Dolentrean
06-16-2008, 03:24 AM
Last night was one of the coolest nights ever. Ok, so there is this band Authority Zero, most of you probably have not heard of them, but hey, maybe you have. I have been to a few of there concerts and even been on stage with them before (I got tossed onto the stage after someone decided it was my turn to crowd surf). I like them, good band.
Recently my brother was trying to get a job at this coffee shop in town, not a very popular place, but a very chill cool atmosphere. So he applied at all that jazz, but unfortunately Dennis (the man who owns the store) didn’t need any help, but they got to talking about the music that he was playing, this music happened to be Authority Zero. Dennis goes on to tell my brother that Jason DeVore (the lead singer of AZ) is his friend and comes up about once a month to play and hang out, and that he would be playing for a party of his in about a week (yesterday) and says he should stop by and to bring a couple people. So he gathers up me and our older sister who happened to be in town this weekend and we all went down to this coffee shop. There were a couple people outside just chillin, with a sign that says “Closed for Private Party” Dennis comes over and says hi, we introduce ourselves and go to meet people (including Jason DeVore) and sit down and just chill for awhile.
As we are sitting around Jason’s wife La comes up to us and introduces herself, and despite being a gorgeous girl married to a popular singer, she was remarkably cool. So, we all hang out, and Dennis talks to everyone for awhile and tells us all about him and his wife, who are into this thing called “Adventure Racing” and are about to go on a 10 day five hundred mile race. So we all talk to him about that, and drink and whatnot, and then Jason starts jamming on his guitar and singing and putting on this private party. Of course this isn’t serious, so between songs he would goof around with people and take shots and whatnot. He told me and my brother some stories about the lyrics in some of his songs and what inspired some of them, and told us about this new side band project he was working on and played some songs from that. So he goes on to play more. By this point La has taken a real liking to my sister and keeps coming over to me and my brother to give us high fives for some reason.
After awhile he takes a break and everyone just goes out to talk, and they tell us all about this live recording they are going to be doing near where my sister lives, and tell us that we should all go down and check it out, and that they would put us on the list so we wouldn’t have to pay the 5$ entrance fee :D
More drinks, more singing, and eventually everything deteriorates into everyone just singing, passing the mic around, telling jokes, and everyone just generally has a great time. La apparently wants to hang out with my sister more, because they happen to live within about 20 min of each other.
It was a great experience and so fuckin cool to see how laid back the singer from one of my favorite bands was. Not to mention he goes down there to hang out pretty often as it is where he can go just to get away from shows and whatnot. And everyone seemed to really like us.
Have any of you had any of these kind of ridiculously unbelievable experiences? Has anyone here even heard of Authority Zero?
Recently my brother was trying to get a job at this coffee shop in town, not a very popular place, but a very chill cool atmosphere. So he applied at all that jazz, but unfortunately Dennis (the man who owns the store) didn’t need any help, but they got to talking about the music that he was playing, this music happened to be Authority Zero. Dennis goes on to tell my brother that Jason DeVore (the lead singer of AZ) is his friend and comes up about once a month to play and hang out, and that he would be playing for a party of his in about a week (yesterday) and says he should stop by and to bring a couple people. So he gathers up me and our older sister who happened to be in town this weekend and we all went down to this coffee shop. There were a couple people outside just chillin, with a sign that says “Closed for Private Party” Dennis comes over and says hi, we introduce ourselves and go to meet people (including Jason DeVore) and sit down and just chill for awhile.
As we are sitting around Jason’s wife La comes up to us and introduces herself, and despite being a gorgeous girl married to a popular singer, she was remarkably cool. So, we all hang out, and Dennis talks to everyone for awhile and tells us all about him and his wife, who are into this thing called “Adventure Racing” and are about to go on a 10 day five hundred mile race. So we all talk to him about that, and drink and whatnot, and then Jason starts jamming on his guitar and singing and putting on this private party. Of course this isn’t serious, so between songs he would goof around with people and take shots and whatnot. He told me and my brother some stories about the lyrics in some of his songs and what inspired some of them, and told us about this new side band project he was working on and played some songs from that. So he goes on to play more. By this point La has taken a real liking to my sister and keeps coming over to me and my brother to give us high fives for some reason.
After awhile he takes a break and everyone just goes out to talk, and they tell us all about this live recording they are going to be doing near where my sister lives, and tell us that we should all go down and check it out, and that they would put us on the list so we wouldn’t have to pay the 5$ entrance fee :D
More drinks, more singing, and eventually everything deteriorates into everyone just singing, passing the mic around, telling jokes, and everyone just generally has a great time. La apparently wants to hang out with my sister more, because they happen to live within about 20 min of each other.
It was a great experience and so fuckin cool to see how laid back the singer from one of my favorite bands was. Not to mention he goes down there to hang out pretty often as it is where he can go just to get away from shows and whatnot. And everyone seemed to really like us.
Have any of you had any of these kind of ridiculously unbelievable experiences? Has anyone here even heard of Authority Zero?