So this is a retroactive post, it was a couple weeks ago but I'm sneaking it in. Actually, thinking about it, all of these posts are retroactive. I can only write about concerts after I've seen them. Well that was a useless conversation.
Eisley is a family band that has been around for a little while. They just released an EP that was pretty solid, and they were touring in support of that. The younger sister and brother to the band opened, along with Tall Heart, both also very sweet bands.
The Smiling Moose is a biker bar, well that's how I always saw it. They have a tiny upstairs and shove as many people up there as they can. When the wife and I arrived it was already crazy packed. Through the openers, sweating some and here we go.
You would think that a band lead by 3 girls (sisters nonetheless) and a brother and a cousin in the rhythm section would be kind of cheese, but they're tight and have some great grooves.
They really have it all, a technically advanced guitar player, a great keyboard player, synced rhythm section and, of course, the leader, Sherri, who plays rhythm guitar and gives the band the emotional counterpart to put Eisley in heavy rotation for me. They are definitely one of the harder working bands I keep up with. Their tour schedule seemed to be extensive and if they played with the same intensity they did at the Smiling Moose for every show then they probably came home completely beat.
There were certain twitter murmurings after the show that it sucked and was horrible, such a cool thing to tweet to a band you follow and like. The sound sucked, the engineer was obviously under educated and they weren't ready for a show with a band that actually carried some sort of a following and not just a local band. Yea there was some feedback and not everything was mixed correctly but I was ear protection and my industrial sized earplugs mixed the bass down ever so perfectly for me.
People who are trying to ruin their ears aside, the concert was a great time. Oldies (Golly Sandra) and newies ((yea i sometimes make up words) Deep Space) were played and everything in between. Brought me back to when they were still referencing Star Wars in their name (Moss Eisley). Sniff sniff.
Eisley is a family band that has been around for a little while. They just released an EP that was pretty solid, and they were touring in support of that. The younger sister and brother to the band opened, along with Tall Heart, both also very sweet bands.
The Smiling Moose is a biker bar, well that's how I always saw it. They have a tiny upstairs and shove as many people up there as they can. When the wife and I arrived it was already crazy packed. Through the openers, sweating some and here we go.
You would think that a band lead by 3 girls (sisters nonetheless) and a brother and a cousin in the rhythm section would be kind of cheese, but they're tight and have some great grooves.
They really have it all, a technically advanced guitar player, a great keyboard player, synced rhythm section and, of course, the leader, Sherri, who plays rhythm guitar and gives the band the emotional counterpart to put Eisley in heavy rotation for me. They are definitely one of the harder working bands I keep up with. Their tour schedule seemed to be extensive and if they played with the same intensity they did at the Smiling Moose for every show then they probably came home completely beat.
There were certain twitter murmurings after the show that it sucked and was horrible, such a cool thing to tweet to a band you follow and like. The sound sucked, the engineer was obviously under educated and they weren't ready for a show with a band that actually carried some sort of a following and not just a local band. Yea there was some feedback and not everything was mixed correctly but I was ear protection and my industrial sized earplugs mixed the bass down ever so perfectly for me.
People who are trying to ruin their ears aside, the concert was a great time. Oldies (Golly Sandra) and newies ((yea i sometimes make up words) Deep Space) were played and everything in between. Brought me back to when they were still referencing Star Wars in their name (Moss Eisley). Sniff sniff.
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