brendan kelly at rockbar

EDIT: UPDATE: WHATEVER:

The baby was born! Wyatt was born on April 17th, 2008.  Hooray!

here is a blog i posted awhile ago on my myspace blog but never got around to posting it here.  oops!  i decided to post it now because my next entry will have a bunch of pics from tonight's enon show, so i sent them to myself from my phone.  and there was also a brendan pic on my phone, so now i have a blurry, basically crappy camera phone picture of brendan on april 2nd at the rockbar.

hooray!  it's also a good time to post this because today he went to the hospital, so chances are the baby was born today...or will be tomorrow.  i don't know.  that's the latest update though.  without further adieu, here is the old review:

I decided I shall blog about the performance of one Brendan Kelly, who you may know from such bands as The Falcon and Slapstick.

He came to Denver Monday to DJ, and then Wednesday to play some acoustic guitar for us. I think it was his first solo acoustic gig ever...like, ever. Maybe.

He said he knows we all have blogs and wants us to go back to our blogs saying that he can pull anything out, whatever we requested...but I think it’s actually pretty true.

He played some truly rare tracks, including Heaven Help Me and Old Mexico Way. He did most of the show without a mic or amplification. It was truly real and punk rock. About 20 of us gathered around singing along, it was pretty awesome (especially Old Mexico Way). He played a couple Broadways tunes (15 Minutes and It Was Pancho Villa), a couple Falcon tunes, and plenty of Lawrence Arms stuff. Including Another Boring Story, which was just awesome.

Most of the songs he played weren’t really ever meant for the acoustic format, and likewise had some awkward parts. But it was totally worth it for the singalongs and the moments when it really worked.

He also made a pretty spot-on analogy. Talking about how everyone compares his band to Jawbreaker, he said it’s kinda like when a girl says "you’re really hot, because you look like your dad." He proceeded to do a beautiful cover of "Kiss The Bottle." Much better than the Lucero version.

And today he’s back in Chicago. He’s gonna be a dad any moment now, maybe he already is at this point. We got to see his last hurrah, probably his last show in a long time, because he’s got other stuff to worry about now. And for that I am eternally grateful.