Wow! What great weekend, first off we just want to thank all of you who made it out Friday night braving yet another brutal snowstorm to come and support us, you really have no idea how grateful we are to such awesome fans! Thank You!

We hope you enjoyed the show. For those of you who werent there we played a couple of new songs off of our upcoming release which was alot of fun and from all reports they went over quite well. It was an all business 8 song set which saw us cut “hurry up” last second due to some delays. We stuck to a very meatty danceable anthemic dirty rock set which proved to alot of fun. Phil Ogynist got some really great photos (Thanks Phil) which i would put , a link to but ….they never seem to work when i post them, so im just gonna post them in our Gallery.

March 7th Elmocambo
Sean Verreault
Grand Pm
Peter Katz
The Dunes
And Special Guest

Nobody new who this Guest might be except us on the inside and we had to keep it kinda hush hush because there was some uncertainty about whether or not it would actually happen or not, but then at 1:30 am a Taxi pulled up to the Elmocambo with a guy named Garth Hudson and his wife Maud inside. For those of you who dont know who is go out right now rent The Last Waltz, its a concert by the Legendary band known simply as “The Band”. Garth was the keyboardist for The Band and is thought to be heavily responsible for giving them thier unique sound through his brilliance….”Cripple Creek” “The Weight” “The shape im in” are just a few of many many hits they wrote. Ok….so right Garth Showed up! Unbelievable…”could this be happening”. Peter Katz our new label mate and his band had learned some “band” songs through the week and so did we in hopes of performing them with Garth. Even though Garth was now in the building it was still unclear if he was going to come up on stage and join us. Peter just finished up a few of his numbers and called over the mic “now were gonna get The Dunes to come up and do a few songs”. We were just about readyto kick into “The shape im in” and guess who walks up on stage with us….yip Garth. I (Kevin) greeted him again and asked him if he wanted to do both songs we had rehearsed the first one being “The shape im in” he smiled and said yeah “lets do it”. There was a great energy in the that room Friday night about 40 or so people had stuck around anticipating a “special guest” and thats exaxctly what they got cellphones and flashbulbs everywhere but still the mood was very intimate and serene and….. amazing. We effortlessly strolled through “The shape im in” and it was great to watch Garth work his magic, once we finished that up it was time to for Garth to play “his” song “Chest fever”. If you dont know the song go download it from itunes right now it is an epic! We all looked around at each other as we moved through it with massive grins on our faces and i think for a moment we felt, or at least i felt what it might of been like to be in the band in the 70’s playing these songs….magic. Peter and his band came up after that and busted into “The weight”. We stayed on stage together and Jammed it out and the whole place errupted as everyone in the place sang along “take a load off fanny….take a load for free”…Im sure you can imagine it was a very special night. Garth and his wife were very warm and kind and we had the opportunity to just be oureselves and enjoy each others company. “The weight” was the set ender the crowd literally went wild, but, that was it for the night and as we exited the stage I looked at Garth and he smiled at me i put my arm around him and he said to me tongue in cheek “lets get a band together and get out on the road”. Thanks Garth from all of us!

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