Red Sky has been booking a lot of gigs at new places. We had been hoping for a long time to play at Mickey Finn's because it is close by and a super nice restaurant first, bar and music venue second. They only book good bands that can play without relying on loudness or a narrow style range.
When Tim returned my email we discussed the kind of music hist patrons would prefer, and we changed up our set list. We added some Allman Bros, CSNY and a Miranda Lambert. Took out the Bush and Stone Temple Pilots. And we really had a good time trying to hit one out of the park when we played there last night (Sat March 2, 2013).
A couple of moments stood out as memorable: a bantam league hockey team joined in on Purple Rain - slow arm wave, 'oooh-oooh' chorus. Grade-school kids- how do they know this stuff?
And our final song- War Pigs. Our bass player was really lost in the music - eyes closed, head moving like Geezer, transported by the conveyor belt that is "the Wall" segment of the song. He opened his eyes to see quite a few people had left their seats, left the bar, left what they were doing and had re-formed an audience. Scotti played an epic lead- molten sheets of fire put Satan on the wing as the war pigs burned.
Probably not what Mickey Finn's envisioned when they booked us, but somehow the journey we were all on that night took us there.
