The Wildest Saturday Night This Side of The Double Deuce...

So I don't know how to begin to classify went down on Saturday. It is somewhere between what I love about this town(and a huge reason I love living back in Baltimore) and holy shit get me the hell out of this town. So we'll just say it was a night that won't soon be forgotten.

It all started with another great performance by The Real Quaid at Dick's Famous Halfway Inn in Rosedale, Hon! Now if you haven't been to Dick's, I would't tell you go run out there and see it now like I say of Andy Nelson's, or other local joints detailed soon, but if you love part biker bar, part ocean paradise, part sports bar?, part only place where The Real Quaid can get a gig, and part uncooked chicken fingers, this is your place! Wait, don't go there yet, read the rest of this blog first. So anyway, The Real Quaid won the audience over much like The "Good Ole Blue Brothers Boys Band" with Steve's infamous 4th verse to "Before He Cheats." It looked pretty much like this...
With the audience in a frenzy, however, tensions started to flare, fists started flying, some big dude hit the deck, barstools became weapons, and well, you can probably read the police report for the rest. Now I don't know all the details, but let's just said a dude was getting his face stomped by the bartender, two "ladies" were put in choke-holds, and through it all, the band played on. At this point, no one left at Dick's was watching the band play anymore as the cops showed these monsters some cuffs and the back seat. But I can't say I cared too much, because the view from behind the drum kit was pure Baltimore at it's best! Did I ever expect my band to be playing the background noise to someone's trip to jail? No. Did I ever expect a huge brawl at Dicks? Yes! Should have seen that one coming I guess.

Dick's Halfway Inn looked pretty much like the Double Deuce from the movie Roadhouse Saturday night. Ok, maybe not that bad, but I'm glad I was there. At least I think so. You can probably go see for yourself this Saturday, or any other...