The May birthday party was a rockin’ time.  When May 27 rolled around and the weather forecasters were predicting rain all day, John, our band leader, called to see if they wanted to cancel.   Their answer was “we are partying outside come rain or shine.”  That was all we needed.  We packed our gear in the rain and drove to their beautiful mansion of a house.   Luckily, it stopped raining off and on enough for us to get set up under two tents.  About 15 minutes before we were to start, we wondered what kind of at gig this would turn out to be.   Then, when we started playing, it stopped raining and never rained again, the whole night.   What a great gig.

It was great to see the big turnout Friday night at GI Jodi’s! In particular keyboardist/trombonist Paul had his fans on speed dial. And when he went out in the audience with the ‘bone they went delirious! Good to see Shari and Dave too, their friend tried hard to fit in Tom’s trademark blue jacket!

GI Jodi’s was a pretty wild scene in March.   This photo was taken around 2:00 p.m. in the morning and things were still popping.  We used “old school” P.A. settings with an analog mixer amp and everybody liked it.  We mixed up the songs and played what everybody wanted.  Good times!  In the picture from left to right is Randy Becker – Guitar, Tom Stockard – Bass, and Dan McCutchen – Drums.   (Where is John Purvis – Guitar?).  The guys behind were some crazy fans having a great time at GI Jodi’s.

St. Bernadette Catholic church and school hosted a fundraiser at the Denver West Marriott hotel last night.  We really enjoyed playing for that event.   The venue was really good, big stage and dance floor and easy access from our truck to the stage.

We set up in a different configuration that seemed to work really well.  Dan set up stage left, then Tom stage center left, then John stage center, then me stage center right, then Paul stage right.  I liked that arrangement because I didn’t need to depend on the PA to hear John and Paul.  Speaking of the PA, we had some initial problems with our new digital mixer.  It would not connect to our laptop.  This is not the first time we ran into this problem.   Luckily, the mixer was already balanced and although we couldn’t make changes, it still worked.   We will need to work on this to make sure this doesn’t happen again.

The crowd was really great.   As usual, we pulled them on to the dance floor right away and played until 11:15 with someone on the dance floor the whole time.  Due to a late start (at 9:15) waiting for the auction to begin, we just threw all our songs into one big set and played without a break.   But I didn’t mind.   Everyone was having such a good time, I really didn’t want to take a break.