Old Rocker Goes Off Rocker And Stays Out Until Almost 11!

 September 6, 2025

   Yes, it's true, I actually drove down into the Beast on Friday night to hang out in a bar for three hours and then drive home. I haven't really done this since about 1992, but what the hey, it was homework for a good cause. And, yes, it was way too loud, but then I have tortured so many people when I was in rock bands over multiple decades I can't really complain, but sometimes I still do (obscure Joe Walsh reference)

"Who You Callin' Pendejo? Pendejo!"

My Kind of People

at The Rock Bar in Scottsdale

   All that said, Roger Clyne & The Peacemakers are serious Rockers and they played a very dynamic and worthy set. Totally Rocked that joint.

The Peacemakers In Action

at The Rock Bar in Scottsdale last night. I got home at 10:45 p.m. Oh, the humanity!

   To me, it had a very Beatlesque In The Caverns vibe, long narrow room, intimate crowd, volume turned up to 11. I stood for over two hours!

   At one point I went over to a security guard (he was perhaps 15 going on 26, with the word SECURITY on his T-Shirt) and I leaned in to ask him—yelling of course!—Where are the bathrooms! and he said with some concern, "Are you alright, sir?" Now, never mind that I thought I was walking like a stud in his prime, so, I said, indignantly, "Do I look like I am not alright?" and he gave me a look that seemed to say, "Hey, dude, I can't believe you actually walked in here on your own power." 

   Fortunately, they had a first aid station that served Guinness on tap.

"Lucky I'm sane after all I've been through
(Everybody say I'm cool) (he's cool)
I can't complain, but sometimes I still do
Life's been good to me so far. . ."

—Joe Walsh, "Life's Been Good to Me So Far"