LBW History Chapter 4

Below you will see one of our posters for Jillian’s Rock N’ Bowl back in 2006. In the back row from left to right is Paul Millradt, Dan McCutchen, Joe Hursh and Rob Johnson, in the front and center we have Victoria Hursh and John Purvis. Here is chapter 4, the history of LOOK BOTH WAYS. In 2005, LBW was tightening up our band and trying to grow our set list so we could do a 4 hour bar gig, this takes 40-45 songs. By the summer, we only had 25 songs that we knew well enough to perform, so we weren’t ready to go after the bar gigs yet. At the very beginning, we practiced in my basement, but we soon moved rehearsals to Joe and Victoria’s basement since they had a four year old daughter (Molly) this way they could put her to bed half way through our practice. In 2005, since we had a limited amount of songs under our belt, we needed to try and get gigs that were 1-2 hours long. We did two free gigs for the Lakewood Kiwanis Club, (Vicky and I were both members) we only needed about an hours worth of music for these two gigs, so we easily had it covered. Our first paid gig ($250) was at a Mexican restaurant called Illegal Pete’s, we played for about 2 hours, so we were slowly upping our game. Little by little we kept adding songs to our set list getting closer to our goal of 45 songs. Shortly after we played at Illegal Pete’s, Dave Pyle left the band. Within a couple of weeks we had found a new bass player, Rob Johnson. Since Dave sang lead on most of the guy songs, we had to do a little revamping of our set list. We had a couple more small gigs in 2005 but it was 2006 when we were starting to get our momentum going. A place called Jillian’s, (bar/bowling alley), located in the Colorado Mills mall, decided to start having live music on Thursday nights, they called it Rock ‘n’ Bowl. We were able to score 4 gigs at Jillian’s that year and they were only 3 hours long. Once again we were able to fill the full three hours with our songs and we were quickly approaching our 45 song goal. Unfortunately, Jillian’s decided to stop having the live music and closed shortly after the summer of 2006. By this time, we had our 45 song set list and we could start going after some of the local bars, which all have bands play for 4 hours. For us, this was what we had been shooting for and it was almost 2 years in the making.