Saturday, June 18, 2011

Great Weekend

NOTE: For some reason this never posted and I just realized now....

When the Carnie Bums have a great weekend, we really have a great weekend!  The other week we threw down almost 4 hours of music over two days, drank plenty with old and new friends, and gained a bunch of new fans.  You can't have a better weekend than playing at two cool and very different venues.
First, we played the Buffalo Rose in Golden.  This is probably the largest stage we play on and was probably the best performance we have ever done there.  We did a very tight 45 minute set and had our old friends the Mean Toad play before us.  We had old friends in the crowd and had a buddy film the show with a high def. camera.  We can't wait to get the final results and when we do we will post it.
On Sunday, we then played Pepperoni's at the base of Mary Jane for their closing of the season.  The place was packed and we had a great ovation.  We played with no set list, took requests and played whatever style the crowd wanted.  We gave out shirts, go lots of tips and had a ton of new people come up to us and compliment us on our playing.  We have literally become the house band for Pepperoni's and plan to make more trips into the mountains to play next ski season.  Even better, we got a new member of the Carnie Bums to sit in with us.  Smitty's son (mini-Smitty) has come to a few practices and is a drummer himself.  We were able to have him sit on the kit for Jumpin Jack Flash while Daddy Smitty shook a tambourine.  He did pretty good and got a huge ovation from the crowded bar.  A new rock star in the making.
Set lists-Buffalo Rose 4.840 Gate, Western Dreams, Carnie Bums, 7 Nation Army, Middle Ground, Punks in OK, PBR, Colfax, Jumpin Jack Flash
Pepperoni's 4.10
(set list is an approximation as we had no list and just played songs as called from the stage)

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