If you want to be noticed onstage, play guitar. You can do windmills, make love to your axe, and generally engage in all manner of attention-grabbing histrionics. But, if you want to wall yourself off against contact with people* during a pandemic, keyboards are your instrument. As I have done at every gig at FCD, I have barricaded myself into the corner with the keyboard as my rampart. This turned out to be a good idea, as it turned out to be a pretty big party. Normally a big, boisterous crowd is a good thing, and certainly to be expected on a Halloween Saturday night, but in COVID times, the sea of people standing too close to each other, not all wearing masks creeped me out. But other than the superspreader aspect (at least Mark Meadows didn't show), the evening was a blast. We were once again joined by Ron Holloway , who was clearly slumming. Excellent singer Amy Wilson also joined us, giving us two backup singers, which was the perfect feel for our first set, which was all ...
One man's journey into the great outdoors of Washington, DC and its environs.