it's martini time (p a r t i c l e m a n . o r g)

it's martini time

I saw The Reverend Horton Heat at the Sunset Saloon last night, a nifty old-west style venue in downtown San Antonio. The opening band, The White Heat, was kind of lame.

But when the Reverend came on, the crowd went ballistic as the band launched into one of their surf-y numbers. Now, I don't own any Reverend cd's nor do I have any Reverend MP3s (which does not impact my argument in the below journal entry). I just go see the shows, so I have no idea what any of the songs are called. All I can say is that they played a good amount of straight up rockabilly, surf, swing, some latin-esque compositions, and gave a blues encore consisting of an extended Red House. They had an old guy with them and he sang some raunchy blues vocals. He had long hair, a ZZ Top beard, and Harley attire.

The show was exactly 90 minutes from first to last note. Then came the encore blues-revival, and I left halfway through. On the whole, I had a kick-ass time. I contributed to the mosh-pit action as best I could and did some skankin' and whatever else that came to mind. The mosh-pit wasn't of your average variety. The vibe was positive and good. Everyone just wanted to bounce around and have a good time.

Before the show, I met a couple army chics about my age and we talked extensively about their assignments in Korea and Germany. The things they told warrant a journal entry on their own, so I'll leave that for another day...

So if the Reverend comes to your town, make sure to get a ticket and bring your friends. He puts on a good show.

Posted by particleman on 12 Jun 03 12:00 AM | Permalink