Appaloosa

Hiya, it’s Russ. I’m doing all of my Backstage “homework” right now… going through to see if we missed covering anything in the last week… and indeed we did, here in the Road Journal. We played on Friday night in downtown Denver, at Appaloosa on 16th Street. Enjoyed a delicious salmon-and-mashed-potatoes dinner before the set, and then proceeded to play 3.5 hours of mostly original stuff. Saw a half-dozen Backstage members there (thank you!), along with a bunch of people who had no idea who we were or what we were about… but we educated ’em for a few hours and they seemed to enjoy themselves (enough to buy CD’s for themselves and friends who they “know would LOVE [us] guys”). Good times. I’ll post the setlist here as soon as Beers gives me his notebook, where we jotted it down at the last minute before taking the stage. We did try a new cover song – “Yellow Moon,” by John Hiatt (and made famous by the Neville Brothers). It went fairly well for our first time playing it. We’ll probably pull it out for longer sets when we need to fill some space and get people up and dancing. By the time we finished at 1:45am, it was pouring cats and dogs downtown, so we loaded out and headed home. We were all saying that it’s really strange playing in Colorado after being on tour. Every show feels like it’s a random city… when we load in to the venue in Denver, it could be Des Moines or Manhattan or Phoenix… really starts to feel like any stage is “home,” which is a great feeling. Head over to the “Music” and “Forum” sections of the site… I posted some updates from the studio, where we’re recording our follow-up album… posted some MP3’s and pics from the recording session tonight. It’s going to be a busy summer, between tours and recording sessions and family stuff… can’t wait. Oh, and I just added a few more photos retro-actively to the Road Journal posts below, so scroll down and you might see some stuff that’s new to your eyes…