World's worst band


I love it when local restaurants have live music.  You get dinner and usually, a great show.  A few weeks ago, a friend and I went to a small café and had a meal.  We were pleasantly surprised to find that the place had a band playing.  The music was great, thing from when we were younger.  We joined with other patrons singing along and laughing at the antics of several older couple who were dancing.  It was a great evening.  At one point we asked our waitress if the place had bands often, and upon finding that they did this every weekend, we decided to do this again sometime soon.  So, this past weekend we went back to the same café.  Unfortunately, the band was, for the most part, not playing any thing we recognized or enjoyed.  And unlike the first time we were there when the place was packed and the atmosphere was upbeat, this time, the mood was sober and the place was almost deserted.  My friend commented that the band was so bad that he was going to have to take an antacid when he got home.  However, we both found ways to laugh about the situation.  We were giggling about how no one was clapping after each song except one older lady in the back corner.  Was she one of the guys’ mother?  The only person left on the planet who knew the songs these guys were playing?  Or was she just overly polite and felt compelled to clap even though she hated the music?  And speaking of that music, how old was it?  The few things I knew were all really old songs.  And I do mean old – stuff from the 40’s and 50’s.  My friend and I had more than a few laughs about how the two guys playing, who looked to be in their twenties, knew such old stuff.  Don’t kids hate anything older than them?  But it was a lesson learned, call ahead, find out what the band will be playing.  We do not want to sit through another session of dirge music ever again...

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