The bus is quiet on New Years Day

 

Happy New Year everyone!  Hope you all had a great time throwing out old busted 2008, and welcoming in promising, hopeful, changetastic, 2009.  

We celebrated last night by playing at DC101′s Downtown Countdown at The Grand Hyatt, smackdab in the middle of our nation’s capital.  CM and Pat McGee Band rang in 2009 with some sweet rock.  Got to meet Pat after the show, what a nice dude.  We’ve played shows with them in the past, but not since I’ve been around.  Hope to do it again soon.  

We started the evening with a short acoustic set for the VIP type folk.  I like doing acoustic sets.  Give the songs a chance to breathe a bit.  We were all dressed in our New Years finest, some of us fortunate enough to have our lovely wives and girlfriends on our arms, as the clock hit zero and all of us toasted and hugged and celebrated, and the  Griff did the China dance.  

Much props to the DC101 gang for all their support and help last night.  And also mad props to the Martial Arts master who volunteered to be our de facto bodyguard after some knuckleheads decided to try to get dangerous.  Booya.  

I love putting these pics up here.  Sadly the quality may decline soon, as it’s my wife who is the good photographer, and has been out with us for the week taking these pics.  I’ll use my dumpy camera and post from there tho.  Oh well.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Happy New Year.  Let’s hope it’s a good one, without any fear.  

 

JP

So this is the New Year

Just woke up as the bus was pulling into DC.  I love coming here.  Such a great sense of history, and a general cool feeling about the town.  My wife and I have a few friends here in town as well, and it’s always nice to get to see them.  

Isle of Palms was as always, a blast, and quite an interesting time this go round.  My wife and I flew out of NOLA at 6 am, met the bus in Atlanta and drove to IOP.  The others in the band were flying later and at some point, all their flights got canceled and/or delayed.  So at some point, once we realized that they wouldn’t be arriving til after 3 am, the show was canceled, and the opener, the awesome Leslie, were given the headlining spot.  Our boy Mark Bryan from Hootie was coming down to play with the Mouth, so he and I ended up doing a short acoustic set opening for Leslie.  That was a blast.  Mark is a great musician, and it was a blast to play acoustic with him.  

Also we got up with Leslie and played a great cover of “Squeezebox” to close out the night.  Alot of fun at the end of it all, especially considering the crazyness of the flights and all.

 

The next night was a really good show we all felt.  Was great to be playing again after a month off.  Windjammer crowds are always great.  Such a good energy in there.  

 

Oh well, time to run, we’re off to explore the nation’s capital.  Be good, have a good NYE, be safe, don’t drink and drive.  Peace out!

 

Jonathan