Had a good time at the Cafe Racer in Seattle last night. It's the neighborhood bar that we all wish we had in our neighborhood. I had one until the House Bar closed in Bloomington :( We got to play with Eric Apoe and They, which featured Eric on acoustic guitar, with an electric guitar player and a saxophonist for a sweet sound. Eric had some pretty funny songs and we had a good time.
It was interesting being back in Seattle, where I lived for a couple of years back in the day. It's always cool to play a venue that you've been to as a customer and never dreamed you would someday be playing there as a musician. Seattle was actually sunny while we were there, although it was gloomy and drizzly everywhere else we went within 50 miles (Olympia/ Arlington etc). Alas we later found out that Café Racer was where in 2012 a disgruntled customer came in and shot dead 4 people and wounded another, before exiting and killing another woman and then shooting himself.
