Mark Dannells returned to Yacht Rock last night. It's good to have him back. He was complaining that his hands felt stiff after not having touched a guitar in over a week, but I thought he played really well…a couple of rippin' solos on Peg and How Long. He also angled a fan so it would blow his hair back. They teach you stuff like that at Berklee.
The band was half Schooner and half Revue, with Dani on bass. We had Ganesh and K Spence up front and Daniel on drums. Bencuya, Dannells, and myself occupied the other positions.
In spite of the rain passing through town, we had a really good crowd. It felt kind of packed! Not much turnover, so we didn't make REALLY big money, but it was solid, and fairly good looking.
We got a little crazy in there towards the end…one song ended with Dannells going into Black Magic Woman, and then I started playing Hava Nagila in a different key over the top of it. We also had competing keyboard sound effects bouncing back and forth for a few songs (lots of telephones, a car engine, laughter, and a train) between myself and Bencuya. Hans (sound guy) even got into the action with his pitch shifter on Escape (Pina Colada).
Pretty good gig! We had to hang out because it was pouring, but the rain let up enough later on that I could get all my stuff out to my truck.
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