Last Night There Were Rumors He Was Into Field Hockey Players…
posted by on April 30 at 16:18 PM
I mean… there were rumors that USE was going to play the Comet Friday night with the Lashes and the Catch. The rumors were true. After midnight, the band played to an utterly packed house—never have I seen the Comet so full, so sweaty, so happy.
Before the show, the crowd was chanting “U! S! E!” while the band was eagerly setting up all their gear, obviously anxious to get things started, obviously a little nervous about how it was going to go. Then they disappeared behind a curtain.
The smoke machine spit out a fog of white, a colorful disco light started turning, and the band came out from behind the curtain to thunderous cheers. They thanked the room, they said it’s been a year since they’ve done this, and then they started playing Party People.” People were smiling, dancing, clapping, and singing along—everyone appeared to be in ecstasy.
It only lasted for about a minute, though. Literally. Because the power went out.
The room cheered (strangely), and the band regrouped, then restarted the song, and this time it only took 30 seconds for the room to go (mostly) black again. There was some laughing, there was some booing, but there was mostly alcohol-fueled happiness.
They finally killed the smoke machine and the extra lights, and THEN the United State of Electronica made their triumphant return. Without the power outages.
To me The Comet has stepped it up nicely. (although a hot drunk chick there pushed it a little far repeatedly joking about cocaine over the weekend, seriously pissed off a No Drugs girl with us)
A regular at the neighborhood cafe was telling me today he really enjoyed playing the Comet. We also gabbed about gear, Him: ashdowm speakers, some sort of preamp, 5 string peavey bass, alternate for special shows- jazz bass with precision activity elecs, fancy bridge, under some different name other than Fender etc. Me: mid-70s peavey 4 input gain driven guitar amp, borrowed noname bass (think small cort/harmony) with 8 year old strings, much warmer and lighter than my washburn. 2 10's 1 15' esp. ideal for muddy brite electrified acoustic 6 string.
He's playing the Central soon, sounds like they are a garagey Racer X. Could be a Seattle Cool C Club Circuit- Comet, Central...Cha Cha? Caffe Vita? Columbia City Theater?
um, garret, you're a dork.
yes, excuse me, i get carried away with Tooting My Horn. won't happen again. Happy Tullycraft Tuesday. Ciao
Noah is slowly turning into a member of Zolar X. Or a renegade in a futuristic musical about good and evil. This is a good thing.
So I applied, basically. I went out for the team.
ZOINK!
haha @5 that's a great description! that show was AMAZING! U.S.E are the kings of fun. I think they go by U.S.E now (notice no period after the E), plus it doesnt stand for United state of electronica anymore. Its just U.S.E from the rumors.
Hello everyone, wanna be part of some kind of community, possible here? anyone here?
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