House of Blues: AKA Rathskeller

This week is our 8th anniversary, so Mr. Magoo and I decided to go out to celebrate over the weekend. We headed downtown for some duck pin bowling, when we realized that there were about 4 events going on, and we were headed right for all of the traffic. I suggested we head to the Rathskeller, to start, since we were both hungry. As luck would have it, that night was a blues band. We ordered our food, and waited for them to start. When we were in Vegas, we wanted to see a blues band, so naturally we went to the House of Blues. There they had a country band?!? Then we end up at a German Restaurant in Indianapolis, and they have a blues band? Something is messed up...

Anyway- they were really good! We were surprised, because when they came in to set up, there was only one guy of the 4 that actually looked like a blues player. The bassist had to be our favorite to watch. Not because he was playing well, but because of several other reasons 1) He looked Polish 2) He had strange facial expressions 3) He had a strange sway during the music (he would bend one knee, then the other, and looked quite stiff during the whole process) 4) After each song he would say something to the lead guy (Gene Deer), who was awesome by the way, and that guy would look at him like "don't talk to me"

We were trying to figure out if this was a real band, or if the singer just gathered these guys together to have full band for the evening. What we came up with is that they barely knew each other really. The band was made up of 4 people of all ages. They didn't really talk much before their set began, and I just can't imagine these people hanging out!

In good news, I am happy to report that The Rathskeller is SMOKE FREE!

PS. I have a picture of the guy who I'm talking about. It is on Mr. Magoo's phone, which I happened to run through the washing machine this morning! Oops! Once it dries out, I'll be able to post up the picture!