Monday, February 25, 2019

Utah --> Atlanta Redux


Wednesday: Yacht Rock had a corporate gig in Utah Thursday, and we were fortunately able to fly out Wednesday night. As I've gotten older, it's a lot more difficult to fly across the country and play a gig that night--my brain invariably starts to misfire at some point during the show. It's worth the extra time away from home to not feel miserable on stage.

I picked up Bencuya at his house and we headed to downtown at 4:45. Fighting traffic and weather, it took us over an hour to reach the airport. The plane was also a little late, and we were slightly delayed while the previous flight emptied. We boarded and then sat at the gate, waiting some weather to pass. We finally made it out to the runway, only to abort the takeoff because of wind sheer (that was nuts!--full throttle, then the engines pulled back, then full again, then we basically rolled to a stop).


Once we finally got airborne, it was a smooth flight, and skies were clear across the country.

Memphis, TN

Denver, CO

Thursday: Park City again! We were just here, but since the Sundance festival is over, it's just skiers and snow, and they've had a lot of snow, it appears.



The gig for the evening was on a ranch/event facility. Nice room!



Kind of a clunker of a gig--one of those where people just sit and watch from the dark corners of the room. On this one, people gradually left the room (presumably boarding busses and heading back down the mountain) and suddenly we were playing the gig for just about nobody. Weird.

Anyway, Keisha and Kourtney subbing for Nick (who's on paternity leave), and Ganesh subbing for Mark Cobb. Even with the lack of an audience, I still had a pretty good time playing. Having multiple subs shook up the set list in a good way.


Friday: Park City to Salt Lake City to Atlanta.






Saturday: Brunchfest at Park Tavern. Is Brunchfest a real thing? Not sure. Anyway, it was just like every other Park Tavern gig, but we played in the early afternoon, which was kind of nice--we got it over with and had a night off at home. Incidentally, there was pretty much no food available for us, so I ate the year old granola bar that I'd left in my truck for just this type of emergency.

I guess I was happy to have Cobb and Nick back on the gig--I was pretty into what we were doing on stage. Pretty fun!


Sunday: The ol' Team Hidi/Giving Kitchen fundraiser that we've played for probably six years now. They've changed locations for this event through the years, and I hope they'll do it again, because the present venue sounds bad, has a tiny green room with uncomfortable seating, a shitty parking situation, and a surprisingly difficult load in/out. Plus drunk people yelling into microphones as loud as they can=FML. Run away.