Friday night games have fireworks, and we were also invited to play a short three or four song set on the field on a little stage. We opted for songs that didn't require me to play keyboard (due to the space constraints), so all the songs turned out to be sax features. Unfortunately for me, the rains came, so we ended up not playing. I was almost famous.
Oh well, still fun and easy, and the Braves won. Cool gig!
All of that was awesome. You know what wasn't awesome? Trying to drive away from the stadium. Buullllllllshiiiiiiiiit. You can't make me believe there is any kind of plan for funneling traffic away from Turner Field. All the stop lights are turned off, random streets are blocked off, and cops are standing around in the street waving their flashlights at the ground (which I think means "My toes are right here. Please don't drive over them.") It took forty-five minutes, several apoplectic fits, and multiple figure-eights around The Ted and the capital before I finally found away to head north.
How long have the Braves played here? And it's still a mess? Has anyone ever proposed that instead of trying to manage the situation, we just let traffic operate normally? Let the stop lights do their job, let the streets go in both directions, just like a regular day. Maybe I won't have to make a u-turn at Fulton and Capital. Maybe I won't have to merge around a random police car stopped in the middle of the street. Maybe y'all are doing more harm than good? The outcome couldn't be worse than what I saw last night.
Anyway…
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)
