The 4 Sknns reunion gig was Saturday night, at Blayney’s in Westport. Special thanks to everybody who came—it was great to see so many people we hadn’t seen in years. There were a lot of great players in the crowd and we really intended to have more people sit in, but even though we played for five hours, it wound up that only a few people did get a chance to play.

Thanks to Janet Jameson (who plays with Nation and Fundada these days), Steve Davis and Gary Butler (from Liverpool), and Duncan somebody (whom I’m afraid I don’t know) for sitting in on a couple Beatles songs. And to Cliff Eveland (who also ran sound) and Scotty Yates (both play with Issues) for playing an Allman Brothers song and something else. I don’t remember what the other song was, even though I played on it, because it was after 2 am at that point and I was beyond fried both mentally and physically. And special thanks to Doug Medlock for closing the night with improvised and hilarious lyrics on “Folsom Prison.”

I didn’t dare have anything to drink (except coffee and Coke) all night, because there were just too many songs I hadn’t thought about for 15 years, plus the physical challenge of playing drums really hard for five hours. We had two rehearsals, but that’s not enough for that much material. There were plenty of mistakes, and a lot of great songs we didn’t get to. But still, the audience seemed to have a really good time.

Thanks again, everybody!