Played in a poker game with Side Hustlers and Stacks bandmate Andrew and his friends from Destrehan. I got out of the game pretty quickly thanks to losing all my money, but the evening wasn’t a total bust, as the seven of us got in a big truck and went down the road to Boomerangs, which is officially in the community of New Sarpy.
Andrew had even talked to the managment at Boomerangs about having the Side Hustlers play there but this idea got voted down due to the fact that you can smoke in there.
Having never been, I pictured a windowless dark place (it’s a cinder block box), with only angry divorced men in there, smoking their heads off. But that perception was incorrect. It’s pretty dark, like a bar should be, but there are windows. There might have been more women than men in the crowd. And it wasn’t that smoky.
Check out the crowd:
They are dancing to “New Orleans Ladies”.
The band (Tee Nah Nah) was quite good, very versatile. The drummer was like a metronome; the keyboard player probably could have done the gig solo and made twice as much, since he did everything but drums, but the drummer gave it something extra, he made it a band. They played all kinds of stuff. They did a zydeco number and they also played “No Parking On The Dance Floor”. Maybe the guy had to sort of average out his vocals to cover a multitude of styles but he did a great job. They were playing “To Love Somebody” (a song both the Stacks and Side Hustlers do) when we walked in.
There were two busy pool tables in the backroom, but there was a box of free quarters for the pool table! Mouse over the picture (or tap on a phone) for a surprise.
Psych! A rubber spider jumps out. There are no free quarters.
