Shows

Mary Beth and I had a double feature last night. First we went up to the Brooks for this candlelight Fleetwood Mac string quartet thing. It's all run by some corporate thing that's pretty annoying, but the actual music was fun. It was musicians we recognize from the symphony. It was good but I can't believe they didn't do "Dreams"! (At least they did "Rhiannon".) Funny crowd at that one, I mean, what you'd expect. We got there and went downstairs to wait for them to start letting people in because they have this weird sectioned seating they're very anal about (Mary Beth had been to one before) and she knew it'd be a pain to get a seat where she could see if she didn't get at the front of the line. Upstairs they had a bar and people were milling about getting drinks and stuff. We're there downstairs waiting for them to open up for a little while. Just before they finally do a couple comes down to start waiting too and the woman starts off edging down the stairs like she's poising herself to get ahead of us. Then the woman at the door tells Mary Beth she can come up first and that woman behind us starts throwing a little hissy fit saying "we were here thirty minutes before they were" and the guy with her was quietly trying to be like "why are you doing this?" and the woman at the door just ignored her and gestured to Mary Beth. But then it was mildly awkward (only mildly, really, 'cuz we were just laughing at her) because the woman checking us in kept acting like they were about ready but then would look in the room and wait longer so we were just standing there with the obnoxious lady right behind us (at least she didn't keep up with it after her initial outburst). Anyway, of course being second in line for something like this makes absolutely no difference in where you can sit and she wasn't even in the same section as us (of course they had the super expensive front row section) so being behind us made no difference to her. It's just funny when people are like that.

Anyway, after that we went down to the Print Shop to see Drop Ceiling and Rob Magill. This time it was in the small room that's kind of like a separate event space (but air conditioned as compared to the big warehouse space they usually use...this is the same room we saw if...else do that long droning installation kind of thing a few years ago). Rob Magill played solo first and he started with guitar (and vocals) and then went to saxophone. Then it was a big Drop Ceiling lineup. They had Jenny, Art, Logan, Rob Magill, Schaeffer (of course), Bennett, Berto (the only one I didn't really know before), Spence, and Laura. They played a nice long and good set, pretty psyched out and stuff. I picked up a bit of merch: Jeonghyeon Joo / Rob Magill: An evening with Jeonghyeon Joo & Rob Magill in Ojai, Eugene Chadbourne / Rob Magill / Daniel Masiel Trio: To Granny, Rob Magill / Jehf Jones: Scaling the Heat, and Rob Magill: Let the World Cry Vol. 2. Stayed up late last night and now waiting for the plumber to show up.