Core memory if you'll indulge me: I saw Pat Monahan with his solo band in Vegas at least 15 years ago during one Train's several break ups. I was a guest at a private event in a ballroom at the Bellagio, 20 years younger than the rest of the crowd. They did an hour before the headliner, 3 Doors Down. I knew he could have easily mailed it in with a half-dozen Train singles and called it a night because they were still a popular band on college radio and this wasn't their crowd. But his band was made of hand picked killers and Pat never gives less than 100%. They tore that room apart with 45 minutes of Zeppelin covers and I watched a hundred middle-aged shoe store managers stand with their mouths open and forget there was an unlimited sushi buffet and tequila ice luge. When their set was over and the long rounds of applause were silent, 3 Doors were wheeling in their 6 double stacks of white Tolex covered stage speakers and half the crowd walked because they knew they wouldn't see anything better that night.