tuck's music journal

I write about local music stuff in West Virginia and nearby Ohio. I post lots of information about the Greens and musical benefit events I organize for my non profit organization. Americana music focused.

Saturday, October 31, 2009

Greens last night- pre-Halloween at MBC

The Greens performed last night at the Marietta Brewing Company. This was a fairly sparse crowd; perhaps with the confusion of the MBC's status, the WVU football game and the like. The Greens put on a great show. The Greens were decked out in Halloween costumes. Nate as a golfer from some previous era; Ben had an outlandish tall hunter's cap that was decorated to be a stalk of asparagus. Andy was Frank Zappa; complete with dark goatee and eye brows; a rather large nose (which he could not keep on while playing) and a long dark shaggy wig of zappa-like hair. A number of new songs were worked in again (like last week), including a very impressive new song, with lyrics about women wrestling. This is an intriguing work of almost literary creativity.
I won't even go near describing Danny's Halloween costume; you'll have to ask him or the band.
I had a good talk with Steve Wells about booking acts into the area, some recent shows he's seen, upcoming (2010) Blues scene stuff.
The set list for the night was almost entirely different than last week's show at JP Henry's- reminding of how deep the Greens song list is, and where they can go on any given night. The layout at MBC isn't prime for the dancing tunes, so there was a lot of great guitar work on rockers, and good instrumental jams, plus the aforementioned new songs worked in.

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