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Saturday, December 04, 2004

Trip

So last night me and the boys headed out to New Hamilton Pensylvania to see John Pizzarelli in concert at Westminster Pennsylvania. The Youngstown Ohio symphony was the first half and we figured it would be Pizza and his trio afterwards. Well, first of all, if you ever have the opportunity to see the Youngstown symphony- don't! God, they were terrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrible. Just awful. The triangle was everywhere but where it was supposed to be, the percussion crazy- just bad. la-la-la-la-ding!-la-la-la. Pathetic.

So for the second half, the Trio comes on to play some jazz. But the symphony is still out there, so they are going slower, making the songs sound more classical than jazzy. Plus the sound sounded like it was mixed by some student from the AV club- half the time John's vocals were drowned out. Just a mess.

Now, we figured afterwards that hey- we're in a college town, we'll find a nice place to hang out, maybe meet some college...so on and so forth. Of course, there is no town. No food, no drink, no accomidations that we saw. So we drove to Sharon, PA. Nothing we could see. I said we should drop and ask, so we pulled up to a Sheetz gas station and in I go. I asked the lady behind the sandwich counter (lol) where we could go to find a decent bar and get some food and drink. She looked at me, and said "Ohio." Awesome!

So, on to Ohio where we ended up stopping in Youngstown. We actually lucked out and found a decent place called "Shakers" and were finally able to relax. Some fun and then some Denny's later we checked into the worst Super 8 motel ever and crashed for the night. The next morning, tired and restless, we came back. All in all, a pretty fun time in spite of all the hiccups. Fun to explore new environs- made me glad to be back in Ohio, and that is really saying something.

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