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I'm not actually dead, just busy undercover.
Will write soon xxx
Being the not particularly meaningful ramblings of a newly arrived Brisneylander! ... Well it will be once I've figured out how to make this thing work.......
What a great night this was - 2 of my favourite Brissie bands in the one line-up... so who knew or cared who or what Bob Log was eh?
Love the Rev - cool little venue, big enough to avoid someone you don't like (like BARRY the knobgobbler during the Hard-Ons gig last year) but small enough to catch up with everyone you do(like at last year's Ramone-a-thon)! I always meet groovers at the Rev, it never costs a fortune to get in (most I've paid is about $20) and I pretty much always have a good time. It used to be an old church but has been a gig venue for some time now (at least that's what the locals tell me) and has a really cool little tiny beergarden out the front lit by fairy lights - and as we all know nothing says party like fairy lights!! (and a sequinned boob-tube if you ask Bubbles!!)
Anyways, went to the gig, El Borracho did a great little set first up (I was even a tad groupie-ish and wore my El Borracho t-shirt - mostly because I remembered that night that I had one as I was getting dressed and hadn't yet worn it!!) - doesn't matter what sort of a mood you start the set in, as soon as Stuie gets going on that slide and Paul starts cranking out those vocals delivered at breakneck pace, your feet start moving and the whole gorgeous infectious delivery just ends up making everyone jump around. I even had my mate the lovely Hawaiian Masseur Senor Fishbits there and he liked 'em lots and lots - almost enough to concentrate on the music and not the proliferation of attractive young bloods around the joint. (I understand to a point - I like 'em tattooed and scruffy too, but he does tend to like 'em a little toooooo young for my taste - personally when boys are that young I wanna take 'em home and feed them, make sure they have some clean knickers on and a clean hanky along with change for the bus in their pocket... that sort of stuff!)
Anyways El Borracho did a fabulous job as always, and I didn't actually get to see the Vegas Kings because I was outside yapping to Stuie and Mr Slippers and this crazy dude called John (who I met for the first time and was utterly mesmerized by - not only did he talk a squillion miles an hour but he said the most outrageous things and was just completely fascinating - owns a guitar shop somewhere here in town and asked if Adelaide is as completely and utterly fucked and he suspects - by the way I asked him how completely and utterly fucked he thinks it is, and was very happy to be able to reassure him that it wasn't - there aren't actually acid baths in every second house in Adelaide!!!). Stu was feeling glum because he'd managed to get one note out of his amp (that he had borrowed as his were in being fixed) before it blew. So then he had to borrow an amp from the Vegas Kings, broke several strings, had his awesome solo cut muy short in El Instrumento (which is the very cool instrumental song they do where he usually gets to cut loose and wow everyone in the audience with his string supremacy) and was just basically feeling like blowing off the Rev, grabbing some pizza and going home.... which not surprisingly he did hehehe... wish I'd gone with him for pizza - just can't bust a move on that fellow - it's sooooo against the code... he's a mate of my ex... bugger! Makes him unattainable for ever - sucks to me!! But anyway....
So, missed the Vegas Kings, but knowing them (and from what I could hear coming out of the place) it was an awesome, dirty, rockin' set delivered to a hungry crowd at breakneck speed and without missing a beat. Those boys are ACE!
Then it was Bob Log.
hehe the dude actually wore a jumpsuit. And if you think an old-school jumpsuit in dark blue polysatin with stars down the sides of the arms and legs and flares wasn't enough for ya - he actually wore a full face sparkly silver motorcycle helmet, with an old fashioned big, heavy, black telephone handset attached upside down to the front of it with a mic lead coming from it. AND silver sparkles on his chest. Man the guy was hysterical. His ideas were suuuuper cool (even if the performance did get a little same old, same old by about half way through). So Bob Log turns out to be a wacky, crazy, zany one man blues extravaganza from Tucson, Arizona in the USA. He crowd surfed the crowd in a rubber dingy without missing a beat, he had MASSES of energy and his variations of a theme were positively astonishing.
I think he was one pretty cool dude.
Remember kids, Bob Log. hehehe fucking weirdo.
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Hours of uncontrollable hilarity I assure you!!!