![OCTOBER 17 – HAPPY DOG, CLEVELAND, OH [SHOW#106]
Day 130. 30,505 miles. Woke up this morning with not much to do. There was no rush because our next scheduled show wasn’t until Wednesday in Rochester, so we had a few days to kill. We started discussing options for a late-minute show in the various towns around Youngstown. We started talking about going to Cleveland to the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame and Elin suggested a couple nice venues there that we should try. So we loaded up the van and hit the road for Cleveland, sending messages to club bookers along the way. Rolled into Cleveland in the early afternoon and went right to the Hall of Fame Museum. Admission is normally $25, but musicians in bands can get in for free by bringing a copy of their CD. We handed the counter attendant a Glory Us Ep. He took the CD and immediately quizzed us: “What’s the first song on your CD?” “Monument!” Devin and I answered without hesitation. But we were wrong. “Glory Us,” Patrick corrected us, “Monument is like the fifth track.” Devin and I must have gotten so used to Monument being the usual opening song for our live shows.
Got to see some cool artifacts in the museum: lots of guitars of so many music legends, hundreds of original lyric sheets, stage outfits, concert footage and more. Patrick pointed out some letters written by Pete Townsend, one about how good The Kink’s Arthur record is. They had a special exhibit about the career of Bruce Springsteen, which didn’t excite me at first, but to see the 4-track that Nebraska was recorded on, the worn-down and glued telecaster from the Born In The USA album shoot, and the Oscar statue for “The Streets of Philadelphia” was pretty cool.
After the Hall of Fame closed, we headed over to a bar in the Detroit-Shoreway neighborhood called Happy Dog, one of the places that Elin had suggested. Right as we walked in the door a young guy named Dave greeted us by asking “are you guys the band that’s playing tonight?” “Um, we can be,” we answered. We explained to him how we are a band passing through looking for a show. Dave talked to one of the bar owners, Eric, who introduced himself to us and made a call to the booker to check if the night was clear. Moments later he came back to us and said “sure, you guys are welcome to play around 10 o’clock if that sounds ok to you.” “That sounds amazing we said,” and we were so grateful. We ordered some hot dogs, the bar’s specialty. The dogs are large, vegan or regular, served on poppy-seed buns and come with your choice of up to 50 exotic toppings! We watched the Vikings v. Cowboys game on TV, played some more euchre, and a guy was spinning some great 50s-60s-70s records. There were framed posters on the wall of Elvis Costello, Paul Westerberg and Johnny Cash and an assortment of great beers on tap.
By 10pm there was a pretty good gathering of people in the bar and we set up to play. Patrick wrote up a short setlist of some of our best rockers, and we bashed ‘em out. People there seemed to be digging it. A guy at the bar kept yelling at us to play ‘Hustler’ by Jay-Z. Our friend Tom from Afternoon Naps arrived, and later Dave from Very Knees joined us. We met the wonderful bartender Roxanne, and made a number of cool friends that night who were super sweet to us, and very supportive of our band. We are strongly falling in love with Cleveland.
The word we heard: “Are you guys the band playing here tonight?” -Dave
Dinner was a winner: Happy Dog hot dogs!
Sound Tech we respect: Greg
Our friend the Bartend: Roxanne
The pets we met: Church / Black Mamma
Monument / Don’t Go / Pacific Sunrise / Cognac Dreams / Some Ordinary Vision / Porcelain Brain / Magic Circle Symphony / Give It A Try / Camille Claudel / When The World Sleeps](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lai90h85Yl1qahyhxo1_500.jpg)
OCTOBER 17 – HAPPY DOG, CLEVELAND, OH [SHOW#106]
Day 130. 30,505 miles. Woke up this morning with not much to do. There was no rush because our next scheduled show wasn’t until Wednesday in Rochester, so we had a few days to kill. We started discussing options for a late-minute show in the various towns around Youngstown. We started talking about going to Cleveland to the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame and Elin suggested a couple nice venues there that we should try. So we loaded up the van and hit the road for Cleveland, sending messages to club bookers along the way. Rolled into Cleveland in the early afternoon and went right to the Hall of Fame Museum. Admission is normally $25, but musicians in bands can get in for free by bringing a copy of their CD. We handed the counter attendant a Glory Us Ep. He took the CD and immediately quizzed us: “What’s the first song on your CD?” “Monument!” Devin and I answered without hesitation. But we were wrong. “Glory Us,” Patrick corrected us, “Monument is like the fifth track.” Devin and I must have gotten so used to Monument being the usual opening song for our live shows.
Got to see some cool artifacts in the museum: lots of guitars of so many music legends, hundreds of original lyric sheets, stage outfits, concert footage and more. Patrick pointed out some letters written by Pete Townsend, one about how good The Kink’s Arthur record is. They had a special exhibit about the career of Bruce Springsteen, which didn’t excite me at first, but to see the 4-track that Nebraska was recorded on, the worn-down and glued telecaster from the Born In The USA album shoot, and the Oscar statue for “The Streets of Philadelphia” was pretty cool.
After the Hall of Fame closed, we headed over to a bar in the Detroit-Shoreway neighborhood called Happy Dog, one of the places that Elin had suggested. Right as we walked in the door a young guy named Dave greeted us by asking “are you guys the band that’s playing tonight?” “Um, we can be,” we answered. We explained to him how we are a band passing through looking for a show. Dave talked to one of the bar owners, Eric, who introduced himself to us and made a call to the booker to check if the night was clear. Moments later he came back to us and said “sure, you guys are welcome to play around 10 o’clock if that sounds ok to you.” “That sounds amazing we said,” and we were so grateful. We ordered some hot dogs, the bar’s specialty. The dogs are large, vegan or regular, served on poppy-seed buns and come with your choice of up to 50 exotic toppings! We watched the Vikings v. Cowboys game on TV, played some more euchre, and a guy was spinning some great 50s-60s-70s records. There were framed posters on the wall of Elvis Costello, Paul Westerberg and Johnny Cash and an assortment of great beers on tap.
By 10pm there was a pretty good gathering of people in the bar and we set up to play. Patrick wrote up a short setlist of some of our best rockers, and we bashed ‘em out. People there seemed to be digging it. A guy at the bar kept yelling at us to play ‘Hustler’ by Jay-Z. Our friend Tom from Afternoon Naps arrived, and later Dave from Very Knees joined us. We met the wonderful bartender Roxanne, and made a number of cool friends that night who were super sweet to us, and very supportive of our band. We are strongly falling in love with Cleveland.
The word we heard: “Are you guys the band playing here tonight?” -Dave
Dinner was a winner: Happy Dog hot dogs!
Sound Tech we respect: Greg
Our friend the Bartend: Roxanne
The pets we met: Church / Black Mamma
Monument / Don’t Go / Pacific Sunrise / Cognac Dreams / Some Ordinary Vision / Porcelain Brain / Magic Circle Symphony / Give It A Try / Camille Claudel / When The World Sleeps
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cleveland rocks!
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