Thursday night we hit an awesome show at GAMH. I picked up Sarah & Ian and we met Rick, Jem, Tania and a friend of theirs at the venue. A whole crew!

Our pals Rogue Wave were opening – and as always, they rocked it so good… If not even the most rockin yet… they were totally hittin it hard and I loved it!! Sarah really liked em too – I knew she would. Pat has grown out the tasty chops he had goin on and now it’s a full beard. That’s ok – I still have fro envy for his awesome Sideshow Bob curly fro. And that Sonya was showin all her rockstar tatoos. She’s SUCH a cutie!! And of course Golden Gram…. I love watching him perform… he always just looks like he’s having the BEST time and it radiates such a good vibe into the crowd.

Then I got to finally see Bart Davenport – and with his full band! Which apparently means I missed some of his more quirky solo interactions (finger waggin’ – can’t wait to see that!)… but I’m sure I’ll have the opportunity to see him again. I love his CD.. it’s really quite diverse, with some songs sounding straight out of the 70′s. Really beautiful… and he’s great live!

Kelley Stoltz is such a character on stage and his music goes beyond his years, it’s so rich and wise somehow. I enjoyed his set, especially because he too was playing with a full band, and I’d only see him play a solo set before as well. He’s great live – especially after listening to the CD for months now… it all comes together live and honestly blows me away how much I enjoy it. Good stuff.

Overall it was awesome to see these 3 bands play GAMH. It was a relatively small crowd (for the spacious GAMH), but I loved it that way. It felt cozy, like most everyone knew eachother or was friends of the band or friends of friends… it was nice. Sometimes this city is such a small town – I love that about the Bay Area.

I got to see the charming MeatyJax there, too, and that was nice. The best part was our hug goodbye. Sometimes those bend down to say goodbye hugs can be so bad – but this one was really good. Yay for hugs!

I was soccermom willo drivin the crew home that night – but I was happy to have such a large group of peeps out to enjoy the show!