People,

I know I promised the first installment of the tour diary today, but it's going to have to wait a day. Today I need to talk about Saturday night, which was.....in a word....awesome.

As some of you know, we here in Fooled by April like to support causes. I know that sounds pretty damn cheesy, but we've pitched in a few times to support the causes we believe in, from MS to the Station Fund. Anyway, we also believe in the right for kids to have good slides and swingsets, so Saturday we played a benefit to raise money for the Willard School (a Concord public school) to have, as Jordan might say, a kick-ass playground. The benefit raised over $10,000, got us some new fans and had a few highlights:

-I drank literally about 200 ounces of diet coke and had such a caffeine buzz going that local cokeheads were asking me where I got my stuff

-We played in my friend David's bar, which is in his house and which has a urinal in the bathroom. Dag.

-The Captain Miles band (featuring our host David)opened the show and was down a bass player, so I subbed. I am not good at playing bass, but apparently am good at fooling people, because they said I was good. I was not.

-Peter Wolf of J. Geils fame showed up and sat in with the band for a cover of Love Stinks. Check this out:

-The crowd was insane for the rock and roll. We've said it before, but we are no hipsters. We want you to shake your ass at our shows and these people shook their asses and everything else. We haven't played for such an appreciative audience in a LOOOOOOOOOONG time.

-My little pal Andrew and his cronies put ice down my pants. They will pay. Oh, how they will pay.