A Watershed Moment

First of all, thanks to all of you that came out and saw us last night at the Cat Club. I think it was a kickass show and we were all pleasantly surprised by how many of you showed up. Also, I hope you enjoyed our performance. I can tell you one person who certainly did... me. Not to make too big of a deal out of it, but we practiced this set (as we do with almost all of our sets) several times before and each time we played it (with slight changes and shifts in song arrangement and placement) I was happy with the result. Happy enough in fact, that I told James, Gary, and Bert that if we had had an audience there, I would have been happy that they heard it. So, basically the show wasn't a fluke, the good rehearsals weren't a fluke (even though James the Pessimist thought we might suffer from the dreaded "good rehearsal, bad performance")... we basically can now play a set and rock it if we so choose and all of the other shit that before might have influenced or messed up our performance (like nerves, it just being a bad night, or whatever) doesn't have a noticeable effect anymore.

So, basically, though this might seem trivial, I think it is a watershed moment at least for me, because now I will ask people to come to shows because I really think they will like what they hear. I'm not saying that wasn't true before, because I do think we were making good music, but we certainly have come a long way as a band. Whereas before you might come to the show not only to hear some music, but also to support us as your friends, NOW you should come because we're going to be good. I hope.

So, Bert, James, Gary, that was an awesome show and we should have many more to come. The rest of you, thanks for coming out; thanks for supporting us before this point and continuing to support us after. Some of you have been coming to shows since our "shows" consisted of us playing in the basement at Pike and I really appreciate it. I think it's finally starting to pay off now. Also, everyone should check out Seeing Blind who played before us and continued to rock at the afterparty and made me really jealous because their band has a cellist. Bert, you really need to buy that cello.

~Z

P.S. We have harmonies now. Kick ass job Bert.