Tom Howie

Wednesday night we played the side stage at the Jones Beach Amphitheatre in Wantagh, NY. It was a thrill, to say the least. It was really exciting to be part of such a big enterprise, even though we were playing a small part.

We drove out there (some of us took the train), and arrived nice and early to set up. We got hear JM sound checking to the empty theater, with the water and sky as a backdrop and the sun shining, which was really cool to see.  We could do this because we had the luxury (I think our first time, or one of the only few times) of having a sound man set up our stuff (granted on a much smaller stage), which he did very well. His name was Steve. He was awesome and made us sound good. Thanks Steve!

Doors opened at 6:30 and we proceeded to rock, trying to attract as many of the 15,000 passersby to stay in front of our stage as possible before filing into the main amphitheater. We did pretty well, and met lots of fantastic people. Thanks for sticking around, those of you that were there!

We had a lot of fun playing, and afterward we got to see Train and John Mayer play. Both were fantastic. It was a wonderful day at the beach. It was pretty cool that our first time at Jones Beach, we were ”playing” Jones Beach, even though we weren’t actually “playing” Jones Beach. One day perhaps. But playing in the concourse before the show kinda counts right?

Regardless, we had fun. It was a real honor and we look forward to doing it again next week! Here are some photos, good and bad, of us and of the wonderful evening. Enjoy.

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