Pho Hoa's Unite

On Saturday, Kid Kani and I entertained in our two passions. Pho and show. Metal show to be exact.

Our plan was to go to Pho Hoa Clement and as I was walking over there Kani called me to say we needed a plan B. PHC was closed...on a Saturday night...closed. Our second option was Pho Hoa Hiep, but remembered that it was waaaay down Clement. We looked across the street and saw *some place I can't remember* and said, sure! Bring on the pho!

Kani with Pho

Post pho, we walked down to Green Apple and magazine shopped then hopped into the car and drove down to Slim's for Hightower, Parchman Farm and Drunk Horse.

This bill was pretty well matched. All three bands had a similar 70's metal Black Sabbath via BTO sound. Kani had given me Drunk Horse and it rolls around my ipod every once in a while and I like it! Parchman Farm gets played by Bagel Ted and I like it! (even though I had been informed that the singer is the arch enemy of Metal Scott Campbell.) Hightower I had ever heard before and I LOVED them and yet they were a JAM BAND. Misty, a JAM band. They had limited vocals and were mostly instrumental, BUT their extreme metalness cancelled out their jam-band-ness. Who knew? When Parchman Farm came on, I liked them too, but generally felt that there are other bands who do this same thing and maybe better. Plus, its almost like this is a 70's LA metal trucker rock thing happening right now. Lots of long haired, denim wearing, moustache sporting, boot wearing men. Awww Yeah! Kani was merzmerized by the extreme boobness of the guitarist.

Anyways, just when I was all hmmm, Parchman Farm sound generic, then Drunk Horse came on and sounded even more generic live. I mean, I dig them on the ipod. Live? I was all, eh.

Midnight rolled around and training called so Kani and I left and rocked out to Foreigner on the way home, complete with air guitar, voice guitar and screaming vocals at the top of our lungs.

Really bad photos here.