Run and Gun at Brew City was our usual - about five continuous hours - a good time, but nothing too memorable. We had a great crowd all night, though, right till closing.

I never did see Barry (or anyone else) with his Budweiser hat on.

the bean pickers union played church in boston on wednesday, first full band show in awhile. it was lightly attended but we played well, and had a blast.

there's some video up on youtube. first time i've ever seen video of myself playing. i want to know why no one ever told me my ass was so big.

it's a pretty nice room. the sound dude needs to hook up a mic to talk to you (we were yelling back and forth, kinda stupid), but other than that the sound was pretty good. the stage is fairly big, maybe somewhere between ralphs and the abbey size.

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I had an equipment problem at the Abbey during the 2nd song that caused me to have to remove my speaker attentuator, thus causing me to have wildly fluctuating sound levels during our set. Then, moving my amp offstage, I stepped on a cable at the edge of the stage and slid off a 2.5 foot stage and landed solely on my right ankle, which rolled over and crumpled like a just-elected politician's morality. It's still the size of a softball, except in much cooler colors. All future flying knee drops are suspended until ankle re-certification.

Friday night at Vincent's my Taylor acoustic that I brought as a spare for guests got knocked over 3 times, the last one resulting in a huge chunk gouged out of the neck, through the binding and into the fretboard. It's currently in hospital. We'll see what the great Dave Dick can do with it.

And quite honestly, Friday I thought we were not very good.
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Thanksgiving was nice though.