Columbus, OH
A straight shot southwest from Chicago to Columbus. Well, not exactly straight but an insane zig zag of small highways and towns that our GPS, Carmen decides to take us through in order to get there the fastest. We pass Gary, Indiana and we have a moment of silence for Michael Jackson. Well, not exactly a moment, nor silence, but poor guy. Afterwards there was pretty much nothing but cornfields and gas stations the entire way. We pass American, Ohio, which seemed to be the quintessence of Main Street, USA. Which is to say, boring. Then out of nowhere we see the Columbus skyline. A city! A beautiful sight to behold in the dark Ohio night.
We drive into the parking lot of the Treehouse, a quirky little club near the Ohio State University campus. There’s actually a full grown tree in the middle of the venue, which goes straight through the roof and outside. Weird.
We have quite the time setting up the PA (there is no sound guy) but with the help of Wing and Tusk, our host band from Columbus, we get the thing rolling around 11pm. We burn through our set and immediately afterwards I drive Will to our motel. He’s quite under the weather and he needs his rest.
I get back to the club just in time to catch the tail end of The Seedy Seeds from Cincinnati. What an explosive trio! And the drums are flickering all crazy-like to the beat. They’ve wrapped these string lights around the kit and attached them to some sort of trigger that goes off every time the dude hits the drums. Pretty Rad.
Wing and Tusk are on next. It’s the final show of their residency at the Treehouse, and though they said that no one would show up, quite a few are in the crowd. The members of the band were at the bar moments before being rowdy and slamming whiskey. Their music, in comparison, was surprisingly delicate and subdued. Gorgeous harmonies. That juxtapositioned the keyboardist Roseanne shooting off swear words between songs. Bad ass.
Past midnight, it’s Gavin’s birthday. Happy birthday Gavin! He enjoys gratis drinks. We’ll do it again in the morning.
Thanks, Columbus, we’ll be back!
We drive into the parking lot of the Treehouse, a quirky little club near the Ohio State University campus. There’s actually a full grown tree in the middle of the venue, which goes straight through the roof and outside. Weird.
We have quite the time setting up the PA (there is no sound guy) but with the help of Wing and Tusk, our host band from Columbus, we get the thing rolling around 11pm. We burn through our set and immediately afterwards I drive Will to our motel. He’s quite under the weather and he needs his rest.
I get back to the club just in time to catch the tail end of The Seedy Seeds from Cincinnati. What an explosive trio! And the drums are flickering all crazy-like to the beat. They’ve wrapped these string lights around the kit and attached them to some sort of trigger that goes off every time the dude hits the drums. Pretty Rad.
Wing and Tusk are on next. It’s the final show of their residency at the Treehouse, and though they said that no one would show up, quite a few are in the crowd. The members of the band were at the bar moments before being rowdy and slamming whiskey. Their music, in comparison, was surprisingly delicate and subdued. Gorgeous harmonies. That juxtapositioned the keyboardist Roseanne shooting off swear words between songs. Bad ass.
Past midnight, it’s Gavin’s birthday. Happy birthday Gavin! He enjoys gratis drinks. We’ll do it again in the morning.
Thanks, Columbus, we’ll be back!
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