We unleashed the jazz in Tacoma at Jazzbones.  It was a dinner theater that didn't usually host "rock and roll" groups, so we dusted off our baddest dinnerjazz chops and got all tasty and stuff.  Not much to report about the show beyond that.  I don't think we'll be opening for Branford Marsalis anytime soon, sadly. 

Next night was Portland, OR @ a really bizarre/cool new club called the Doug Fir.  The whole place looks like someone took a Best Western, a ski lodge in Montana (log walls) and a bunch of Playboy Mansion circa 1956 stuff (glass Moose heads, leather diner seats, wall to wall mirrored glass) and magically combined them.  Rock club, hotel and restaurant.  The show was short, but great.  Lots of people came out, including our pal Scott (the Young Fresh Fellows/Minus 5/ REM, as infinitum).  Posies rocked, as did openers Village Green.  Our pal and sometime Oranger member Alan Stewart was in town and sat in on theremin for Garden Party and New Comes and Goes.  He was in town for some shows under his DJ moniker, Shrodinger's Mac (check it out if you get a chance, it is apparently quite the freakshow of sound). 

Before the show we did our first in-store of the tour at Music Millenium w/ the Posies.  We played Sorry Paul, The Writer and Sukiyaki, autographed some bare breasts (and by that we mean copies of our record), and picked up some cds.  Matt grabbed a great James Gang comp for the van, and a puzzling yet somehow enjoyable Doobies comp.  I got some Sister Rosetta Tharpe boxset after Bob turned me onto her on the drive back from SLC.

After the rockshow we went to a few of those Oregon bars and met some interesting folks.  Talk to us in person for the details, as we're trying our best not to "work blue" in the blog anymore.  God knows it's tough.  Oh yeah, Portland legend "Hippy Slayer" kept waking us up at 7:00 a.m. for equally unprintable reasons.  Nice guy.  Just a little misunderstood.

On the way to Seattle now for the last show of the Posies/Oranger tour. I'm going to honest and admit that the Doobies comp is on the stereo and Silkie's at the helm.

-md