The weekend started kind of rough at first. We had issues getting the travel car. Fortunately, Maurice had a back-up plan and an assist from a friend to get the car. Leaving an hour late wasn’t on the schedule, but we departed for Mentor to pick up Kevin. Packing a Chevy Tahoe shouldn’t be a hard feat to pull off. Packing that same car with a drum set, 2 amplifiers, a saxophone, 3 guitars, personal luggage and 5 band members was another issue entirely. Luckily, Charlie and Maurice have done this enough times and made it work. But man, it was a tight fit! Very tight. As in small drums on our laps for everyone but the driver. On the way to Jamestown most of the bugs in upper Northeast Ohio ended up on our windshield. Matt put the pedal to the metal and got us to Jamestown in about 3 hours. Even though we left late, we were still on time. How about that?
Mojo’s is an interesting venue. Small, but it has a great energy about it and great patrons. We had some time to kill so we asked around and found a place called Cherry’s to eat at. We did carry-out since we had to get back and set up. On the way we ate quickly and returned to Mojo’s to finish watching our opening act. They were pretty good. The bass player really stood out. He was very reminiscent of Flea from the Red Hot Chili Peppers with a very punk attitude(not in a bad way).
After getting set up and fighting through a crowd to get equipment on stage, we began our set with our new intro we spent 3 hours of rehearsal on and rocked Mojo’s as only Winslow can. We had a blast and are especially thankful for the couple rounds of whiskey we received. A jolly toast was followed by the imbibing of the whiskey. Sure did make the night a little more relaxing! The crowd was great and so was the staff at Mojo’s. We thank Jamestown, NY for their hospitality and we’re off to get a few hours of sleep and wake up early to make our registration time in Utica. Stay tuned for the next episode!
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