Undisclosed - Zach Bo1inger
The Matt Taylor story
I drove all the way to Bloomington to see Mike one night. We didn't have any plans, but Shonda was busy that night, so I had an excuse to go down there without her. I showed up and Mike asked what we were doing. He suggested we go to Sports because Rich Hardesty was playing. That was kind of cool, because there had been several times that I had gone to Bloomington just to see Rich.
So we headed out to Sports. We pay our cover charge and grab an open table. We sat there for a while before we realized that maybe the guitar case with the www.matttaylor.biz sticker probably didn't belong to Rich. "Maybe he's playing at Bluebird," Mike said.
I knew from watching Police Academy that any bar with "Blue" in the name is a gay bar. We decided to go see anyway. We left Sports and went across the street to check out Bluebird. This time we checked the billboard before paying a cover charge. It turns out he wasn't playing there either.
We decided to swing by Mike's house and see where he was really playing. Turns out he was in Evansville that night. We had already paid the cover charge at Sports, so we decided to go back. We got the last two seats. We were pretty sure that we had seen this guy before. One time when we came to see Rich, we sat at the table forever and then some guy that wasn't Rich hopped up on stage. We asked if he was opening for Rich, and he said no, Rich was playing upstairs. He seemed annoyed. We went upstairs. That was then.
Anyway, we sat there at the Matt Taylor show waiting forever. We kept saying stuff like "When does this loser start?" and we started bad mouthing him. Some guy at the next table must have heard us. He jumped up and pretended he was Matt. We yelled "Wooo! Matt!" Some girl at his table turned around excited.
"You know Matt?" she asked. It was the real Matt Taylor!
"No," I said, "we just read the bumper sticker."
Then I told her that we came to see Rich Hardesty and asked her if he would think that was a funny story. "You'd better not mention that if you talk to him," she said. She was serious.
In the pauses between songs, we yelled out requests for Rich Hardesty songs. We stuck around for about 5 songs and then left.