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Hot Summer Nights

Posted: 19 July 2004 at 11:39:17

After experiencing several weeks of mild weather, Summer hit full-bore this last week and we’ve been flirting with triple-digit (fahrenheit) temperatures. To make things a little worse, scattered thundershowers have been causing scattered wildfires and raising the humidity.

100-degree heat isn’t too shabby when you’re dealing with less than 10 percent humidity. It’s about as bad as 80 degrees in high-humidity. But 100 degree heat with some humidity... whew.

The night of the fire at Liquid Joes

Friday, 16 June, there was a six-alarm fire in South Salt Lake at a paper container plant/warehouse. Meanwhile, Sons Of Nothing packed the house at Liquid Joes.

It was the first time in several months the full band—including saxaphonist/flutist John Flanders—has been together for a performance, so the full sound was awesome. The band played the Wish You Were Here album in its entireity as the first of two FloydShow sets following a set of SoN originals.

The audience reaction to the originals was better than usual. The originals are great music, but it seems a lot of the live audiences are impatiently waiting to hear their beloved Floyd tunes. The response to the original songs is sometimes empty or only mild enthusiasism. The crowd at Liquid Joes dug them, especially the new tune “Mr. Serious.”

While my side of things went without significant incident, I messed up big time by not bringing video for “Shine On You Crazy Diamond” and “Money”. I was able to substitute other material for “Shine On” but the video for “Money” was impossible to replace since it included the audio effects track for the beginning of the song. After the steam coming out of Thom’s ears dissipated, he and the band handled it with grace and started the song with its trademark 7/8 bass line and the crowd was thrilled.

Nonetheless, I felt an incredible amount of guilt for not being better prepared. It put me into a dark funk for the rest of the night which prevented me from enjoying the show as much as I should have.

Good ole Jennie began her role as Sons Of Nothing Hospitality and Promotion Queen and gathered a couple dozen new memberships for the mailing list and sold a few One Left Turn CDs. Her enthusiasm and zeal seems it is in endless supply. I think it will go a long way to building a more solid fanbase in the Utah area in the coming months.

Next show is on the 31st in Park City at Plan B and will feature the stripped down 4+1 piece band playing originals and FloydShow requests. The full-on FloydShow returns to Salt Lake City on 14 August at Egos.