Chapter 10, Opening night for the Pajamas Band. August 26, 2006

We turned on the lights. We tuned our guitars. We tapped on the microphones and said, "Check one, two, three, four, Check one, two, Check" into them. We got our giant floppy cowboy hats ready. We got into our Pajamas. We opened the doors. And they came. All of them came, just to see us.
It was The First Public Apearance of The Pajamas Band, and Man!, was it a show! We gave a discount to anyone wearing Pajamas, and they did! You should have seen it. You would have thought that an apartment building had a false fire alarm in the middle of the night, and when the people gathered outside, they all decided to go see a band instead of go back to sleep. Okay, maybe you wouldn'd have thought that exactly that way, but you probably would wonder why a big crowd of people are dancing in their pajamas!
Besides the silky pajamas, Al got us all hosptial scrubs. He had The Pajamas Band logo pressed onto the shirts. They look really cool. We look like a mental ward on the stage. What a hoot!
Dad had a black sportcoat that he wore when we did our Johnny Cash songs. We all had on these giant cowboy hats.



















Real men wear chicken heads.






















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The Vikings were well known for smoking Camels

Chatper 9, Elvis at Legend's August 19th

They must have been hungry for Elvis in Galesburg. After playing out of town and for private parties for the last month or so, we had a show open to the public, and it sold out. We had been cramming for the Pajamas Band, learing a bunch of new songs, that it felt good to be playing the Elvis shows again. The crowd was excited to us, as we were to see them. We started feeding off their energy and getting more and more into the performance. Al was hilarious. He was telling stories and jokes that had the audience hanging on his every word. The man just knows how to keep and entertain a crowd.

Chapter 8, Ladies and Gentleman......The Pajamas Band!!

Whew.........The last month has been nothing short of amazing. Since my last blog entry, the Sheffield Homcoming, we have played every weekend. On August 5th, we performed as The Pajamas Band to a private party, at Legend's in Galesburg. It's the same group as the Elvis show, it's just a different show. This one showcases the many talents in our band more than the Elvis show. We each take turns singing songs, switching instruments, and acting goofy on stage, all the while wearing Pajamas.

Lemme guess, you've never heard of such a show? We like to think we're pioneers into this sort of thing. We were all a bit nervous before the show. Al told me that it was the first time in years he'd gone onstage not dressed as Elvis. It helped that it was for a private party. It was kind of like a practice audience for the public show we had just last week.

Al got us some sweet silky pajamas. I don't have any pictures from that first show (the private party), but let me tell you what......we were nothing short of striking in our sleepytime gear. They were very comfortable, and the show was a lot of fun.

The next weekend, August 12 was an Elvis show for another private party. It was also at Legend's. There are two really nice things about playing at the Boss's place.

Number One is that, since we practiced our songs on that stage for months, it's our "Home Turf". We're the Home Team when we play here.

Number Two is that we don't have to tear down our equipment when we're done playing. We just shut the amps off and go home. Anyone who's played in a band would appreciate that luxury!