mercy my goodness! what an incredible weekend. Thank you so much to everyone who came out to Eddie’s on Friday night…the room sold out before the show started! I am sorry to all of you who came and tried to get in, but couldn’t….I will make it up to you down the road….promise. The show was incredible….it was great to share the stage with labelmates Jason Harwell & Paul Reeves and then I, along with everybody in the room, was BLOWN away by my new friends Sweet Alizabeth. Unbelievable….I would not be surprised if you see these guys on your television very soon. I had a blast and it was a killer set…way to go on the hand claps and snaps people.
So we went straight from Eddie’s to a house show in Athens on Saturday night at the Springdale House. It was a really great set-up…they turned their backyard into a scene straight out of your favorite teen movie and promoted it as a prom so everybody came dressed to the nines. The Warm Fuzzies opened the show followed by Pilotcoat…and then I was up. APPARENTLY during the Fuzzies set an old ornery neighbor called the police and APPARENTLY in order to throw a shindig of such magnitude in your yard you gotta pull a permit and fill out some paperwork, and APPARENTLY the super gracious and friendly boys of the Springdale house were slightly uninformed when it came to the aforementioned policies of the Athens-Clarke County Police Department. So what happened? Welp…I had a great set going. I opened with “Success Doesn’t Fix Anything” with Jason Harwell on the metal trash can and Paul Reeves on the Tambourine. We got some enthusiastic young lads to hop on stage and do some foot stomping and everyone was dancing to the beat. They clapped along to “Honesty is the Best Policy.” I was feeling pretty good about the rhythmic and musical capacity of the crowd so I taught everyone the choral arrangement to “She’s too pretty to be so Ugly” and thought we might have a little sing-along. I started the song and was feeling it, dancing around and shredding my J-45, when APPARENTLY a stupendous example of Athen’s Finest had slipped into the crowd. He was standing, literally, 2 feet in front of the stage staring at me. I looked up and there he was. The copper wasn’t interested in singing the chorus line and so the song was over…in fact the show was over. As if the weekend wasn’t already rock and roll enough! Below is a video my brother shot of the 5-0 shutting us down. I am standing directly behind him to the left still trying to figure out if I can finish the song or not. Pay attention to the end of the video when someone offers the cop a donut…..brilliant!
tell all of your friends.
jonathan
