. One of them rode my bike up and down the street, and the one guy was poking fun at my Canadian accent, saying it was "just great, just great, so cute". Haha. Whatevs, you silly Aussies!
AND the BEST part was that my uncle Pete came to the show to see me!
So, yeah my dad was a big punk and the main influence on my music tastes growing up, etc. etc. but maybe even more so of an influence on me than my dad was my dad's friend Pete/my godfather (I've just grown up calling him "uncle" Pete). Where my dad leaned a little more toward the proggy stuff, like Pink Floyd, Yes, Genesis, etc., Uncle Pete was always a fucking punk, in-and-out, straight up. And he knew so much about music, he was my freaking guru growing up. So, I kind of got more Pete's taste and my brother inherited my dad's love for prog.
Anyway, I guess Pete, my dad, their friend Steve (who also came with Pete tonight to the show, and was in town visiting from Edmonton, Alberta! Steve is my brother's godfather), and my brother all went to the Van Der Graaf Generator show in Toronto, but the show in Hamilton with the Church double bill was only a one-show deal that my boss put together, and Pete is an ENORMOUS Church fan (he is how I first got into them, of course), so him and Steve drove out to Hamilton to go to the show and made sure they came by the bar to see me for awhile. It was SO great to see Pete, I haven't seen him for almost two years now, and it is always verrry far in between that we see each other, and it's usually at xmas for like, 2 hours, barely. It's cute, he seems so proud of me for how I turned out, it's like he feels like he did me right by getting me into the music he got me into and now the bar I work at is totally his type of thing so he was all "Wow, this place is GREAT! I wish I lived in Hamilton, I'd be here all the time!" heheh.
What a cool night. I'm in a great mood. Rode my bike to work and back, saw a couple of friends at the show that I rarely ever see, met an online friend who I've known for awhile so that was kind of fun to finally meet him, had a few beers, had a great time with all of the awesome staff and show-goers there, just an all-around awesome night. Nice relief from my last shift, which was the night from hell as far as working there goes. Sheesh.
Last night Holly, Jeremy, Jeff and Ryan drove from London to have movie night with Dave and I. The only one drinking was Holly, I was the only one smoking pot, so it was a pretty mellow night as far as our movie nights go. My guacamole was a smash hit, though! We watched an episode of TV Carnage (which are always gut-busting) and our feature was "Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry" (Peter Fonda and Susan George, pretty cool movie), which I can now see that Quentin Tarantino ripped-off shamelessly with "Death Proof". Tarantino, I'm becoming more and more convinced that you're a hack, no matter how much I love Pulp Fiction and Reservoir Dogs. >:(