DT cd release, Denman research

Went to Kent/Akron/Twinsburg this past weekend. We got to the bar around 8:45, its actually only 15-20 minutes from Celeste’s parents place. We couldn’t find any seats, so we asked an older woman if we could sit at the same table. Turns out it was Josh (DT’s singer)’s grandmother and over the next five hours we were introduced to a lot of Josh’s extended family. Josh’s grandfather was a (trumpet?) player in the army band and then worked in jazz bands afterwards, Josh’s father was a “singer and incredible musician.” So I guess its no surprise that Josh ended up where he is.

The first band (Petting Zeus) was supposed to start at 9:30, but they didn’t come on till nearly ten. Their songs were ok, but a little lacking. They tried to win the crowd with a heavy version of Fade Out (street spirit), but half the crowd didn’t know it was a cover; and coincidently, half the crowd were high schoolers (who all looked about 12 years old to me). The next band took the stage just before 11. We figured they would play till 11:30 and then head home so DT could get on stage before midnight. But….no… They kept going and going and going until midnight. The music wasn’t bad (a merger of Primus and Pantera), and the three members of the band were very talented individually; but it seemed like they couldn’t decide whether they wanted to be fast and funky, or slow and heavy, and it made most of their songs very awkward to listen to. After they finally left the stage at midnight, a little less than half the crowd (which was topping 300 heads at one point) left. When DT finally hit the stage, they played until 2am. They played all the songs on their website, Amidima, Alastis (or was it Stitch?), Sky Could Fall (featuring Eric?), a PJ Harvey cover (I THINK…), one that they used to open the live shows with but I do not know the name of, another nameless one from the coming album, and to end the show, they played a soft (I.E. no distortion pedal) version of Placebo with an extra verse at the end. This “special treat” is also on the sampler (see the last post) but not on the full album, it is cleverly titled Sugar Pill and was recorded last wednesday (according to liner notes). The other 2 songs on the sampler are Morla and Sky Could Fall. I bought 3 samplers. One for myself, one for B, and one for Nick. Sorry Rufus, I ran out of cash and couldn’t get you one.

I also bought the Sevrul demo disc. It featured five songs (although I think one may be just noise unless I’m counting wrong), only one of which was on sevrul.com. So, if we have been loyal fans, we now have seven Sevrul tracks to listen to.

The next show is at the Lime Spider in Akron on the 18th, but there is no way I/we’ll get to that since we have to go to Celeste’s parents wedding reunion on the 10th and I’m not about to make three trips in less than a month.

I heard friday that I was accepted into the Denman Undergraduate Research Forum. That means I’ll miss class and work for almost all day on Wednesday the 14th. Which sounds great at first…but…I’d rather work and make some money, and missing painting class will only serve to make me a day behind everyone else. The only upside is that I could win a lot of money… Ironically I have to make another 15 minute presentation for my 595 class exactly a week before that, on the 7th. Weeeeeee May is going to be FUN :(…