"If you missed the show at Hensley's Flying Elephant on Saturday, January 6th you missed one heck of a show. In fact, it's the kind of gig that makes me proud to play music and really encompasses why I set out to play live music in bars for people I don't know (and some I do).

Before I ever moved to California (hop into the Wayback Machine), I used to go see bands play in my former home of Tulsa, OK. Tulsa is known for it's amazing music scene and I loved going out to see some of the legends of Tulsa on any given night and sometimes witness what can only be described as musical magic. Forces came together and everyone in the crowd that night felt like they witnessed something that could never take place the same way again. I relished those nights when my local music heroes created that magic, with some of their friends from other bands sitting in or maybe just taking on a song they'd never done and finding that perfect guitar solo or whatever it might be on that night. But when you went home that night you felt like something special had just taken place.

Last night after our gig at Hensley's I felt like in some small way we had achieved that. Everything felt right about it and, from the looks on the faces of the crowd and from the comments of the music lovers at the bar, I know we did something right and left a lot of people feeling the way I used to feel after seeing Steve Pryor and the Mighty Kingsnakes tear the roof off the place or Jim Sweeney hook up with Bill Davis and create more soul than any other two white guys could ever produce. It may sound corny, but I felt the music gods smiling on us last night.

First of all we had quite a "who's who of skateboarding" in the crowd, starting off with Tony Hawk himself. Of course the legendary Matt Hensley owns the place, so that's a given. Jesse Fritsch and 80's legend Adrian Demain were also in attendance. We were joined on stage by Matt Hensley, who is also known as the accordion player in the well known band Flogging Molly. The usual amazing sets by Oliver, Dianne, and Michelle kept the crowd going and we finished up the night being joined by one of the monster bassists on the planet, Alan Deremo who has toured with a ton of famous bands including Glenn Frey of the Eagles, John Denver and Men at Work just to name a few. And we even got a quick back-up vocal from Pat Hawk who has sung with Michael Bolton, The Righteous Brothers, etc. If you've ever listened to the radio you've probably heard her sing. Of course Dave Quillen was on his own planet on lead guitar and Rob Quillen did more than his fair share of drumming duties last night. He was even looking pretty at home behind the cocktail kit.

Thanks to everyone who came out for the show. Thanks to Matt Hensley for owning a bar that puts music first and catering to a crowd who actually gets it. And thanks to Matt for lending his musical talents to us and helping create a little magic.

We'll see you there again soon!"

--Jaimie Muehlhausen