Hey everyone. How about all of these blog posts over break. I have time to think and type. It's kind of nice. Tomorrow, it's back into the crash of things. Last night I went to a rock show at The Chiller in York (the York Ice Skating Rink) with Rachel. It was really good.

The first band was Anthrophobia from Reading, PA. I had met the front man from them awhile ago. he's like personally responsible for the indi music scene in Reading. He does a lot of the booking and works at a studio recording bands. he does all of the booking for The Silo I think. Anyway he spoke at a MIESA conference that I went to two years agao where I met him and Mike no Eggs did his internship with him over the summer. So it was nice to finally actually hear his band. It was pretty hard-core. Shouting and what not. They were really tight. Frank said the stage kept falling apart during their show so anytime he'd rock out the monitor guy had to come out and push the stage back together to avoid injury. I talked to him after the show and he gave me a CD. So I'm listening to that at the minute and I don't know how my parents or cat feel about this hardcore stuff. Ha ha. Anyway, they were great.

The second band was Williams Eve from West Chester. They were like screamo/singing, hardcoreish stuff. it was pretty good. Rachel was just amazed at how hot the lead singer was the whole time. So most of our discussion was about that. Also, they were very color coordinated on stage. The guitarist had a red guitar and a red t-shirt with a black button down and a huge belt buckle and the bassist had a black and white bass and wore black and white. That seems stupid but they looked really good as a band. That's important.

The third band was apparently the local high school hero band. They were called Tea. And to me they seemed like the rolling stones in High School. Like rock influenced blues stuff. Some songs had harmonica parts. It sounded like the doors at times and I think the lead singer wanted to be Steven Tyler with his microphone techniuqe. But, they were just way over the top and too full of themselves. They all had big fros of curly hair and thought they were the shit. Or that's how it seemed to Rachel and I. We went to the back and sat down. It wasn't really enjoyable. Just a lot of showboating. However, Frank said, better to be doing something like this then your average high school emo band. They wer unique amongst other bands that night. I'll give them that. And fortunately, all of the 16 year old girls who came to see them left before the Underwater, who I was there to see.

Jordan and I had tried to go see The Underwater in Ellicott city when i was down there the first night of break but I forgot my ID in PA so we couldn't get in the door. So I heard they were playing in York so I went to check them out. Jordan had pointed me to their myspace site and we had listened to their songs and what not. I was really impressed with the vocalist. He was very Jeff Buckley-esque. Not like they sounded like him or anything, just a point of reference. I kind of doubted it'd be like that live. But, believe it or not, it was amazing. He pulled off ever little vocal. It was really good. What was most amazing was this guy's stage presense. He moved very slowly. Not at all like myself on a stage. But he was intense. I tried to explain this earlier to Rachel but I don't know if I pulled it off. Motion is relative. You can either look at a background and see an object move against it, or you can look at an object and see the background move against it. Like when you see shots of peple driving on TV and they just sit there but you can tell that they are really driving fast because the background flies by. Well, in the same way, this guy didn't move at all but there was tons of motion and energy to him. It's hard to explain. And his eyes were intense and deep. As Rachel said, he was seductive. You couldn't take your eyes off of him. It's hard to explain but it was an amazing experience. He wa hot. And his vocals were spot on the whole night. He paused in between 2 songs and he said, "My brother is here tonight. I don't get to see him very much and I love my brother very much so lets give it up for my brother." He just seemed like a cool guy. The rest of the band was good too. I went through a member by member analysis that night with Rachel and it was something like the following:
The left guitarist was an odd one. He looked like he was wearing eye make-up and he had really tight jeans on and a tight jaw and had long rock-and-roll hair so it kind of looked like he was a cross dresser. Like he had just gotten out of his drag and hopped on stage to play guitar. But he was very into it and banged his head around quite emphatically which made for an enjoyable experience.
The drummer looked like a really buff Sting. He was really good though. He looked like he fit in the group the least but was really good and buff and Sting-esque.
The bassist was a model. A model with a lip ring. When we walked in the rink at the begnning of the night we couldn't find the room but we saw this attractive dude come down the stairs with jeans, a shirt and a tie on. We laughed an thought that the room must be up the stairs because someone so rock-and-roll would only come from the gig and wouldn't be there for ice skating. it turns out he was the bassist for The Udnerwater. I want to know where people find such attractive band members. But he was pretty good I guess. Didn't here anything bad from him but didn't hear anything amazing from him. Just tight bottom end.
The right guitarist had long rock and roll hair down over his face for most of the night so I didn't see much of him but when someone would flash a picture of him he'd smile and give a wink. kind of funny.
Then there was Dan, the front man. He was just amazing. You've heard enough about them. As a band they were really tight. Worked well together and played a really good show. it was a thoroughly enjoyable experience.

Then Rachel and I went to the diner and talked for hours. It was great. I miss her a lot. So it was a fun night.  ¶ 3:39 PM