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TOR played a show on Tuesday, September 13th, 2005 and here is some information about it:
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Tuesday, September 13th, 2005
@ Westside Square park bench
Huntsville, AL
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All Ages
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that first birthday
fork number two
suffering for the smile (?)
Ellen O'Dauver (?)
the broken bannister (?)
I drank only water (?)
hey Abraham
Seattle Grunge
leaves know nothing of love
(the girl with the) Lily Green eyes (?)
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"The message on my guitar expressed my feeling about the night quite succinctly. The show was arranged on Saturday night, so it was last-minute, but at least it was happening. It was to be at a coffee shop in the Five Points neighborhood. When I showed up at 6 PM for it to begin, I was told the story of how the guy who had agreed to work late (who the P.A. belonged to) had gotten sick, thus nullifying the show.
So after standing around bummed out for awhile, my old high school friend J.D. and I took off to get some food. I scribbled a note on a piece of paper on the coffee shop door in case Mary and Peter had driven down from Nashville to see me. It turned out they had, and they called us at the Indian restaurant where J.D. and I were busy catching up. When we finished our meal we went and met them at Ryan's Steakhouse(?!), where it was suggested by me that we head downtown and I would play them a few songs to make their drive worthwhile.
Huntsville's downtown is absolutely abandoned, mind you, and especially on a weeknight. We called my Mom and arranged for her to drop my guitar off outside the Kaffeeklatsch, where we were waiting—I'd left it in my parents' van after the aborted show—and when she brought it, the four of us in our twenties walked down to some park benches across from the courthouse, above the park, where I played the most "intimate" performance I can recall to the three of them, cutting it down to five songs since I knew M & P had a long drive before work in the morning.
I played on as a truck passed noisly by and drowned me out in the middle of "that first birthday"—the "truck solo" said one of them—but thankfully it was right at a break in the lyrics. Later, church bells accompanied me during the third verse of "hey Abraham." Among the songs I didn't cut out of the set was a cover I'd re-learned just that afternoon: my high school band Themack's anti-grunge anthem, "Seattle Grunge." The smile on J.D.'s face and him singing along was enough to cap the night for me.
It wasn't how I wanted the night to turn out, but it's a performance I'll always remember; a memory the three of them can sell one day for big bucks on Ebay." -Jack
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