Northampton, Somerville
Ran out of time to blog about these, but they were both great shows. I wish I’d had a bit more time at the Northampton show – they had another band coming in after us so we needed to squeeze a bit to get clear of the stage in time. Hard to cram in so much rocking into so small a window of time. Somerville ruled of course, that town in particular always offers a giant crowd of geeks – they absolutely LURV songs about maths. P+S and I did the first ever live “Soft Rocked By You” to medium success.
Thanks everybody for coming out to all these shows. I’ve got a week of no live stuff, which will be a nice break. Then NYC on the 14th (with The Petersons!) and Sellersville, PA on the 19th. I’m also hoping to record and release something new this coming week if the fates allow it (don’t get excited, it’s not one of my best). And right now I’m going to take a nap…rock and roll…
Oops, forgot to mention that the fine people at Harmonix invited me and Paul and Storm to their Cambridge offices to play a bit of their new game Rockband while we were in the neighborhood, which was fantastic. I love to play the drums, and that is the truth. I had a chance to check it out a little at PAX, but it was nice to be able to play it with Paul and Storm (and get free sodas, w00t!). Paul can really rock the vocals on “Dead or Alive” by the way.
Egads, and I also forgot to mention that Ian came up to offer his emergency ukulele services at the Somerville show, whereupon we played Big Bad World One. Kristen is probably going to be mad at me.
Team JoCo Emergency Action Message
OK, so it seems that Paul left a case of CDs at the Iron Horse last night (very surprising considering his natural state of control freakitude). Paul and Storm are now offering the “Paul and Storm Complete Prize Pack” to anyone who may be coming to the Johnny D’s show tonight from Northampton, provided they swing by the Iron Horse to get said case and bring it here.
My email is in my pocket most of the time, so if there’s anyone who can do this, email me and I’ll give you the details. Complete Prize Pack! (Contents TBD, but will include free/reimbursed admission to tonight’s Johnny D’s show for you & one companion, and probably a hug.)
Atlanta Show Added
Just added a show in Atlanta – that’s right, Georgia. November 9th at The Five Spot, 8:30 PM, with Paul and Storm. Tickets can be got through Ticketmaster (though they’re not on sale yet), and probably should if you want to be totally safe – the place holds about 180 and there are 125 demands on Eventful, so I’m guessing it will be a big crowd.
Georgia!
Size Doesn’t Matter
I knew ticket sales were low for the Burlington show last night, so I wasn’t surprised to see a smallish crowd. And it really does change the dynamic of a show – the energy level drops, everyone’s afraid to make noise, and that performer-audience feedback loop doesn’t generate as much heat as when there’s a huge mass of people. But as I said last night, the per capita enthusiasm levels were as high as ever (for which I commend the fine people of the great state of Vermont) so I think we all handled ourselves pretty well in the end. Thank you guys for keeping up your end of the bargain – I hope you didn’t mind me trying out some new stuff, but I thought it was better to work without a set list and just see what happened. And as they said in Casablanca, we’ll always have zombies.
Tonight the Iron Horse in Northampton. Onward!
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