Last night the Carnie Bums braved the cold and headed up to Westminster to play Blitz Sports Bar. Blitz used to be the site of Captain Jack's, an old regular stomping ground for the Carnie Bums. Since it changed hands, the new place added a nice, much larger stage and new lights and PA system. From the stage, the sound was great and the Bums had a fun time on a Saturday night.
This show allowed us to spread out and play some tunes we haven't played in a while. We played a few songs that haven't seen stage time with us in over a year and still allowed us to rock some standard Carnie tunes. We closed the show with our newest cover, Amy Winehouse's "Rehab." Not necessarily a tune that fits our style, we gave it the Jane's Addiction treatment and added a long tribal bass and drum solo in the middle. Still a bit of a work in progress, it definitely has the potential to shine. Blitz also has a great sound guy, John, who was amazing to us all night long. He even let Spazz borrow his wool "breasts" scarf that sure looked interesting on Spazz during a little hippie segue that occurred in the second set. Speaking of hippie segues, it sounded like a jamband show for a little while as we jammed our way through a segue of three songs with plenty of impromptu jamming in between. We sandwiched a cover of Psycho Killer between Conspiracy Theory and Heinz 57 Blues with lots of open ended jamming in between. The fun part about long gigs like this is that there is time to stretch songs out, and we certainly took advantage of that.
Up next are two great shows at the Oriental Theater and the 12 Volt Tavern. Details are available at www.facebook.com/carniebums and you need to check us out at one of these shows. We are going to have some promo offers for these shows and we will make sure we try to bust something unique out at both shows. For now, we need to sleep off the late night with an afternoon nap.
2.9 Blitz Sports Bar
Set 1: Tramp Stamp, Western Dreams, Me and My Uncle, Roses are Free, I Will Survive, Let the Dice Fly High, Colorado Burning, Like a Rolling Stone, London Calling, Travelin, Hypocrite>Undertow, Teen Angst, Colfax, Sabotage
Set 2: Ace of Spades, Conspiracy Theory>Psycho Killer>Heinz 57 Blues, Roadhouse Blues, Vacuum Tubes, Seven Nation Army, Are You for Real?, Rehab*
*first time played
