Sometimes you have to break out of the mold.
I did it Saturday, my mind straying from the music somewhat for a moment as I watched the great young band Lake Street Dive.
And that lead to a bit of a departure in this month’s contribution over at the Blog of Funny Names, where my entry starts:
(From funnynamesblog.com)
I spent a great hour smiling at the band Lake Street Dive.
Not because of a funny name, though it might qualify as somewhat of a head-scratcher for this young foursome out of Boston. Let drummer Michael Calabrese explain it on the band site’s bio page. “We are named in homage to dive bar bands,” he says. “We are, have been, and always will be a dive bar band. Whether we’re playing for 10 people or 10,000 we want them to have that feeling.”
At the M&T Syracuse Jazz Fest it was closer to 10,000. And as I watched lead singer Rachael Price (funny spelling), trumpeter/guitarist Mike “McDuck” Olson (funny nickname), upright bass player Bridget Kearney and Calabrese play a bunch of great songs, something else somewhat humorous did strike me.
Click here to read the rest at BoFN.
Mark Bialczak 
There NEEDS to be a Pebbles and Bam Bam…..come to think of it….they could be in the audience…..
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Or they could be the manager and the roadie, MBC … ❤
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Could be…..but I thought you and DWK might fit the bill!!! 🙂
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Cool Mark – left a comment over at BoFN. 😀
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Thank you so much, Paul. 🙂
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Love that they’re a tribute to dive bar bands. I spent a lot of time in NY watching dive bar bands and they were by far my favorites.
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Yeah, but they have risen far far above, Marissa. They doth protest too much about that start, I fear. 😉
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Good for them!
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I don’t know how you made that conection, but THAT is fnny.
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Thanks, Don. I looked at the drummer, and connections such as that … my mind just works that way, I guess. 🙂
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I see what you did there ! ☺
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Thanks, Van. 🙂 I was sort of sly.
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