9/29/06 Agenda Lounge (San Jose, CA)

Ahh the Agenda Lounge, a very intersting place. Last time we played here a bouncer was stabbed and killed and two others were injured. This night was a different story. We showed up and played a 2 hr dinner jazz set. 40 Watt Hype has been known to turn into the players quartet and make a little extra $$ on the side. By day the Agenda Lounge is a upscale restaurant filled with yuppies tasting wine and choosing the finest cigars from behind the bar. By night it is a freak fest full of scandal, short skirts and usually by the end of the night multiple people have puked, kicked out, hit on a transvestite or gotten in a fight. I have personally seen all of these things happen from my cozy spot on the stage. Downtown San Jose is poppin, I must admit. Its crazy, when the clubs close the cops line the streets and shut everything down as people stumble back to their cars. We always leave the Agenda Lounge after playing with a mixed bag of emotion, sometimes disgusted, sometimes scared, a few times happy but mostly with a need to get the hell away from big bouncers with headsets on and chicks taking their heels off trying to hit eachother