A night in "the city" with EarlJ
6/25/03
Tonight I got to do something that I hadn't done since my second year
in college -- I got to check out a live music gig in a small cozy
environment (a bar in this case). Daria and I went to see her friend
and former co-worker Josh Dobbies's band earlj
at the Curve in SF in their *First* (but hopefully not last) on-stage
performance.... before I get into the details, I just wanna point out
that these guys rock! Seriously, the music was great, and if I hadn't
known that Josh had a day job, I would've sworn that these guys were
some sort of pro group with a label and all that jazz... Now onto
details.
First thing, the bar (The Curve) has a kitchen which produces
bar-and-grilly sorta stuff that can be ordered... Except if it's dinner
time, and there's a bunch of hungry people around because of a Giants
game and because said bar has a series of musical gigs happening. Now
I'd understand if it was late and they only wanted to serve booze (I
think they can still do that in SF, though not in Berkeley?), but it
was only 8PM! What gives? Anyhow, we were hoping to get some chow to go
w/ the beer and sweet tunes of the band, but had to go without...
though some smarter folks actually went elsewhere and brought back food
to go with the music (props to these people for having better insight
than yours truly).
The food rant out of the way, Daria and I only stuck around to hear
Dobbies's band, so that's all I can comment on. The band consists of 3
people: Earl (I think), who played base and did vocals on many songs,
Jeremy (Josh's brother) on guitar and Josh on Drums. All band members
took turns doing vocals and backup vocals giving the music a different
flavor depending on who was singing, but it was all good stuff..
Overall I would say that the band had a hard-rock/alternative feel to
it, but I'm not that musically literate, so I can't be any more
specific. The best thing is to just listen to their
stuff, available in MP3 format on their site. Daria and I are both
looking forward to attending another one of their gigs in the future.