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Henning says: 9:00 PM: Lesa and I climbed the stairs up to Shakago's and try to assimilate. I found out that there was, in fact, a band before my solo set. I believe they were called Conscious Phil. They were a classic rock originals / covers band. They closed with a really nice version of Time by Pink Floyd. Brian and Andrea walked in just in time to see them.

Ok...so, now wimpy lil me with my acoustic guitar is going to follow the soaring guitar solo from Dark Side of the Moon. I hopped up on stage and we tried to get the sound as good as we could. It didn't matter, because anything that I played just got drowned out by the big drunk squawking lady with the piercing, loud voice. I tried to sing my songs, she kept asking people to smell her shot glass.

Again, the thing to remember when you are performing is that you don't hear all the people that are listening, you only hear the ones that aren't. Still, it was rough and I felt stupid being up there playing. I cut my set short and got out of the spotlight as quick as possible. I should have been in NYC playing glockenspiel at Joe's Pub to a crowd of people who were there to hear music. But what are you gonna do? You make your bed...

To be fair, a couple folks at Shakago's did say they enjoyed my set. One guy said that Persicope (he called it by name) reminded him of the Decemberists. So, see? There were people listening. And I got to see and talk to our old Humbert-era buddy Tom (Hi, Tom).

Space Captain was good. The kicked off their set with a nice old Floyd cover. Those guys would have liked The Aloha Steamtrain, I think.

I was excited to see Apollo Sunshine but, after a half hour of them setting up had passed, I just couldn't take it anymore. I was overly hungry and warn-down and there was this stupid strobe light flashing in my peripherals all night. We left before they started finishing getting ready to start. We'll see them another time, perhaps.

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