I went to see The Henry Clay People tonight because I learned they were playing for free as part of the Culture Collide Festival in Echo Park.
After arriving, I saw someone who may or may not have been in the band but they said “Don’t make any New Year’s Plans” so that was cool.
Then HCP played and it was ragged and tuff and fun. They played some new jams, some old jams and some in between.
It was a lot of fun and then Joey Siara pointed me out and said I was gonna count off their song ‘Working Part Time’. I’ve been to a bunch of HCP shows and someone usually has counted it off.
But I’ve never done it. Today I did, it was rad. While it wasn’t quite as rad as when the elder Siara bro told me to jump into the pool at CityStock ‘09 or when The War on Drugs dedicated ‘Taking the Farm’ to me the last time they played the Echo, it was still pretty sweet. And while I don’t like to bring up the fact that I work everyday since one of my jobs is real easy and is basically just watching sports, the fact that I haven’t had a day off since at least early August and tonight featured me counting off a song called ‘Working Part Time’ on a day where I worked at nine after getting home after one from work and have to be in at eight tomorrow, well it meant a little more than the usual.
On a Saturday Night
