Iron Horse.
On Friday, Feb 18th we opened up for Guitar Shorty at the Iron Horse. What a great bunch of people in that band! They had been on the road for a while and were glad to be at the Horse that night. The house was packed, and both bands did a great job!

During load in, Shorty uncrated 5 beautiful G and L strat type guitars, and he was telling me the story behind each one. Shorty knew Leo Fender personally, and Leo made guitars for specially for him. How cool is that?

Shorty looked at one of my strats, said that the pickups were all wrong, whipped out a screwdriver and proceeded to "Shorty-ize" my guitar. He raised the height of my pickups so the guitar got louder! Silly me, I never messed with the pickups, cause I thought the guitar sounded fine already.

It's finer now.

The rhythm section guys hung out with my rhythm section, and the keyboard players were going over the fine details of the keyboard on stage. ( Push THAT button to get a piano sound, and then push THIS button for the organ tone. ROFL)

We made a lot of friends in the audience that night, too, as well as selling a few CDs to boot.

It's nice to play for an appreciative audience...