Perhaps some day this will change -- not the sobering up, but the surrealism.
The Confidentials began with late afternoon, craft-roasted coffee at Dueling Grounds, browsing the Destinations Booksellers racks as we sipped, and then adjourning to the Bank Street Brewhouse for frites and a beer each.
Next stop was Wick’s on State for dinner with the Bluegills. Upon entering, I heard a familiar voice: Hugh E. Bir, covering Conway Twitty’s “Tight Fitting Jeans” from a stool in the crowded barroom. Mike Wyckliffe didn’t wait for me to ask, and within minutes, I was behind the bar, changing the tap handles as Elector replaced Amber Bock on tap.
This led to progressive pints to accompany our pizza and salad, and sated, the four of us proceeded to Horseshoe for the local leg of The Who singer Roger Daltrey’s “Use It or Lose It” tour in the Showroom. To my considerable surprise, the Horseshoe’s main barroom had BBC Bourbon Barrel Stout on tap, and it proved a worthy libation for sipping as I caught up with Mo, arguably the area’s biggest fan of The Who, after a chance meeting with him along the concourse.
This isn’t intended as a concert review. At the same time, Daltrey was spry and in as good a voice as one might imagine at the age of 65. The set list was predictably filled with Who songs, but to Daltrey’s credit, some of these are seldom played live by anyone, including the group itself. A version of “Going Mobile” was sung by Daltrey’s band mate, Simon Townshend (yes, the younger brother of Peter), and will stand as my top concert moment of the year so far.
When it was over, we returned home to reset clocks and contemplate the evening’s central theme: Most of it took place within New Albany, and all of it within 10 miles of home, without crossing the river to
Let’s all pat ourselves on the back … and return to work, because the trick now is to keep the momentum going.
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