The The highlight of this show, besides Mr. D. on the bar (check out YouTube) was our last tune--Amazing Grace and Silver Spear reel set. Definite kum ba yah moment with the crowd. Yeah boy!!
 
 
The Alaskan show July
     
 
  This was the show where the Island Pub debuted beer bongs, I mean, beer towers. YUMMY! We all like beer towers. Y
 
Island Pub show May
     
 
  TThe highlight of this show was when 10 cops piled into the show to
see their boy Mr. D climb on the bar and play the pipes. That may have
been a first at the Alaskan, and it was funny and strange when a dozen people
quickly left as the cops came in.
 
 
The Alaskan show Jan
     
 
  erterteThis has got to be one deaf dog by now...  
 
Prac/ Recording
     
    Juneau was having one hell of a snowstorm, and here we were, right in the middle of it trying to record! My only memory of that day was pounding myself to death, driving out to Wrino studio on a crappy snowy road only to find the recording engineer (Albert McDonnell) stuck in a snowy ditch! Things just went downhill from there.

 

 
Recording w/ Albert
     
   
"What kind of look do we want?" "Urban decay." "Huh?" "Yeah,
Southeast Alaskan celtic urban decay." It was either the stamp mill
ruins or Treadwell. It was a beautiful day and too many tour buses downtown,
so off to Treadwell we went.
 
 
Beachshoot
     
    In the beginning the audio feedback was horrible. First we blamed it on the pipers, then the guitar, then the fiddle. It wasn't long before we realized that the whole band was just one big feedback monster!

 

 
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