Living in Beantown

Left to right: Pete, Charles, Evan

June 30th & July 1st, we had back-to-back gigs so after the Scranton show we had to travel to Mansfield, MA which was about 30 miles outside of Boston. We were looking forward to this show because one of our friends from college, Charles was attending and then we had the next day off to spend with him. Charles was also bringing with him one of his roommates, Pete who just happened to be Evan's graphic artist for his second album "South".

That night Evan played a new set. He started with "Woodpecker" and then asked Vivian to join him on stage. The two covered the song "Come on in my Kitchen" by Robert Johnson. Vivian took a solo while Evan played the resonator. It went over well and was followed by loud hoots and hollers. Evan finished the set with "The Giving Tree" and received overwhelming support at the end of the song, the masses clapped as Evan sang a cappella.

Vivian playing a solo during
Def Leppard's show

After we watched the Heart set and half of the Def Leppard set we decided to jet back to Boston and watch a musical group in a club called The Bee Hive. The Robbie Gil band was a favorite of Evan's back in NYC and featured Evan's guitarist Greg Mayo and one of our dear friends, Brian Killeen, on the bass. We made it in time for their third set, the last set of the night. We all screamed out for an encore but it was 1:38 AM and the manager of the restaurant denied them. However, that didn't stop us from screaming and so after 15 minutes of listening to us the manager agreed that Robbie Gil and his band could play one more song.

It was a late night. We arrived back to Charles' apartment and finally hit the pillows around 3 AM. In this situation I would have liked to sleep-in, but Evan gets antsy. When the sun comes up, Evan rises and at most, I can convince him to stay under the covers until 8:30 AM. Therefore, I was sleepy all day on Friday which made it difficult to complete even the simplest tasks.

At Sam Adams Brewery

Evan wanted to go to the Sam Adams brewery so the three of us (Charles, me and Evan) hit the streets of Boston for the afternoon. We took the tour through the brewery and enjoyed their free sample room. I had attended the brewery and took the tour before on my 21st birthday. The tour was the same as I remembered except our tour guide used the phrase "never-the-less" similar to the way people use "um" to fill the silence between sentences. It was distracting and in my tired state made me giggle as I mocked him throughout the brewery.

That night I had wanted to go out and get seafood (bitten by the bug after Coopers) but instead we all came up with a plan to grill out in Charles' backyard. We made a trip to Trader Joe's and bought all of our supplies and extended an invitation to friends in the neighborhood to join. It was a nice night of beers and burgers, laughing and gossip. We decided to finish out the evening with a movie. Charles hadn't watched any of the Harry Potter films so we started him out with the first, The Sorcerer's Stone but after 20 minutes we all feel asleep on the couch. It was nice to visit Boston, Charles we miss you!