….by the time we got to Woodstock…………oops, wrong song.
The original committee to save Byron’s Bar from extinction is usually reported as having been twenty-two people. The community that came together to do the heavy lifting was much larger than that, coming from all over the state and from outside of the state from places like Nashville and San Francisco.
Word spread to the Wall Street Journal, which sent a couple of guys and they published a story about Byron’s in their October 12-13, 2024 edition (WSJ sells back issues, as long as they have them).
Throughout the process, especially at the beginning of it, I was wrestling with the small problem of my own relocation. I had been living with my Dad (which was no accident-it was a nice neighborhood) but it was time to move somewhere else so we could sell his house because he passed away, and I really didn’t have a short list of places I might go.
So I found myself getting out of two towns simultaneously and I didn’t even live in one of them.
For some reason, psychotic me kind of flipped out in there someplace, but I did land just twelve miles away from Pomeroy, which couldn’t be bad, right?
I complicated the build-up to the last night at the bar by suggesting we make it a double-header by adding another band that is a huge draw at Byron’s. That almost worked but in the end it didn’t, and by the time Terry Klein got there things had sort of settled down in my world.
I wasn’t too sure how to think about that last night (which was ok, because there was a later unofficial pop-up night after that anyway).
I like Terry. He does a couple of my favorite songs, like “60 in a 75” but I did wonder how he would pull off a Last Night. I have only been to one other Last Night and that was in 1973 and was a wild blow-out and a full-fledged story of its own.
Byron made a very touching statement, available on the full YouTube, mentioning breakfast pizza like usual. I have never had a breakfast pizza to the best of my knowledge, so I must withhold any judgement.
Then Terry delivered “This Too Shall Pass”. Of course it will pass-by definition, it has to.
I’ve come to really value Terry’s selection as a set opener.
Full Show Video:
Full Show Audio:
notes about the notes:
I put down the notes after the first song. I was verklempt.
