Music Monday — BBVD

This one takes me back to my col­lege days.  I grew up lis­ten­ing to a slew of dif­fer­ent kinds of music, but I was always par­tial to the Big Band Era.  Glen Miller, Cab Cal­loway, and the like.  When Jon Favreau’s epic Swingers pre­miered in 1996 and I saw Big Bad Voodoo Daddy fea­tured promi­nently, I knew I had found some­thing special.

I actu­ally saw them play in a few dif­fer­ent venues and met them through a friend of a friend.  Just a heads up, when the lead singer of a band sees you at the bar and says, “Hey (MC’s real name)!  Thanks for com­ing up for the show, man!” it goes a long way to impress the chick you were just throw­ing around the dance floor.

God bless Scotty Morris.

Sadly, The Derby (the movie and real life loca­tion BBVD played fre­quently) is now a freak­ing Citibank.  Par­don me whilst my twenty-something self dies a lit­tle inside.