A revolving door of special guests

The Building Science Boogie Band and special guest, from left:
Mike Lubliner, Steve Sauer, Eric Werling, Collin Olson, Betsy Pettit, Randy Martin

Our Monday night performance was quite the marathon. I don't know how many extra people sat in with us, but it had to be a record. After some rehearsals, we kicked off the first set around 8 p.m. Our plan was to play Pink Floyd's entire Dark Side of the Moon album during the set. Two and a half hours later, we finished our set not having played a note of it. We also didn't play it in our second set either.

Some of the highlights included Joe Kuonen's additions on trumpet and his newly fixed accordion, especially his trumpet solo on a riveting version of "La Bamba" sung by Frank from the Texans, plus Jay West's show-stealing James Brown impression and some blues numbers featuring Bart "Burt" Laemmel and David Keefe. All our other guests were too numerous to mention!

I've got to credit the regular band members for both their reliability and their flexibility. These are great attributes for musicians! Having five people be able to pull off a song we maybe last played this time a year ago? That's really something. It's funny to me that Mike Lubliner generally doesn't play outside of his own home any other time of the year. The rest of us do. Would somebody please find Luby a band in Olympia, Washington?

Maybe tonight, we'll get to play Dark Side of the Moon for y'all. Either tonight or tomorrow, we are also due to play the Beatles' full Abbey Road album again since only a handful saw us running through it Saturday night. When we do Dark Side, we hope to have a special guest in Rosie, who is an opera singer with classical training. When we do Abbey Road, we are joined for harmonies by Betsy Pettit.