Kissing The Past’s Ass
Posted on January 4, 2006 by Tito
I got back yesterday from a couple days back home. I’d hoped to catch a show on one of the four nights I was in Omaha, but checking out the local music pages, it looked like the only interesting show over the holiday would be a Darktown House Band revival the night before I got in. But when I was visiting high school haunt The Antiquarium and picking up a few CDs, the cashier casually mentioned that Simon and Alex were doing a show later that night. Simon being Simon Joyner and Alex being Alex McManus (The Bruces). So I hit the jackpot. My brother was still en route from Minneapolis, but he’d pull into town with plenty of time for us to make the 9 o’clock show in the gallery upstairs. Apparently McManus was opening for Joyner to celebrate the vinyl pressing of his 1993 cassette & cd only release Room Temperature. Both sets were great with Joyner featuring songs from Room Temperature, with the exception being one Minutmen cover.
At the appointed hour my brother Rico and I claimed a place along the wall about halfway back among the crowd of about 50. Rico pointed out that I may wish to be more cautious as I was bumping the frame of a painting on the wall, which turned out to be one of Bill Farmer’s marked for $1200. Some of the ones my mom has in the living room set her back $3, but that was years ago. Alex shared Simon’s appraisal shared earlier that this would be a night for kissing the past’s ass, and I’d be hard pressed to think of a better place for puckering up. Farmer’s now dead, and I don’t get to the Antiquarium as often as my high school days, but for a couple hours I was a couple years younger.
All in all, a pretty decent way to wind down 2005. McManus noted Ted Stevens was recording the evening’s songs, so maybe someday we’ll get to hear it again. In the meantime, I’ll leave you with an MP3 of The Bruces’ Auld Lang Syne off the Hialeah Pink reissue. Happy New Year!
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