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Tonight, we had one of our better live shows at Café Europa. As we were setting up, we had more than a few people starting to wander in. There were some of the familiar faces, but we also had quite a number of brand spankin' new folk in the crowd for the night (which is always a good thing). However, as we were laying out the equipment, I noticed that in my newfound joy to be packing light (tonight was going to be sans wireless and footboard), I neglected to grab the mic and stand. Of course, with moving, I would be rather hard pressed to find much of anything anyway.
As the first set started up, we were playing decently well, only some small boo-boos that most other people probably didn't notice. The set started to drag, though, so I started calling a few changes to try and keep the interest up. We broke a bit early, hung around mingling and then got started anew.
The second set was much more interesting. By this time, the entire place was packed, to the point that I think they were turning people away. We had about a third of the floor full of people (mostly women) dancing to our music. Shahin and I kept changing the set list (sorry 'bout that, Brett) to try and keep the energy up, to keep the dancing moving.
After the night was over, the three of us walked through the crowd, meeting and greeting. There was this one table, and sitting there was a gentleman who spent quite a lot of time watching me play and looking at my rig. I figured he was a bass player and also figured that I was going to get a ration of grief about all the mistakes that I made. When I went up to him, he asked me when our next show was going to be. I told him that I wasn't sure (mainly becuase I'm focusing almost completely on the album). He then looked at me and said, "I have a ten year old son who is just starting to play bass. I'd love for him to come out and watch you play sometime." To be honest, that's one of the nicest compliments I have ever gotten.
All in all, this was one of our better shows. If you missed it, I'm sorry for you. We had a great night, we played well and we had a really good crowd.
Posted by Casper at July 23, 2005 11:57 PM