Stepping Back in Time

We’ve done this before.  But this time it felt different.  It felt different since January when we chose to do this.  There’s many reasons, I suppose.

We did this in 2005.  There wasn’t much fanfare.  More like a party.  The Wayside Riders were there.  Brooks and I did a few tunes that we worked up to start the evening.  We quietly got together at Jake’s Toadhouse.  We had played a million places like Jake’s.  But only on the road.   Jake’s was a celebration that we were all still playing in some form or another.  Some of us in active bands.  Some for a living.  Some writing to write.  Some trying to find their break.  But it feels different this time around.

Before Jake’s we hadn’t been on stage together in six years.  December 18th, 1999 at The Variety Playhouse.  We played with our old friends who were now called Deep Blue Sun.  We were at a familiar place and we had a familiar mood.  I’ll leave that open for interpretation.  We played six months before that and another six months before that was our first reunion.  Three shows in 18 months. Then not again for six years.  Now we’re back three years later.  Cobwebs have formed on some of us since 2005.

This time though it’s different.

Everyone in the room last weekend knew it.

We’re refreshed.  Healthy.  Joyous.  We stepped back in time last weekend to a time we only reminisce about now.

- Steven Fink

Pictures by Sandi Hill

Charlie

Romin

Preston

Ted

Brooks and Steven

Rick

Steve

Ted, Steve, and Romin

Romin and Charlie

Robert, Steven, and Brooks

Kevin and Rick

The Doug Hoffman

Chris and Eric

LtoR. Bottom Row: Chris Russian, Steve Baird, Doug Hoffman. Standing: Eric Hultgren, Keith Matthews, Romin Dawson, Robert Nichols, Steven Fink, Rick Welsh, Ted Norton, Brooks Smith, Preston Holcomb, Kevin Coleman, Rick Williams, Charlie Lonsdorf

The Grapes

~ by thegrapes on October 6, 2008.