Most passengers were inside with the band, closing in on a swatch of dance floor, but the sound was also being piped on deck, where I slouched at a rail.
As danger closes in on this little band of brothers, it's his life the viewer worries about the most.
Then there is Fred Bailey, who was plucked from a clearing in the jungles of Burma by an intrepid RAF pilot just as the Japanese closed in on him, and also the band of brothers, the Bomber Boys, who brought devastation to German cities in their Lancaster Bombers night after terrifying night.
The next morning, on August 2, Black Hawk was heading north when he learned that the American army had closed in on the members of the British Band who were trying to cross the Mississippi.
After the Fillmore closed in 1971, the band went looking for a home base in Manhattan.
After shows in Santa Barbara and San Diego, the band will perform in cities including Brooklyn, Chicago and Toronto before closing in its hometown on Aug. 30.
The festival, now in its 11th year, closed on Saturday with a set by Indie band Razorlight.
The Roseland Ballroom, a club in Midtown where generations of bands have performed, is planning to close in April, according to a report on Friday from Billboard.com, which cited an internal e-mail it had obtained.
Then, you are getting closer to becoming a band.
Surely the band at Harvelle's wasn't so entertaining that I'd fail to notice a charming female closing in on me.
