When Tim left it was really neat to see people come out of the woodwork. People who, for whatever reason, had never approached me before. People I thought of as my idols. People I really trusted and whose music I really loved.

I'm having a really hard time figuring out if I just want to do it solo or have other people join in. I'm really nervous because I don't want to try to recreate anything. I have no idea what I'm doing.

When Tim moved away it got really difficult. We had a couple shows, but it was too hard. I knew when he was talking about leaving that it wasn't going to work out. And then it didn't. So, by default, I started playing solo.

We were hitting the ball hard. It was just right at people.

It's to give people in different areas an opportunity to preview the races. Each year it will be held in a different area. Next year we'll take it to another area of Metro Louisville, possibly Southern Indiana. … We just wanted to add events to the schedule and create our own little balloon festival.

There's a song called 'Frankenstein' (from 1995's 'I'm With Stupid') that people seem to request a lot so we thought we'd give that a whirl.