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August 9, 2009
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Sunday night
is always an iffy night for a show but we booked ourselves
in the High Dive in Champaign. Champaign is home to the University
of Illinois, where, if you did not know, Laurie attended college,
received a degree in Electrical Engineering, learned to fly
an airplane, and played as a scholarship athlete in volleyball.
Does that make you feel tired or inadequate? Gee. What a drive.
Anyway, we were worried that we were only going to play for
the bartender and the soundman, but, by the time the show
started, we had a pretty nice size crowd for a Sunday night.
Our fan base is starting to grow which is such an honor to
have people who want to listen to the sounds we create. The
High Dive is a long deep brick building with high ceilings,
which you think would be a problem, but, to the contrary,
I found that this room had one of the best mixes of all the
gigs we've done this summer on this tour. It helped
that the stage is almost 6 feet off the main floor and that
they have a state-of-the art sound and lighting system. Carl,
the soundman was very capable and handled everything with
excellence. Whew. It is nice to have a capable person on the
board. Laurie rocked, we laughed, and we grooved our butts
off.
We spent the night at Kelly and Brian Finet's home in
Montecello, Illinois. Kelly and Brian were Laurie's
classmates at U of I. They have a lovely home and a cute dog
named Peek-a-boo. Kelly and Brian have a son and three daughters.
Susan and I got to spend the night in Shannon's room.
Shannon is 14 or 15 years old and loves animals. It was really
neat waking up to the Jonas Bros. posters on the wall and
a photo of James McCartney on the ceiling above the bed. It
took me a while to remember where I was when I woke up. Thanks
to the Finet family for your warm and generous hospitality.
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