Fuze at BoozeHounds

Went up to BoozeHounds last Friday night to see Fuze (and talk to Scott about a Virgo Bash...more details on that later). I hadn’t seen guitarist Ernie Cruz since he was in Rok Candy, so I was excited to get to see him again. He’s such a nice guy and such a good guitarist, and has helped me out with this site quite a bit.

The problem with doing a write-up so long after the actual show is that I can’t remember what songs the band played and I didn’t write anything down that night. I also didn’t get any pictures because the batteries in my camera were dead and I couldn’t afford to buy any more. Of course, had I known that everyone was going to keep buying me beer all night, I would have gotten batteries, but I didn’t know. Thanks everyone!

I do know that they played a lot of good songs and that Kel and I danced our butts off! Ernie kicked butt on guitar, often coming out onto the dance floor and jamming for us. I really liked singer Ruben’s gritty vocals. Excellent job. John on bass and James on drums were also very good. A solid band. They were just all really good and very nice. Hung out with us, bought us beer, played us good music. It was a really fun night.

The main song I do remember that they played was “Killing in the Name.” I had asked them if they played it and they said they did. So I was waiting for it. It’s one of my favorite songs to dance to. They finally did and we danced so hard I was all sweaty (and Kel accidentally spilled ice water down my back trying to cool me off - yikes!). Unfortunately during the song, some people (who previously got mad at me for calling them “rowdy” at another show - I didn’t think rowdy was an insult, but whatever) started moshing and evidently knocked some girl down or something. There were cops and an ambulance...I don’t know what exactly happened. But they were just having fun and didn’t mean to hurt anyone.

Speaking of Rok Candy (from back in the first paragraph), you may remember that they broke up when their singer Duke was called away to Iraq. I had wondered recently if he was back and had made it back all in one piece. Well, he was at BoozeHounds that night, just back from the war and all in one piece. And ready to rock. He even got up and sang a couple songs. It was great to see him back!

It was also nice to see Brad Ponder of Texas Special and Swampmouth and hang out with him. He’s always fun to hang with!

All in all, except for the ice water and the girl getting hurt, great night! Great music!

You can check out Fuze for yourself Friday, August 24th at Main Street, over on Wetmore Rd., and September 1st at Firehouse on Walzem.