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Monday, April 16, 2012
Day 5
at Muse Music in Provo, UT
with Delphic Quorum, Settle Down, and Radio Broadcast
Finally-- on the road this long and we're finally allowed to plug in again. I can't say a Monday night show in Provo draws a huge crowd, but people did come out, liked the set, and we made some gas money. The other bands were cool, too: Alex from Nine Worlds is part of Settle Down, which was described to me as "hardcore," but their extravagant pedalboards and intricate echo riffs pretty easily define them as something else entirely. The Delphic Quorum is... wow... they rock really hard with spoons, a djembe, trombone, violin, banjo, theremin... I'm going to try to get video of them when we play with them in Salt Lake City.
Muse Music cafe looks like a coffee shop, but they don't serve caffeine. The bar has the flavored syrups you'd expect to put in espresso drinks... but... okay, I'm not surprised by the cafe being all ages, and not serving alcohol... but, no caffeine in the cafe? On an unrelated note, the LDS calls Provo, Utah, home.
It was nice to have a non-driving day. It's a short hop from Ogden to Provo, and we were in town early in the afternoon, with lots of time to kill. We bought some jewel cases and put together about 50 copies of A Hideous Triumph of Form and Function while feeding endless dollars into the ABG's jukebox.
We wandered into a tattoo parlor to ask where we could find a bar, since we'd walked all over town and hadn't seen a pub. ABG seemed okay, but it was silent in there until we started feeding the jukebox. All the beer in this state has been watered down to 3%, and the pour from liquor bottles is metered by some automatic device-- a "single" here could be labled "so weak you can't tell an orange juice from a screwdriver in a blind taste test." That's not the bar's fault, but it does affect the act of sitting and having a drink in a Utah pub.
We crashed with Glen from Delphic Quorum, which led to some pretty normal post-show behavior: we sat around with people we played with, listened to music, worked through a rack of Pabst. It's warm enough here that I didn't unpack my sleeping bag, I just crashed on some cushions... though, in the night, it got cooler. Still, it wasn't sleeping bag weather, so I slept under my ubik. labcoat.
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