March 28th
Buried Beds with MyBrother MySister
$5 ish maybe? 10PM
In 1995 my Dad took me to one of his coworkers houses to check out an old Fender Squier Stratocaster that would end up being my first electric guitar. Jim Stringer had me pay $75 dollars of my hard-earned grass cutting money for that guitar out of principle, but I think his coworker would have given me that guitar for free. I played it through a solid state Crate amp that was loud as hell that I picked up just a week before for $50 from a guy named Matt Carter. Matt’s been playing guitar for a living for the better part of the 2000’s with a band called Emery. What I’ve learned over the years is that one musician’s trash is another musician’s treasure, or at least a launching pad for a potential future in music.
Girls Rock Columbia host a show Friday night at Hunter Gatherer where you’ll have the option to sign up to commit some equipment for their gear drive or bring the gear and donate it on spot. So dust off that old guitar in your basement that you haven’t touched since the Clinton era. Clean up that practice amp that’s collecting dust in a closet. Find the AC adapter to that old keyboard and let someone put it to good use.
The best thing about that Squier I bought in 1995 is that the neck of that guitar traveled all around the country for years with All Get Out. That happened to be a decent telecaster neck on that strat body.
Oh yeah, the bands are awesome too. Buried Beds come in from Philly, a hot bed of wonderful music these days. The two bands couldn’t be more different. Buried Beds a tasteful mix of harmony and instrumentation and MyBrother MySister a roaring in your face indie rock band. Stay inside and watch the bands. You can smoke and drink and talk with your friends outside some other time. Looks like it might rain, so that solves that.
