Reply To: Does JoCo have a legion?
Well, thank god these were all small teacup-size monkeys. Giant heavy arses would have been REALLY hard to aim past all the stage obstacles.
I just want the growing legion of fans to do a little something every week, every performance, or every opportunity of whatever sort, to support this oddball musical endeavor.
Last night's performance was kind of an experiment for me. I went to the mid-December concert at the same venue, only a little while after first running across Kerrin's video, and I loved it. During the first half of the evening, while I was listening to the rather excellent Opening Band, Paul & Storm, I found myself getting kind of antsy and wondering if the fun of the last concert hasd all been a matter of novelty, serendipity — you know, the what's-all-this-then? feeling when you've just discovered a fun new thing — and if I'd find JoCo boring the second time around.
But he was just really so good. And because I know all the songs now, so I didn't have to concentrate on things like the lyrics or the pregnant-pause notes (*ex-plo-sive*) I was really super aware of all the bonus features of JoCo the performer. Like the fact that he took the trouble to create a set list that wouldn't include too much duplication of the last concert's material. The fact that when he messed up a chord in the first verse of "I'm Your Moon," he went back to start it over because the gaffe wrecked the mood. The fact that he was performing with a cold, and had doped himself up on Dayquil to be able to do so.
And maybe it was because he was just off the West Coast week, but his performance was tight, the guitar work was fast & flexible & the harmonics, even without the multiple tracks & voices from the studio versions, really sophisticated. Plus, he was a really generous performer. He listened to the audience, listened to Paul & Storm, gave us little bits of information as he was doing the tuning or quizzing us on which song had the capo on the fifth fret 
— he was aware of and open to other people. Not a gladhanding attention hound, just open and thinking and focused on doing a really good job for us.
I'm old enough to be his mom, so I'm not really reacting to him like a fangirl — I just think it's amazing to find somebody operating outside the musical genres, in a brand new weirdass business model, with humor and inventiveness and then — icing on the cake — empathy.
So. What have we all done for JoCo lately?