Under My Hood I Have a Hat

Thanks to everyone who came out to Next Church for the gig on Friday. I got to kindly play a solo acoustic set during a concert put on by some amazing home school parents. Thanks to Ice on Fire, Lockdown, and Mars for sharing the stage with me. I sold some cd's, which was cool, and the gig made enough money to share with the musicians (better than I normally do!). Thanks to my boss Tim, who kindly volunteered his services as sound guy. It was a great night of local music, and had the vibe I always want at my shows.

Set List:

Thinkin' About You (radiohead cover)

Beautiful Solitary

City Lights

Sharon

When She Says I Do.

Oh, and the best part of the night -- one of my former students, a 6 year old named Austin, was there, and he walked over to me during sound check and handed me an envelope.

"Hey Austin, how are you?"

"Open it!"

"It's for me?"

"Open it! It's a picture I made for you, you can hang it on your wall, and a puzzle!"

The puzzle was titled, "under my hood I have a hat", which I think is an awesome title for anything. The puzzle was challenging, but rewarding.

Some more pictures from the cd release show. . .

These pictures were taken by Kev's gal-pal Emma. Thanks Emma! That's Kev on the drums, Kev on the lead guitar, and Kev on the Bass. Oh, the Kevin jokes. They never get old. . . Ha, ah, ah. . . Hmmmmm. . . It's the same name! Isn't that wacky!? All of them! Kevins!

More Pics to Follow. . .

Thanks to the Mansion, Solange Lacroix, Brian Flynn, and everyone who braved the rain for our cd release show. I had an awesome time, and without a doubt it was our best show yet.

Set List:

Fake Blonde Girls

Society Dames

Rusty Voices

Beautiful Solitary

City Lights

Autumn with its Leaves and Perfect Stars

Jimmie

The United Stars

Hide and Seek

Something Here that Reminds Me of You

When She Says I Do

The Barn Flyz Were:

Bass: Kevin Cooke

Lead Guitar: Kevin Bowers

Drums: Kevin Holloway

Jay: Jay

Stay tuned for upcoming gigs. . .

SHOW TOMORROW!!!

Kevins are all in town.

Full band rehearsal in 1.5 hours.

Show in 30 hours.

Come see us rock. Tell your friends. Pick your friends up -- carpool to the show. I'll give you one of my free drinks. No, really, I will.

10 things that I have to do before the big show. . .

1. Have all band members in same room for at least 5 minutes.

2. Have all band members in same city for at least 5 minutes.

3. Try to make rehearsal, otherwise, leave detailed notes for bandmembers.

4. Poster outdoor poster locations (indoor locations handled today by me, Peja, and Echo).

5. Email/Facebook everyone I know 6 times to guilt them into coming. Also guilt them into guilting all their facebook/email contacts into coming too. And theirs. And theirs. Avoid litigation for pyramid scheming.

6. Get hair cut, trim beard. Resist temptations for short hair / clean face.

7. Wash baby puke stains out of at least 1 shirt/pant combo (no, not a jumpsuit, although that would be awesome).

8. Decide on price scheme for cd release.

9. Think of at least 11 clever things to say / stories to tell, without dropping f bombs, for between song banter. (at least 3 of them will be variations on the joke about all the guys in the band being named Kevin. . .) I'm open to suggestions. . .

10. Ignore 938382 items not on this list until last second, panick, and complete them all minutes before stage time.