A friend of mine has played in bands for many years. Recently, he got one of the earlier bands back together. They got a couple of local gigs, including this one at the weekly music-in-the-park thing.

It was a fun show. They were originally playing in the late nineties, maybe to the turn of the century, so they do a lot of 90's rock, plus some 80's rock, pop and alternative stuff. Like (in no particular order)...
I Wanna Be Sedated (Ramones), Driver 8 (REM), It's the End of the World as We Know It (REM), Mrs. Robinson (cover of the Lemonheads cover of Simon & Garfunkel), Hash Pipe (Weezer), Turning Japanese (The Vapors), Just What I Needed (Cars), Little Pink Houses (Mellencamp), Save Tonight (Eagle-Eye Cherry), Open Up Your Eyes (Tonic), Another Brick in the Wall 2 (Floyd), Flavor of the Week (American Hi-Fit), Inside Out (Eve 6), Don't Change (INXS), 867-5309 (Tommy Tutone), What I Like About You/R-O-C-K In the USA (Romantics/Mellencamp), Brown eyed Girl (Van Morrison), (I Will Walk) 500 Miles (Proclaimers), Kryptonite (3 Doors Down), Stray Cat Strut (Stray Cats), Should I Stay or Should I Go (Clash), Baby You Don't Know (Sum 41), Somebody to Shove (Soul Asylum), Fight for Your Right to Party (Beastie Boys), Purple Rain (Prince). And a few more. I think they were on stage for about 2-1/2 hours.

And they did a couple Femmes songs. The vocalist started with the spoken first lines of Add It Up, but when the band came in, they did Kiss Off. I was disappointed. But then they did Prove My Love, which was a little different. But then they medleyed into Add It Up, so I enjoyed that. It was an all-ages show in the park, so they had to self-censor the F-word in that one. They vocalized some sort of screech.

Some of those 90's songs are kind of obscure now. I had to look up a couple of the artists, and I don't recall that Sum 41 song at all.

But it was fun.
I went down to Veteran's Park to see Copper Box. They play all over eastern Wisconsin. Festivals and such. They're a lot of fun. A guy plays keyboards, accordion, sousaphone, trumpet and sings. A girl plays guitar, tenor and baritone saxes, flute and sings. A guy plays bass and occasional ukulele and guitar. A guy plays drums. They play... rock, zydeco, polka, swing... ish. They did a sax and sousaphone version of Aerosmith's "Last Child." And a polka version of "Comfortably Numb."

Best band ever? No. A good way to spend an evening? Definitely.
Michael Lee Ammons and The Water Street Hot Shots in Veteran's park in Grafton. They're described as a hard working traditional blues string band. Drawing from acoustic musical styles of the 1920s and 30s, their repertoire includes old-time blues, ragtime, novelty, and "hokum" party music. They had a washboard player, and a jug or two.

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