Yacht Rock played the Variety Playhouse last night. Pretty good gig!
The Yacht Rock Schooner played the opening set, and sounded great. They did some new tunes (You'll Never Find) and some oldies (Rosanna). A problem with the front of house interrupted their set (FOH couldn't get the band in the PA). Once they got it up and running, it sounded really good.
We played the Anchorman soundtrack again--previously, we'd learned it for a show at the Variety in January. This time felt a little more uptight to me; we might have played it better on this one, but I was kind of holding on like "I am NOT going to screw this up!" for the entire set. It was good, but we were working at it.
I played about twenty bars of saxophone the entire night--the solo over the verse in She's Gone. I think my mic was audible on stage, but I don't thing it was on in the house. Hmm. Maybe it was, but it didn't feel like it.
Monkey cussed A LOT during this set.
After the break, we came out and did our U2 set. The people who dug it really dug it, but I'm not sure that the general Yacht Rock audience was into it. As the set went on, people towards the back of the room started trickling out. For whatever reason, the set never really caught fire--it didn't feel as 'epic' as it has on other occasions, so we had to kind of grind it out. There were some cool moments--Beautiful Day was big, as was Where the Streets had no Name. For the encore, we began with Vertigo. Nick tossed handfuls of glow sticks into the audience--that looked neat. He also worked a handheld par can light, circa Rattle and Hum.
Obviously, there's no saxophone in U2, and barely enough keyboard work to require two keyboardists. I did, however, work the tambourine and shaker.
And away we go! Next week's big shows--Georgia Theater in Athens on Friday, Nashville Yacht Rock Revival on Saturday!
May 3, Georgia Theatre (Athens)
May 4, Yacht Rock Revival (Nashville)
May 11, TPC Sawgrass (Jacksonville, FL)
May 17, Braves Game (Atlanta)
May 23, House of Blues (Chicago, IL)
May 24, Radio Radio (Indianapolis, IN)
May 31, Purple Rain at Park Tavern (Atlanta)
June 8, Park at City Center (Woodstock, GA)
June 13, Lincoln Theatre (Raleigh, NC)
June 14, NC Music Factory (Charlotte, NC)
June 15, Ziggy's (Winston-Salem, NC)
June 28, Park Tavern (Atlanta)
June 29, Yacht Rock Schooner Steely Dan Tribute @ The Strand (Marietta, GA)
July 8 Cape May Convention Hall (Cape May, NJ)
July 10 Brooklyn Bowl (New York City)
July 11 Mohegan Sun (Connecticut)
July 12, Power Plant Live! (Baltimore, MD)
July 13, XFinity Live! Philadelphia (Philadelphia, PA)
July 14, The Hamilton (Washington DC)
July 20, Yacht Rock Revival at Chastain! (Atlanta)
July 26, Orange Peel (Asheville, NC)
August 23, Park Tavern (Atlanta)
September 27, Park Tavern (Atlanta)
October 19, Thriller at Variety Playhouse (Atlanta)
November 1, Music Farm (Charleston, SC)
