A completely tiny post written from the cargo hold of a rental moving van. Clifton is Dj-ing, Rob is driving, Stef is laying on his back, groaning with his head resting against the bass. We’re driving to Ithaca to do radio show and then a gig later tonight at the lost dog. This is our first multi-city tour albeit only two cities long. We’re holding up pretty good.
Totally fun last night at Stompolgy. I won’t go too much into detail as I am moving in a moving van. Great dancers – especially back at Mike Theibault’s house (aka the Lindy Compound). The large rooms are great but the house parties are just magical. Folks are looser.
Some people were askng us to play “San” because they had seen Eve’s YouTube video. We started to do it our regular stupid-fast tempo but were immediately shut down by a great dancer (David Thurber) who was just flat out too drunk to dance that fast, “nope. No. That is not gonna happen. I was Edward Forty-Hands a minute ago.” We started it positively glacially compare to what we usually do with the whole band singing. Soon the whole room was singing along! Awesome. (David is on the right in this photo pictured with fellow ScissorHand, Mike Faltesek. Thanks for the photo, Michelle!)
Quick shout-outs to Lizza and her folks for hooking us up with such a confortable place to stay the night! Thanks! Also to Michelle and Beth for getting us on board to play and to T-bow for the late night! So much fun thanks.
This just in… a quote from one of the great dancers at Stompology – a certain Megan Dean
Tin pan, the band that played at the Saturday night dance. They were a fantastic Jazz band that knew how to play some groovy tunes and didn’t just play crazy fast lindy hop music. YAY! The singer had an Amazing Voice!! Then when we showed up for the late night we found out the Tin Pan had decided to come play for us! I was so happy, because unfortunately the first late night was a bit disappointing as they were still playing fast lindy music at 2:30 am. Crazy lindy hoppers!
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