After a very pricey dinner Dave and I heded to the Phoenix to see Dinosaur Jr. I wasn't to sure if I wanted to see them because they have a reputation for bing enormously loud. As it turned out they were only letting 100 NXNEerners in. Even with his "all access" pass we were turned away. We then hopped on the College St car and went west getting off in Little Italy. We walked south to Queen and went to some hole that had a band from Tokyo playing. It was a three piece with a really tiny female bass player in a groovy kimino.Nothing special musically.
The strangest thing was that Dave met a guy at this show that he had met at the Fujifest in Tokyo last year. Even stranger the guy lives in his building in TO.
We stayed for the next band "Vulcan Dub Grip". They were very young. The band itself was entertaining but the singer was supermelodramatic and had a weak voice. In fact he was annoying.
We then walked up to Lee's Palace on Bloor to see John Doe (of X fame) and the Sadies. That brought back a lot of memories for me. They still have the same cartoon mural on the outside. We had to wait in line but the doorman saw Dave had his All Access pass and told us to come on in. John Gomeshi of Moxy Fruvious /CBC noteriety was in our way at the bar buying shots of some dark liquid.
John Doe played acoustic, then electric, then with the Sadies and then added Kathleen Edwards. He did a nice version of Poor Little Girl and More Fun in the New World, a critique of the Reagan era that sadly rang as true today as back then.
So that was last night
Today we went for Brunch, saw Wooffest ( a dog fair in the St. Lawrence Market) and had a drink on a patio. John and Karen are coming tonight and maybe Kirk and I wish Leslie was here to join in the fun.
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