Nov
07
2009

Dead Hot Workshop & Los Guys @ The Sail Inn

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(Posted Under: Tempe Music Scene Tempe Music Scene, Music Music)
Ahh, Tempe, I love you. Tonight was Dead Hot & Los Guys at the Sail Inn. We rocked up downtown around 8:30 - my first time to the Sail Inn. People have been raving about the place lately, and I now know why!

Photobox ImageAlthough we struggled to find the entrance [wink], we made our way around to the back where there is a huge outdoor stage. Being early there weren't that many people there, probably mostly hangers on from the benefit put on there earlier today. It was such a cool night out in Tempe, and was really cool to hang out and relax. After a while we wandered inside - it was Katie's first time there also, and I loved how divey it was inside. In my mind, one of the few surviving dive bars from the days of the Mill Avenue scene. I particularly liked the decorative records on the wall for local bands, including Tramps & Thieves. And a cool looking stage inside as well as the outside stage. It didn't take long for the Sail Inn to get a big thumbs up from us.

Tonight, familiar faces were abound, probably due to Dead Hot Workshop being on the bill. Fran set up their merch table at the table we were on. While she didn't want to take our spot, we insisted that she use at least half of the table. [smile] Maybe it's karma that we scored to of the new kick ass Dead Hot posters, and a sticker - which Katie had, on the way to the show, lamented that we needed a Dead Hot sticker for Pepe! Dime, a band I'm not familiar with opened, and they were enjoyable to just chill out to.

We had expected Dead Hot to be headlining, however it turned out that they were to go on second. We've been ready to rock out to Dead Hot for about a week when we first saw the show announced, and when they kicked off with A, it was clear it was going to be a rockin' night!

Photobox ImageTheir setlist was great, with a lot of old favorites, and I guess some new ones too. [wink] Particularly amazing to me to see live were River Otis and Sadamizing Husein. The 2 off of Heavy Meadow were Tangled and Nixon Saves - the latter which Katie missed, picking up Aaron and Will who'd tried to show up, and shockingly missed the bar and had almost walked to Priest!! When Tangled came out, I couldn't help but rock out center stage! Another one that we both sang at the top of our lungs was Push Luck Shove. I don't know if that has ever sounded as good as it did tonight - but maybe that's just us! [wink] The other highlight was Al calling out a request for Lead Thoughts, and Kylie absolutely losing his shit during the solo, dancing around like a complete maniac, both in his spot, and then up on the drum platform by Curtis. It was fantastic! If you could ever hope for a ridiculously awesome and fun Dead Hot show, this was it!

Afterwards I had a great talk to Brent, who was actually familiar with me because of the guitar tab website. Talking about the last few months, and what not, I mentioned my wife being from Des Moines, and the Des Moines native eyes started scanning the patio and calling out to here. Unbeknowns to me, Kati had been waiting for a proper introduction to good old B. Babb, and impressively, without even trying, I facilitated it! Not bad! We talked about a whole range of things, from the West Side of Des Moines to how useless the Phoenix light rail is! Ahhh, it was glorious for all involved.

Photobox ImageAfter this, there were just too many people to talk to - and Los Guys had set up at the inside stage, and had started their set. Basically we ended up missing a good part of their set because of all the conversations going on outside. Luckily we had just finished up talking to Thomas when they launched into Essence by Lucinda Williams, so we darted inside to slow dance to it - Katie had made me promise that we would if they played it. It was fun. Immediately following was Sara Says, which we sang loud and proud, particularly the "on the highway out of Tempe, Arizona" line - standing inside the Sail Inn in Tempe. Unfortunately, that we the end of their set The thing that makes it okay is how ridiculously often Los Guys plays out, so we'll get to see them properly in no time at all.

All in all, it was a completely fantastic night!
Nov
07
2009

Lost Horizons - New Website Address

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It's been a fair bit of work over the last month or two, but it's quite satisfying to have successfully gotten all the work finished and the site moved over, after 4+ months in limbo in regards to web hosting.

Without further ado, the website at it's new, and hopefully permanent address: http://www.losthorizons.info .

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