Anyone who says Joey is more “adult” than the other band members should take a look at all of the concert vids. On “duty” all of them are pros and workhorses: Neal the overall director and lead guitar, Andy multitasking on vox, rythm & keyboards, and Kyle occasionally leading off and manic on his drumkit besides backing vox. Joey only covered the bass, but he did additional duty by frequently being David’s “hype” man. In fact, he was still hyping David (and doing his bunny hops LOL) right up to his last EEB appearance at Monticello a couple of nights ago. Off duty, of the 4 of them, Andy and Joey appeared to be the most playful and goofy. Neal the more serious and if anyone has to be, he’s the one I’d call “adult”. Kyle being the only one who is a husband and father, tends to disappear quickly post concert, but when he’s around he’s as sweet and kind as the rest.

Besides lead vox and rythm guitar, David handles practically everything else on this tour with his tour manager: in front and behind the scenes. He even helps the crew with the gear etc. It’s 91 concerts and counting since Feb 13 in front of crowds as small as 500 (in the early colleges part of the tour) to as big as 15,000 (sunfest in Florida) and 13,000 (West Bend, Washington) just last week. There’ve been a few times when he (and some of the band) have been sick, but they’ve never missed a date save for 2 cancelled nights back in April when he took time off to say goodbye to Adam which have since been rescheduled as he promised.

And yesterday peeps were whining that “David should keep us informed” and “fans have a right to know”. Well, as expected, he’s done it.

Since we’re getting Live!Dave&Band practically every night / every other night, I’ve seen nothing that indicates a bad parting of ways. They’ve ALL handled it like adults.

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On to more important things:

“He’s a great singer. On his golf game….he’s a great singer” (LOL, I love Raine)

I hope the squirrels scuttling out of his warpath survived. Hee.