Year ot fhe Cat, take two

Last evening, I went to Passim to see Al Stewart, who I have been a fan of for many years. It was a great show. I saw him once before in 2005, as reported here. He had a cold but still sounded great and did a full show, although he mentioned he did one song in a different key to go easy on his voice. Once again, he was backed up by the excellent lead guitarist Dave Nachmanoff.

One of the reasons I went is that he said at the last concert that he does not do fixed set lists so each concert is different, and this was the case. The show was quite different than the last one. With 40 years of material, he has a ton of songs. He did "Merlin's Time" this time which I always liked.

It was sold out, and the place was packed. Although it was a lot of 40 and up people (like me) which you would expect for an artist of that era and age, there were some younger people too. Not a lot, but it was still nice to see.

One minor complaint with the venue: I think Passim's should stop serving when the main act is playing. It was a little distracting to have the waitresses in and out and walking in front of people while there is a concert going on.

Hopefully done

All my auto pay credit card stuff has been successfully converted to using the new credit card number I had to get thanx to TJ Max/Marshalls. I just verified the last loose ends are now charging the new credit card number. A couple of billers still charged the wrong card even after I changed them, and required a manual payment. When I initially wrote about this, I figured it was going to be about a day of effort to fix. I think it ended up being quite a bit more than that.