I started this blog in June in hopes of detailing and posting photos of Trashcan Sinatras tour photos. I got 2 blogs in and then took the "easy" way out and just uploaded all my photos via Facebook. Band's webmaster also posted all the band tour blogs, so it got done without my aid.
I look after a cat named Fuzzball. I moved into my house in late July 2001 and Fuzzball snuck in while I was moving in. He was an outdoor cat who was being looked after by neighbors 2 doors down, but he adopted my house and me him. Well the old guy got glaucoma 2 years ago and now is blind and mostly deaf too. He still likes his independence and hangs out outside and gets around pretty well by memory, smell, etc. Sadly, he disappeared last Thursday. Here's a photo of him taken earlier this year. Say a prayer that he's OK or maybe his time is up and he crawled into a quiet place and passed peacefully. But I'm still looking for you Fuzzball and I hope you're all right.
Music makes me Happy. There was a lot of great music being made in the Cinci area this past Saturday. Thanks to my friend Cassandra [& John for hanging out too], I got a ticket to see one of if not THE best pop-rock band Cinci has ever produced. You could make arguments that the best band out of Cinci could be Midnight Star, or Pure Prairie League or Bo Donaldson and the Heywoods. But I refer to the band I probably saw the most [besides the Erector Set who I managed and booked from 1980-3, so they don't count for this post]: that's the Raisins.
The Raisins were the classic hard-working 4-piece band out of Cinci who wrote good originals and had lots of good covers. Dare I say it: "Fear Is Never Boring" and "Your Song Is Mine" are great songs. You could see them most Monday nights at Alexanders and they were quintessential fun bouncy pop-rock. Raisins "re-formed" for a 1-off and it was great. The band played a solid 90 minute set and folks were ecstatic [I was merely pretty happy to see a great band having so much fun and pleasing fans who hadn't had a chance to see them since 2000].
I'll keep my observations somewhat limited. I have to admit after reading all the FB posts that I must not be a hard-core Raisins fan, as there were actually a few tunes I would have liked to seen in "my" setlist, but I want to stat positive and leave it that Rob, Bob, Bam and Rick played a tight set and a good time was had by all. The band went on at 11:21p. The biggest common "theme" I noted was that at 54, I and many others were yawning, as us old folk were up past our normal bedtimes. But it was Saturday night and as the Raisins were finally about to go on, all yawns were forgotten and joyous dancing and general rock fun of a band playing great and being loved at the same time by their fans for that greatness. So God bless the Raisins for playing out again and existing in the 1st place.
I just flashed over to the Raisins FB page and saw Bob post that they "didn't really make it." As shown by the love of your fans, you MADE it, Clive or not. I'd love to see Raisins show re-unions vs Psychodots. But on a Saturday night 11 years after the last gig, you still rock and we still love you.
Raisins Photo credit: Chuck Madden
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