Saturday night’s all right

Saturday was a blast at House of TARG. We missed DJ Shanker, but Gerard Van Herk, and The Reverb Syndicate were a good time. The Gruesomes were superb. Neither of us knew anything about them going in, aside from a quick listen on Apple Music before buying the tickets. They sounded like a band that would be great live, and they didn’t disappoint. There was even a harmonica. I love a harmonica. I also love an interesting crowd, and this one didn’t disappoint. A real variety of characters and ages, like someone opened all the cages at the zoo and instead of running away, all the animals congregated at a punk show in a pinball arcade. Our Uber driver tried to get us killed on our way to the venue, but that’s neither here nor there. It’s the price you pay for getting into a car with a stranger who thinks maps are suggestions, and other cars are incorporeal. After the show we were waiting for another Uber, having not learned anything from the previous experience, and the bass player for The…

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