6 Nov – Hard Rock Live (Orlando, FL)
w/ Indigo Girls
Guessing here at the outset this post will be much shorter than the other two. This was a strange show. Before we went on Amy said it reminded her of playing Las Vegas and that’s really as good an approximation as any. When we started I could only see the first few rows and it looked as if the crowd was very light, but as the lights brightened I could see they were mostly crowded around the bars at the back.
The Hard Rock in Orlando is a strange place. It’s large, just a bit smaller in capacity than the Florida Theatre was, but there are several bars in the back of the room. Also, maybe more importantly, it’s in the middle of Universal so the crowd is a very strange mix of fans and just people who are out at Universal. Near the end of the set when I mentioned that we just had a couple of songs left someone shouted out “hurry up and play the two songs!” My voice didn’t hit the high part for the first time in the cover we’ve been playing.
Still, I saw my name on a huge marquee. We played “Guy Fawkes Day” since we didn’t have a show on the 5th. I met Rose Polenzani, who’s also on Daemon and just happened to be down in Florida this week. She is extremely friendly, she did a couple of songs with the Girls and she and I talked about me singing backup on one of them for the next couple of shows (she’s traveling along with them for the next two dates). I sang on “Kid Fears” again and this time felt very comfortable with it. I tried to sing it like I wasn’t shy, and both of them seemed really happy with how it sounded… Emily blew me a kiss after we were done.
I neglected to mention the CD sales for the last show, but we did extremely well in Jacksonville. Last night we did alright, which is really sort of a funny statement since we really did much better than we would at any normal show we’d play.
Today is another day off.