L U N A T A L K with Eva Moon

Gin soaked

April 19, 2009 on 7:48 pm | Join the conversation. You know you want to. | In Backstage Pass, General Musing, Music

So our bass player turned 40 last night. Well, today, but the party was last night. He plays in at least four bands – all different styles – and everyone was there. I’ll link you to all four and allow you to imagine the mashup.

I was chatting at one point with a library science student and he commented that library parties mostly consisted of griping about library classes. He agreed that musician parties were more interesting.

But first, martinis. Martinis are excellent, but best relegated to rare indulgences, in my case. My association on the fringes of martinidom goes back to my youth, though. Grandmom loved gin – Boodles was her brand of choice. When I was pregnant, queasy and not drinking, the one thing that saved me was hours spent with her while she sipped gin and fed me the marinated olives. I doubt the surgeon general is going to endorse the practice, but it’s a wonderful cure.

Last night’s martini was large and effective and a wonderful warm up for an extraordinary jam. The bands mixing it up were:

Us (Balkanarama) playing our wild eastern european gypsy wedding/nightclub music.

The Floogies/Djangomatics strumming out the snappy gypsy jazz. On the Floogies page, try “Palm Springs Jump” and imagine a couple of clarinets and extra guitars and a raft or two of beer.

Sub Masa covering Romania.

The Supersones adding some latin spice:

And various guitar-wielding party crashers.

Shaken, not stirred.

Image by Ken30684 – Creative Commons