“I gotta get him home because I got a show at the Great American Music Hall.”
“What’s your band?”
“I play in a band called the Pine Box Boys, but tonight is a solo thing. It’s Lonesome Lester T Raw.”
“The high point has been playing music here. The low point was probably the dot com boom. Everything got a little expensive. The personality of the city changed a little bit. I like our bohemians around here. I don’t begrudge folks who are here to make money, but they don’t have the same love for the place. You’ve got neighbors you don’t know, they won’t talk to you. They haven’t bought in on the whole city thing. But for the most part, it’s been awesome.”