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"It was a dark and snowy evening." Actually, it was. And cold as all get out, too. Add to that the strep that I am currently trying to get over, and things weren't looking all that good going into this evening.
The last time we played at Firehouse, it was not one of our better shows. Well, actually it sucked. And the owner remembered us and our suckiness from the last time. So when I walked through the door, he asked me how many people I thought were going to be coming out that night. I told him few, if any, given the weather report I heard on the way over (WMAL had basically said "for God's sake, if you love your children, please, please, please don't go outside tonight."), So the owner offered to cancel the night for us, or just pay us some flat rate instead of the door.
Rich had been playing a Toys For Tots gig earlier that night (I didn't particularly want to go, for obvious reasons. After all of us grouped up, we decided to play a short set for the night, to honor our obligation. The bar community isn't all that big, and canceling (even when it would legitimately not be our fault) wouldn't bode well for future bookings.
So we did our show. Rob sat in for me, playing about half of both sets, and that really helped me out. We played pretty well, all things being equal. We only had one vocal (didn't help), and I was sick (also a downside), but we had pretty good energy (a plus) and things gelled nicely (also a bonus).
Rob really came through. He had great time and good feel for the tunes. He didn't quite perfectly fit in, but we pretty much threw him in the deep end without any rehearsals. All in all, he did great.
Posted by Casper at December 6, 2003 01:58 AM