We’ve done a lot of strange things over the years, but this past Sunday was our first time playing in the mall. That is right, we rocked the Freehold Raceway Mall on Sunday. You can’t get more Jersey than that, can you? And in Freehold no less.

Some of you may be wondering what the hell we were doing in a mall?  Well we wondered that a few times on Sunday too. But music industry wisdom dictates that when a radio station calls and asks you to do something, you do it. G-Rock radio called and asked us to do it, so we did. All part of our ongoing effort to be the only self-released band in rotation on commercial radio stations. Plus, Erin Vogt, the morning DJ is a sweetheart and we go way back, so wee’d do almost anything for her.

So there we are at the mall, playing basically acoustic, and every once ina while some old people stroll in front of the stage with fingers in their ears. Kind of half off mic, in an old person voice, Dylan says “Oh, its just too loud.” Most people watching just laughed, but another old women, waiting on line at the Starbucks next to the stage yells “They are right, it is too loud.” A short and nonsensical exchange between Dylan (on mic) and old lady (on line at Starbucks) ensues. I put a stop to the little verbal dust-up by proclaiming that “if you want to make an omlette, you have to break a few eggs.”

We proceeded with the set, which was surprisingly fun despite the Debbie Gibson atmosphere. We closed with a cover of Springsteen’s “Atlantic City” which seemed obligatory when performing at a mall in NJ.

Here a some pic taken by Lazlo from Blowup Radio….

Posted on November 13th, 2007 by axewheelder
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