Northampton is a college town. In fact, in college I heard the rumor that the characters from Scooby Doo represent the six colleges in the area…each character representing the stereotype from each institution…including Scooby himself. I guess you can all go online and check snopes.com, or go to wikipedia or something. I’m content to let it be a good story.A friend from our time in Johnson, VT lives in Northampton, and was kind enough to put us up for the night, as well as hang with us and show us around. Her name is Miranda, and she’s pretty much the shit. Not only did she play a pretty major role in the combining of the simpson-gilbert superpowers, but she’s a rad artist, a roller-derby girl, and all around sweetheart with impeccable taste. We were psyched to get to catch up with her.
We played a Thursday night series at a restaurant called the Sierra Grille, which happens to be part-owned and ran by Susan Sarandon’s brother... a pretty kick-ass guy in his own right. The food is quite marvelous. You get to pick your protein, then what kind of sauce you would like, and finally the two sides to go with it. When you get little choice of fresh vegetables on the road, this was like food heaven. The host for the music series, Mark, joined us for dinner, as well as all the other musicians playing that night that had made it in time to do so. Big community dinner. It was rad. Then we all loaded-in and got the show rolling.
First to play was a young lady who’s band, Stewart, had pretty much fallen apart before the show. She was rad. And even busted a couple of tunes with some pre-
recorded drum tracks. It was pretty wild. She was followed by a Boston band called Rotary Club. The lead singer/guitarist looked a lot like Jackson Browne. The third group was called Curious Buddies -- a quirky noir-pop band from the Northampton area. They were pretty sweet. Good songs. Good guys. We played last. Lots of folks stuck around. It was a really fun set. Our host Mark got some video from it. A few of those are posted below. Also, got some great free chocolate samples from an audience member! Chocolate he had made himself. It was pure magic. We're definitely pumped to get back to Northampton. Treated us well. Rad town.
reporting for all of us finn rigginses.
lisa simpson
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GLOVE COMPRTMNT
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