Please Pleaserock Me played a show at Smith's Oldest Bar last night to a packed house. The wrinkle in this one was that Mark Bencuya was out of town, so Nick successfully picked up a bunch of his keyboard parts.
For the horns, I took a solo on Don't Let Me Down (instead of the Billy Preston wurly solo), and I arranged the strings on I Am the Walrus for the horns. Tricky stuff.
Greg Lee brought his new 12 string guitar to the gig. Very very cool.
Smith's feels like it's on the verge of closing…in addition to the usual smells and the non functioning restroom, they were out of good beer (they gave us the choice of Bud Light or Yuengling), some menu selections, vodka for Monkey…hope we're not loading out when the back stairs finally give way.
That said, it sounded great on stage and out front, and everybody played really well because of it. Good gig!
We finished at 11 PM. Another band was slotted to play at midnight, so we loaded out quickly (with help from the staff, which was very very cool). See you in December!
