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BRENT'S DIARY
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Saturday Dec 18th marked the
return of Light Up to Rooters in
Waukesha
. It also marked the start of the winter season as far as
temperatures and snow are concerned. With the thermometer
dipping into the negatives and snow in the sky, we all wondered
how the turnout would be for the night. Most of us dealt with
poor road conditions on the way to sound check and assumed it
would get worse before it got better.
Too our surprise, the crowd was a
respectable number of around 450. Not quite as good as we’d
hoped, but better than we anticipated given the circumstances.
With people gathered around the doors before they opened others
also must have suspected a packed house.
In regards to the show, I must point out
that I think this is the first Light Up show EVER that actually
started almost exactly on time. I wouldn’t get used to it, but
it was a nice change of pace.
We repeated the same set as we had done it
at the Brat Stop a few weeks before. The Grand Illusion album,
followed by the rest of the usual
Styx
stuff and then followed by a short RM set. It seemed to go over
well, but many in the crowd didn’t understand why we had done
so many “new” and unfamiliar
Styx
songs. It was actually only 3 different songs, but if you
don’t own the album I can see the confusion.
The Cutty Black cage dancers gave their
best shot at grinding to
Styx
music.I talked to them between sets and we joked about it. One
of them made the comment that
Styx
may be the least sexual music in the world. She just may be
correct!
We’ll be doing another Light Up show in
February at Optyx in Racine, but before that we’ll again be at
Rooters on January 8th doing the RM show. This will
be former RM/LU bass player
Cary Schultz
’s farewell performance and we are predicting decadence. Rumor
has it we’ll also be celebrating a band member birthday…
Come out and have some drinks and a good
time. I know we
will.
Happy New Year!
Brent
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