Friday, January 25, 2008

Putting the "fallen" in The Fallen Stars!

I always liked the name of our band, but never has it seem more appropriate than last Saturday night at The Coach House in San Juan Capistrano! We opened for The Motels, (puts on best Troy MClure voice) you might know them from such songs as "Only the Lonely" and "Suddenly Last Summer." (/Troy McClure) Anyway, Martha Davis was amazing, and I was really impressed by some of their new material - really good stuff!

So getting back to the "fallen" thing, here's what happened. We're about two-thirds of the way through a fantastic set, and up comes one of our biggest crowd-pleasers, "Welfare Cadillac." I start with some swinging bass while Bobbo's talking to the crowd. He's got them in the palm of his hand, hanging on every word. The rest of the band comes in and we're off and running. As we come up to the solo Bobbo and his wireless guitar go running off the left side of the stage and into the crowd. He's making a loop through the audience out front and is heading around to the stairs on stage right. But the house lights are all down and it's pretty dark in there and well, you'll have to see for yourself what happens next!

Never a dull moment with The Fallen Stars!