{"id":20222,"date":"2013-10-12T16:27:07","date_gmt":"2013-10-12T20:27:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=20222"},"modified":"2013-10-12T16:30:15","modified_gmt":"2013-10-12T20:30:15","slug":"rock-town-halls-saturday-night-shut-in-nobody-told-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/rock-town-halls-saturday-night-shut-in-nobody-told-me\/","title":{"rendered":"Rock Town Hall’s Saturday Night Shut-In<\/em>: Nobody Told Me…"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Mom!\"<\/a>

Sounds of the hall in roughly 33 1\/3 minutes!<\/p><\/div>\n

What a week it’s been! And I don’t mean that in a good way, but I am here, and that’s fine by me. Some of the things I’ve shared with you over the past week include the death of a friend and bandmate<\/a>\u00a0and a Twitter post by XTC’s Andy Partridge<\/strong>, in which he calls our upstanding community a nasty name<\/a>.\u00a0If that wasn’t enough, little Fred Savage<\/strong> gave us the finger<\/a>. That’s just the half of it, just the pain I find fit for public consumption. Nobody told me there’d be weeks like this. Well, they didn’t have to tell me, because they happen frequently enough to stay fresh in mind the next time a wave of bad mojo hits.<\/p>\n

Following tonight’s show I am meeting up with my bandmates, walking a few blocks down the road from my house, and playing a mini-set with the band, between sets at a private party by our friends The Donuts<\/strong> (featuring the Hall’s very own cdm<\/strong> and at least one other occasional participant in our weekly chatter). I am really looking forward to this, even though I’m a bit terrified at being, for tonight, the lone guitarist in our band. We rehearsed our mini-set on Thursday night, then pulled a bunch of ancient songs out of the hat, just to see if we could still remember the chords and get through them in more or less one piece. Man, that was fun. Man, that was the right way to celebrate the fact that we keep on rolling. May you roll on as well!<\/p>\n

RTH Saturday Night Shut-In, episode 116<\/a><\/p>\n

[Note: You can\u00a0add\u00a0Saturday Night Shut-In<\/em>\u00a0episodes to your iTunes by clicking here<\/a>. The\u00a0Rock Town Hall feed<\/a>\u00a0will enable you to easily download\u00a0Saturday Night Shut-In<\/em>\u00a0episodes to your digital music player.]<\/p>\n