I believe we last left off driving back to Chicago from Grand Rapids. In theory, Chicago's show on Thursday night should have been awesome. It was at Joe's which is a pretty good sized place (largest I've ever played in....) and we were opening for a national touring act called the Randy Rogers Band. From the moment we arrived at the venue the scene was rife with confusion. We went from loading in from 5-6, to having sound check at 5 (RRB didn't end their check till 5:30), to performing at 6, to performing at 6:30, to not doing a check at all, to performing at 7:45 and then, finally, performing at 8:00 which is what we had thought and advertised all along.
That all being said, everyone at the venue was really nice and most had no idea of the confusing and constantly changing "schedule". They were just as frustrated as we were. It turns out, however, that the confusion was all caused by a silent auction that was going on in an ajoining room from 6-7:30, which is why we couldn't do a sound check. Anyhow, a large room looks incredibly empty with 75-100 people in it and that was certainly the case when we played with Julie. I think we played a pretty good show and the stage and sound were awesome, but it would have been nice to go on a little later when the people showed up......about 800 of them by 10:00. Oh well. It was a great experience and I'm sure it'll be that much better next time.
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