Mat's Laughing!
Friday night I was out into DC to meet up with Emily and make our way to the Staccato in DC, to see Communist Bakesale play a show, w/ The Jones and a band called the Roustabouts. I’d have to say, and since Mat said it already, it was probably their best show yet. As far as crowd, playing and the whole scene in general. The place was packed by the time Bakesale got off stage. They even got cheered into doing an encore song, which I hadn’t seen happen before. Lets get to the point. The big thing about this show is that the crowd was great. We had people dancing, and carrying on and cheering. For the first half of the show I was working to door for the band, taking the cover charge. But about half way through the show i moved on and was dancing. I have to say i think I met a whole lot of new people who made it out to see the guys play, friends and friends of friends. It also was a product of “The Jones” keyboardist being a guy, David, that I’ve met before when I was painting mat and Emily’s house, as well as other get togethers. His wife Catherine was there, and friends they know. This was kinda cool since I’ve heard about the Jones through Catherine and Dave, but hadn’t been able to get out to see them, till now. Both bands played great shows. The place stayed packed for when the Jones came on. I’d have to say I think its a blur of all the people I met. I guess the only person to note that I hadn’t met before, but spent a good amount of time hanging out and talking with, was this cool cute girl, Kelly, whom is friends with Catherine through some convoluted roommate brother’s cousin type of connection. (i guess just about as convoluted as how I know mat and Emily). She apparently has made it out to quite a few of “The Jones” shows but has wanted to see Communist Bakesale. Sorta the inverse of me going to Bakesale shows I guess. Though this time she arrived too late to see Bakesale play. Which means, of course, that I was harassing her to come out and actually see Bakesale when they play something down in DC again. The rest of the people who made it out that i know were regulars of these types of things (Lance, Emily, Catherine, Erika, some people I think Emily knows through work .. and other people with various connections to either Communist Bakesale or The Jones). A good portion of us were dancing through both shows, which just iced the cake on the packed bar. It really looked like the guys were having a lot of fun playing as well.

Nobody really had the energy to stay around for the Roustabouts to play, because it was pretty damn hot in the place by the time they were coming on, and everybody was either tired or hungry. (of the people i was hanging out with that is, the place stayed pretty packed when we left ;))So with that Mat, Emily, Eric, Myself, Kelly, and her roommate (a guy whom i can’t seem to remember his name for the life of me) headed off to get falafel down the street from the Staccato. Catherine and David would have come along I believe, but they had to get home to sleep for their early ass flight to go to Costa Rica on vacation (man i wish i was going on vacation!!!). I ended up forgoing the falafel, and got some fries of which everybody else was vulturing from. What i really needed was the soda I got as well, i was so dehydrated.

The last thing, was if i hadn’t been so hot in the place, and kinda exhausted, in need of getting out into the night air, i would have wanted to see a couple of songs from the Roustabouts, for one intriguing reason. Of their musicians, they had a guy with a violin, that had it running through a WahWah pedal. He was testing out the sound before we left, so we heard a small taste of what it sounded like. I have to say that’d be pretty cool.. I’m ALWAYs a big fan of the Waaah.

Also i got a few pictures I took with the K1000 from the show, but they’ll be forthcoming when I finish the role and get it developed.