Friday Night Jams!
In an on-going effort to ensure that I don’t actually sleep, on Friday night I played drums with Phoenix (you might remember a post last month about my all-day rehearsal with them in Orlando).
Well, here’s the back story on all this; Phoenix was my first “real” band, which we formed back in high school, and this weekend we reunited to play at the 30-year high school reunion of the keyboard player, bass player, and guitar player (who were seniors, while the lead singer and I were still juniors, but at the same school). We played a bunch of Classic Rock songs, ranging from The Doobie Brothers to Lynyrd Skynyrd (yes, we played “Free Bird”), to Grand Funk to The Eagles to Bad Company. It was incredibly loud (just like the ol’ days), but we had a blast.
Some photos from “the gig” are above, taken by NAPP’s own Larry Becker. (Pictured top to bottom: Me on drums; The back of rhythm guitarist Dean Erskine and our lead singer Joe Mathein; Bassist Tim Colton; Lead Guitar player Tony McMahon; and lastly Keyboard player Tayloe Harding, also affectionately known as “Tay Buns” by cruel band members like me).
Freebird huh? LOL
Reminds me of the scene from Elizabethtown. Hope you didn’t set the place on fire. Literally that is…
Scott, I can’t begin to tell you what an awesome privilege it was for you and the band to be at our 30th reunion! You (and the band) brought that crowd to life in a whole new dimension! Thanks for making Friday night extra special!
Multi-talented Scott..thats fabilous..
Southern by the grace of God..any Marshall Tucker’s?
Great shots Larry.
I didn’t know you played drums! Very nice.
you are so fabulous and i don’t think of you playing drum…………
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