Category Archives: shows

looking back and forward

We played a two hour set at the Palo Alto Art League this past Thursday.  They’ve had Tin Cat at their annual meeting the past 3 years, and we get to play in their historic (1921) building.  Great place to take art classes!  I had a small setback: during a run through “I Want You [...]

We’re playing this Saturday!

We’ll be at the Blue Rock Shoot in Saratoga Saturday night with our friends The Toes, come by if you can!

tour blog 3: Bellingham, Redmond, Portland

1. In Bellingham I had the best coffee of the tour, at The Black Drop. Tom bought records at Aladdin’s Lamp - we had to drag him out. Dave looked for a belt, but left unfulfilled. The show at the Green Frog might have been the first time on the tour that [...]

tour blog 2: Portland, Olympia

1. The window’s not… fixed, exactly. There’s a part we couldn’t get. It’s fine as long as Dave doesn’t roll the window down. Which he keeps doing.
2. We didn’t have a show in Portland. The show’s coming up on Saturday. Tuesday night we played an open mike at Albina Green, [...]

tour blog 1: Ashland

Let’s see how long this lasts.
1. We didn’t actually put together the CDs in the truck. We unbundled at a sweltering rest stop and, after berries and peanut butter, formed a loose assembly line at a picnic table.
2. When we got to the Kat Wok, the maitre d’ led us along a narrow corridor [...]

that cd we promised

… 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 [...]

happiness is…

… people dancing last Monday at Red Rock to a spontaneous funk jam on Stevie Wonder’s “Boogie On Reggae Woman,” played on guitar, accordion, and ukulele.