I kept going back and checking the web pages because I didn't believe it! I didn't believe that the band "Spritzer" I saw on the web was the same one that I saw at Sunnyvale. But it's true. Spritzer's Facebook page does have references to the Sunnyvale show, and Matt Meade, the band's mastermind, appears on the Facebook page as well as the music page. So it must be the same. But the band sounded a world apart on stage as compared to on the web.
There are two segues from my last posting to this. First of all, the chronological: Spritzer followed def.GRLS on stage at the show. But the second segue is that both bands (on stage) work with different genres. In the Spritzer show there were a couple points where the music paused, and then resumed going down a completely different road.
The music had a vibrancy and a lot of action, there was a lot going on. The band was a five-piece on stage, and, unlike the web music, had a saxophone as part of the mix! The sax seemed to go off on its own path a few times, but it was all brought back together. Here is a diagram, the best I could do in the dark, of the lineup of the actual musicians in the band. There were drums in the back, two guitars up front center and right, with keys over at the front left and the sax standing a little to the right of the keys. It was interesting that the sax and the keys were next to each other, because there were a couple interludes where the sax had some rests and he reached over and became a third hand on the keys! Wow!
So here is a sample of the Spritzer's online presence, which, while good music, has nothing to do with what you would hear if you were to see them live. Here is "Melt":
I enjoyed Spritzer and want to go back and hear them again, especially if they're a five-piece with the sax. But I don't see upcoming shows posted at the moment. In the meantime, here is the click to their Soundcloud page: Spritzer on Soundcloud (CLICK HERE).
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