Three years with just one break is an impressive record.  You can count me as among those who are grateful for your effort.

This has certainly been an amazing year for GPN, culminating with the Divas show.  Looking at your rant about when Paris is cool (springtime) and when it is not, or whether or not Grace has "sold out" strikes a chord.  I have been scouring the web for any comments and responses, particularly from those who are not already initiated into the cult of GPN.  The best source I have found has been You Tube.  Not only do the faithful respond, but also those who have stumbled onto Grace by accident, and while the "OMG...who is she?" comments were heaviest after Divas you can still see a good spread thorughout the last five years.

But, it has led me to think about the "Disneyfication" (for lack of a better term) of Grace Potter.  One sees alot of comments like "I liked her from 2005 through 2009 when she wore blue jeans and flannel shirts.  Now she is all glam and the music isn't the same."  (Paraphrasing).  I don't suppose many (if any) of the folks who read this post are going to agree with that preposterous statement.  For myself, I've been seeing this band since July 2008.  I noticed that the clothes got finer after Bryan left and Cat and Benny joined, but I never seemed to notice that the music got any less fine, or that the band rocked any less hard.  Still, the word "Disney" will always imply, rightly or wrongly, sell out.

Does anyone honestly think GPN would have gotten the Divas gig without Disney, or that Grace would have had the opportunity to contribute to the Alice soundtrack or the Tangled soundtrack?  Does any one think that Disney does not want to keep its prepubescent audience once they have grown up?  Does anyone think, after positive tweets from stars of the Disney stable such as Joe Jonas and Debby Ryan that their tweets were not at least encouraged by the company?  Is there anyone who truly wants this band to succeed, that after eight grueling years on the road a little "selling out" is a bad thing, particularly when you don't have to sacrifice your core values to do so?

I know that the band's continued success will be better for them than it is for me.  I expect that the days of seeing GPN in small clubs can't  last much longer...because they sold out.

Well, that's my rant.

KC, thanks again for all your hard work.  You make our ability to enjoy the band, and the greater GPN community, all that much more enjoyable.