Subject: Haiti Earthquake - Red Cross - Strutting Duck/Auburn Ale House
Saturday March 20, 2010
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    My brother and band mate, Eric, was watching the coverage of the Haiti 
earthquake and, like many of us, felt like he wanted to do some little 
something to help out and suggested the idea of doing a benefit. Little did 
he know at the time that it would be the Earth Quake Du Jour by the time the 
gig date rolled around. So, with the desire to put a little in the pot we 
will be playing at the Strutting Duck/Auburn Ale House Saturday, March 20 
along with Mace Glasscock and Bandalar. Proceeds will go to the Red Cross' 
general disaster relief fund.
    I remember back in my salad days watching the African Famine coverage 
that eventually resulted in the Live Aid concerts. I went to a club we were 
playing at and suggested doing a benefit and the owner said that would be a 
good idea and ultimately said, "Why do you want to do this?" Until that 
moment I had never really realized that lots of benefits were done as much 
as a publicity stoking tool as out of any general desire to do something 
altruistically contributory.  Oh well, the shedding of one of the many onion 
like layers of idealism and naïveté that we all experience over the years 
and, besides, the ends justify the means....idealistically. Few of us even 
in our numbed state of 24 news cycle bombardment could watch these images of 
Biblical level horror without being stung with pangs of guilt for our 
relative good lot and sympathy for the poor souls in the midst of it all. 
So, though "charity fatigue" gets the best of us all we offer this chance to 
celebrate life and concurrently help people put theirs back together.
    I think we will play in the middle of this lineup...so maybe ten or so? 
Mace will open on acoustic which should be typically humbling  The man can 
play some slide as well as guitar in general. He's also a damn fine 
carpenter unless he as retired to his palatial estate in the teaming 
metropolis of Waverly. To be honest, I have not heard Bandalar so I look 
forward to an introduction Saturday night. With the Duck's discerning love 
of music I can only assume they will be excellent. As for Resistor, we are 
thankful that our bassist, Keith Richardson, did not lose two of his fingers 
in a mishap about a month ago with a metal fabricating machine where he 
works in Dallas, GA. He is not fully recovered and will have to use a pick 
but is grateful for the small things in life...like the last half inch of 
his right forefinger and birdy finger. He was kind enough to sent close up 
pictures of the injury the day after the accident. UGLY.
    In summation, we hope to see a crowd there. It will be the end of Spring 
Break so perhaps school oriented people will have trickled back into town. 
My car was nearly crushed yesterday on College Avenue by an avalanche of 
tumbleweeds rolling down the street. It is always good to see a reunion of 
the Old School Gang when we play and we always enjoy an opportunity to get 
the four of us on a stage and let the dog out when the chance arrives. Life 
is fragile and precious. Tomorrow is never promised. We are all bound by far 
more commonalities than differences and in the good times and the bad this 
becomes the most apparent. Help us help some folks in bad times by having a 
good time together. Peace, dude. B