January 7, 2012 - We attended the
SOLD OUT CD Release Show of the great young band,
SafetySuit, of their
new album "These Times" at 12th & Porter in Nashville tonight. A couple of other good, young, Nashville-based bands,
Chasing Change and
Throwing Gravity, opened for them. Thanks to our friends, Chris and Tarryn, for attending the show with us.
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| We first saw these guys on one of the two music cruises we took last year and we were really impressed with their energy on stage and the strong voice of lead singer and front-man, Doug Brown. |
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| Before the show we had an excellent dinner and some tasty drinks at The Whiskey Kitchen in downtown Nashville just up the street from the music venue with Chris and Tarryn as well as our friends, John and Monique. The main topic of conversation over dinner was our upcoming trip to Aruba all together next month. |
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| About six songs into Safetysuit's set, lead singer, Doug Brown, abruptly left the stage. He came back on a few minutes later and admitted he was racked with a stomach flu and just could not go on. This was definitely true based on the photo above that I took a few minutes before he left the stage. The dude looks sick. As mentioned before, all of Doug's energy is spent on stage during every performance we have seen by Safetysuit, and he still gave a valiant effort tonight despite the illness. The rest of the band bravely decided to keep playing and let the crowd sing along. Then members of the two opening bands, Chasing Change and Throwing Gravity, took the stage as well and led the crowd in singing several Safetysuit songs in a tribute to Doug and the rest of the band. It's was one of those magical nights that only seeing live music can give you. Below is a snippet of the Safetysuit "tribute" band in action. Probably the most amazing thing about the incident is that no-one in the packed venue seemed to leave despite the "star" not being there. That's a testament to the town of Nashville that really loves their music. |
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