I am in love. Her name is Grace and she is 24 years old. I am giving it all up; the mothering gig, the jobs, my flover, my current life and I am going to follow her band. I am going to become a groupie. A middle aged groupie. O.K....maybe not the flover. I am going to try to convince him to come with me.
Grace? You don't know Grace??? Here...read this and then come back.
I first discovered Grace as I lay in my flovers arms after. You all know what I'm talking about. Anyway, as the ability to think and hear slowly returned I asked him who was singing to us? What disc was playing? It was a CD he had gotten from work by a Vermont band who had just released there first CD with a major label. I was hooked. Line and sinker.
That was back in August. Since then I have acquired the bands first two CD's. My teenage daughters are also fans and my 10 year old son can sing all of the lyrics to several of her tunes.
Saturday night my flover and traveled to Portsmouth and saw Grace and the Nocturnals LIVE at The Music Hall. Not to gush, but it was the best concert I have ever been to in my life. What does it say about a band when their live performance make their recorded music seriously pale in comparison? When the concert was over my flover and I just looked at each other and said the same word over and over again. WOW!
Check out this You Tube of her preforming at the Boston Music Awards last year. She sings the first part of the song acappella but hang in there, the second part of the song rocks. Yes, that is a B-3 Hammond organ she is playing. She also plays a flying V. So cool.
I'll try to remember to post from the road.
What do groupies wear, anyway?
Monday, February 25, 2008
A Middle Aged Groupie
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Hi Ashley!
Thanks for checking in on my book report blog. I can't trade that book to you because I checked it out of the library :(
I like Nelson, too, except now he's on a Civil War era streak, and I wasn't too keen on it.
Robert Jordan, too, huh?
I've been angry with him since about the fifth Wheel of Time book. Now I'm really mad that he went and died before they're done?
I see you aren't the only one to have recently discovered Grace Potter and the Nocturnals: their home page is on the blogger dashboard as a blog of note.
Sorry to be loading up this post with comments, but here I go anyway.
When I saw the youtube video of Grace Potter at the Jammies (Cortez the Killer with Joe Satriani), I figured the band might be on the Live Music archive, and they are.
If you go to archive.org (a really cool site in many ways), then click on live music archive, then you can search or browse for Grace Potter and the Nocturnals and find some live concert recordings.
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