It’s been a while since we’ve all played together so it was nice to have what was supposed to be a relaxed informal outdoor lake side café gig to get things going again at the King Du Lac. And it was pretty much that if you remove “relaxed” from the list since there was a storm wind blowing Wednesday evening that threatened gobs of rain which didn’t come – fortunately – but which did make it very hard to set up the sound an actually hear what we were playing. Before you knew it the music was blown away over the waters never to return leaving me, for one, struggling to hear the little that was left. I’ve probably gotten too used to playing in a cellar in which my little drum set is far to loud too; fireworks! Outdoors it’s like a cheap little firecracker, pthiip…, did you hear something? Not sure, can you turn up the guitar?

And then the wind would change and I’d only hear the bass or the harmonica, just bizarre… and not the best to all be together now…

Dave set up a little camcorder as was possible, on a ledge above one of the bar’s windows, which only got three of us, Denis being too far to the left to be included. At least at first since each time a strong gust of wind blew, the tarp above the whole joint vibrated, hitting the cam and turning it somewhat. At the end of the first set, which was all we recorded, only Dave was left in the image! :-)

Poney Blues, by the Crawfish Blues Band during yet another sketchy night.