Kracker Concert
We went and saw Uncle Kracker at The Machine Shop on Wednesday night. Opening were two local bands, Dixie Huster and Jocaine. Both have a kind of southern rock kind of sound….similar to what Kid Rock and Kracker do. Everything was pretty good. The place is basically a small club, and we were able to get right up front, which means that we were about 3 feet way from the stage, which was very cool. The band was right in front of us. I can see how it would suck if we weren’t right in front, but we were there plenty early 
I definitely plan on going back sometime to see other bands. They occasionally get smaller national bands in there (they have Drowning Pool there this weekend). On the downside, although loud, the sound quality sucked. The vocals were in particular messed up, but it was sometimes tough to pick out different instruments too. I think next time I’ll wear ear plugs. They generally tone things down a little bit, and I think it would be easier to hear all of the music. On top of that, I’m sure it would still be loud, and the music would still shake your whole body… Despite sounding rather poor, in general anything so loud isn’t too bad, and being so close to the band is muchly so worth it. This is the first time I’d seen a concert in a venue with less than maybe 5000 people or so…
Kid Rock showed up too for part of a song. Everyone went nuts and started pushing heavily. It was actually hard to stand up….it felt like perhaps some people wanted to mosh…..we didn’t make it that far though >:)
Kracker’s band was all locals…..it’s really really weird because his bass player looked really familiar to me, but I have no idea why. I don’t go to concerts much, and like I said, the ones I go to are really big, so I can never see the band well anyways (although come to think of it, they have screens sometimes…). I can’t imagine that I’ve really seen him before, but yet it still feels that way. It’s very odd. Worst yet, I don’t even know what his name is, so I can’t google it and see what else he’s done! Maybe I’ll write to Kracker…
After the show, we were outside talking to Jocaine (it took me a while to figure it out, but the lead singer is Jocaine and his band is I75 North….). He was saying that he had been talking to someone (I want to say he said the drummer from Sugar Ray…) who has apparently written a couple of songs for Ashley Simpson. This guy said that she lip syncs all the time…
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No, no, no. I think he said he was talking to the drummer from Sugar Ray, who knows the guy who wrote the Ashlee Simpson songs. Or something of the like. But I know it’s a Sugar Ray guy because Mark McGrath (along with Kid, Paradime, Kracker, and others) is on JoCaine’s new disc.