Well hello. Christmas time, and the phone is ringing off the hook. reporters. courtesy calls (thumbs up), landlords, vicky pollard. and you want to know what they are all asking? what does the spirit of Christmas mean in our modern age? nope. they want to know if Chris (Stamey)'s acoustic guitar was ever repaired after our db's/maxwell's shows. the answer, thankfully is a sweet pie yes. Here is a quick background if you missed this tidbit of our live show history:

This past Sept. we played two shows at maxwell’s in Hoboken NJ, opening for the fully reunited dB’s. (if you don’t know who the dB’s are, visit thedbsonline.net). Half way through our second show, skip announced to the audience that we were all using the dB’s gear that night, and that they had graciously lent it to us, so that we could open for them as a full band. He also put in a special thanks to Chris for letting us borrow his acoustic guitar, which he’d brought to NY just for us to use during these opening sets.

Exactly three minutes after this “thanks, thanks and thanks” interlude, we were in the middle of a "when does night begin" and skip managed to trip over a piece of equipment on stage stand and fall into Chris’s acoustic guitar, smashing it in two. Though this was both dramatic and spectacular to the audience (who i might add consisted of 100% -sold out months in advance- dB's fans who had waited over 20 years to see this fully reunited band), It was absolutely mortifying for us. yikes. the looks on the faces of the people in the front row were pretty special. However, thanks to modern medicine, Chris's guitar has now been repaired and is home safe in chapel hill.