Since probably March, or whenever the lineup came out, we’d been planning to go to the first day of Summerfest, June 18. Susan wanted to go see Alejandro Escovedo and I wanted to go see the Dream Syndicate. But then Susan realized she’d double booked herself with a trip to Connecticut, and at first I thought, “ok, so Mark and I will go”. But Mark had a bum knee and it seemed like all the walking at Summerfest would not be good for his knee. Steve and Heike couldn’t go, and neither could Jane & Jonathan. So I accepted an invite to go as a plus one to an event with one of the other Willy St. Board members. The two of us have been trying to get together for weeks, and something always goes wrong preventing us. This time was no different – the other Board member cancelled the night before due to a work requirement. And unbeknownst to me until shortly before all this, Mark had deemed his knee healed and gone back to walking. Unlike the beginning of the June when walking a couple of blocks was really uncomfortable for him, the amount of walking we’d do at Summerfest would probably have been OK. But, when I asked him at about 8:30pm the night before, he still didn’t want to go, and I didn’t want to go all by myself, so no Dream Syndicate. They are coming back to the Midwest in October but it’s going to be when we’re walking in Yorkshire.<\/p>\n
Here’s a pretty decent amateur recording.<\/p>\n