June 23 2007: Drew Hickum Band - 39 Grant St (Porch of), Northampton MA

So there I was, trying to be a good student by hitting the books on a beautiful saturday afternoon, when I heard a knock at the door. It was Marie and Mariah. They said they had beer in their backpacks and that I should join them on their porch and assist in the consuming of said beer post haste. And in situations such as this I am an easily persuadable man.

So we drank beer and called other people and other people came by and brought more beer with them and Drew and Lisa were amongst those who came by but instead of beer they brought guitars and played us some tunes. And life was good. Nothing quite like a nice vocal harmony with good friends and cold beer in a tall glass. But all things must pass, and the next thing anyone knows the cops are there on a noise complaint. At 1030 pm on a saturday night. Because there are exactly eight responsible, degree-holding adults standing around and engaging in such police-presence-necessitating behaviors as (a) listening to country/folk music and (b) enjoying ourselves at a reasonable decibel level. And while we were certainly not maintaining church-mouse-type decibel levels, we were just as certainly unable to compete with levels such as those being caused down the street at the monster truck rally at the fairgrounds.

But it just ain't a nursing party until somebody calls the cops.