I'm glad I decided to see Grand Buffet for the 2nd night in a row on Tuesday, because their show in Baltimore was ten times better than the one in D.C. (aside from the Scrooge McDuck/Nazi gold banter from the night before). They always have a loyal audience that shows up everytime they play the Ottobar and they feed off that. I knew from the moment Grape-A-Don walked in with a bunch of balloons shaped like a palm tree, a turtle and the sun that it was gonna be a good show. They had some technical difficulties with their discman, and apparently lost a disc with the instrumentals for a lot of their new stuff on it, so they played a great 45-minute set full of old Undercover Angels/Cigarette Beach-era stuff. Ned Oldham played unbilled before GB and I didn't even know that's who it was until someone mentioned it way after he played, and I didn't stick around at all that time for Magnolia Electric Co.

Labels: Baltimore music, concerts, Grand Buffet

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