Day 83 / March 24, 2011
Kona Brewing Company / Kailua-Kona, HI
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Here Come the Mummies!
Alright, let’s get the beer thing out of the way first. I had a Kona Longboard Island Lager at Clare & Don’s Beach Shack. It was a little flat, not a ton of flavor, and really not much better than Sunday’s Miller Lite. Waitress: “Would you like another?” Me: “No thanks, I’ll have a Sierra Nevada, please.”
This was just a warm up for the evening’s main event. According to legend...
Over 5000 years ago, from the dry stretches of the not-so-fertile crescent, wandered a well-endowed, if foul smelling tribe, Expleticus Deleticus. They played upon musical instruments that, although crude, were nevertheless vessels of seeming infinite funkiness. Unearthed hieroglyphs tell a salacious story: a tribe possessing the power to groove most righteously, made drop the tunics of five luscious teenage daughters of the Pharaoh, who subsequently cursed them with a spell so vile, merely to repeat its name is to reduce your tongue to cinders inside your very head.
Thus begins the shtick that is Here Come the Mummies. A few friends and I joined a couple hundred other Mummies fans for an evening of ancient funk at The State Theater in Falls Church, VA. Nine guys in full mummy wrappings and accessories rocked the joint for a couple hours. Two saxophones, trumpet, guitars, keyboards, percussion and drums sharing the stage with precision dance moves, costume changes, and suggestive lyrics.
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| Libido Kneivel |
What a trip! Even without the shtick, it would have been an awesome show. Be sure to check out their website – they’ve got 8 songs available for free downloads, bios of each mummy, videos and upcoming tour dates. Check out the Community Forum to see how rabid their fan base is! I snapped a few pics of the Mummies in action.
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