We interrupt jock foolishness to bring you rock and roll

There is a special place in hell for clubs that leave the TV's on while a band is playing, worse yet is projecting sports events behind a band while they are playing, unfortunately this was the case last night at Ralph's during the set of Classic Ruins. Yeah, I know a lot of people have to plan their whole lives around the marketing genius that is the NFL, but the NFL represents to me just about everything that is bad about this country. Jock-O-Rama Nation indeed. If folks wanted to watch the game there are other TV's in other sections of the bar.
Otherwise the Classic Ruins delivered a solid set, and Das Happening who I had heard a couple tracks from before and had really wanted to like, after about 4 songs everything started to sound alike, they were not bad, I just got bored quickly. The Lyres however owned the night, Jeff "Monoman" Connolly and his bandmates were hitting on all cylinders, and actually had people dancing. If you've got a broadband connection and Quicktime, check out short clips recorded on my digital camera of "Help You Ann" and "She Pays The Rent". Not exactly a hifi recording, but what did you pay to read this anyway?? We also have a few still pictures.
Speaking of, I've reorganized a bit of the WDOA pages that are a compilation of pictures taken at shows over the last 6 years. Everything 1999-2005 has been shuffled off to it's own page. While we start with a clean slate for 2006, of which last night's show is the first entry.