Les Jones

In the Philippines, they had McRice.

I'm not sure if you've been to sundown in the past year, but you may want to rethink bringing the youngins. I'm a rowdy 22 year old and have stopped going due to the sheer density of the crowd and lack of bathroom facilities.

Really like that band, but I didn't go...too far for an old man to travel at night! And, if they don't have bathrooms, well, then I would be arrested for watering something!

Will: that's why I asked people to wish us luck. :-) Hopefully between me, my wife, and her mom we can manage things. I expect we'll be hanging way back from the stage.

I may be going with Zan. Haven't made up my mind yet, though -- we both used to be huge fans, but haven't much liked anything post-Decoration Day.

And Isbell quit, which is a huge loss.

And they're on some sort of "jesus, we're so incredibly bored with these songs we've played a million times, hey, why don't we do them acoustic?" type tour, which isn't very encouraging. Zan's been pretty seriously stoked all week about seeing them, too, so I felt bad when I told him today they were probably going to be all soft and sensitive instead of big and loud and mean -- I got a "what cho talkin' bout, willis?" look, then a big sad frown.

And Sundown's such a hassle too, and it's going to be hot, and, etc. etc.

So, I dunno. If we do go, I'd like to hang out with y'all, so give me a call before you head out -- we're going to try and time it so we miss Dixie Dirt, so maybe we could meet up around 8?

Steve: I'll give you a ring.

The acoustic acts I've seen at Sundown didn't sound good. Electric's the only way to fly with a big crowd at Market Square.