Letty, Jim, M and I took Meleena with us to the Luce CD Release Gig at the Great American Music Hall in San Francisco on Saturday night.
There were two other local bands celebrating their CD releases on the same night: Pollux - a slightly boring but tight Jeff Buckley/Coldplay/Radiohead mixture - and Gun and Doll Show - a band that pretty much defies definition and whose stage 'show' blew us away with its ambition and tongue-in-cheekiness and who certainly weren't boring.
The big news was that Meleena got to meet and get autographs from Dylan Brock and Brian Zalewski (the lead guitar player and drummer, respectively) from Luce before the show. When the time came for their set we were able to get right up front and Meleena proudly took her place dead center right next to Tom Luce's monitor, bottle of Corona and Converse boots for the entire show. From there she was able to take an endless stream of photos and video of the band as they performed songs from all three of their albums. We were also able to get some shots of her doing so - see the Flickr site for those.
The piece de resistance came at the end of the show, though when the drummer reached down and handed Meleena the sticks he had been playing with all night and she was able to say Hi to Tom Luce himself, get her poster autographed and a photo taken with him.
I think she'll be on a high from all the excitement for quite a while - she might even manage to post about it on her blog too. I just wish I'd given her an extra poster and our ticket so that she could get an autograph for us too.
As her friend Ronni told her when she heard the news last night: "You're so lucky! Why do the cool things always happen to you!"
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Well, I just wanted to say that musically, LUCE was amazing. I love their music not just because of how wonderfully nice they are or how "HOT" they are, but because like EZIO and Jann Arden, they do take me elsewhere while listening to them. Their albums are much better than anything being commercially released, and their live shows rival any concert I have ever attended. Basically, I love them and I am glad that Meleena loves them too, because due to her teenage years, we are having less and less in common (not through anyone's fault; that's the beauty of music though, right? Bringing people together is not a bad calling. Thank you Tome Luce, and thank you Meleena for being such good company.:)
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