What a cool show yesterday. We we’re the only out of town-ers, and the rest of the groups brought great crowds. This was a special show though; we were the oldest band there, which for us, is a rarity. The first group was a 16 year old Allman Brothers band who ripped on some bluesy jams and hinted that they had some jazz chops too. They were from a local Chicago School of Rock, which, by the way, has yet to let me down. Every band that I’ve heard from those types of programs has been burnin’.

Our set was fun.  I think the other bands enjoyed seeing what the older kids could do.  We had some friends of Tucker’s dad come out to the show again (they came to our last Chicago show) and it was great to see them again.

The band after was a cute group of 13 year old girls and their 24 year old baby-sitter/drummer. They were so good! Even for 13 year olds. Great performers too. Then the band after them was a group of high school students who had a Killers or MGMT kind of vibe. The whole night I was thinking about how great it must be playing at those levels at such young ages. They kids we played with last night could all go really far if they wanted.

Now, I’m only typing this based on drunken babble, but I think Blake and Austin and David hung out with the Black Eyed Peas last night after our show.  All I put together is that they were at a club they all went to after the show and that cigarettes were smoked together.  Will confirm in the next blog post.

New show added: House of Blues in Houston, TX! That’ll be sweeeeet. Show date is August 24 (11 days from now), @ 8pm. But first off to Cleveland tonight, Indianapolis tomorrow, and Austin, TX a couple days after that.  See you guys at the show!

Off to Cleveland, OH!  Looking forward to meeting Mary Kate, who did a radio interview with us on Wednesday.

Jon (bass)