4/26 - The Brew Keeper

Pretty cozy setting. Everyone seemed to enjoy themselves. Even had some requests.

Well, there was no drama tonight. However, a tale of two Mojos is in the offing.

The amusing thing to me was that there was some hip-hop guy booked right after us and his amps were about 3 times the size of ours. Kinda cracked me up. Guess he goes by the theory of quantity is better than quality. Now that's not nice, we didn't even stick around to hear him. I'm just being judgemental.

They had some yummy beer there. Not only can you brew your own beer, but they offer brewing your own wine, which might be kind of fun. No grape squishing between the toes, it's all pre-measured. We asked.

4/25 - The Factory

This place was an old factory (hence the name) that's been converted into a pretty neat bar/restaurant, but it's still stuck in the midst of other old factory type places. People know about it, though.

For some reason, the owner thought that we were a Mo-Town band, so he kept telling us to play more Mo-Town. We're not and we didn't.

Other than that, this gig was pretty uneventful too.

4/10 - LaPorte Inn

This was a pretty uneventful gig. Prozacly why it's taken me this long to enter the post.

The best thing was that the T.V. near the stage was tuned into the food network and one of the shows was about coffee. Yeah, I kinda lost track of my ownself. Mudcat was all ready to play "stop in the name of love" and did the usual count and I just stood there with the deer in the headlights look. Had to tear myself away from the tube. We started again.

You know how I hear snippets of conversations at gigs sometimes? Well, this one was a good one. Some guy was telling a girl there that her kneecaps were the sexiest things he had ever seen. So, I'm thinkin' that this chick either had really sexy kneecaps or that guy didn't get around much OR it's one of his lines. Probably that one.

The bartender was dancing behind the bar during a couple of the songs, so I guess he liked us.

Well, that's pretty much it for that gig.

4/5 - Norwalk Moose Lodge

Don't you think that a moose lodge should have moose tracks ice cream? Yeah, I do too.

We had a grand stage to play on. I think that Mudcat and C-Man might have been in different zip codes. Okay, fine then - it really wasn't that big. It was carpeted, but there was something questionable on the carpet right in front of me (it was like that when I got there) and of course I had to keep looking at it. It never went away nor did it get less questionable.

Very interesting people at this lodge-o-moose. Fast Freddy sang "house of the rising sun" and then Tim got on stage and "played" the air guitar while "singing". He and one of his buddies even had an air guitar contest during one of the songs.

One guy came up to the stage while I was singing "what's love got to do with it" and I honestly thought that he was coming up there to make me stop, which I almost did. I realized that wasn't the case when he started dancing. Alone. But that's okay, he was enjoying himself and I didn't have to stop singing. We had a couple of other dancers throughout the evening, but they let this guy fend for himself.

Another guy came up to us during one of the breaks and told me that my tambourine and maraca playing reminded him of The Monkeys, but I had to question if he actually meant the musical group or the zoological group. When he said like Davie Jones, I felt better.

It was a pretty good gig. We all meshed together really well (this place must have had good electricity).

We did play a wee game of hide-and-seek at one point, but that's okay. Everybody wins.