Short Change Band - May 17, 2011

Greetings Everyone! We had an absolute awesome weekend last week for music. We not only played some incredible shows and played some really awesome music, but we got to do it with some prior members of the Short Change Band as well.

Friday evening at the VFW in Endicott was nothing short of some pure magic. Jeffery “A” stopped by and played the entire evening with the band. We were privileged to some awesome mandolin solos and not to mention some fine guitar work too. Thanks Jeff!

The crowd stayed the entire evening and that's always a true sign that you must be doing something right. We also had some other friends stop by that evening, Susie (another former member of the SCB) said a quick “hello” and scooted out the door. We later found out she was celebrating a friend’s birthday and her birthday is coming up… ahh that explains that. Also, we need to thank Jim George for coming up and playing some awesome bass guitar in the last set with us. What a fun night!

So we get home around 3am and then we were back up again at 6am, hit the shower and down the road I go to our annual F.D/Auxiliary Golf tournament benefit. Set up time was 7am and there was much to do before the crowd arrived. The staff work at 7am was tough.

Then, at 9am I went back in the truck and off to the Afton Food Pantry to meet up with KW, DD, and Dom to present the check from the CHOW Jamboree. Check out the picture on our blog picture page.

It was truly a good morning. Then, Saturday evening I was off to another benefit to show support for a fellow fire fighter in another department who is currently in the hospital in Kingston NY (he’s in intensive care) Saturday was also another sad day as my own department lost a member as well on Friday the 13th due to a severe fall event while working at home. Yeah sometimes it's so sad when you lose a friend as close as brother in some cases, who you train with on Wednesday night and is gone by Friday. That's a tough deal my friends on anyone…

Anyway, on to Sunday. We were back on the road again, this time to Davy's Last Chance Saloon for (you guessed it) another benefit. This time it was to aid a participant in our local Achieve Program right here in Binghamton.

The turnout was scarce to say the least, but the band was hot once again. It was another Short Change Reunion. This time with our former lead player Cliffy Clune. All I can say was “Wow” there once again was some pure magic going on there my friends. I don't think we all played together in this format in about 5 years. It felt better than the old days for sure. Thanks Cliffy for your support...

And then, five hours after it started - it was over. But don't ever let it be said that this band doesn't give a damn... We give more than many others in the triple cities, and the funny part is - we've been doing it ever year for over 25 years... Now that's our share of giving back to the people who supported over all these years.

This week there are no scheduled shows as we are headed to the grand daddy of them all for concerts this weekend - ZZ Top and Lynyrd Skynyrd - Need we say more....
In closing, next weekend is memorial day weekend and we have four shows scheduled up for four days... yeah now that's Rock And Roll!

Enjoy the rain - love ya's all peace,

-Mikee Dee^^