Lighten up Stevie. Kevin\'s not as weathered, jaded, and pessimistic as many of us around here seem to be. If you saw Kevin at a show you\'d see how positive his energy is. Reminds me almost of a young Stevie in terms of enthusiasm and front-row ragin\' it.
True, his ideas have been done before. But most of the old heads have given up on even really trying to promote the band anymore. Psychedelic Breakfast actually did start to gain momentum for a while back in the days when a lot of you long-timers had this kind of enthusiasm and positive outlook. For various reasons, most of us dropped the ball at some point.
I\'m not innocent in this either. We all know the history, some times have been pretty uncertain for the band and discouraging. Nobody wants to bring first timers to a show to have it turn out to be an underattended dooze.
The new argument seems to be "it\'s not our job to make Breakfast successful". Yeah, true. But if you love the music and experience of going to Breakfast shows and you want to share something great with your friends, more power to you!
Fans like Kevin are the future for this band. Actually there\'s a bunch of kids like a half-generation younger than me around here who share this kind of enthusiasm and would probably go to twice as many shows if so many weren\'t at 21+ venues.
A lot of these kids actually are sharing tapes, praising the band on Facebook, and rounding up their friends to go to all the shows they can. There\'s a reason Northampton is one of the best places for the band to play, and why Strange Creek cabin was totally overflow this year and created more local chatter about the band than I\'ve seen in like 5 years.
It would probably be more appropriate to give Kevin, his buddies, and a few other groups of younger fans around here credit where it\'s due. We\'re lucky there are still people with the positivity and energy to keep our favorite band on stage.
