| Winterpills is a great band led by Philip Price and featuring Flora Reed, Dennis Crommett, and Dave Hower. For this particular show, they wanted a bass player, too and they asked me and I said yes and they said ok and I said fine.
Philip writes great songs and the band is excellent, so practicing and playing with them was good fun. This was my first time playing in John M. Greene Hall and only my third time there ever (I was there in the late 80's to see a couple shows, one of them was Sandra Bernhard I think). What an amazingly beautiful theatre! The sound in there is perfect. Great acoustics.
Here we are:
We were playing first out of three bands (The Holmes Brothers and Donna the Buffalo) in this show, which was a benefit concert for the Food Bank of Western, MA.
The show went off very well. The audience, most of whom had never seen Winterpills, seemed to really dig it.
I've become a little bit accustomed to waiting back stage while the theatre fills up and playing music that I'm not completely confident with since doing the Mulcahey / Katchor shows. It's a tingly exciting kind of thing and I like it.
The Theatre seats 2000. I'd say it was about a third full or so, the balcony was closed. Although that sounds like a thin crowd, it was still probably 700 or so people, which is larger than most of my experiences.
After we played, I left and went home and watched SCTV DVDs.
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