… is finally mixed just the way we want it. I am just jumping for the chance to get it out into other people’s hands, but first we have to get it mastered and, you know, make a bunch of copies. But still: EXCITING.
I went to see Peter Mulvey last night at Don Quixote’s. He plays the guitar and he changes the tuning a lot and while he’s tuning the guitar he talks, and sometimes he talks a lot longer than he tunes, my point is, he tells STORIES, oh, the stories he tells, funny and wise and unexpected, and last night he played for almost two hours, and in that time he told a lot of stories, and I’ve seen this guy going on dozens of times, and still, last night, of all the stories he told, there were only two I’d heard before: The one about the Jesuit priests and the Liberace scholarship (but even in that one there were new developments), and the one about Dynamite Bill.
Coming up we’ve got a three-hour show, featuring the first-ever Tin Cat Dance Party, this Thursday in Campbell; a lunchtime set at the San Gregorio General Store on May 18; and on May 23, we’re playing at the Catalyst–”congratulations,” my friend Barry said, “you’re playing at a place I’ve heard of!” So-called “friend”.