Oct
28
2009

Mark & Emmett @ Murphey's Law

Wednesday, October 28, 2009 - 11:35:54 pm
(Posted Under: Tempe Music Scene Tempe Music Scene, Live Shows)
Tonight was Mark + Emmett @ Murphey's Law, which was much anticipated by me because the last time I saw these guys was really cool. It was 3 years ago, and it was so good that I wanted to go the next week, promptly broke my arm, and that was the end of that!

As expected, it was value for money, which is no way a reflection on the fact that there was no cover. While I was in the bathroom, Mark stopped by our table and Katie found out that they don't have any copies of Situations Like These left, which was really surprising to me. Although it came out a year or two ago I didn't expect that they'd fly off the shelf and there would be any problem in getting one once we got here.

During the first break I went out for a cig, while Found Out About You was playing over the PA - rock! And when I came back in, Mark was playing Gasoline with, after a talking to Emmett seems like it was Pete Milner - guitarist for the Mistaken era of the Chimeras...cool.

Not long into it I decided that I wanted to hear Whiteout. I didn't catch Emmett's eye while Pete was playing, so once he was back up there with Mark and asked for requests that was my queue! After dealing with some accent barriers, he worked out what I wanted to hear and graciously honored the request kicking it off with "cool, that's one that I wrote". The second and third set contained a lot of their own stuff (whether or not it was due to my request I don't know) - Spittin' Into The Wind, Easy and a couple more off the new Tramps record, and a bunch from the number of projects Zubs is/has been involved with.

With Whiteout played, there was another that I really wanted to here, and didn't neccesarily want to harrass them too much with requests. But I didn't have to, because towards the end of that night, Mark launched into that 12 bar bluesy swing - "the black girl in the white dress in the city sleeps away...". Yep, finally have gotten to see Zubs play Absolutely Right Or Wrong. And it sounded absolutely glorious.

After their third set, Emmett came back up to our table and was quite happy to have people their requesting these songs instead of the usual requests for "Brown Eyed Girl". Which is funny to me - I'm like "no, thank you for playing the original stuff that I want to hear!" It's why I'm out here after all.

Once Aaron had finished his beer it was over to Yucca Tap Room (more or less following Mark & Emmett ironically) for Neil Young Night.

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