A tale of two rock shows…

This past weekend was a two night affair at Cheers Sportsbar and Grill in Mandarin. It’s just amazing how different both nights were.

Fridays are notoriously slow at Cheers and I don’t quite get it. In all honestly, that was a good thing for the band, as we were flat. We came out flat, we played flat, we performed flat, do I need to say flat anymore to get the point across? There were technical problems as well contributing to the amount of air that was just gushing out of the balloon. Queue Saturday…

Saturday nights at Cheers have always been a winner. Again, no clue as to why. Better showing, better crowd, more into it and ready to party. No clue man, just no clue and the ‘Nasty Guys’ came in and basically let the previous nights show go with three words: “Fuck Friday Night.”

With that we tweaked a knob or two and just let it rip and all was right with the world again. JC was on fire, Jim was Jim (Jim is always Jim, we come to expect that from him and that means he’s always solid and strong as hell…it’s great having that in a drummer), Shawn was off in his own world (This is a good thing too, when Shawn has his eyes closed and is just ripping away…he’s into it completely and there is no question there is good stuff coming from him), and I felt vocally invincible, (as opposed to Friday when I was missing notes bad, not able to get up the ladder to the high notes and generally just running short of breath on stuff…bad scene) there was not one time I felt like I was straining to do anything Saturday. I personally love those nights cause I can go anywhere with my voice.

I wonder how much people see it, when we know we are off as we thought Friday. We were told by a musician friend that it was really good. I think he was being kind. How much do you notice it? And if you didn’t…well, we just spilled the beans on how we felt about it.

Rich – Lead Singer
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