Whew!!!!!
What a week....or a blur...or a vivid dream....whatever it was...rehearsed on june 25th...a quickie...learned "puzzle" (which we never ended up playing) went through "leave it up to the angels" and a few other songs that escape my memory at the given time.
ANYWAY....did Summerfest...which was odd cuz Pat McCurdy opened up and if you never saw Pat...he's funny and clever but its pretty much the last thing i wanna hear before i go on stage...he's in too damn good of a mood ...it became grating....anyway...get up on stage and i don' know what it was if it was my fault of not but there was such an apathetic vibe from the audience...it never got off the ground...seems like i could have lit myself on fire and would have still gotten the same energy from them....
went to appleton that night...the next day was Danny Westman's birthday( our drummer) had another weird gig in appleton...cool club...but mediocre turnout ...some nice press but that did not seem to boost ticket sales.
came back and had a great gig at the lakeview music festival...t'was totally dead when we pulled in but by the time we started playing ...it became packed....band played great...great energy and the rain held ....SUCCESS!!!!!!!
Met Moises Alou in a bar that night and had a nice chat with him and Chris Chelios....
had a couple days off...went to Arlington...lost every race....
then played Fitzgeralds on thursday...which was nice to get back there but the 10:45 slot on a thursday...was a little slow....
Saturday we had Ribfest in Naperville...which i performed without a drop of alcohol in me...which was quite different...yet enjoyable...gotta remind yourself your not dependent upon things every once in a while...
then sang the anthem on saturday...which was fun..and the cubbies won 4-2....going to Boston tomorrow to play for a radio station...flying there and back same day....so its gonna be a long one....Hope everybody readiing is doing well...Peace be with you all ...
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ANYWAY....did Summerfest...which was odd cuz Pat McCurdy opened up and if you never saw Pat...he's funny and clever but its pretty much the last thing i wanna hear before i go on stage...he's in too damn good of a mood ...it became grating....anyway...get up on stage and i don' know what it was if it was my fault of not but there was such an apathetic vibe from the audience...it never got off the ground...seems like i could have lit myself on fire and would have still gotten the same energy from them....
went to appleton that night...the next day was Danny Westman's birthday( our drummer) had another weird gig in appleton...cool club...but mediocre turnout ...some nice press but that did not seem to boost ticket sales.
came back and had a great gig at the lakeview music festival...t'was totally dead when we pulled in but by the time we started playing ...it became packed....band played great...great energy and the rain held ....SUCCESS!!!!!!!
Met Moises Alou in a bar that night and had a nice chat with him and Chris Chelios....
had a couple days off...went to Arlington...lost every race....
then played Fitzgeralds on thursday...which was nice to get back there but the 10:45 slot on a thursday...was a little slow....
Saturday we had Ribfest in Naperville...which i performed without a drop of alcohol in me...which was quite different...yet enjoyable...gotta remind yourself your not dependent upon things every once in a while...
then sang the anthem on saturday...which was fun..and the cubbies won 4-2....going to Boston tomorrow to play for a radio station...flying there and back same day....so its gonna be a long one....Hope everybody readiing is doing well...Peace be with you all ...
m
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