Plain White T’s Soundcheck Party on Friday, February 4th at the Knitting Factory
First of all I haven’t seen a cooler backdrop/setting for a concert in a few months! The Plain White T’s had this wonderful vintage circus theme going on with white and red stripes and big white light up letters along with ropes and almost a hint of nautical theme as well. They made the album artwork of “Wonders of the Younger” to life; it was simple but also extremely awesome! Plus to add a cherry to the top, some of their guitars were painted to match the background like Dave’s guitar had an anchor on it and Tom’s acoustic guitar was red and white striped, Tim had a guitar with “Wonder” on it and even De’ Mar’s drum set had rope around it and a compass. All the little details really made it cool.
The funness about a sound check party is that you get to see the band work together on stage to get their sound plus you get to talk to them for a minute! During their sound check they treated the very small group of us too “Irrational Anthem,” “Rhythm of Love,” and “Boomerang.” Which all three songs are off their new album! The funniest part about the guys was Mike their bass player, we learned he loves bass guitars. He has to buy them all the time and right now there are a bunch stored in their tour bus. Girls have shoe obsessions and Mike has bass guitar obsessions. The band was really nice and I now have “Irrational Anthem” stuck in my head!
I heard later in the night Tom even got into the crowd and sang a song from the front of the bar! I am sure everyone at the show had such a killer time, I wish I could have stayed for it!
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Photos courtesy of Matt Auclair.
