To Be Added to 'The List'...except, maybe not Everclear

Tuesday night after work, I ventured off by myself to the House of Blues to enjoy some live tunnage (with free tickets in hand!). My honey-man met up with me after he'd finished working, sometime before 9:30 pm, with only the last one of THREE opener bands left to play before the headliner, Everclear, was to perform...

[Possibly Needed SIDE NOTE to explain 'TUNNAGE' as follows, in case it isn't obvious: This word is to be pronounced as "tune" + an ending that sounds similar to that of 'fuselage' or 'cabbage,' or more simply, "tune" + "edge."]

So yeah, my honey-man made it well in time for the 'big' band's performance, and we thought we were doin' pretty good in that way!

Well, when the curtain parted to reveal the 'big' band, we immediately knew something was very wrong, before a single note was sung. First of all, the drummer was off in a corner, as if almost banished, and the keyboardist was partly shrouded behind a curtain. And center stage beheld nothing but a very tired looking lead singer. And half-way through the first verse of their first song, we looked at each other in utter disbelief...

"Ahhh, maybe they'll fix the sound before their 2nd song..."

As their 2nd song, they sang their more popular "Father of Mine," but did so just as poorly as their first, unfortunately.

By their 3rd song, "Humpht. They're simply terrible," yet we gave 'em another chance and another...

We left after their 5th song, I think, along with 1/2 of the audience... and as people were existing out and up the stairs, we passed one of the H.O.B. managers, who looked a bit perturbed. On our way out to valet, we recognized several different couples and groups, who'd we'd seen earlier, inside the H.O.B., who were now leaving as we were. Waiting together for my car, a couple girls were overheard, expounding further upon Everclear's lousy performance, but what they said? um, it can't be repeated here.

The openers though? 1) Neon Culpa (so dang cute! -although I don't think that's the kind of compliment they're going for), and 2) God or Julie, and lastly, 3) Jonny Lives, were all purty good = I had been impressed with them all... except Everclear; they were just soooo unbelievably bad! So bad, that we felt badly for them.

The next morning, I did a quickie internet search for recent Everclear performance reviews... What I found, I think they've been having a run of bad luck for a few years now. It's too bad... too bad to stay!!!