Mike,

> But the crowd was getting on my nerves a little. There is always an element who treat the music as background noise and talk throughout the show, and with it being an acoustic show they actually could talk over it. There was a group of 15 or so right in front of us who seemed unaware there was even a concert going on. I suppose I should have tuned them out, just like you tune out the yuppies at Wrigley Field who talk on their cell phones the whole game and don't know or care about baseball. But it was an unwelcome distraction.

So get the kids to look the other way for a moment while dear old dad chucks a glass of chardonnay into the rabble. *bg*

>I was also a little put off by John's increasing down-home mannerisms. He lives in Tennessee now and seems to be marinating in that aw-shucks syrupy drawl. He's from Indiana, not the south, so it comes across as a pose.

You Yankees! The south can mellow everyone with time. *s*