WTF?!?!?

WTF?!?!?! is EXACTLY what I was thinking when my kick drum beater was no longer striking the drum. A loop of my shoelace got caught around it and there was nothing I could do to get it fixed until the song was over. LUCKILY I was able to slide my foot all the way forward on the pedal to at least let the pedal touch the drumhead... why is this important? Because the kick and the snare are the foundation of the beat... if I mess that up, it can wreck the whole song. Got it taken care of right after the song and tucked my shoelace INTO my shoe. Sheesh.

With that said, a big thanks first to God for the awesome day! It was a bit warm but otherwise it was perfect. A big thanks to the great crowd that showed up from the church as well as friends and co-workers of mine. Another big thanks has to go to Philip Hughes... Philip was probably solely responsible for getting our sound stuff straightened out. He's a friend of the band AND he knows how our songs are supposed to sound. He stayed on the sound guys to be sure they had things where they should be. Thanks man!!!

Both of my fellow bloggers were there (besides the band members... we're all bloggers again), Meri and Dabney. Dabs gets an "A" for effort for driving down from Murfreesboro, TN to come see us. "I got something in my eye..." (inside joke).

Met the guys from the Eric Rhodes band. Nice fellas. Gonna have to check them out when they play. I think they're mainly over in Huntsville.

Man, packing up, setting up, playing, taking down and unloading is hard work. I'm pooped for sure. One thing that was a pleasant surprise is that we weren't relly rushed at any point. We worked quickly of course, but no one was leaning on us to hurry. That was nice. Also it was nice to have a lot of help. Big props again to Philip and Jack. Another big thanks goes to Wendy (Eric's wife). She was like a one-woman roadie. "Do you have everything you need?", "You need me to do anything?", stuff like that. Great job girl!

Oh, Kyle got some video of the whole performance and is putting a DVD together. Please email him any pictures you took of the even so he can use them to spice up the DVD a bit.

After we got done, we met back up over at Kevin's for pizza. Watched Kyle's video (which looked great on Kev's new plasma) and we all pointed out places we made mistakes. You know, even with the mistakes, it sounded pretty good. The best part about it is that I think we all had fun.