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Well, this is right after a gig of sorts: I just dropped my wife and a load of runners off in far north Austin for an 18 mile training run.
I had two gigs yesterday. One was in the middle of the afternoon at a nursing home. Our fiddler works the Old Folks Circuit, and I try to make this one monthly gig at nursing home with a lot of folks with mental deficits. Sometimes Tom will do a Gospel number. Yesterday he called In the Garden. These little old folks, many of whom can hardly speak, sing or mouth the lyrics along with the band. You look out in the hallway, the staff is singing along too. It is just so touching. We did Amazing Grace there a few months ago, and it was amazingly powerful.
Then last night a little coffee shop gig, just steel, bass and guitar. We do it about once a month in place of a band practice, and publicly try out new tunes or ones with rough spots. When/if we get an audience, it turns into a regular performance.
At both gigs I played my recently acquired DRRI. What a sweet little amp. My SF Twin is my total reference, and the DRRI is a not exactly like a lighter version of the Twin, but a similar, great tone. This was first time I played my Epi Dot (Gibson PU’s) through it at a gig, and it really sounded nice.
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