Pat's Weekly Diary: 2/7
On Saturday night the Topcats had the great honor of riding in the Mad Hatters Parade in Metairie. Also honored to be riding along with Scoot from WWL radio and his family. We've known Scoot for many years now. He's always been very kind to us… helping advertise upcoming gigs. It's quite the long day but the weather was great. The crowd in the streets were great. We were way up at the top of the float. Not such a great view of the crowd below but a clear view of what was up ahead of us. Thanks to Mad Hatters for including the Topcats in the fun.

I'd like to address last weeks diary as it might have sounded as if I was bitching about the Wiseguys. I was not. Some of you might or might not know that their bass player… Chris… Campbell… is my brother. And my tongue was planted firmly in my cheek as I was feebly trying to joke with him. The Wiseguys are a really good horn band. And Collette you should continue to go see them as often as possible. Oh and by the way… Chris and I both really like horn bands too. And we're also both familiar with the little known horn band Chase. I really like the first two albums. Especially the second one 'Ennea' with the great G.G. Shinn singing.

Pretty boring Superbowl if you ask me. Saints next year? Who Dat!!! Happy Mardi Gras everybody. We'll see you on the Endymion route next Saturday.