Crazy, And Okay With It.

We have been told that this is crazy.

Five Star Streets (www.myspace.com/fivestarstreets) is currently comprised of 4 members:

BJ - Drums
Mike - Guitar/Vocals
Dan - Bass
Myself - Keys/programming

Dan has been playing bass for 3 weeks. I have been learning these 13 songs for 2 months. We have only played as a band for a few days, and we have now played 2 shows to some 150+ people.

Maybe we are crazy. Maybe ‘crazy’ is part of the fuel that makes this whole thing work.

I must say, this whole process has been insanely challenging for me. I would consider myself a musician, but as a music composer, and drummer first. I can play piano, but it has been a whole different game learning someone else’s songs. The past couple days have been spent with many long hours, and time into the early morning, working on parts and practicing. We are still not at 100% strength, but things seem to be coming to coming together with unusual clarity and high quality.

Yesterday we had a show in a town called Masulla (not sure how it is spelled), a city that is two hours away from Kalispell. The gig was at the local university, but we were unable to get into the facility until around 4:30/5. When you have to play a show in just a couple hours, that is not a lot of time! Fortunately, we may be just a little crazy.

During the 2 or so hours that we had, we managed to not only set up our stage arrangement, but gather together several dozen cables (for intruments, monitors ect.) and arrange a set of two mixing boards and front of house speakers. Nearly all of our equipment had to come into place, and it all ended up coming from some 5 different sources that our local contact brought together. Unless you are unsure - that is just insane!

When the show was finally in place, the night went amazingly. Some 60+ people showed up, and there was tons of dancing, clapping and excitement in the room as we played through our set. We also sold quite a few Cd’s - the profit of which goes to the Marine Reach ship tour that YWAM (The organization we are working with) will be sending up the coast of Australia and over to PNG to bring medical aid to that country.

There was every reason for last night to absolutely suck. So many things had to come together, but it really all did. There is still a lot of work and practice to be done, but how can I not share of what happened thus far, it really is incredible what God has been doing. I do not really understand how he operates, but I think I would have to be both crazy and a fool to not recognize that something bigger took place for last night to come together as it did.

More tour updates to come!



~David



Here are some pictures from the last couple days: