Great Googley Moogley! Last Friday I got a text message from my wacky neighbor Steve. His buddy had just gotten him a ticket to see Let’s Active and he was mentioning it to me. As we’d enjoyed the dBs show in town last year, he rightly assumed an interest. I like the dBs. I love Let’s Active!! My response was simply, “WHERE!!!???”

“Winston,” was his succinct reply.

I quickly searched and found that Mitch Easter was dusting off the Let’s Active catalog for the first time since the 40th anniversary shows in 2021. Had we not been in a pandemic, I would have definitely attended that show. But it did not happen. Now the occasion is the debut of the Let’s Active catalog to the streaming and download worlds. Since I have the CDs, and I don’t stream, so I was not aware! A glance at iTunes currently reveals only a handful of Let’s Active singles to tide fans over! So this is a good thing for fans of the magical Mitch Easter sound. Presumably, this will be done and dusted with the tunes flowing by the time of the special concert event to be held in the Gas Hill Drinking Room in Winston-Salem on November 29th.

The lineup is listed as “Mitch Easter + Gang.” We have no idea of the talent lineup who will be onstage with Mitch this evening, but it hasn’t stopped me from buying a ticket minutes after I found out about the gig last Friday. I’m not planing on the likes of Don Dixon or Chris Stamey as pictured above, but who can say? As long as Mitch is there I am not caring. The last time I heard any of these songs, George H. W. Bush was barely in the Oval Office!

The venue is Gas Hill Drinking Room. Presumably part of The Ramkat; a very large club in Winston-Salem. Tickets for the show are a low-ball $20 [after fees!] so who else is going to join me in hearing these ringing Pop gems [one more time] from one of the best players in America [and his “gang”] for the price of a decent burger and shake? DJ hit that button as this will surely sell out soon!

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