Spent the weekend in Winston-Salem, and as usual, it was
interesting.

Got in to town Friday a bit earlier than I expected (not much traffic)
so went down to the Gallery Crawl downtown to meet some friends.
Caught scott from Japan Air and a few other friends playing some
pseudo bluegrass in a store/gallery window.

Then wandered over to Ziggy’s for the big local showcase. Missed
the first band, Hectoralis, but heard they were pretty good. Tommy
Gun were up next, and were entertaining as always.
Wafer
Thin was up nest. Guitarist/Singer Brent is the one that did all
the leg work to put the show together.

Japan Air followed and were great as always. Kind of a weird
set since it was a stripped down commando setup (no keyboards,
etc). Cramming stuff into a 45 minute set was interesting (average
song length for this guys is about 6 minutes…)

All in all, a good show. Ran into someone who recognized me
from middle school who I didn’t remember at all. With my voice
and name, that tends to happen a lot.

Saturday was odd as well. Went out to see a Shriners parade.
They must of forgotten to include the goat sacrifice float.
A odd parade to say the least.

Then while wandering around downtown with Dave from
Japan Air, we had a homeless guy ask us for money,
and to prove he needed the money, so us his court
appearance papers. The reason for the court appearance?
He broke into The Garage, a club ran by another friend
and the place Japan Air used to practice. Weird.

Sunday night the Guiford College radio station (90.9) played
some live recordings from the show so headed over to
Doug from Tommy Gun’s place to listen to the show with
the Japan Air and Wafer Thin guys.

Picked up some used cd’s at the Winston Record
Exchange (miles davis/panthalassa, vernon reid/mistake
identity, sun ra/space is the place, ozric tentacles/arboescence)