Speakeasy Show #3

This past weekend was a blast, it was really cool to play different music with a different leader for a change, I get so tired of Jordan ;) Dawn and I travelled the morning of the show with Jason and Abby, who recently adopted a couple of baby chickens who were apparently abandoned in their hagwon. The chicks are named (aptly I'm sure) Avian and Flu. Anyway, as we were exiting the bus at the Gwangju terminal, I noticed the girl behind us attempt to wake the slumbering male behind her. However, he was apparently intent on remaining asleep, and she figured it was no longer her problem, and left the bus. At this point, I decided that someone had to wake this poor guy up, so I began shaking his shoulders, gently at first but gradually stronger. I also bent down to his ear and talked at a low-ish volume. No response. Abby told me to check for breathing, which I did, but this was normal. I decided to shake him a little more, and ended up slapping him a little, which still did nothing. So we figured we'd let the bus driver deal with it. As we were going into the terminal, we looked back into the bus, and watched the driver whack the kid hard enough to leave a mark and scream at him. This finally jolted him back to awareness. We were sure he was in a coma. Seriously, he was OUT! Koreans do love to sleep on the bus; as soon as the bus moves you can usually hear snoring. But this was one for the books. Or at least the blog.

Now to the rest of the day! We cabbed our way to the Windmill Motel, our usual stay in Gwangju, and met up with Crystal and Neal who had spent the night before there. On the way to lunch we met up with a gaggle of waegukins including (but not limited to) Stu, Brent and Steph, Nicola and Virginia. There might have been a few more, but I'm really bad with the whole memory thing, and this was almost a week ago now! After lunch we did some shopping, Neal and Jason went to see a movie and I went to practice. We went over the songs we'd be playing with the younger Emmans brother, Nathan, and also quickly ran through a few of our own. I knew this would be a good show! The only problem was that Nathan's voice was trying to leave him, so we weren't sure how much he would want to sing.

So I met up with the gang and we hit The Outback for supper, then I had soundcheck at 9, and the show started at about 10:30. Nathan played a few songs on his own, then invited his older brother Jordan to bring his band up for a couple songs. We had a lot of fun, lots of jamming and solos, I got to 'trade fours' with Dan, that was fun. I haven't traded fours with a drummer since college! Anyway, so after that we got up there and played the first of our two sets. During I'm Glad You're Happy Jordan suddenly decided that I should play a solo, so I ripped one out. Dawn says everybody was quite impressed, so it must have been good. But it was kind of a blur for me, as I wasn't expecting it and just kinda reacted. Really well thought out, I know. The set lists were as such:

1. Ode to the Moon, Ocean Eyes, Tightrope, I'm Glad You're Happy, Mr. Card Watching Meteors, All I Want, Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For, G-Jam, Tidal Wave, Ice Princess
2. Feathers, One Headlight, Two Princes, Deep, Brightest and Best, Learning to Fly, Death by Water, With or Without You, Hope

Overall everybody seemed to be very impressed with the evening. The hightlight however, came when, as promised, Abby through panties at me during our first set. Now I can truly call myself a rockstar. Thanks Abby!

Well that's all for now, more updates soon I'm sure.