Gig Life
Margaritaville Encore 12/29/22 We are standing in the “green room” of the Great Northern Bar in Whitefish, Montana. Through the wall, the house music is thumping like a heartbeat and you can hear the crowd getting louder and louder as people funnel into the old ski bum bar. They aren’t here to see us play, they are here to see our friends, the headliners play after us. But that doesn’t change what we are about to do. We are about to put on the best hour-long show of our lives. This is the biggest stage we have ever stood on as a young band. Whether the stages get bigger or smaller from now on is meaningless. For tonight, we have decided to make this our best show ever, for our family and friends who drove five hours to see us play, for the couple hundred paying strangers who are here to dance and drink, for our own love of music that we put so much time and effort into, for the fact that there is a stage with our name on it for the next hour. The green room is a closet r