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Parish Entertainment Group presents the New Orleans Suspects with MJ's Brass Boppers
2014-12-05
Leo's Music Club
5447 Telegraph Ave, Oakland, CA 94609
9:00 PM, Friday, December 5, 2014
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[9:m PM lights down, announcements]
[10:35 PM lights down, announcements from Jeff about tonight's fish fry]
Nice to try out a new space. Leo's is a more conventional box shape with high ceilings, broken up by slight variations in the walls and floor reflecting the cobbled together nature of the interior space. Seemed great, though the many small variations in floor height are somewhat disconcerting – my guess is that many drinks will be spilled by unsteady patrons toppling into one another!
Sonically, the room was pretty good. With a small Meyer PA and monitors, you know they're aiming high; hopefully the house or Meyer did some of that fancy pants SMAART analysis to be sure to dial things in and tame any weird resonances from the room geometry. I thought it sounded good, though not excellent, but I experienced the show from a less than stellar listening position in the front – probably too far underneath the PA throw to really shine. It certainly sounded good when I was further back in the room.
MJ's Brass Boppers opened up the show with a brief set of sloppy brass funk. It was fun, but I'm glad we'll get different folks tomorrow, just for variety's sake.
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