Local Bands and Venues

In my very first post on here I talked a little bit about local bands.  In the last year or so I began to get really into local shows.  I meet a few kids at my high school who were in a band called Operation 13 and I loved to go see them play!  They play some older covers with some of their own original songs mixed in as well as some newer alternative hits. They always put on a great show when I’ve seen them and they look like they are always having a good time.  They have a show coming up this weekend on the 11^th in Carrolton if you’re interested go like them on Facebook to get the details.

                Another local band I have been following for a while is Forest Green.  A friend of mine showed me a song and immediately I was hooked.  The band has what it takes and everyone knew that right from their first show at Pop’s Skate Shop.  Just last weekend I went to hear the band at Counter Culture and I swear every time I like them more and more. 

                While at Forest Green’s show I experienced love at first sight when I heard The Backpacks play. I had heard they had a few good songs but I wasn’t prepared for what I heard.  It was like Fireworks were going off in the room even though I was just standing in front of a dimly lit stage.  They have a 2 original E.P.’s and they are even on Spotify. 

                I would just like to talk about how great Counter Culture is as a venue in Saginaw.  It just opened and if I was in a band I would love to play here! It’s in a good part of town and the sound is great.  The setting is small but intimate and the extra room is great for in between artist.  Love this place and I will definitely go back.

Grey's Anatomy The Musical?

So, I have been binge watching Grey’s Anatomy for a while now.  I just recently reached the “Musical” episode in season seven.  It’s called “The song beneath the song”.  This episode is a little bit different than the rest because the surgeons all are singing while doing their jobs at the hospital.  It’s a very strange episode to say the least. 

                It starts out with two main characters on the show getting into a terrible car crash and one of them ends up being ejected from the vehicle.  Callie Torres is fighting for her life as well as the life of her unborn baby.  But, this part is pretty normal for the show. It’s the singing that’s strange. 

                The show features Chasing Cars by Snow Patrol in the very beginning and ends with the whole cast singing How to Save a Life by The Fray.  In the middle a few characters sing songs that go with what is happening in the operating room and in other parts of the hospital.  One girl sings Breathe by Anna Nalick while she is trying to console the father of the unborn child.  Later on the cast comes together to sing How We Operate by Gomez which unites the group back together during their tough times.  

                Now, my summary sounds like it’s a pretty great episode, but it isn’t. The episode is annoying and uncalled for.  I was 5 episodes deep, feeling very emotionally vulnerable, and the writers threw this (in my opinion) TRASH at me.   These people are actors and actresses not singers.  They didn’t sign up for this show to preform sad songs in sterile clothing.  I was unimpressed by their pitchy notes.  A few had decent voices, like Callie and Miranda Bailey but others feel flat. 

                Those would include Owen, who sounded like a walrus with vocal damage and Meredith Grey who was given the smallest part and still managed to scar my ears with her high pitched screeching.  It was a hard episode to watch but I definitely couldn’t skip it because I had to know what was going to happen to Callie at the end of the episode.  In the end I persevered and made it to the next episode.  But I was deaf for a few days…