I think both definitions apply. Everything went right from the first note of Needle and Thread. Applause turned to cheers. At some point, I looked out to the bar and realized that it was empty because everyone had come in the back room to listen to us. The smokers were listening through the window, smiling, even waving, at me. After we took a 10-minute break, everyone came back. One gentleman, a facebook acquaintance, told me that he rode his bike down from the Upper West Side "on a hunch." Later he said he "could never have imagined" how great it would be, and that he'd come back next month with friends in tow. It's all working. Most of the songs we played were my own, things the audience had never heard before, but connected with. I tell you, it was thrilling. I'm so grateful, so excited.
We turned in a particularly fine performance of "The Grey Funnel Line" inspired by the harborside location; an iPhone clip shot by beloved Bathabile Mthombeni will be up on youtube shortly. My new old friend Don Mount (until recently when we met at a Karl Berger gig at The Stone, we hadn't seen each other since our kids went to pre-school together; they're now 21) videotaped the whole show, so there'll be more to follow. My photographer friend Ed Fladung took this picture, which is lovely, but doesn't show the crowd or my knockout band, Charlie Burnham on his heartstrung violin or the elegant lookout guitarist Brandon Ross.....
Next show is Saturday July 16. Come out! Help me make this a monthly thing......
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