This morning was all fine and good but now I’ve lost touch with my computer back home. I was experimenting with having a “home machine” that dealt with most of the heavy lifting, but of course THAT only works for as long as the home internet works, which it ceased to do within two days of our departure. Sigh. A couple of projects are just going to have to WAIT. That unfortunately includes finalization of ‘cicada’, much to my chagrin. We got up way too early, discovered the disconnect, and then immediately made our way over to the Juice Jar in Erie, PA to play a long, early set. These are fun, but they’re very compact and it’s torturous because you KNOW you won’t have time to eat until at least the first break (maybe not even till the second one) and everyone’s got all this DELICIOUS looking food. Still, it means you get to think good and hard about your choices.
At first, as a musician, when you walk into the Juice Jar you’re thinking “why in the world would I need a sound system?!” It’s a tight space, the majority of people you’re playing to are waiting in and around the juice bar of the Juice Jar – so they, and their ears, are very, very close. And then the blending starts. Oh the blending. So much blending.
Yeah. We were glad to have our PA.
After the gig we headed out to Presque Isle and took a good long walk with Chris and Joylene and their kids. After getting ourselves really good and tuckered out, we went to one of their favourite Mexican places (which the kids deemed “creepy”) dripped sand all over our booth (embarrassing) and then made a run for it back to the house where we kind of collapsed in short order. Tomorrow – Pittsburgh!
