From the “go figure” file
Thursday, September 21st, 2006Now playing: Local H, “Bound for the Floor”
I’m taken back to 2000 or so when Iowa City was abuzz with the news that a MYSTERY BAND would appear at the Union Bar on Thrusday night. The idea was that you paid a $10-ish cover charge, got your beers, and waited around for the unknown to happen. It was, like, the exact opposite of every concert anyone had ever been to!
Presumably (and with the aid of several beers) the false spontaneity of the event would sear memories in your head and you would talk with your buddies about the event in a viral manner.
I didn’t go. But I heard that Local H played and, regrettably, failed to keep it copacetic.
September 21st, 2006 at 2:56 pm
I remember that. Cedar Fallsians were convinced it would be the Fighters of Foo. And I thought hard about going, just in the hopes of getting a whiff of Dave Grohl because he had once been a member of a different band. Instead I stayed in Cedar Falls and got bombed.
that was probably for the best.
September 22nd, 2006 at 1:19 pm
remember that low show my first-ish week of college? attagirl, raw’s little sister!