Friday night, October 26, 2007 I went to Annie’s Social Club to see Joey’s band XXX - they are an X cover band and they were good. It was only their second show and it seems like they need to tighten things up a bit (or at least get someone to crank up the monitors so they can harmonize better). It was a decent show, but I was too tired to stay for the headliner: Bitchfits, an all female Misfits cover band.
Saturday October 27, 2007 my friend Mark came up from LA and we went to see the Bridge School Benefit at the Shoreline Amphitheater. We went primarily to see Tom Waits perform with the Kronos Quartet and that was incredible. The rest of the bands/performers were cool, but not as important to us. There was Metallica, Neil Young, Jerry Lee Lewis, R. Kelly, John Mayer and Teegan & Sarah.
There were many drunk and stoned people at this event. As the night progressed, we noticed that things were starting to get ugly. People yelling at each other and guys pissing along the fence where others were walking and/or milling around. The line for coffee was longer than any of the other lines, so at least they all knew that they needed to sober up.
After the show, Mark and I wanted to get a bite to eat. It was 2:00 am so we decided to try Denny’s on Post and Laguna in Japantown. The restaurant was full of drunken people in Halloween costumes. We decided to go somewhere else when a drunk guy (who looked over 30) puked on himself and the floor while he was walking passed our table, probably on his way to the bathroom. It was bad, but what made it worse was that no one seemed to be making any move to clean up the barf on the floor near our seats. So, we went to Mel’s Diner and found more drunk people in costumes but no pukers.
Tonight I am going to see Ornette Coleman at the Masonic Auditorium - more on that later.