Last night's gig was a little off the wall for us. Our singer Louie had a wedding to attend, so the remaining 3 of us decided to do the gig anyway (as The Meat Sweats) and switch it up a bit, so Steve went from guitar over to bass, and Justin went from bass over to guitar/lead vox while i still rocked the kit. The setlist was adjusted accordingly, away from the hard rock tip over to the groovy pop rock country bluesy tip, and produced some interesting results. We traded in our Weezer for DMB, Tool for Tom Petty, Alice in Chains for Ryan Adams, and G n'R for Jack Johnson.

We caught a few people off guard, and some others surprised us by knowing some shit we didn't think they would know. Not surprisingly, nobody knew the Ryan Adams stuff. :) It was still fun anyway. Justin correctly predicted that set 2 would be the ladies set, and they would shit when we played Crash Into Me. He was correct - a dance floor filled with ladies and no sausage! One guy (the "Play some Bush!" guy) finally wised up and realized all the ladies were up front and ventured onto the dance floor to join them. Other tunes in the ladies set included Kiss, Faith and the biggest singalong of all, Sweet Caroline.

Louie showed up for the third set, so we switched back to The Tribbianis full rock mode and brought the night home with the Power Hour set, which was a nice change after the first 2 sets. All in all a fun night, and many thanks to Janelle, Mandy, Tanya and Melissa for making it out and having a good time with The Meat Sweats. Also to Larissa and Ana, the dynamic Russian duo, even though they aren't currently speaking to me after we couldn't fit their requests into our one full rock set. :) They'll come around i'm sure.