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a night from my single and fabulous lifestyle.....

last night i went to a concert at my favorite small phoenix venue - the brickhourse. i saw the higher, this providence (which i saw last year at the brickhouse) and daphne loves derby. A-MAZ-ING! seriously it was the best concert (so sorry AAR!) i've been to and it was supper fun! i took my faithful sidekick and conduit, aubrie. it was her first real concert. oh... i'm so proud! hehe

so break down of the bands (go check them out on http://www.purevolume.com/):
1. the reign on kindo... actually we missed them. so no review whatev
2. THE HIGHER - hailing from las vegas this band rocked my planet! their CD is great, but they are absolutely fantastic live! they totally blew me away - they are very talented. apparently they have a new drummer who completely commanded the show. good form my man! really he was probably the best drummer i've ever seen and he keep the show going so that we didn't have to listen too much to the young gibber gab crap the lead singer and 1st guitarist were saying. as if we care - and it was contradictory for a rock band to stop their song and than talk basketball. may that drummer be blessed for saving us! after their set the hot guitarist (*not the annoying one) stood right in front of me so i have a fabulous shot of his back side. i'll post pictures later... back to the music!
3. THIS PROVIDENCE - i actually saw them for the first time last year. their look has totally changed so I didn't even recognize them until they started playing. but their music - still the same, yet even more fantastic! i went to the show saying i've seen them before and have their cd - i'll buy everyone else's stuff this time. nope - their new music was so great (and better) that I had to purchase their new cd (which is a much better recoding quality than the first) and got a poster.... which is now signed by the lead singer. (last year i had him sign my cd - so i switched it around a bit).
4. DAPHNE LOVES DERBY - funny story. so only the lead singer and a lonely bass player (whom i'm now in love with) were there. turns out their touring van broke down in abilene, tx where the rest of the band is stuck and eating and living off apparently appalling pizza. so the other two flew out here to phoenix because the show must go on! and i thank them. they were amazing! funny thing is the lead singer is a totally self conscious guy so he was like "uh... i don't know what to play" the whole time - looks like he had a bit of stage fright without the entire band backing him. so doing a bit of research I found out that kenny (the lead singer) was still only in high school back when the band starter and the original bassist, jason call, apparently left the band to go to BYU-I!!!! both kenny and the new bassist - David Sparks - had great voices and their harmonies were the glue to the little show they put on. the songs were an intelligent mix of music and lyrics. they are now officially my favorite indie rock band. since the lead singer was struggling quite a bit for some encouragement a few of the brickhouse employees got tambourines and shakers to add "mood" and sound to the songs which surprisingly made a great add! it was too funny so i got a pic of them on the side of the stage jamming out with their "musical instruments" thanks to the nice bouncer who let me over there.

so... after concert ad lib. i had to, of course, buy stuff. the brickhouse only costs $12 bucks at the door so i usually spend twice the amount of my ticket on the bands' cds and stuff. i got this providence's cd and poster and had the lead singer sign my poster - i wanted the hottie david grohl look alike guitarist to sign it too but he was chatting with 12 yr olds so didn't feel like interrupting. oh here is where heaven opened and smiled down on me. so after waiting behind all the retarded 12 yr olds that were crowding the daphne loves derby table... i got up there and started talking the bassist david. he is soooooo cute. we actually chatted for a while and he helped me solve my conundrum because "he likes solving problems" of deciding which of their cd's to buy. he reminded me that each were only $5 (score!) so i bought both and had him sign them. conveniently kenny was hovering around w/his gfriend so i told him to stick around and sign them as well. sweet. so long story short - david and i are in love and i think i heard him say under his breath that he wants me to have his children after their first eurpoean tour. while i was STILL chatting with david we finally spotted a member from the higher (we couldn't buy their cd cause no one was ever at their table EVER). so i tipped off aubrie... . so she walked over to the hottie guitarist and asked to buy a cd from him because they had already put their crap away. he then of course obliged and when he handed her the cd he winked at her! man... i think she's pregnant :)

it was a great night that ended with us getting milkshakes and french fries from In-N-Out. So basically a perfect night :)