Saturday turned out to be a perfect day. I started out feeling slightly guilty because I wasn’t willing to drive A., my ten year old daughter, to a free B5 concert at the Gateway Arch in downtown St. Louis. Last year I took her to a Raven Symons concert at the same location and it was a bust. I had to carry her on my back most of the show so she could see the stage, and since she is now five feet tall, I wasn’t in the mood to do that. Also, weeks ago, I had been meaning to tell K that Pete Yorn was playing at the Duck Room at Blueberry Hill in University City, but because of my travel for work, I forgot to mention it. In the interim the damn show sold out! To my delight, I picked up the St. Louis Post-Dispatch on Thursday and read that he would be doing an in-store acoustic set at Vintage Vinyl in U. City. We had to go. I told A. she could come along with us. She was excited to be hanging out since I think she thinks K is HER friend, but she was not too thrilled about the musical selection.
We arrived about 12:30 and looked around the store. A. discovered String Doll Gang at the counter. You can see these cute little guys from the following link. http://www.kamibashi.com/papers/stringdolls/ She spent most of her time in the store pouring over the variety before selecting Bella.
Before the set began, K and I were discussing how strange in-store gigs are. Here we are standing among aisles of CDs at two in the afternoon, with the brightest of fluorescent lights, about three feet from the artist. I don’t know if I were an artist, if I could take that kind of pressure. Pete arrived and commented on that very same point in between songs. He sounded really great, even though he confessed being hung over from many shots in Kansas the night before. He didn’t need to confess his sins, no one would have known. He played a great set which made me sad that we didn’t have tickets to the evening’s show. Now I’m playing Musicforthemorningafter nonstop today.
After the set, we did some shopping, grabbed some gyros, a bottle of wine, and headed back to my place to watch Life on the Murder Scene, the My Chemical Romance documentary, then we moved on to Pearl Jam’s Storytellers. The former was good, the latter was preachy. At some point in between, we were playing ‘N Sync and Backstreet Boys songs on the computer. Hey, we’re not too embarrassed to admit loving ‘N Sync’s I Want You Back, at least not after four glasses of wine in the privacy of my home. We also listened to the free download on iTunes by Boy Kill Boy called Suzie. Check it out. It’s a great summer song.
--J
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