Many a months ago Tea Leaf Green announced they were playing at the 9:30 Club and it’s been on my calendar ever since. A month or so ago it was announced the Hackensaw Boys would be opening for them. Sounded like a great Saturday night to me. I haven’t seen Tea Leaf Green in awhile and was very curious how the jams were holding up.
Then out of now where an old high school friend, Mandy, reappears after 10 years and is hanging in Charlottesville. Doc Mandy that is. So she was planning on being in town that weekend and wanted to hang with the local Pburg crew Matt and I. It was up to me to convince them that they both wanted to see this show. Matt wasn’t difficult to persuade, Doc Mandy hesitated but had to give in. Casy came as well.
We met at my place and arrived a little later than ideal. It was a nice line for will call. Note to self: if it ain’t going to sell out don’t buy tix cuz the sales line was nonexistent and the will call line was 25 minutes long in the cold. I think we saw the last three Hackensaw Boys songs. They are always high intensity.
We moved down to the front of the floor between bands as things were pretty lax. TLG threw down a full double set and we hung out up there the whole time. Apparently the keys player was celebrating the same birthday as my brother. My Pburg crew was lagging at the end of the night, Mandy had to bust out her map, but we pretty much made it all the way through. It seems like all my favorite bands TLG seems to have matured to a more lyrically style. They still had some nice jams, I like how they didn’t space out but kept things changing, but seemed to not be as high energy as they were. I didn’t realize it was three years ago that I first started checking them out. I guess they are allowed to change.
The 24 Hours of Daytona started yesterday at 3:30pm, ran through the concert, and ended this afternoon. Holy freakin’ moly was that an awesome race. After 22 hours there were 4 cars racing within seconds of each other for the lead. These guys were running full out 100% for the whole time. The last two hours they ran nose to tail for the prestigious Rolex watch trophy. Imagine racing for 24 hours straight and the interval comes down to seconds between multiple cars! There were all types of drivers mixing it up. Nine of 10 Porsche factory drivers were in attendance (a few years ago there were only four of them total). It was an entertaining race. I hope to see them at VIR.
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