Went to see Better Than Ezra last night at the House of Blues. BTE is a home town band. Heather, Nicole and Sean all came to see the show. I've never seen them before. (The band that is, I've seen my friends before.)
I was very pleasantly surprised to find Susan Cowsill was the opening act. I am a big fan of hers and would have paid to just go see her in concert. She put on a great show.
By the time BTE came on the place was packed. I will say that they have a very fanatical following. I don't know if I've ever seen the place as crowded. And most of the audience sings along to every song. They put on a good show, but I am probably the only one in the 1500 there that liked the opening act more. I like their show, they did some covers, all their hits, but there was just something lacking about it. Everyone there would disagree with me but I felt like it was lacking passion, which I thought Susan more than made up in. Like I said I enjoyed the show, just wouldn't rate it as one of my top shows.
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Yeah, she's from the Cowsills from the sixties. They had a hit with Hair from the movie. They were the inspiration for the Partidige Family. Her brother Barry lived in New Orleans also, and died during Katrina. His body was found on the docks after the storm. The day of his funeral her older brother died, I think of a heat attack. She's had a rough year. She also sang in a group called the Continetal Drifters. At 47 she's making her solo debut she likes to say.
Ok, so I searched around on the internet and it seems that speculation has it that "Better than Ezra" used to just be "Ezra" but then found there was another band going by that name or starting to go by that name so they started going by "Better than Ezra" to distinguish themselves from the other band.
Don't know if that's the real skinny or not, but that's a story circulating on the net.
Wow, even if that's not true that's an interested story. The only Ezra I could come up with was the poet, Ezra Pound, but why would they think they're better than him?
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