Dear Audience Member

[caption id="attachment_267" align="aligncenter" width="640"] Thank You || creative commons photo by Ryan McGuire[/caption] Dear Audience Member: Thank you. I mean it, thank you. I'm not just saying that because it's the thing to say when we finish a song, every song, sometimes before any applause has even started, often to…

Petal at Wolf Den: January 10th

[caption id="attachment_259" align="alignleft" width="640"] Microphone || creative commons photo by drestwn[/caption] Check... Check one two... IS THIS THING ON? Okay, sure, we've been a bit quiet around here. That's partly because one of us severely injured his finger at work in early July, rendering him unable to play guitar until…

Labor Day Party

[caption id="attachment_46" align="alignnone" width="720"] Laura Barton's Labor Day Party - by Wes Barton - September 2013[/caption] Back in the day (which, for our purposes, means the late 1990s) when Petal would drive from Seattle or Portland down the Pacific coast to play shows in Los Angeles and San Francisco, Ken's…

Analog Open Mic Night

[caption id="attachment_45" align="alignnone" width="720"] Analog Open Mic Night - by Chris May - August 2013[/caption] Open mic nights were our version of dipping our toe back into the performing waters, after so many years away from playing together (let alone playing together in front of PEOPLE). This was, if I…

Guitar Show

[caption id="attachment_47" align="alignnone" width="720"] Fender Custom Shop Roadshow at Pro Guitar Shop in Portland - by Chris May - June 2013[/caption] Ken suggested we go to this guitar event. Jessie assumes that the techno-speak coming out of the mouths of the people onstage meant something to the boys, but it…