Short Change Band - Second Week of December, 2012

Greetings everyone!  We are now at week number 49 this year.  It’s just mere days before the big guy in the red suit makes his annual visit.  Then shortly after that, we start another year.  My only comment is: Where did 2012 go?

We were in Myrtle Beach during Easter break and in Atlantic City just after Labor Day, and by Columbus day we were in Greenville, S.C.  Now it's mid December and the year has almost ended. (wow..)  There’s so much to do in so little time.

The band events slowed down just a bit in 2012 as we are just shy of completing 70 shows.  In 2011 we played just over 80 shows, so I guess we can blame it on a down economy.

This was also the first year that I can ever remember where we had a number of show cancellations.  In the 26 years I've been a Short Change Band member, we had a handful of gigs cancelled that entire time.  This year we had our share as well.  Hopefully 2013 will enter the "Light in the Tunnel” year for entertainment.

I have this scary feeling that one day all the live musical acts will be replaced by Kindle Fire programs.  We are all truly a dinosaur life form of live music.

We’d like to pass on special thanks last week for two great shows: Birtchy's Joint on Friday and Babcock's on Saturday night.  Once again we rocked the houses.  Special thanks to our brother Cliffy for sitting in at Babcock's on the six string and our other brother Chucky for some fantastic sound quality that evening.  Also thanks to Brian for letting us use your equipment, it served us quite well.

So as we move into this weekend, we have two public shows:

Friday at 8pm at the VFW on Caroll Street in Binghamton - a new venue for us.
Saturday evening we perform our last 2012 show for the Central Hotel and Tavern.  It’s a Christmas Party of sorts I'm told.  Showtime is 6pm.

We hope to see you all out and about, so please stop by and say hello to the band and drink a toast for another year of service and friendship with Kevin, Darrell and myself.

Peace and love  and we hope to see you all soon.  Only 4 more shows until 2013....wow that went fast!  Making music this year with the "Honky Tonk Band Of Brothers!

Mikee^ Dee