horseshoe road

who knew you had to go to japan to see an oklahoman band? these guys're called horseshoe road, and played a gig in nagoya put on by the american consulate. it's oklahoma's 100th birthday this year, so everyone raise their glasses. this band truly rocked the house. it was grassroots/f0lk sorta music, and it was groovy as hell. even the japanese businessmen were clapping along and tapping their feet.
after the show we talked to the band for a bit, and i told them when they return to oklahoma they'd have a new fan - namely my dad who's living there right now.
after some chatting they invited us (myself, cleo, and my friend naho, who i met at the school festival - see photo in post below) to come with them for dinner. we trekked in the pouring rain to this izakaya where the techies proceeded to bust out their video camera, boom mike, and mixing board and record the dinner. it was messed up having a bright light shining in my eyes and a huge microphone looming overhead, periodically twitching in the direction of whoever was talking, while i ate my food. the band is making a dvd and they wanted to get some behind the scenes footage. as for introductions, on the right is kyle the fiddle player, who was massively hitting on naho, to his left; next is michael, the japanese-american consul who arranged this gig; then cleo; the light guy; the sound guy; brad the bassist; and finally me. after this we headed out to karaoke until some absurd hour. it was a solid impromptu night of indulgence and revelry.