Saturday
Dec172005
checking in
Saturday, December 17, 2005 at 05:14AM
It's 4 am and I just got home from this week's AP Christmas shows. This week we played in Florida, Tennessee and tonight in Ohio. All three shows were great, unique in their own ways as they were. In Florida we played outside, a first for the Christmas tour, and it was still pretty cold by the end there. It was a nice night, though, and the audience was patient with our cold fingers and throats. Johnson City, TN had a great intimacy. The crowd was right up close to the stage, and with the anticipation of the "will they or won't they make it?" Webbs, who did make, but barely, the night was on its toes. Tonight felt like the most relaxed of the three shows. Everybody seemed comfortable and the audience was welcoming, they had even seemed to have heard of me before, which felt nice.
We've been having a blast on the bus. The Sudoku puzzles have been all the rage, splitting the tour into the inevitable two camps : the "Mathletes" and the pharisees. At least that's what us mathletes call the people who make fun of us. The initiated also welcomed the uninformed into the wonderful world of Arrested Development on this tour, with a couple of late night episodes each evening. It was great to watch through a second time and catch so many new things.
Tomorrow I'll hopefully sleep in just a bit, then play with Ella and spend time with Alison. Her folks are in town for Clay's graduation, so I'm sure we'll see them as well, which will be great. We have one last Christmas show on Sunday in Alabama, and then I'm home for a good, long while, and I can't wait.
Well, I should get to bed. Thanks for stopping by, and many thanks to everybody who's come out to the shows and bought records and came up and said hello. Have a great weekend.
We've been having a blast on the bus. The Sudoku puzzles have been all the rage, splitting the tour into the inevitable two camps : the "Mathletes" and the pharisees. At least that's what us mathletes call the people who make fun of us. The initiated also welcomed the uninformed into the wonderful world of Arrested Development on this tour, with a couple of late night episodes each evening. It was great to watch through a second time and catch so many new things.
Tomorrow I'll hopefully sleep in just a bit, then play with Ella and spend time with Alison. Her folks are in town for Clay's graduation, so I'm sure we'll see them as well, which will be great. We have one last Christmas show on Sunday in Alabama, and then I'm home for a good, long while, and I can't wait.
Well, I should get to bed. Thanks for stopping by, and many thanks to everybody who's come out to the shows and bought records and came up and said hello. Have a great weekend.
Reader Comments (5)
hi andy. glad to hear what's going on with you all on the road. love it.
Andy - have fun today, and I can't wait to see you tomorrow night. You were scaring me about being home - I was worried you weren't coming down to Trussville tomorrow night. My whole family is so excited.
Alabama, of course, will be the best show yet.
Besides Nashville.
I'm just pumped that the Alabama show is free. FREE. I am bringing my aunt because she needs to know more good music.
Well, she already knows plenty. But you can never know too much, now can you?
Plus it's free. Did I mention that? Free.
Free is good. It's what made this late addition possible for our schedules. My have hasn't seen BTLOG live yet, so we're taking the kids and heading down there tomorrow afternoon.
AO, if you get around to posting it, I'd be interested in hearing what your "in the round" choices were.
Hello sir. My wife, two sons, and i were in the balcony at the performance in Milford on Friday night. Thank you so much for the evening. I would have loved to talk to you after the concert, but the boys rushed right off to the merch table - they fell in love with your High School Band song. They are both "bandies" and just had to have it.
The spirit in the concert Friday night was so intimate - I'm still so blessed thinking about the evening all this time later.
Thank you again, and I pray that God will bless you during this holy blessed celebration.
Merry Christmas