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Blind Date's typical setlist is never quite typical.
Much like the Blues Brothers adapted for their impromptu gig at Bob's Country Bunker ("both kinds of music: country and western!"), Blind Date tries to tailor its performance to the audience.
"Some places we play rock all night. Some places we play country all night," explains bass player BobbyG.
The band's audience-pleasers include time-tested favorites from a variety of genres, which is all fine and dandy. But like many bands do once they get established, the guys are working more originals into their sets.
"They've been getting a good response," says BobbyG, who's actually Bob Giacometti of Washington. "People have been getting to know them."
They can get to know the songs quickly by listening to "Restless," the CD the band recorded last year. The 10 songs all were written by guitarist/vocalist David Ursenbach, a Carnegie resident.
The album has a decidedly country flavor, or alt-country, as BobbyG puts it: mostly a harder-edged, leaner sound drawing influence from artists like Dwight Yoakam, Steve Earle and some of the Rolling Stones' matieral in that vein. Some quieter numbers round out the set.
Other Blind Date members are Rod Cregut of Canonsburg on keyboards and Pat Rush of Cecil Township on drums. The band has been together in one incarnation or another since '99.
A couple of special Blind Date shows coming up: 6:30 p.m. Friday, July 15, at the Station Square Jam in front of the Hard Rock Cafe; and 9 p.m. Saturday, July 16, at the Uptown Theatre in Washington (lots of giveaways at that gig, BobbyG tells me).
If you're going, listen for the band's originals. Musicians always enjoy an enthusiastic response to something they've come up with themselves.
Blind Date's typical setlist is never quite typical.
Much like the Blues Brothers adapted for their impromptu gig at Bob's Country Bunker ("both kinds of music: country and western!"), Blind Date tries to tailor its performance to the audience."Some places we play rock all night. Some places we play country all night," explains bass player BobbyG.
The band's audience-pleasers include time-tested favorites from a variety of genres, which is all fine and dandy. But like many bands do once they get established, the guys are working more originals into their sets.
"They've been getting a good response," says BobbyG, who's actually Bob Giacometti of Washington. "People have been getting to know them."
They can get to know the songs quickly by listening to "Restless," the CD the band recorded last year. The 10 songs all were written by guitarist/vocalist David Ursenbach, a Carnegie resident.
The album has a decidedly country flavor, or alt-country, as BobbyG puts it: mostly a harder-edged, leaner sound drawing influence from artists like Dwight Yoakam, Steve Earle and some of the Rolling Stones' matieral in that vein. Some quieter numbers round out the set.
Other Blind Date members are Rod Cregut of Canonsburg on keyboards and Pat Rush of Cecil Township on drums. The band has been together in one incarnation or another since '99.
A couple of special Blind Date shows coming up: 6:30 p.m. Friday, July 15, at the Station Square Jam in front of the Hard Rock Cafe; and 9 p.m. Saturday, July 16, at the Uptown Theatre in Washington (lots of giveaways at that gig, BobbyG tells me).
If you're going, listen for the band's originals. Musicians always enjoy an enthusiastic response to something they've come up with themselves.
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