Antique car show

 From left to right: Chad, Roger, Nick, Ed, ME!, Marc. Chad took this after the show at the meet and greet after his last show with us. He played about a week and a half. He was great fun to play with.
Our new keyboard player is here now. We have had a couple rehearsals with him and he sounds good. Struggling with a few things, but he's had the music for like 5 days. I have no doubt he will get it all down in a week or so. Last night was supposed to be his first show but we got rained out. It was raining so hard that just from running to the car a couple of times I was so wet I put my clothes in the dryer when I got to the stage. My hair was completely soaked and my makeup was running off of my face. I walked into the boys dressing room and wrung my hair out in the trashcan to make a point to all the gay boys about just how unhappy I was at that moment. I wasn't wet like the actors that did a little running in the rain (everyone got pretty damp) I was wet like the stage crew running around on the hill in a monsoon. Bad timing for me I guess, I was out in the worst part of the storm since I left 10 minutes after the cast, and the fact that I was driving so I ran to the car to go back and pick up people.

 Yesterday was a beautiful day of clear perfect blue skies (until 5pm) for the antique car show. The coal diggers played two sets with Steve (front and center). He sings the Johnny Cash stuff in the show and he sounds solid, but not my favorite type of voice. But when we played this set he really had a lot more character. I think in the show he tries to emulate Johnny Cash but can't quite do it simply because of voice types (also I never did like Johnny cash's voice). But we played some buddy holly and some old country stuff and it sounded great. Lots of sass and fun in our sound and his voice. Matt the sound guy said that people were coming up to him after the show at lunch, asking if he ran sound for us then telling him how good we were. It's very flattering to have such an appreciative audience, but I also know that he is hard to miss, he's built like a brick wall at something like 6'3" but also somehow looks like a naughty little kid. It's a charming and memorable combination. He's the A2 -audio 2- which means that he deals with the hardware. So he puts batteries in the wireless packs, runs on stage when they randomly die for no reason in the middle of the show (it happened to Nick) and whatever else he does that has nothing to do with me. Probably including carrying large heavy things. Kay is the sound lady who mixes the Musical. And she does a hell of a job. If you ask for something, it's fixed the next show. She only does the Musical though and Matt has been mixing our fondu sets, the car show, and the Chuck Wagon sets (the singers get to play sets during the day and we accompany) once they start.

Cars and Matt's half-head.

Cars and strangers