chase the light

Tonight was Tenacious D and Spinal Tap at the House of Blues. Just getting there turned into an interesting chore. It started raining sooooo hard that we couldn’t get out of the parking structure. I think this is my new favorite photo. You can actually see the rain twisting in the wind as it streaks down between the buildings. Cars on La Cienega were skidding downhill trying to get up the steep part near Sunset. Thundercracks too. No wonder the car wash was closed earlier today. Now it all makes since. The House of Blues never lets you bring cameras, so here’s the marquee. The show? Hilarious. Spinal Tap came out and opened with Heavy Duty, they also did Stonehenge, Christmas with the Devil, Listen to the Flower People, etc… Pretty much all the Tap favorites. They even threw in a bit of Jazz Odyssey. Christopher Guest, Michael McKeon, and Harry Shearer plus drummer #14. Unlucky drummer #13 didn’t last very long according to them. Then came the “D”. Amazing. Jack Black is so funny. They opened with the theme from “Flash Gordon” by Queen and went straight into “Wonder Boy”. They also did “Kyle Took a Bullet for Me” They also did a short tribute to Ronnie James Dio and the song about the road. They even showed the video of Jack Black trying to hand out blowjobs on the street only to get picked up by Kyle. The whole place was on the floor laughing after that. For the encore, Spinal Tap came back out, along with many others, and did “Big Bottom”. Twenty people were on stage, 11 of them playing bass. Good stuff.