thanks to all who came......

Just wanted to say thanks to all the fans ( old and new ) who came sunday to the Shelter Gardens show, you made it a great event...........we had folks there fromhere, plus Jeff City, Tibbets, Wes Plains, St. Louis, and even Fairbanks, Alaska..........saw a lot of new faces, along with all the familiar ones........it's really great to look out and see smiling faces that we know, and to see people singing along.......saw some folks who first heard us when we opened for Little Feat back in April, others from First Night, and even some from The Officer Down Benefit Concert, to all you repeat offenders, it's good to see you again and to all the new ones.....welcome aboard. We want to send a big thank you out to the folks with Shelter, they were very gracious and did surprize Hilary with the Birthday Cookie and song......they know how to treat the bands and also a big, big thank you to Nelson Audio......if some of you have noticed, they have been doing quite a few sound jobs for us, we are beginning to be really comfortable with each other, and we are all beginning to feel like a family. ...... we put a lot of trust in them, our sound that gets to you is totally in their control and they've been doing a surperb job........
As you may have noticed , we were missing Loyd, who was in Texas , with his drum students. It was just like in the beginning, before Loyd joined the band, but we did find ourselves, playing some of his parts in our heads as they came up.........each musical part is different, non dependent on the other, but when one is missing, we find ourselves hearing their parts in our head, as it should be.......as it is when we are all together.......so in closing, once again thank all of you for being there and for sharing Hilary's Birthday with her, it was probably the biggest Birthday party she ever had........and it was a joy to be a part of it......so spread the word and we'll see everyone in September.......B.A.