Played our first gig with Henry "Mitch" Mitchel on drums at The Boardwalk. (Gig #7) It started off kinda slow - then stayed that way until things went into hyperdrive.

First of all, some emergency kept the sound guy busy and made him late for an hour and half during our soundcheck. This and other delays shoved our actually show time from 11:30 to 12:15. The band before us had about 30 people - but they all left at 12:00, except for about 5-10 of them, not counting our own family and roadies.

Yes, we have roadies, now - they're the guys your gonna have to pay some money (or whatever), in order to get backstage and talk to us later - learn their names now while you still can.

I'm kidding - really - I am. Honest. People can't shut me up, as it is already.

Anyway, their names are Ed, Rob and Steve. Say "Hi" to them when ya see 'em, they work hard for no money. At least they do for now, but when we're on tour - they'll be making more money than we will. (Union scale is something else, man...)

Just before the show we found out that a the local hard rock radio station 98 Rock was having a big free concert downtown - and another well known national level act from Sacto, Moon Dog Mane was playing at Big Shots in Roseville.

You know what? We didn't care. With Mitch on drums - it's all good baybeee.

Easily this was the best show that we've done so far - much better than the last show at the County Fair.

We started off the show emotionally frustrated by the turn-out, and then ran into some minor sound problems (somebody had turned the cabinet emulator on Darryl's guitar waaaay up - y'know at a certain point monitor feedback really really hurts - somebody has some payback coming...).

So initially, our mood was ugly.

Then we started into the first song - and WHAM - the world was a beautiful place.

Even Robbie, The Boardwalk. sound engineer was impressed and that's no easy feet.

Another fan who stayed all the way until 1 AM said that he got goosebumps watching us. He said he felt like this must have been what it was like for the first U.S. tours of U-2 and The Police when they were playing empty bars because no one knew who they were yet.

But they found out...oh, yes...they found out.

Our line-up is set, we're on the road to the future now...

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