I can’t believe it’s taken me so long to write this but I think by now that’s the most familiar theme of this whole private-esque blog thing I got going on here.
This show was a real last minute kind of plan. My sister and I share the same birthday (although we’re born 2 years apart). She lives in Indiana and was coming in town for a week for our birthday. I think she’s been in Seattle the past 3 years so it’s become something of a tradition.
Anyways she mentioned she had wanted to see a good rock show when she was in town. I had actually just heard a song or two of Dirty Honey and when I was looking through the Stranger I saw that they were just so happening to play Neumos the same day as our birthday.
I wouldn’t call myself a super fan by any means but I figured it would sell out quickly because from what I heard I compared these guys to Greta Van Fleet, and although I haven’t seen those guys I’d heard they sold out everywhere they played.
I bought me, Alyssa, and Kayla all tickets and created an invite on Facebook to hopefully get a bunch of my friends out and about to see the show. Luckily everyone agreed and we were all set for an amazing time.
We went down early and grabbed some drinks at Chop Suey. We waited until we had a bit of a crew, then went on to The Unicorn for drinks there. Its crazy to think at this time the COVID-19 outbreaks were beginning to happen but no one really took it seriously at this time…anyways….
After the unicorn we headed to the Runaway which is the bar right next to Neumos. Alyssa is not much of a drinker and she was really wanting to get in there. I was still chatting it up with everyone who was showing up so she went on in without me. I wish now I woulda went with her because I missed the first couple songs of the first band, The Amazons. She also was able to get her merch signed by Dirty Honey which is super cool. She described the guys as down to earth and really nice! Now I have a signed record thanks to her! Very cool to have as part of the collection.
Anyways my sister and I were pretty wasted. I was towards the back right of the venue and definitely was doing some dancing. I really liked the Amazons although I can’t say nothing jumped out at me. Their set seemed super short but who knows it could have been the alcohol. At this point every time I turned around I was getting a free beer from Paige, Cody, or Collin.
Dirty Honey came on and I was very surprised at just how good they sounded live. His voice was maybe even better live than recorded, which is saying ALOT! The guitar solos were insane and they really put on a great show. I can say that my whole group was dancing and everyone was having a great time. There was literally a few times I just had to stop and look at someone in disbelief at how great either his voice was or the shredding was.
They did two great covers which fit their sound. Last Child by Aerosmith and Whole Lotta Love by Led Zeppelin. Kayla loved it! Led Zeppelin is both of our favorite bands. Was a great birthday for both of us for sure.
The ended the show with Rollings 7’s which is no surprise as it’s likely their best song. What a great way to bring in 31. I hope next years birthday is just as good. Would highly recommend seeing these guys live to really get a feel for what a real rock show is like….and should always be like!