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| From | "Sager, Greg" <greg.sager@bankofamerica.com> |
| Subject | Re: CVS in SF |
| Date | Tue, 27 Sep 2005 05:54:27 -0500 |
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> Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2005 23:12:43 +0000
> From: "Gene Good" <javagene@hotmail.com>
> To: audities@smoe.org
> Subject: CVS in SF.
> Message-ID: <BAY105-F50581FDC5B2402C9F210CDA8B0@phx.gbl>
>
>
> Last Friday was the Hideout gig.I work nights ,but my wife
> Amy went with
> some of her friends.She said the place was pretty empty.When
> he announced he
> was from SF ,Amy cheered.He asked her if she was from there
> and she shouted
> out she had just seen him there.He said he would touch base
> later.She said
> he did another amazing set,just him and guitar.Her friends were
> impressed.And he did track her down after his set.In fact she
> said he kept
> coming back.She did buy me a "present" out of his silver
> case.She got "2Cute
> 2 be 4gotten" the one with the teenage poetry.One of her
> friends wanted to
> buy one and asked what I had bought in SF.Chris said "Oh this
> is the one
> Gene got".He remembered me well, Amy said.By name .The rest
> of the story is
> between my wife and her friends.Nothing overtly was said.But
> Chris was more
> than interested in hanging around Amy.He was well aware I worked very
> late.Their version is he was after Amy.Again, she says he
> didn't actually
> say anything but hinted.In her words he was "rock star
> scummy".But she still
> loves him.And so do I.However, if a future release contains a
> song to an
> Amy, I will have to say the guy has good taste.
That's an odd story. After his set, Chris did converse in front of the stage with the members of the audience who were buying his CDs. That includes Mike Bennett and I, as well as the group of women who were sitting in front of the soundman (whom I now realize were your wife and her friends). But ten minutes after his set was over, Chris was sitting at a table in the front room of the Hideout having beers with a group of old friends (me and fellow Auditeer Peter Kuehl being among them), and he hung out with us for several hours. He didn't flirt with anybody, although he did eat several tamales of questionable origin and told an off-color story about one of Brian Wilson's backing musicians.
I'm almost certain that the only people remaining in the Hideout when we left Chris there later that night were the bar's regular patrons and the staff.
I'm not questioning your wife, Gene. But her story doesn't seem to square with what I saw on Friday night. Except for that short interval after his set, Chris was hanging out with us all night. Whatever conversations he was having in the back room while he was selling CDs were relatively brief ones.
Not that I think he was, but if Chris *was* up to something naughty, I hope that those tamales did not sit well with him on his drive up to Minneapolis. ;-)
Gregory Sager
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