so funny

last night Sasha called me up around 20:00, I'm still at work, and he reminds me that it is rumored that Keith Richards may show up at The Joint tonight. So obviously I tel him I'll meet him there, which I proceed to do. Every monday at the Joint a buncha renowned old rock men, and one young girl, play rock covers to a crowd of true rock and roll lovers and other freaks of nature. Its a fun scene, with old folks, young folks, black folks, white folks and so on. The singer dude was Jimmy Page's first choice for Led Zepplin, or so the story goes. Plant played on the stage with them two weeks ago, so why not Keith tonight? The guitarist, bassist, and drummer are all session and touring dudes who've played with the stones, niel young, and tom petty respectively. They play great sounding rock n roll without a lot of frills. During the first set they mentioned a couple times how anything can happen on "this stage" and to stick around, which me, chris, anda, sasha, and jeremie all did. But we didn't get keith. Set two started with Revolution #9 and went from there into an awesome honkey tonk woman which got the crowd going. We could sense something was going to happen. Smiling girls pressed toward the stage with youthful, not-quite-quivering, anticipation. Then you will never guess who went up onto it.... you'll never guess. Please try... It was... Fred Durst. Truthfully we had heard it might be in between the sets, but it was still a bit of a shock, or more of a slap in the face. He said "I want to get deep here with everyone for a minute." Me and my crew were all looking at each other nowingly and making fun. Durst proceeded to render that song "no one knows what it's like." Man, I thought I was a hack singer! Seriously bad, off key, ugly, uninspired. Trust me, I was probably 10 feet from him or less. After that he left the stage (thanks god) and the band did led zepplin's "nobody's fault but mine." That's not the song title is it? Well anyway they NAILED it, the drummer kicked ass and did those wierd counter rythms perfectly, the guitar screamed, the bass thumped, it was amazing. After that I took off and my ears were totally numb. I'll be back there soon.