Good times, guys. Thanks to everyone for comin' out for Musical Pursuit, which I keep forgetting to call it. Someone on the Punk Board recently joked that the last trivia nite was going to be all Rookie Card trivia. Damn you! I'd had the idea for awhile to have a whole quiz with questions about me, my life, my loves.... Categories included Rookie Card lyric references, bands we've opened for and a ton of stupid questions relating to my life. My favorite part was the big laugh/groan when I pointed out that the first letters of the bands in the photo quiz spelled A-D-A-M-G-I-M-B-E-L. Anyone know the guy who yelled out the answer to the final question** and then ran out of the bar? Left me speechless.
The winning team was Kick Astley, Molly, Suzanne, Sven-Erik Seaholm and Matt Gagin. As easy as Name-That-Tune was (Dallas & Gorney were hysterical, especially when they kept singing the answers), they got 39 out of 40 points and then got both bonus questions. The t-shirt of the night was a Biz Markee shirt that said "You got what I need" and the team name of the night was New World Michael Vick Order because they were the only ones that cheered loudly for themselves.
Kipper was awesome as spelling bee host but didn't notice that Sammy changed his answer when he had him repeat the winning word. Cheating Indian! I think we'll let Matt be in the finals too. Next semifinal in November. Year end finals with Molly, Andrew, Matt & Sammy in December.
Next trivia nite's a fundraiser for SD Music Awards & music education for kids. Bellyup & Casbah have donated tix for it already. Thursday September 27th! Don't forget the Clash benefit at the Casbah in just two weeks!!!
Sat September 15th 08:00 PM
mTraks/Cover Me Badd's 25th Anniversary of Rock The Casbah benefit
2501 Kettner Blvd.
San Diego, California 92101 mTraks and Cover Me Badd presents the 25th Anniversary of Rock The Casbah, a benefit for the San Diego Music Awards. How could we NOT do something at the Casbah for this!? Starring Manganista, the Heartaches, Rookie Card, Billy Midnight, Crash Encore, Gadfly and more. Plus a special preshow singalong with the Lil Strummer Allstar Orchestra (folks from Blasphemous Guitars, Skelpin, the Ex-Friends, Society, Billy Midnight, the Bipeds, 7th Day Buskers, the Handsome Devils and more). DJ Edgartonic spins in between bands!
**The question was "What song did I get up and sing onstage on my 21st birthday?" After an endless namedropping story of meeting Marky Mark and Harry Shearer the same night, I gave the clue that it was a song that was a number 1 song of the year on 91X and someone yelled out "What year?" I figured no one would get it from that so I said it was 1984 and before I could say that Mick Jones from the Clash played guitar on it, some guy yelled out "Tenderness!" and ran out. Too funny.