Topper's TravelsTopper Kain's blog. Topper Kain is a world-famous kazoo player and traditional norwegian food chef. He wants you to use the comments. Thursday, January 13, 2005Once again, shout out to Carly for going with me to an AWESOME concert: Presidents of the USA, MXPX, and the suprise hit Smoosh. And it was all for a good cause too, the SE Asia tsunami victims.After grabbing some grub at the near by Johnny Rockets, Carly and I trekked on down the half-block to the Showbox. As we entered we were both astounded at the diversity of age and appearence of the crowd. There were 3o something professionals with their 9 year old punk kids, 30 something punks with their 9 year old professionals, high school kids, college kids, old dudes, young dudes. It was cool. The only thing really lacking was hard-core punks (understandably...) Unsuprisingly enough, the crowd quickly stratified, with 21 and ups with out kids at the bars, adults with kids near the bars in back, and the young guns up front. And one or two crazy parents who dragged their kids up there for a better view. No kidding. The band line up was also very diversified, at least in terms of age. The first band, Smoosh rocked hard. They are really really good, espicially considering the fact the drummer is 10 and the keyboardist/vocalist is 12. That's right this is Indie music's Hanson, except with girls and more talent than you can shake a fist at. Maybe I can get them to play a show at Mudd, all we'd have to do is get them Disneyland tickets... Seriously though Smoosh rocks. They offer better music than many current pop stars twice their age. Ashlee Simpson for example... MXPX was the next band up. I must confess, I have an almost fanatical loyalty to anything that comes out of Bremerton. Espicailly anything that comes from Bremerton and writes a song about how they want girls to move there. That disclaimer out of the way, MXPX rocked the house. Even if you hate punk-lite, you have to admit they are MASTERS of it. "Chick Magnet" almost brought down the house, "Move to Bremerton" sent the Kitsap crowd nuts, and a closing with "Punk Rock Show" sent the mosh pit into a frenzy. Speaking of the mosh pit: I had the pleasure of serving as a human pinball flipper on the age of it all night, keeping people from crashing into the smallish girls I was protecting. And they say football doesn't teach life skills, pah! P.U.S.A. is, what can I say, fantastamalabuling. They played all the crowd favorites, a bunch of covers including "Shout" which got everyone on the ground, caused a human... hmmm don't want to use the word "wave" in the context of tsunami benefit... caused a lot of people to crowd surf with "Lump" and "Peaches", and near the end played "Love Everybody" which is highly appropiate given the context. The crowd was so pumped, jumping up and down so much that ground shook the speakers back and forth and a bunch of security guards had to go hold them in place. The covers were all awesome. Hearing "Sweet Emotion" and "Let the Good Times Roll" was a lot of fun. In short, the concert was incredible. On note of complaint: Why are fat chicks always checking me out/flirting with me? Do I look sadly approachable or something? I'm never getting checked out by hot chicks! Except that 16 year old, but that is wrong to even think about. .: posted by Topper 2:41 AM
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