Unexpected Notes
01/22/08 07:01 AM | Up Chucks
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Kienle Machine heads and hand. Chuck Pace ©2008
Last nights scheduled event at the Chatterbox ended in an unscheduled event at the Chatterbox. Being a Holiday Monday there is usually a small crowd, and so no music is scheduled. There was definitely a small crowd. There was definitely music.
With the gu'ment and the schools out, a lot of the business that happens on Monday don't. The smallish crowd I encountered at the Box had some regularity, and lacked a lot of regulars. Nicci was there in an unofficial capacity, Kris Bowman, Patrick Wasson and Christ West were there without getting incapacitated. Mel Shoffner, Rich, David A. and Kay, Jeff and Marylou acted as capacitors of conversation. Rich has a two beer limit as he was driving to Brownsburg to assist Dave Gansert with something, so he missed the eventual event.
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Top: Burns on home skillett. Next: Bruker on bass.
Chuck Pace ©2008
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After Rich and Nicci and the West End boys (Chris, Patrick and Kris) left, Rachel Hedges arrived to beat the bushes for more business. I was talking to Kay and Mel when DeAnne asked me to work out a hard knot on her back. I gave her a little more mobility. Back on the move I asked her if there would be music, wonderful music. She said no. I understood with a dwindling throng of 5 people in the never cavernous Chatterbox treble and bass clefts would get lost and lonely. I started on her shoulder when she said. "Musician." I was honored that she felt I was playing out the tension like a great musician an empresario, a virtuoso performer.
I leaned in and said, "What?" Hoping for praise to be steeped in greater verbosity than a one word exclamation of my mastery.
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"That is a Musician backing in out there!"
Sure enough soon there was Dave Bruker with an amplifier, followed closely by Paul Berns with clicky-claky things and Peter Kienle with six strings of magic. My hands were retired as DeAnne called David (now at home) and asked if there was music (a now familiar theme)? He said it was o.k. to have music and there was music. I grabbed camera and took a couple of great shots out of 55 snaps. The evening was fine the music like wine.

Oh yes, there was Music.
Chuck Pace © 2008
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