Barack Me Obamadeus

Squeaky played our first show since June last night. It was a fundraiser for Barack Obama, complete with food from the Top and Satchel's Pizza. Personal highlights? The fact that mine and one of Steve's daughters were there, running around like crazy and generally being wonderful and cute. I showed Clovis my guitars, and she walked all around Common Grounds' stage, examining stuff. 

Another highlight: the dude who approached the stage and asked, "Do you still play King Me? You guys were my first show when I moved to gainesville, like 10 years ago. You guys were awesome."

Of course we still play King Me, and even though it was not supposed to be in the set, we rocked the pants off of that song just for that guy. I can't remember his name, unfortunately.

Anyway, it was good to see Scott Beckey play, it's been many years since he rocked that stage. Two Finger Suicide were really good, we played our previous show with them, and I hope we play more with them in the future. Funkiller were pretty hard to describe, but let it be said that they rocked an accordian con mucho gusto. Holopaw really swooped and swirled their way through some intense emotional territory, and I enjoyed the shit out of them. 

What else? I made some McCain jokes, Karl spoke more than he ever does at a squeaky show, reminding people to get their lame friends who wouldn't ordinarily vote to get their asses to the polls, and I got an Obama tshirt from my wife. Pretty awesome.

H