This is going to be a rare article.  I don't think that I can come up with a single thing to complain about in this whole night of music.  I know all of you who follow me are amazed.  The music was outstanding!  The show ran about half an hour long, so there was even more to enjoy.  The crowd was great.  The bar was packed all night.  We had a good friend hanging out with us, it was just a really great time.

There are rare times where fate aligns itself.  I had a personal invite from the band to catch their performance, but our child care options had fallen through. I was granted permission from The Wife for a Freak and Geek solo flight. Woo hoo! It was my first visit to the Red Parrot, the former Woo's Bodega …er, ah, I mean Pagota. What a great bar for music! Good sized, big stage, pretty good sound. They need more lights, the right side of the stage was dark, hiding the bass player and rhythm guitarist in shadow. Perhaps if they continue to host music, they can put a little investment into some additional lights.

Thursday night brought a Freak and Geek quorum to Eau Claire for Volume One's, Backstage Concert Series of music.  Held entirely on the stage of the State Theater, its a great concept for a venue.  Rather than walking in the front door, across plush carpets, past stone and oak, and into padded seats;  you instead go around the corner, down the ally and enter through the stage door.   The lighting back stage, spotlights raking up the interior brick walls, intensifies the roughness, the ally like feel.  It is the polar opposite of the effect the front door instills.  But, what it does do, is makes you part of the club.  Part of the family of players who have the rights to enter via the stage door.