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| January 20, 2006 - The Elevens - Northampton, MA - with: The Caroline Know and Nate Laban | |
| Brian
says: The road is long, the road is rough. The road can beat
a man down. The road can stretch on and on and on, and one day you
look in the mirror and you look like Willie Nelson. Ok, I'm gonna have to stop here to say that I drove to this gig. But I had to--I had to bring my drums. Just go away and turn on the house lights on your way out. Alright.
A marathon show. Good to see the Caroline Know. Max hit it on the
head when he said "this is the classic Baystate mid-90's sound".
And suddenly I could imagine it all. I'm sure I saw thm back then.
But, to paraphrase that stupid saying, "If you can remember the
Baystate, you weren't really there". Thank god I kept journals
back then. Our
set ran the gamut. Ken was calling em off. We seemed to do a lot of
the fast ones, which was good. Omnivore had the spastic end, as opposed
to last show where it was the tight end. The break in "Thinking of a Time" makes me wish I could practice the drums once in a while. I do Ok ,but I want Buddy Rich, bitch. (I only just said bitch because it rhymes with Rich). Damn. I will end this entry having not really arrived at a Henning Says: When I arrived at the Rub Wrongways studio at 6:30 PM I found Tony lying on the floor sleeping - or "resting his eyes". I hauled him up to his feet and we hacked our way through learning "Waterloo Sunset" and "A Machine to Break Your Heart". The band never got a chance to practice all together for this show - so 4 of us rehearsed on one day and then Tony and I on another. We also managed to put a whole bunch of songs on our set-list that the band hadn't played for a long long time. So the show itself was going to be a little by-the-seat-of-our-pants (whatever that means). Half way through my practice with Tony I realized that I better quiet down or I was going to lose my voice by the end of the night. I reverted to my low morning voice and muttered the remaining numbers. Suddenly, it was 8:30 and we packed up all our gear in black cases and headed over to the club. It was an unseasonable warm evening and it felt like spring was just beginning as I double parked and loaded stuff out of the car. Surely, I thought, there were going to be people all over the place on such a night. Wrong. Although ever single parking spot in Northampton was full - the club itself never got very crowded. However, the crowd that was there was a solid quality crowd. There were revellers and dancers and cheerers. SFTD didn't take the stage until about midnight. We played 19 songs at high speed and finished up at exactly 1:30. We had to cut one song from our list of 20. "A Beautiful Day In The Woods (Ayla)" remained unplayed. We could have done it as an encore - but even though the cheers for "one more" were plenty loud..they were only coming from the 12 people who were dancing. And we were out of time. We debuted "A Machine To Break Your Heart" as a full band. In fact, that song had never been played live ever by anyone. We almost pulled it off. "Waterloo Sunset" was great fun. It's one of my favorite songs and we came together as a band while playing it. What else happened at this show?...Tony did some creepy dance with Lord Russ during "1,000 Times". I almost lost my voice. Brian said some funny stuff but not into his microphone. We got to enjoy the music of Nate Laban and The Caroline Know.
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