Tuesday, January 29, 2008

Living Room Set - Last Show

Berkeley - Living Room Set - January 26th

Last day of the tour.

We got over to Berkeley in the early afternoon to set up and then went over to Eric's Parents place again for some more fantastic food. His Parents have been so amazingly supportive.

We played the set at our friend Amanda Bensel's place near UC Berkeley. It was my favorite living room set of the tour - it was literally a very full house. We played the usually set but we added the new songs "I know you well" and "so in love" with eric on dobro and myself on the guitar with the special tuning i use for these songs. C G C E G C . we also ended the set with summer roof but upon request played one more song - which ended up being racecar and by the end of the song everyone was playing which hadnt happened on the tour and it turned into a great jam. for this last song the band felt really connected and tight.

the set list was:

fort bragg
sit and stare
molly
don't forget
southern california
roads
so in love
i know you well
a thousand years
love to see you smile
shes suddenly
summer roof
racecar

as kellen, jason and jonathan drove back to sacramento and eric to los angeles after the show i realized how much of a family/community we had become. through all our differences in race, religion, morals, musical tastes, etc. we all came together as a group to play this music and these songs the best we could and each person providing their own musical fingerprint. and it was a lot of fun indeed. this really sounds like cheesy bullshit but we all bonded in a way that you only realize once you come to the end of being together consistently for a month.

we drove over 4500 miles together
we played for over 1150 people
at 20 shows in 3 different states.

for the first time in a month i was without
the rest of the boys which felt pretty strange.

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