WAIHES-B-Q draws music-loving crowd
Brandon Horishny
Issue date: 5/8/09 Section: A&E
The weather this past weekend was arguably perfect. To enjoy nice weather, there were a multitude of outdoor events. The WAIH and SES joined forces to throw the "WAIHES-B-Q," a culmination of food, DJed music and live music this Saturday on May 2.
It all started at 4:30 p.m. Saturday afternoon, the smells of lighter fluid and charcoal, melded with the sound of The Chemical Brothers mashed up with The Imperial March (from Star Wars) set the tone for a rocking time.
Keeping Wyatt started about twenty minutes late, but even with the delay they were able to draw a crowd. Potsdam's new pop-punk band did a great job and had an almost flawless show once they got started.
Next up was The Third Rail, who hit the stage hard and had the most people dancing out of all the bands, due to their "funk." During this time was when the event had the most attendees, upwards of 150 people were in and out of the event at that time. Attendanees were literally getting their food right off of the grill due to high demand.
By the beginning of Missing Santiago's set, food ran out, and thus the crowd quickly diminished in size. Approximately 40 people, most of them WAIH DJs, comprised the remaining crowd. Even with the lack of people, Missing Santiago put on a solid set, chock full of dueling guitars, classic rock sounds, and a head full of hair courtesy of singer Geoffrey VanderWoude.
The head of hair in Missing Santiago was no match for the 'fro on Tyler Demitrius, guitarist of Group Thought, a band that literally has been together for only a month. Even though the least established, they shredded the hardest of all the performers. While they jammed for most of their 20-minute set, guitarist Carter Jones would fill the few seconds silence with asking the audience how they are doing, in a sarcastic manner, as well as making odd faces. Jones also showed off his stage presence by making sweet, sweet love to his axe, just minutes after singing the words to "The Wheels On The Bus" to finish off a jam.
The night ended with Marty Horn, a freshman singer/songwriter, who literally brought his own crowd. Just as Horn was about to go on the crowd grew exponentially. His soothing acoustics played over the sitting crowd, which seemed enthralled with Horn's music.
In the end the "WAIHES-B-Q" was a great success. The only thing that went wrong was that they ran out of food quickly, which caused much of the crowd to leave before all the acts were able to perform their sets. Other than that, the WAIH-B-Q was filled with good food, good times, good music, and a lot of hair.
It all started at 4:30 p.m. Saturday afternoon, the smells of lighter fluid and charcoal, melded with the sound of The Chemical Brothers mashed up with The Imperial March (from Star Wars) set the tone for a rocking time.
Keeping Wyatt started about twenty minutes late, but even with the delay they were able to draw a crowd. Potsdam's new pop-punk band did a great job and had an almost flawless show once they got started.
Next up was The Third Rail, who hit the stage hard and had the most people dancing out of all the bands, due to their "funk." During this time was when the event had the most attendees, upwards of 150 people were in and out of the event at that time. Attendanees were literally getting their food right off of the grill due to high demand.
By the beginning of Missing Santiago's set, food ran out, and thus the crowd quickly diminished in size. Approximately 40 people, most of them WAIH DJs, comprised the remaining crowd. Even with the lack of people, Missing Santiago put on a solid set, chock full of dueling guitars, classic rock sounds, and a head full of hair courtesy of singer Geoffrey VanderWoude.
The head of hair in Missing Santiago was no match for the 'fro on Tyler Demitrius, guitarist of Group Thought, a band that literally has been together for only a month. Even though the least established, they shredded the hardest of all the performers. While they jammed for most of their 20-minute set, guitarist Carter Jones would fill the few seconds silence with asking the audience how they are doing, in a sarcastic manner, as well as making odd faces. Jones also showed off his stage presence by making sweet, sweet love to his axe, just minutes after singing the words to "The Wheels On The Bus" to finish off a jam.
The night ended with Marty Horn, a freshman singer/songwriter, who literally brought his own crowd. Just as Horn was about to go on the crowd grew exponentially. His soothing acoustics played over the sitting crowd, which seemed enthralled with Horn's music.
In the end the "WAIHES-B-Q" was a great success. The only thing that went wrong was that they ran out of food quickly, which caused much of the crowd to leave before all the acts were able to perform their sets. Other than that, the WAIH-B-Q was filled with good food, good times, good music, and a lot of hair.
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