Oct
25
2009

Elvis Before Noon @ The Vig

(Add / View Comments) (0)Sunday, October 25, 2009 - 09:38:07 pm
(Posted Under: Tempe Music Scene Tempe Music Scene, Live Shows)
The fact that the drive from our apartment to The Vig only took 15 minutes was so appreciated today! It's probably in no small part it's the brilliance of a Sunday afternoon gig - no traffic!

The band was already playing when we arrived, and the setting was quite a contrast to last Friday at the Upperdeck Sports Grill - the place was packed, verses nearly empty on Friday night. There was a bit of concern when we were told that there was an hour wait for a table - we didn't want a table, we just wanted to watch the band. But as it worked out, we were able to stand at the bar outside.

In terms of settings, and outside gig on a warm Sunday afternoon is pretty awesome! From the Vig you could see the orange desert sunset at around 5:30.

The two sets by the band were similar to Friday night, and thoroughly enjoyable. Two particular highlights for me were when Daylon disappeared, and Scotty took over and pulled out Get Drunk All The Time, and the band closing out the afternoon with Hey Jealousy. Actually, I really love when these guys do Good Old Boys also.

Over the past while, Aaron has talked this guys up a fair bit. I wasn't convinced, and was conscious ahead of time that we were going to see Scotty - and their wasn't even going to be the Scotty & Troy power duo that I love. But contrary to not having that high expectations, two shows down and I'm totally sold on these guys. They make Gin Blossoms songs sound awesome, they cover Roger Clyne & The Peacemakers and The Refreshments, they do a cool bunch of not so common other covers, and their originals are great! It seems like there is some decent action happening with the band at the moment - talk of a CD, and this afternoon talk about t-shirts, and I feel pretty lucky to be around on the uptake of things for this.

Unlike last night's debarkle with Domo, we watch these guys play for three hours. Which, funnily enough - typically the longer the better, especially when you're seeing Scotty play, but with a bunch of stuff still to do today, and the past week starting to catch up with us, it wouldn't have been the worse thing if the set was shorter. Though, with that said, there was no way we were going to bail earlier - which the enjoyment of the show made it easier. But it didn't stop us complaining about how tired we were growing.

After the show we hung around for a little bit, before making our escape, getting some light globes for our new lamps at Target, raiding Albertson's of their coke supplies, and swinging past the storage unit to pick up yet another load of stuff. Shockingly we still have to get the TV - every time we've gone there, it's just been something that we haven't been willing to deal with (largely through tiredness each time we've gotten around to getting to the storage unit). Arguably we'll take care of that tomorrow.

Now with so much been covered in the last 4 days we're in a better to kick it all down a notch tonight and tomorrow, which is a god sent, since everything we've done over the past week is starting to catch up with us. Though, looking around the apartment, it's pretty satisfying seeing everything we've achieved.
Oct
25
2009

New Sofas

(Add / View Comments) (0)Sunday, October 25, 2009 - 08:31:30 pm
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It's nice that today has been a little less full on. Actually, thinking about it, that's only partially true. This morning actually feels like a day ago.

Photobox ImageI woke up reasonably early again this morning...which is relatively impressive given how dead tired I was last night and had stayed up late doing concert calendar research! It was a good thing, since the furniture delivery guys calls early to deliver the sofas. Really impressive to me, given that it's Sunday! And worked out quite nice that we didn't have to spend time waiting around. They arrived here at 8:36am and since then we've had sofas. A luxury that is not lost on either of us! It's impressive how much the living room immediately looked like one once they arrived.

After some more concert calendar work, and enjoying the sofas, we headed out to get some more stuff done. First stop was Ikea, now that we know what room we've got left to work with. While we didn't find any tables for the living room, we did sort out our chronic lighting situation - and not a moment too soon. We got one free standing lamp, and 2 sets of luminarios, which I'm pretty excited about. After that we also picked up some pots for our new cactii.

We'd planned to get more done, but after the Ikea shopping spree we barely had time to drop everything off and then head up to Phoenix to see Scotty...

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