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Screensize: 640 x 480 800 x 600 1024 x 768 1280 x 1024 UserName: Password: Antispam question: How many total fingers does a human have? Answer: Format Mode: Basic  Help  Prompt  Format: Font Andale Mono Arial Arial Black Book Antiqua Century Gothic Comic Sans MS Courier New Georgia Impact Lucida Console Script MT Bold Stencil Tahoma Times New Roman Trebuchet MS Verdana   Size 1 2 3 4 5 6   Color Black Red Yellow Pink Green Orange Purple Blue Beige Brown Teal Navy Maroon LimeGreen Message: * HTML is OFF * Forum Code is ON Smilies [quote][i]Originally posted by Fluffy[/i] [br]So by tonite I am thinking this has got to be nite when we finally lose our amazing streak of luck. Small room, low stage and big bar. Again, the wonderful staff more than made up for the room. It's amazing how a little personality goes such a long way. We arrived and after a few minutes trying to get the door open we loaded in and set up the stage. JJ arrived not to soon after us and right around the same TIMe as the soundman. We did a quick and painless soundcheck and (c)Rew and I were quite happy with the outcome. Next we ordered our dinner which from the looks of the menu we weren't to sure about. I am happy to say that you shouldn't judge a menu by the cover. Another case of the food being absolutely amazing. I had the pizza because it said it was the house speciality. I got the meat lovers pizza which is quite the understatement. LOL It said a large could feed 8 but I didn't believe them. I ordered a pizza for myself after (c)Rew agreed he would help me eat it. Well this thing came and I have never seen anything like it. Thickest pizza I have ever seen and not because of the crust but because it was a split level pizza. Imagine a meat lovers pizza with another meat lovers pizza stacked on top of it. Unbefuckinlieveable! I did my best and even with the help of (c)Rew and Reynolds I only got thru 1/2 of this monsterous pizza. We got the other 1/2 boxed up to go and I could barely lift the thing and it was only 1/2 of the pizza. We were told that the whole pie weighs in at somewhere near an astonishing 13 lbs. Yes, that's what I said, 13 lbs. CRAZY!!! Just try to imagine that. It certainly wouldn't have fed 8 of my friends but I think 3 or 4 folks would leave stuffed from that pizza. And boy do I mean stuffed. After dinner it was up to the dressing room for food coma. TR introduced us to his new song which was yet unnamed. He told us it was a bit of music and lyrics that in his mind reminded him of Syd Barrett. I had a look and I definitely could see a bit of kookiness in the lyrics but I wasn't sure I would have made the Syd Barrett connection. A short TIMe later TR started rehearsing it and tightening up the lyrics. As soon as I hear him sing it I got the Syd Barrett connection. The pauses were placed in such a way that it made it sound very Syd Barrett when I heard them in context to the music. Upon my first reading they sounded a bit silly like some of Syd's lyrics but they didn't strike me as something I would have noticed as Syd-like. The second TR put them to music and sang them it became immediately clear the influence. Amazing how that happens. I couldn't wait to hear the final product when he finished learning it. It was a pretty late show for a Thursday but after a splendid opening act, Randy Collins, who if you are a fan of the tap-on style like Michael Hedges, Matt Winn or Kaki King(you should definitely check this guy out, wish I had gotten a CD of him), TR took the stage to a packed house. The crowd was a tad noiser than we had become accustomed to after the last 7 performances but they were really into it and the NRG from them fed TR all nite. A completely different kind of performance than the last 7 but still amazing in it's own right. Sadly, there were a few technical difficulties that we hadn't had at soundcheck but I chalked them up to the lightning from the storms that were raging all nite. Turned out to be a bad XLR cable. Once it was figured it out everything was much better. We were in such a good mood that it really didn't seem to phase anyone to much and TRodded on unhindered, even making jokes about the squeels and squelches. What a priviledge to work with such a professional. Alot of musicians would have lost their minds but TR soldiers on knowing it is the nature of the beast that there will be electronic problems from TIMe to TIMe. Whatta pro! TR's setlist looked like this in front of him: Space Eater Come Together(with a kiss) This Is The One Che' Runnin Away or Noble Bastard Indoctrinate Extravagent Measures --------------------------------- Sinceritox Ancestors Flourescence Coco Strom ---------------------------------- Alpha Centauri In A TooToo We Are From Space Betrayal Smells So Sweet Crazy Spill of the Butta ------------------------------------- Ocean Revolution All Around Doom Levee ------------------------------------ Hold OR Whole(Killing Floor) Again, corrections for this selist will need to be left to the tale of the tape from JJ. Special thanx to JJ for coming out early and enduring the audience abuse to capture the show for all to enjoy. I hope it comes out OK. Thanx to Rob and the entire staff of Sullys Pub and Lena's Last Pizzaria for the awesome food and taking such great care of us. Make sure if you are in Hartford you stop in and have the mammoth meat lovers specialty of the house if you think you can handle it. LOL [/quote]   Check here to include your profile signature.