What is so amazing is that the Reunions have been going
on long enough that even they have a history of their
own. You know you are getting old/wise when things have
a meta-history.
The first reunion was just that, a reunion. After several
years of not having played together, partly because
life was getting too complex to have time to play music
regularly, partly because there was a palpable lack
of places to play in town for a band of this type, and
partly because Kevin and Pete had moved out of Ann Arbor,
we thought it would be a good idea to have a reunion.
It was to be a real swan song, a real Last Performance
Ever.
Held at Jay Stielstra's old place on Waters Road,
a great time was had by all and we (musicians and audience
alike) went home happy and sad that that was it.
As the following winter broke through, it occured
to me that the band might be willing do a 2nd Annual.
A few phone calls later, it was set. Number 2 was to
happen. That was the beginning of the never-to-be end.
We've just kept on going. Here is the list of events:
As you can see, not all this is done. In order to
make the following pages-to-be of value, I need help
recalling things that happened during the events. You
were all there. Send me your fondest(?) recollections.
- 1988, Last Performance
Ever, Swan Song
- 1989, 2nd Annual Last
Performance Ever
- 1990, 3rd Annual Last
Performance Ever
- 1991, 4th Annual LPE
- 1992, 5th Annual LPE
- 1993, 6th Annual LPE
- 1994, 7th Annual LPE
- 1995, 8th Annual LPE
- 1996, 9th Annual LPE
- 1997, 10th Annual
LPE
- 1998, 11th Annual LPE(actually
part of the larger Flood's Reunion)
- 1999, 12th Annual
LPE
- 2000, 13th Annual LPE
- 2001, 14th Annual LPE, Sat. July 28, 2001
- 2002, 15th Annual
LPE, Sat. July 27, 2002
- 2003, 16th Annual
LPE
- 2004, 17th Annual
LPE, Sun. June 27, 2004
- 2005, 18th Annual LPE, Sat. August 13, 2005
- 2006, 19th Annual LPE, Sat. August 12, 2006
- 2007, 20th Annual LPE, Sat. August 4. 2007
(with Kevin Lynch)
- 2008, 21st Annual LPE, August 9, 2008
- 2009, 22st Annual LPE, June 27, 2009
- 2010, 23rd Annual LPE, June 26, 2010 (with Kevin
Lynch)
- 2011, 24th Annual LPE, July 23, 2011 (with Kevin
Lynch)
- 2012, 25th Annual LPE, June 30, 2012 (with Kevin
Lynch and Alan Pagliere)
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