The Second "Big Show" Sellout

There was nothing I could do at that moment to change the situation that the banning of our second record from the air..due to lyrical content..had created. But the one thing I did know was that the public was unaware of all of that, and that our show at the club was still being heavily promoted by WCCC. This would be the first time we would be headlining at the club on a weekend. I expected a good crowd. What we ended up with was another totally sold out show. If it was possible for us to have done better drawing a crowd than we had for the first show..we did. The place was mobbed. We had played the club three times since we started appearing in public...twice on our own, and once as an opening act...and all three shows were sold out. That was not a common occurance at the club. There were a handful of bands that had done that, but all of them were nationally known bands, signed to major labels. We were as yet, unsigned...and unknown nationally...but we were making quite an splash in New England, especially in Connecticut...and selling out this club on three consecutive dates was huge. As before, the first 107 people to show up got free T-shirts, but this time the shirts were really elaborate...the station had gone all out. I felt a little bit better when I realized that they were still behind the band, they were just protecting themselves from what they perceived as a public image problem. The band had a super night, and it was obvious to me that as long as we could just keep playing, the band would keep getting better and better. Our stage show was becoming relaxed and it was starting to feel easy to do, and the band was becoming very matter-of-fact in its ability to keep taking it to a higher level every night. People were starting to mouth the lyrics to the songs they knew from the radio, and I remember thinking how cool it was that people knew our lyrics. I fully believed that we would overcome the setback we had experienced a few days earlier, and the guys were all playing like that wasn't even a question. The name said it all...Avalanche.. "an unstoppable natural force"....The audience was the best one yet, and we knew we were developing some very loyal fans already. After we were called back for two encores..after two long sets..we knew that as long as we kept coming up with stuff...there would be an audience for it. As we got back into the dressing room, the mood was very upbeat...we knew we had played our best gig yet...and we still had that momentum...