49+1

This Saturday night was the gig in White Sulphur Springs, WV. It was rather long -- we played 7:30-12M with only a 25 min break at 9pm. Whew.

I'll say this: while I thought I bought a quite-comfortable D.W. drum seat, sitting on ANYTHING for 2-1/2 hours straight will cause a bit of an ache. ;)

Good thing I was staying overnight, cause it was pouring at the end of the gig, and a 3-hour drive home at 1am in the dark and the rain wouldn't be too appealing. So on Sunday, I woke up in a Hampton Inn in West Virginia and aged a year. Yep, I'm now 49+1. How the heck did I get this far?? Someone up above made it a pleasant day, as I drove back home escaping any rain. So, thanks, whomever you are.

Good gig

Did a fill-in gig in Charlottesville VA last night with Big Ray & The Kool Kats. A wedding gig -- one of those tux shirt/bowtie/white dinner jacket gigs. Wedding gigs are sometimes painful if the crowd is dead, or they can be a lot of fun. This bunch started out a little blasé, but soon got worked up into a fun bunch, thanks to the professional patter of Big Ray himself.

I hadn't played with these guys since last Fall, but everything just clicked into place. I thought we all sounded great, (especially since I was faking my way through some of the tunes). I even got to channel the late Gene Krupa in a rendition of "Sing Sing Sing" -- a song I'd never played before in my life -- and I pulled it off perfectly.

Anyway, at the end of the gig, the guys in the band applauded me. The Sunburst drumkit sounded good, the band sounded good, and I drove home feeling good.

I just realized...I've done over 1800 gigs in my life! wow...