B-Minus

Like so many white dudes of a certain age, I am in a mid-life-crisis band. After nearly three years of name-wrangling, we are called B-Minus. Sometimes we play at Tiffany Tavern in Ye Olde Towne, Alexandria.

You can drop by on Tuesdays and hope that we will be signed up to play. But, and this is important so pay attention, we play mostly original songs. This means that, woefully, you will not happily sing along to tunes you have ever heard before. This means that you will hear a lot of lyrics about girls we broke up with in the '80s. This means that most people come to hear us once. Then they say, "You all must have such a good time. It's great to see that you have such a good time together. How nice for you." Then they run.

Once they leave, never to return, we sit back down and listen to the other bands. Open mic nights are basically a fully-overlapping Venn Diagram of bands waiting to play, girlfriends and pals of the bands waiting to play, and patient bartenders mentally calculating the Fun-to-Trouble ratio of beer sales and sonic assault.

Here is our last set list. You might hear some of these smash hits if you drop by:

Two (Ryan Adams, Easy Tiger)
Femme Fatale (Velvet Underground, The Velvet Underground & Nico)
Howlin’ Wolf
Come Home Tonight
Ghosts
Della Mae

PS - Okay, okay, sooome of these are covers. But they are awesome covers that fit our slow-ish, roots-and-rock-got-married sound. Oh, and "Untouchable Face" by Ani deFranco is so fantastic that I'd give my eye tooth to have written it or even to be able to convincingly perform it; now playing on iTunes.