Re: [Harp-L] asking to sit in

[Bob Cohen <bcohen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Well.  I'm back.  The show was great.  I'm glad I didn't ask to sit in, 
though it would have been fun.  Thank you for preventing me from making 
an ass of myself, not because I couldn't play with them but because it 
just would have been rude.  Indeed, Jerry Portnoy was in 
attendance--just to listen.  The second set was way better than the 
first.  Little Charlie was red hot through both and Rick Estrin kicked 
in the afterburners in the second.  I brought my 9 year old daughter 
with me.  And before you even think it, that had nothing to do with my 
desire to sit in.  They're just one of my absolute favorite bands and it 
would just have been damn cool.  Our table abutted the stage.  Little 
Charlie was an absolute gentleman and really sweet!!!  (I know not an 
adjective typically associated with a bluesman.) He talked to my 
daughter throughout the show, sent her home with a number of souvenirs 
from his guitar case, autographed her official Nightcats t-shirt, and 
sent her home with the memory of her first blues show.  They even played 
the song she requested, "Smart Like Einstein."  Rick Estrin made a point 
of chatting with her in between sets noting very attentively that she 
knew the words to most of the songs.  It was kind of cool to watch this 
representative of the next generation of blues fans make a rite of 
passage.  All-in-all a great night!

So thanks one and all.

Bob Cohen