I don't even know where to start... this whole day was amazing! The day started at Ocean Beach to help clean up the beach. A lot of cool organizations were there including: Surfrider Rock the Earth Save the Bay and Clif Bar all of these organizations help to put on the beach clean up and solo sets of Brett Dennen and John Butler. Quite a few people turned out to help clean the beach and even more for the sets. It is great to see people coming together toward a common goal!

The solo sets were awesome John came out and interacted with Brett during his set, they have a natural chemistry. They played Come Together and it was sweet. John's set was equally great he played Treat Your Momma, Daniella, Somethings Gotta Give breaking into songs by Arrested Development and the Police, Peaches and Cream, and Funky Tonight. Very very cool experience.

Then the show later was one of the best I've ever been to. The guys seemed on a mission. They gave so much energy to the show and almost seemed like they were trying to out do each other. The setlist to a JBT newbie would not be appreciated fully. They still played many Grand National songs such as: Caroline, Groovin Slowly, Used to Get High, Better Than, Good Excuse, Fire in The Sky, and Funky Tonight. They also put in some older songs that are well known like: Treat Your Momma, Pickapart, Ocean, Zebra, Somethings Gotta Give, and Come Together w/Brett Dennen and band. The absolute highlight of this whole tour for me were two songs that they played off of John's first two CD's Sista and Take. I've been to many shows and I do many and I have never heard either of those songs let alone on the same set. I am so thankful... if you made it to this show you got a treat. I hope they play them again and I'll try and get a recording up.

Off to Seattle in a week.

Peace

Aaron