What up Cuz…



The cool thing about being in a semi-new band is that you get to see venues that you never knew about before.  The flip side is that sometimes the venue is one beer crawling away from being condemned.  This is not one of those cases.

Cousin Larry’s may not be Madison Square Garden, but is was clean, spacious, the wallpaper was nothing more than previous bands fylers, and the best part was that the stage was big enough to have a good time and not feel like we (the band) were on top of each other.

The one flaw Cousin Larry’s had was that there is no air conditioning.  But hey, it could’ve been worse. After all, I’ll take a little bit of heat over catching an STD just from walking into a place anyway.

I wish I could say that the place was packed elbow to elbow, but I can’t.  As a matter of fact, we were probably about 200 elbows (of a 204 elbow capacity) short of selling the place out.  But that’s ok, it’s all good.  I understand that it was a Thursday night. Brian actually had family and friends (yes, they admitted it) show up. So that was cool.  The guy at the door even told me that Friday and Saturdays were the nights to be there. 

Whether it was in front of 2 or 2000, either way, Freakswitch was playing.

So after we do our sound check, we begin to play our show.  I have to admit, I wasn’t on my game to start off.  My hands were sweating profusely (word of the day) that I kept “fat fingering” the strings causing them to sound slightly off.  Even my harmonies were less than “idol” like.  It sucks, but it happens.  Three songs into the show, DING! Everything fell into place like a well oiled machine sucking  jello thru a straw using your nose. (Don’t ask, I have no idea what I was trying to say there).

You have to love Brian’s family and friends.  Well you don’t “have to”, but to make my point we will.  They kept smiling, head banging and dancing thru our whole show.

I will say this, I would most definitely go back to play Cousin Larry’s if they asked us to.  The staff was nice, the sound tech knew his job and did it well, the other bands kicked ass and the Yankees lost.  Ok, so SOMETHING in the night had to go wrong, this time it was the Yankees.  DEAL WITH IT!

Check this out. As I was loading up the van with out equipment to head home, a Connecticut cop pulls along side of me (while talking on HIS cell phone), and this egotistical prick of a cop rolls down his window and says to me with severe tone,

“We have sidewalks right?”

“YUP”

“Well I suggest you use them”

(Holding back the sarcastic tongue) I answer with, “Officer, I’m loading up the equipment and as soon as that’s finished, I’m off your street.”

Then he drives away.  Oh if I were 20 years younger and wouldn’t miss the misses and kids, I would’ve opened up my mouth and most certainly spent the night in the slammer.

NEWS:
For those of you that have Time Warner Cable, remember this date ……  August 20th.  Freakswitch will be performing in the TV studio for “Poughkeepsie Live”.  So it’s not HBO, but it’s a start.

Until next time
MK