Like A Virgin...

last night flaverpak/american steve/greater than flaverpak/a half ton of fun played a house party. it was the coolest thing ever. we haven't played as a band like that for years and we rocked the basement of said house party in a serious fasion.
at first i was worried because the two bands that played before us were emo-punk bands with a large following in attendence. all younger kids with the hip tats and tweeked hair and so on...and then the old fat guys get up...the bass player (me) is playing all borrowed gear, the drummers are setting up thier sets so they can both reach all of the drums, the gutarist is bitching in the corner about how someone stole his gold medalion and setting up an expensive setup while the lead singer is drinking beer and humming spuratically on a dij. mike (the guitarist) starts playing "god made me funky" by the headhunters and i chime in with the bass. before you know it, both drummers are playing a sick groove that is the funkyest thing i've ever heard. i start singing, we start jamming and before i know it, it's 125* in the basement, it is packed wall to wall floor to ceiling, people are banging on the heating ducts and the cheering between songs is so loud, i have to use the mic to talk to joel who is standing right next to me. we played a while and sweated like mad...really, i wrang my shirt out afterwards and it was like i had just pulled it out of the river. songs played included about half original material and the other half stuff like "the devil went down to georgia," "play that funky music white-boy," "superstition," "wynona's big brown beaver" and many other classics. all in all, the best show i have played in years and there was no publicity, no money and no band name...but we sure kicked the shit out of the people that lucked into that one. and if you don't believe me, ask my wife...she was there!