Wednesday: I played with Scott Glazer's Mojo Dojo alongside Mace Hibbard (tenor), Dave Yoke (guitar), Dan Lawrence (piano), and Will Groth (drums) at Blind Willie's in Virginia Highland. Blind Willie's is an Atlanta institution of sorts, so I thought that maybe there'd be some Super Bowl traffic, but it was just another Wednesday night there. Sal Paolantonio (of ESPN fame) did walk in early in the gig and requested some Allman Bros (we sightread Southbound for him). He left before we finished the first set.
Other than that!...nice hang. Mace killed me on a night when I just couldn't come up with anything to play. Late in the gig, I had one good solo on Hummingbird, but the rest of the night, I was pretty lame.
Sunday: Yacht Rock was invited to play the official NFL tailgate party (or something like that) at the World Congress Center downtown. Due to the proximity to the stadium and the people and all that, this one had some insane security, which also meant that all of the gear had to be rented and checked by the FBI and everything. I sent a saxophone and flute a couple of days early, so we truly walked into the gig with nothing. No soundcheck or anything.
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| checking to make sure everything is turned on |
Some other band opened and played their set, and then there were announcement-type things, which ended with something to the effect of "Thanks for coming, enjoy the game!" at which point, people started leaving. Thank god we only had to play for forty minutes.
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| start of the gig--maybe 100 people are watching the band |
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| twenty minutes later, the crowd has shrunk significantly |
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| twenty minutes after that...ouch! |
And that was that. A dud, just like the game.
