Penn State show

We played for the Central Pennsylvania Center for the Arts at Penn State last weekend, and I got this nice note from Jim Myers, who came up from Indiana, PA:

Very big show I must say. The band was so hot. I've never seen you into it as much as you were for Saturday's show. I thought I would miss that intimate "Moondogs" feel but you were killer. We all wanted more but I know there was a schedule to keep. I just can't say enough good about you and the band. Big, big ending with "Back from the Dead." Loved the drama.

Thanks to Jim for the great note.

The funny thing about this is that I didn't think I was really so hot last Saturday night--it felt like something was missing. Maybe it was that the set was so short, and the stage crew, in a classic State College "tail-wags-the-dog" moment, aggressively prevented us from playing an encore. The stage manager also delivered a little lecture to me as he was handing me my check about the need for punctuality, as if I were a student in his Bio class who had shown up late for a lab. Whatever...

I guess the lesson here is that I may not be the best judge of when I have it and when I don't. If Jim thinks I had it that night, who am I to say that I didn't?

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