Don't "Shake that ass"...unless you're prepared to "watch yourself!"

Last night Steph and I went to see The Trews play at AJs (sorry the "Ale House" which consists of repainting and putting a few sports posters up) and they fucking rocked my socks off.
I always meant to see them live, but just missed them or couldn't get enough people to go see them. I sorta saw them in the summer in Gananoque (20 min East of K-Town for those in the dark) at their summer festival; but they were behind a huge barricade and lost a lot of sound in the open summer air, and I wasn't paying 10$ to see an outdoor show that I could see for free just a few 100 feet in a different direction.

So for all intents and purposes this was my first (our first) Trews show. WOW. Its like they just hit the accelerator to full speed ahead and didn't take their foot off the gas until the end of the night. I never get the idea of seeing a band with one album only cause they won't have a ton of stuff to play, at least that most people will know...and thats not to say that if the crowd doesn't know it its bad, but it does help the energy levels if they do. The Trews, working with 2 albums worth of material is an almost perfect spot, cause they have around 20-25 recorded songs to choose from, hits and not, but also enough not to have to play everything off their recorded output. This way you can skip a few 'duds' play all the hits and convert some to the good album cuts in between great and good. It also leaves you something to play at the encore that ensures keeping people there who usually just stay for the 5 radio songs they know and then leave. I hate that guy. The one who knows only what they play for him on mainstream radio and has no desire to learn or even listen to the other stuff.

The best (or worst) example of that I have experienced was at the Hip's Across the Causeway Show when we had the combo of the burnouts who know the first 3 albums singles only, those who know the stuff from the big albums only, those who only know the stuff from Much Music videos (or Much MORE Music I should say, cause you'd never see the Hip on MM ever). Then you had the people who only knew the most current single and then the people who know none of it, along with people like me and the friends I was with who know like every song ever. I forget where I was going with this, but oh ya...I hate the people who just know the chorus to a few hits and thats it. Maybe I just think you owe more to the music than that? Anyhow another time another place...

The Trews kicked ass though. Thats all I have to say, great Great band. Canadian is bonus points, and they can rock a bar show til even the golden oldies are getting Jiggy wid it.
Which brings me to the title of my rant here...
Old people and ugly people should be forced to watch videos of themselves dancing like total and complete utter morons, especially when they inflict it upon my ocular cavities (which I very often felt like ripping out). I will grant that one or two of them seemed to be having the time of their lives shakin' a leg and tappin' a toe, but ABSOLUTELY NO MAN (GAY OR OTHERWISE) SHOULD BE ALLOWED TO DO AN ASS SHAKING SHIMMY DANCE!!!!
This is the gospel according to Gavin. THanks be to me. (You're welcome)

I also saw the funniest thing in the world that made me willing to sell my soul for a digitial camera for just one simple picture that would have been priceless.
Steve, this might even surpass your mullet hunting at the ACC...
Picture an even shorter, even fatter, even balder, even uglier (If you can) David Crosby but with Brown hair, Leafs sweatpants, and...here's the piéce de résistance...with a shirt of the band:
Sum
Thin
Ugly

I shit you not. This is supposed to be an ironic shirt? lol more like He'd just done a Dr. Phil and got in touch with the "real" him.
I may be cruel but it was the best laugh I've had in MONTHS!