What a cool gig! Greg and Nick from Yacht Rock played a gig last night at Eddie's Attic in Decatur which featured their original songs. The rest of the band (plus or minus Jason Nackers and me) backed them. It was refreshing to play some different songs, and also to play without the polyester and sunglasses and the YRR schtick.
I played keyboards and a couple of songs and flute on a couple; I also played saxophone on two of Greg's songs. It felt like I was REALLY loud on both, but it sounded too good for me to back off. I'll be interested to see if somebody got audio or video of either to hear what it was like out front. One was a Sanborn-ish alto thing and the other was a growly Clarence Clemons tenor.
Bencuya's original Cartoon Butterfly was also on the list, and he asked me to play piano in addition to the flute solo. The adrenaline flowed freely on the piano part, but unfortunately, it caused me to pretty much throw up when I switched to flute.
The highlight of the night for me was hearing Nick play a couple of Y O U songs solo, both of which were mesmerizing. Fantastic stuff.
