Patrick Metsker sent me this link. Shot at the Canal Street Tavern in Dayton, OH on March 24, 2002. The song is called "If I Lose". Yonder sounds absolutely amazing. By this time they had about three years of Beatles-in-the-Kaiserkeller-type experience working together.* It certainly shows.
I first met the Yonder guys in January of 1999 at the Pioneer Inn in Nederland. I was on vacation from Wayne Newton and staying with a friend Mark Dudrow's named Peter Fiori. I had backpacked my fiddle down the hill about a mile from Pete's house to the PI in a fairly heavy snow, and was ready for beer and music. The pick did not disappoint. I was not a bluegrass player, but that didn't seem to bother anyone. I'll never forget Dave Johnston's smile that night. Wonderful. About 2 months later I ended up moving to Ned to join Runaway Truck Ramp and a few months later became housemates with Dave and Adam Aijala.
When I met up with Yonder in Dayton, I had already been studying for a year at Case Western Reserve. I'm surprised that I still knew how to hold the fiddle!
Serendipitously, my group Hey Mavis will be opening for Yonder on February 17, 2011 in Columbus.
*Every music group should do this. Runaway couldn't do it because jobs, mortgages, and marriages kept getting in the way, and there were too many of us at 6. I see other groups trying to succeed where members have "side projects" and salaried full-time jobs. (Hey Mavis could be considered one of them, but we are trying to succeed given these constraints and are not trying setting unattainable goals). Very few bands have the ability to commit 100% of band member time to the project and subsequently work out problems so the group doesn't break up. Yonder did this, and they still have a great organization.
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