We should apologize for our brief hiatus from blogging ... but there is so much good stuff coming up that we wanted to have a venue for telling you that are interested all about it! This past Saturday, our band had the pleasure to open for one of our biggest shows to date ... The World's Largest Block Party at Old St. Patrick's Church in Chicago. We shared the stage with Brett Dennen and Lifehouse. We had the chance to hang with these musicians and the following materialized.
One look at current media reveals the popular view of musicians ... Tom Cruise from Rock of Ages anyone? But our band got to spend a bit of time hanging out with the guys from Lifehouse, and we can honestly say that they were really genuinely good dudes. While we may not have all been huge LH fans before, we certainly will follow the band from here on out, just for the manner in which they treated us.
For starters, our band always has a "rho-sham-bo" when it comes to knocking on the proverbial door to a big band's green room. Usually good 'ole Benny has to do the honors, but has been successful so far in not getting beaten to the ground by security, or embarrassed by walking in on a greek orgy (again see Rock of Ages).
When it came to Jason Wade from LH, Will, our drummer, caught him at the food table and just snagged the opportunity to chat with him. Not only was Jason totally cool about it (because let's face it, he might not have heard of Vintage Blue yet) but he came over and stood and talked with about 7 of us that were sitting in sweat pools after our set. Then he also took pictures with us and was generally just awesome. Definitely a moment we will not forget.
So many good things have been happening for us and we just cannot help but be pleased to know that being persistent, hard-working and kind actually does pay off. Much like it clearly has for Jason and all the guys from LH.
WE HOPE TO SEE ALL OF YOU SOON:
---- SUMMERFEST on Friday July 6th @2:30 ----
--- VIP Show for Dave Matthews July 7th @ Alpine Valley ---
