>Still, it's gotta be a weird feeling looking back at the drum riser and not 
>seeing Paul Hester there. He was such an integral part of that band.


The second time I saw them was the UK leg of the Together Alone tour. Paul 
Hester had already quit the band, and a chap called Pete Jones was in the 
drum seat.


>From: "John L. Micek" <jlmicek@comcast.net>
>Reply-To: audities@smoe.org
>To: "Stewart Mason" <craigtorso@verizon.net>, <audities@smoe.org>
>Subject: Re: Crowded House return
>Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2007 15:31:10 -0500
>
>>
>>----- Original Message ----- From: "Jennifer Leduc" <jenleduc@hotmail.com>
>>>But after the suicide of Crowded House drummer Paul Hester in 2004, Finn 
>>>says he slowly came to the realization that "I just wanted to be in a 
>>>band again. And what other band could it be, really?"
>>
>>Well...um...there was this band called Split Enz.  And the last I checked, 
>>none of them were dead.
>>
>But wasn't Split Enz more Tim's band than Neil's?
>Crowded House was really Neil's thing, and it's the band he's most closely 
>associated with.
>I can understand the sentiment.
>Still, it's gotta be a weird feeling looking back at the drum riser and not 
>seeing Paul Hester there. He was such an integral part of that band.
>
>john micek.
>
>