Home safe. Exhausted. Truck-unloading will wait until morning; far too tired now (and might be able to get help from neighbour in daylight, depending on when I start). Had more to say, going through my brain during first half of trip, but whatever it was has been replaced by the thought, "sleeep nooow". Haven't peeked at flist yet -- not sure when I'll get a chance.
Before I left, people kept asking (as is customary), "Did you have a good War?" My brain was kind of stuck on, "I got to play electric bass with Wolgemut!" Leader of Wolgemut is very good at what he does, is politely demanding, and is someone I would work with again in a heartbeat if another opportunity arises.
Wolgemutations
Re: Wolgemutations
We were crushed on Thursday when we were rained out, but I must admit that the Friday time slot, two hours earlier than the Thursday time, worked pretty well. I worried that people wouldn't get the message about the rescheduling in time (a few people heard at pretty much the last minute), and a couple of folks I'd really hoped would be there had already packed up and gone home, but we had a decent turnout nonetheless. I'm glad you got to see it.
The press dudes were, I'm told, the people who sell the Pennsic Comemmorative DVDs. They told Micha they wanted to film the concert, and would work out all the licensing and whatnot sometime later -- last I heard, the plan was to make at least two videos from the footage they shot: a music-video style one, and a concert-movie one. But my knowledge is third-hand and I don't know how much of that is definite and how much was still in the brainstorming stage. Something should be available at some point, regardless. Also, Emory (the wind-synth player, owner of Untied Music, engineer for the "Wolgemut Live in Concert Pennsic XXXV" CD and the second Homespun Ceilidh Band CD) was recording a multi-channel feed from the sound board to mix down later. (The mics in front of the bagpipes were for the recording, not for sound reinforcement.)
For the dancer's entrance during "Dance of the Green Man", a cameraman really should've been standing where I was.