Pace on Earth

Rarified

On Friday night this fella was introduced as The Egyptian Magician by Sam Roberts. My guess is that Sam Roberts stopped in at the Social Club on his last trip through Freddy and heard the legend of the Egyptian Prescription and stole the concept. Normy, upon hearing that one of the band members was from Egypt (which is Arabic for Land of the Sand-Eaters), had to meet the Magician. So after the show we couldn't find the Prescription and sure enough found him rubbing shoulders with his kin. Eric (pictured) was slightly more "into" his heritage and thouroughly confused Normy by actually speaking Arabic. To turn the tables Normy used his well-honed Nicki mind trick by asking an absolutely ridiculous question. The band had been having sound troubles all night and their mics and amps kept cutting out mid-song to leave just the pounding of the drums for the audience's ears. Someone mentioned the problems and Normy interjected "Yeah, so when the sound goes, do you notice up there?". The look was priceless and the response incredulous - "Are you kidding?!". I don't think he was. Of course that is only slightly funnier than his overstating of the obvious last night while watching the tube. A preview for the new X-Men movie has a guy with wings flying through the air. Upon seeing this Normy says "I'd like to do that; it's been a dream of mine since childhood". You are right Stormer, unaided flight would be pretty cool. So would a hand that turns into anything you think of...but that's my dream.

Onto other dreams...as with all rock'n'roll shows the Friday night show reminded me of my childhood dream of being a rockstar. Rick Springfield started it and Vince Neil and Sam Roberts rekindled it last week. Of course to quell the dream all I have to do is look in the corner of our living room to see the untouched guitar that I got for Christmas. It, and I, are currently one string short of a stage name.

The show was good by the way, those guys really giv'er; and the dream lives on....

Rockwell Hardness

posted by Vitamin S @ 8:46 p.m.