March 11, 2005

  • Wednesday night I saw The New Loud and Adam's Mom at The Mad Planet
    on Milwaukee's fashionable East Side. I know Nick, the lead singer in
    Adam's Mom, from Chi Alpha, and I made a deal that if he went to the
    Tuesday night small group, I would see his band.

    The New Loud was really good - the drummer especially. He had a mixed
    acoustic and electronic drum set that was incredibly well played.
    Lehnert and I were impressed right off the bat, and he was quite
    interested in the female band member who was, I must say, quite
    attractive. Then I heard her tell someone afterwards about her
    boyfriend and....... yeah that lost steam in a hurry.

    But I'm getting ahead of myself, we started the night out at Club Timbuktu
    with Captain Midnight, a crazy dancing gentleman who was reciting his
    poetry to the 10 people in the place. His stuff was mostly about
    getting on women. The next guy is a PhD candidate at Marquette and
    recently came to Milwaukee from South Africa where he is a Catholic
    priest. His poetry was much deeper and spoke to women in the church and
    other topics.

    But Adam's Mom was why we went, and I thought Nick did a great job with
    the vocals. They need some performing experience, but hey, that's what
    they were getting! Adam's Mom is named after a former bass player's
    mother who made them cookies and let them play in their garage!