The Groove Factor...Ants in the zone.

For sometime now I've had this description of the Carpenter Ants when we not only take our audience on a journey but also lift them up as well. I like to call it "Ants hitting the zone."
The zone is that place where you reach inside of yourself and pull out premier performances.
Sunday April 3rd was that kind of night...
When Michael arrived at the club after Mountain Stage we were milling around and he says to "put on your game faces, I think tonight is gonna count." In human language, that translates to mean that everyone ( meaning all the musicians who appeared on the show) is coming to our show to hear us, so play your best. It's really a different vibe when you have musicians as part of your audience, because they know what to listen for so you can't fake your way through or give just a mediocre performance (we don't do that anyway).
Well, if you remember my little theory about the Yankees (read blog #4,"Carpenter Ants 0- Life 22.") , not only did I pull up a great performance, but also, the entire band did as well, and you really had to have been there but we were unbelievable.The vocals were astonishing, the music was amazing and it was so tight that the air had to pay to get in.
People were dancing and just generally losing their inhibitions and we turned the heat up to a fever pitch boiling point.
To say the least, the groove factor was in effect, and the people in the audience felt every drop of music like rain from the heavens.
It's a great feeling when we arrive in the zone, you can see it in our faces and hear it in our voices. During the course of the show we got people from various bands who were on Mountain Stage to come and join us and many of them did, and it affected them as well. At the end of the evening many of them hugged us, kissed us, and were in complete awe because they felt as if they had discovered a lost treasure...fun.
One of the people who joined us was a singer/ guitarist named Johnny Hickman who plays with the great band Cracker. Before I left to go home, Johnny told me that we moved like a freight train...with absolute power and at full throttle. To which I said, paraphrasing the song "Rock Island Line," if ya wanna ride it, gotta ride it like you find it, get your ticket at the station for the Carpenter Ants Line.