Can't sleep. Fucking Red Bull. Also still pretty excited from the gig.

Tonight was really great. Easily the best show we've done, most everything clicked, and the crowd was fantastic. I had a strange guitar mishap, though. Around song 3 or 4 (The Loophole & Go On) my 6th string popped out of it's saddle on my guitar and made my musical contribution a little sketchy, til it was fixed. Also, somebody ripped off Chris' Budda pedal after the show. That was a drag, he loves that pedal and was bummed. If you took it and are reading this, I highly recommend that you look within yourself and take this Karmic opportunity to return it. It will make you a better person, believe me. Reminds me of something I had stolen from a Dragonfly show.

Back in the Skycycle days, like our first year, when we were a trio, I used to plug in a TV and an ancient Atari 2600 game machine in an let it loop on the intro screen to Air-Sea Battle. That's what I call "atmosphere". Sadly, some Karma-challenged tool swiped my precious 2600 and ended that bit of atmosphere for good.

Aside from that, the show was a blast. Here was the setlist:

We also played "Dazed and Confused" last. We're planning on playing it at the MAP awards on Friday, so we have been rehearsing it again, and it has been sounding really good, so we busted it tonight too. What the hell.

The Mellowdrone guys did a great "two men with an iPod" set first. Thanks to Jon and Tony for coming out and playing. Also thanks to Lyn (OldSchool) for coming all the way from Atlanta to see the show (!!!). It was great seeing all the TPC Community peeps, it wouldn't be a show without you! Also nice to meet theloopexperiment's Mike C. in person. And thanks for Nate (InnerTurmoil) for recording the show. Nate did the almost too-clear recording of the November Dragonfly show that appeared on the Internets. As I was singing tonight, I remembered he was in the audience, and that what we were playing and how the audience reacted was going to be spread around the world. Man, I sure hope that slipped string didn't wreck stuff too bad. Time will tell. Hey, once you play a show, you just let it up into the universe and move on. I feel though, that tonight's show will be a good one to have "out there". Also this is a great way for our non-Los Angeles friends to hear what we sound like these days. It's been way too long since we played live (a REAL show not a damn showcase), but all the work on the record has made that the reality. Having shows booked around studio time is a sure way to see that either the gig or the recording don't get the attention they deserve. Best to keep 'em separated.

Thanks to Kristen Lauck for selling Panic Stuff, my buddy (and Halo 2 bitch) Dan Cleary for videoing it, and most of all, Anthony Belanger from the Dragonfly for making our "L.A. gig home" good and homey. You rule. No seriously, you rule. Thanks for the deli platter.

Ok, let's give that sleep thing a try.