Awakening A Slumbering Giant

Well, I figured it was about time to post something new. You can't keep the fans waiting (too long). Eventually they get furious.

This also coincides with the first significant amount of shows I've played in a couple months. I played four shows with a super cool singer-songwriter named Krista Detor. I met her and her husband/guitarist/producer/homey Dave Weber at the beginning of this year in Chicago when we were on the road with Brian Vander Ark.

She's from Indiana, she's great, she's very nice, and she asked me to play drums with her.

This little run was in West Virginia, Maryland, and Alabama. Fun times all over the east/southeast. Of course we met some splendid people along the way. Including one half of the 1995 Freestyle Frisbee World Championship team. When Gary told me this prime tidbit, of course I had to ask him approximately 5 million questions. Obviously number one was, "What are the chicks like at frisbee competitions?" Not really.

Speaking of Gary and chicks, all of Gary's friends were shocked to hear that I lived in Charlottesville and had never been contra dancing. (There was almost a riot when I told them that I had never even heard of it.) So for an extended period of time after our show, they showed me the moves. It's like square dancing on crack. NUMEROUS people at the show travel around the country, taking part in enormous contra dancers. With hundreds of other contra dancers.

In addition to world champion frisbee'ers and nationally-traveling contra dancers, I learned that Krista and Dave had some quality stories to tell as well. Krista's dad spent years in a federal prison for counterfeiting $72 million. "We were rich for about five minutes, then he was gone," she joked. Dave, for his part, was a traveling "catcher on the flying trapese." He is one of the guys that hangs by the back of his knees from the swinging trapese and catches the people jumping. Holy crap. To keep playing in this band, I'm going to have to pick up some impressive hobbies.