Hi,

Yes, the Starbelly/Pat DiNizio show was one I'll never forget. Is there a 
vocalist who puts more into his songs than Pat? This man has one strong set of 
lungs.

The Starbelly set was no different than any other Starbelly set I heard the 
last two years, with the exception of a great cover of ELO's "Living Thing". As 
the band said, a three-piece covering a song originally done by an eight-piece 
band. But what the set lacked in novelty was made up by their performance. 
Greg's "cocktail drum kit" (as Pat put it), without a bass drum, did not lack 
bombast. 

The combined DiNizio/Starbelly set contained many covers as well as the bulk of 
the Smithereens' hits. The Beatles choices were mainly the album cuts as 
opposed to the shopworn singles. The covers ranged the gamut from "Horse With 
No Name" (with Pat's new sarcastic lyrics) to that big Black Sabbath song, 
maybe "Paranoid". I thought that the band especially shined during the DiNizio 
set, they got the room to show their chops.

On a personal note, I thank Donna for the on-list welcome to the Washington 
area. I'm looking forward to seeing lots of shows down here from my favorite 
Baltimore bands (e.g. Splitsville). I have to return to New York often, so I 
won't say goodbye to my friends there.

Sherman