The Drunken Medical Gal

The gig on Saturday night was much better than expected! Joe, Tom and I all had extremely exhausting days earlier, but this was a pick-up gig we took because another band had cancelled a week earlier. Anything to help out Ray at the Creekside.

We had a healthy size crowd the entire night, and our friend Nancy came out to sing "What's Up" and turned the place upside down. We had a running gag with Cristal Beer (a new beer they're selling there) and we were pushing it in-between songs, inserting Cristal Beer into song lyrics, etc. Hilarious. That was the secret word.

We also had little flyers with a picture of a milk carton sporting the photo of our missing stuffed monkey (pilfered at the last gig we had there).

And then there was this guy and gal who came in wearing scrubs (hospital workers? EMS drivers??) and the girl wasted no time getting hammered. She walked up to the band about 1:20AM before our last song, and demanded to let her sing a song with us.
"What song?" we laughed, having no regular female singer in the band.
" 'Crazy For You', by Madonna? Puh-leeeze!" Uh, we don't think so.

Heard from The Ghoul. The DVD I authored for him sold out in Detroit at the Comic-Con. Time to make more. Another title may be in the works soon.

Stop reading and go enjoy the weather.

OK, so I didn't post a review of KILL BILL Vol. 2 right away. You may have thought I was killed. No such thing. I DID, however, see it twice. It was that freakin' amazing. Bad thing is, I really can't say anything about it without giving something away. Spoilers, they call these tidbits of info.
What I can say, is that what Vol. 1 had in violence and just damn good action sequences, Vol.2 more than makes up for in dialogue. The film making techniques, the tributes to martial arts genres of the past, and of course, the element of surprise made for a fantastic film. See it.
Last Friday (April 30) I went and saw my old band, Squeaky Wheels. Once again, they have no permanent drummer. Hoss left, and now beating the skins is none other than John Walsh, recording engineer extraordinare! I knew of Walsh from Sosumi and the records he's produced for Cleveland groups like Bluto's Revenge, and called him when he worked at Buchanan Recording Complex where we ended up recording the project that never got finished (I left the group at the tail end of recording). So it was great to see him and hear him play. It was a good time and I went up to play "Run Like Hell", "Faith Healer", "Dummy Seat", andthe old "Roadhouse Blues/Freeway Jam" medley. A possibility of a reunion 'tour'? Maybe a few dates here and there, but nothing permanent.