Saturday, May 4, 2024: Columbia, SC. This gig was at a crawfish festival at the South Carolina state fair, closing out the day. My mom doesn't believe that there are enough crawfish in South Carolina to warrant a festival, but whatever.
The weather started out really nice, but an hour or so into it, a spot of rain found us, and it quickly got too wet to continue. Too bad, because it wasn't a bad gig!
Friday, May 10, 2024: Atlanta, GA. Long time friend of the band Carrie Parker retired, and we played her party. The coolest thing about this was seeing lots of old friends from the earliest days of the band--people who actually saw us at the 10 High!
There were a few curveball requests from Carrie on the setlist, all of which we handled pretty well. Other than that, business as usual.
In other exciting rehearsal news, the big ol' cyst on my index finger finally burst while we were playing, so hopefully it will begin healing and get out of my life.
Not my favorite gig! It had rained, so there was mud and thick humidity, and everybody entered the stage by walking through my gear, and we were the last of maybe four bands, and we were on some backline gear, and Monkeyboy's rental guitar amp died during the first song (so they swapped it out while we were playing), and probably some other stuff that I can't remember at this point.
So the top keyboard was bigger than I usually get, and the bottom keyboard was smaller than I usually get. I would normally line up middle C on both keyboards as a visual reference, but I ended up pitching the piano on the bottom keyboard up an octave so I could do what I usually do with my left hand, but I kept the organ on the bottom keyboard where it would normally be...yeah, I was all over the place.
Finger update: looks like it's healing.
Wednesday, May 22, 204: Isle of Palms, SC. Night one of three at The Windjammer. Has The Windjammer actually gotten better, or have we accepted our fate? Not sure. It was a nice gig, though, and the weather was pretty perfect.
Here's the new jam.
Some passing storms forced us to start late, but nothing got wet. Another sold out crowd.