Blue Mermaid, Portsmouth, NH 01/06/06

We definitely had our weirdest night ever last night. It's in the archives already and it's quarter past ten in the morning east coast time. Not only was the building that we were in apparently haunted, but the ghosts seemed to be having a field day with our equipment. Mechelle's microphone cut out on and off all night until finally it frialated mid-set. Mech and I cranked out 'COWBOY' while Freeman and Ben worked on the repairs. My bass shit-out first song. The active electronics that I've run in it for 2 years decided that it would be good to die right in the middle of a song...all of the sudden, I had distortion!!! In almost twenty years of playing music, that was my single weirdest experience above all!!! We sounded friccin' great too!!! Nice job guys.

We will be at the Barley House this Friday with, hopefully, a really special guest. I'll let you know more later.


Set 1: (Mechelle Acoustic)

Down At The Bar
Unknown
Tear-Stained Eye^
Unknown
High Hopes~
Unknown+
Unknown
Brickwall
Unknown
Come On Home

Set II: (The Band June)

Sorry
Cursed
Unknown Acoustic*
One More Time+
Dope Dreams
Pistol Smile
Cowboy#
Fickle Sea
Shapeshifted@


KEY:

^ Son Volt Cover
~ Neil Halstead Cover
* Bass rig shit-out, Mech & Michael
+New
# PA system shit-out, Mech & Dave
@ Ended show prematurely due to suspicious events

Unknown songs are most likely originals by Mechelle Zydenbos



PS-This is our great friend Jason who came out to see us tonight with his wife. I was just shooting from the hip and came up with this photo of him.