S.N.A.K. & Señor Kasio at Smiling Buddha Bar on July 25, 2008
What happens when S.N.A.K. & Señor Kasio meet for the second time, this time at the ever popular hangout of Smiling Buddha Bar in Toronto, Canada. It’s one thing to share a stage on the same night. It’s quite another to share a stage at the exact same moment. Especially a stage that is quite obviously not big enough for both bands, even if they share overlapping member(s).
THEN, it’s one thing to have set bands up to play. And it’s quite another to just pick up instruments, and expect there to be enough musicians on stage to actually play a song. Haha. That, I think, is what made the night awesome.
And Happy Belated Birthdays to Tynur and Cousin Alex! We all celebrated their birthdays on this occasion, if anything else, as an excuse to get a bunch of people together and play music on stage.
P.S. Black shirt Wee Alex = S.N.A.K. White shirt Wee Alex = Señor Kasio, unless Wee Alex is on drums. Then I think it was Seabass, or just an answering to the call of “Who can play drums?!”
It’s spring time and that means it’s time for a new show!
The line up for the night included “The City” on at 9pm, S.N.A.K. on at 10pm and Señor Kasio on at 11pm. Seeing as how S.N.A.K. and Señor Kasio share a guitarist (Wee Alex) well… uh… I’m not sure what that would mean. Other than we all get to see Wee Alex play twice?
Anyways, The City were surprisingly cool & awesome & I was able to chase them down to give them a Big Rock Finish (www.bigrockfinish.com) button. S.N.A.K. obviously rocked, complete with a lot of very tired fans doing much sitting and not much standing and dancing, except Steve from the Kasio camp, who I’m convinced is on some sort of speed. My favourite may still be a higher than high lyrics sheet, or set list, or SOMETHING that was pasted way above Dave!’s head.
And to top off the night, when Señor Kasio was finishing off the night (which included some giant balls) Dave! and Tynur decided to accost said Kasio camp with much inappropriate groping and “adult touching.” Don’t think Steve wouldn’t get his own back. Mister S.N.A.K. monkey whom I’d never been formally introduced to, received his own inappropriateness at the hands, and other body parts of Steve himself!
For some reason I was invited to the rehearsal of S.N.A.K. at their Cherry Beach rehearsal studio (well, not THEIR studio, they rent it for 3 hours every Tuesday night from 9pm until Midnight) I was constantly getting pushed to sit behind a drumkit. Which I eventually did, when Tynur & Dave! went outside for a smoke. However, I was hit with an extreme case of shyness which caused me to absoloutely refuse to play anything the minute Tynur walked back into the rehearsal room. Next time, need more alcohol.
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