Respect

Since writing on here how great it is to be in Hawaii without a ticket home, it's rained constantly. Nothing but rain. The rain stopped for a few minutes yesterday, so I went outside to take a walk, and it started raining within 35 seconds. I take back everything nice I've ever said about Hawaii.

Last night, I was able to drag myself away from the 1st season of LOST (open the god damned hatch already) and we went to see the John Butler Trio in Honolulu. When the idea of seeing them was mentioned, Matt, EB, and I had all said something similar to "Hmm. I've heard of them....I think I saw them at a festival one time, but I don't remember." Well, if three different people say that, chances are high that at least one of them actually saw the band and didn't like it. You should listen to the people.

I'm assuming that the "JBT" festival performances didn't include a 25-minute drum solo, like last night's. It may be boring and unmemorable to see them at a festival, but people do not forget 25 minute drum solos. Holy cow.

I remember at least FOUR times during the drum solo when I thought "wow, that was long, but thank god it's finally ---- oh hell no."

Matt got bored during said solo, so he left the crowd, found the restroom, waited in line, urinated, waited in line at the bar, got to the front of the line, was told that that bar didn't have Coke, went to the other bar on the other side of the room, waited in line, got a Coke, walked around for a bit, then came back and found us in the crowd. The drum solo was still going on.

In the history of live music, has anyone ever left a show thinking "Fantastic show....but I wish the drum solo had been longer" ? Is John Butler honestly standing on the side of the stage thinking how great it is? By the time he's listening to the 17th drum solo of the tour somewhere in middle America on a Tuesday night, is he still digging it? I guess he uses it for his restroom/7 foot bong break.

John Butler kept saying "Respect" and pounding his chest in between songs. Matt said one of the highlights for him was when a drunk girl behind him shouted "BOOYAKASHA!!" after one of them.

I lost a bet before the show, so I had to yell "FUCK THE CONTIGUOUS!!!" at some point during the show. I finally pulled it off in between songs during the encore, as we were leaving. The Hawaiians weren't as into it as I would've hoped. Although, come to think of it, maybe John Butler fans aren't familiar with the word "contiguous".