Question Mark, Joey O and Marg

Once a year we throw a party people from out of town come and we have a lot of fun. It takes a bit of preparation and between getting ready for the party and staying on top of business posting on the blog has taken a back seat. In addition I am still having difficulty loading video but nephew Lee may have fixed that, we'll see.

One of the best things that happened for me during this years party was that my sister Cass came to stay for nearly two weeks. She loves the blues so we got tickets to see The Joey O Band, a local Fort Wayne area award winning blues band and an old rock and roll legend band ? Mark and the Mysterians. It was a fund raiser for Serenity House in Auburn, IN, judging from the poor turn out I doubt their monetary goals were met.

Joey O took the stage first and they were delightful a nice tight blues band with a decent repertoire of cover songs and a couple of their own. Front man Joey O is into his guitar when he pounds out the chords and coaxes the squeals, you feel each note he reaches and the feeling is good. I will definitely try and catch their act again.

"I'm gonna cry 96 tears, to many teardrops, 96 tears, cry, cry, cry......", that was the hook line from one hit wonder band ? Mark and the Mysterians and they saved it for the last song. The flamboyant ? Mark states in his autobiography that he is from Mars, the words to 96 Tears were sent to him from outer space and that he must always wear sunglasses to protect his alien eyes, that is what I learned when I Googled him.

On stage he does not disappoint even when performing for a small, somewhat nervous crowd who seems to be shocked by the androgynous ? Mark , even Cass thought he was a woman for the first two songs. The band lived up to its garage band image even as ? Mark relegated the 100 people in attendance with past snippets of Vegas and London. The whole scene was rather surreal reminded Cass and I of similar instance in a bistro in Niece, France. Don't get me wrong we had fun both times.

Marg our book keeper posed for these photo's in our gardens and I could not resist sharing them. Marge took the pictures for a fund raising calender.