October 29 2005: The Mountain Goats, The Prayers and Tears of Arthur Digby Sellers, The Mae Shi – Bowery Ballroom, New York NY

The Prayers and Tears played what I figure to be their poorest performance all tour, probably because the whole band was trying to sleep through the afore-mentioned party (besides Alex, of course, who only has to play keyboards thus felt free to rock and roll all night long) and they had to drive eight hours in the morning. Though Perry finally got someone to yell “Judas” in response to his running “I’m going electric…like Dylan in ‘66” line. The Mountain Goats played well, as is their way, and my friend Erin from New Jersey came up and it was cool to see her. But the cheapest beer in the house was Budweiser at $5 a pint, so I went sober for the show. Just to see how the other half live.