Monday night we saw Boston Spaceships at Johnny Brenda's.  It's the most recent musical group fronted by Robert Pollard, best known for Guided By Voices.  Bob is one of the most prolific, legendary rockers that you've never heard of.  I hope he gets his due someday.

This is the second time we've seen Bob.  The first time we saw him at The Fillmore in SF, which is huge.  Johnny Brenda's is tiny, so I was super excited.  There's no way to explain Bob without seeing him in action.  He does high kicks, microphone tricks, crazy dances.  He's rock 'n' roll all the way.

We were right up front, which was awesome ... mostly.  His shows are epic, and a couple hours into it he and the crowd were so sloppy drunk that the energy level just dropped.  Not being sloppy drunk myself, it sort of put a damper on the whole thing.

That's when Andrew and I started to head out.  We were covered in more beer than we even drank that night, and I'm not even joking.  At the door we ran into the lead singer of the opening band,  The High Strung (if you click through, use the double arrows to go through the songs ... I love Arrow), and had a great chat with him.  Josh is totally a nice guy!  We'd bought their album on eMusic the week before, and I'd been listening to it the whole day before the show.  How can you not love a rockin' band who has songs named things like Rimbaud/Rambo which is a study in compare/contrast?! Answer:  you can't not love them.