Taking Wing

"People might find it hard to believe, but I don't feel that much different," he says. "When I had the monetary success, I had all kinds of things to bitch about then. Now that there isn't as much money, I've still got probably the same amount of pain and joys about it. It's weird, but it doesn't make all that much difference. See, the whole music thing, I just appreciate it as a game. And I'm just happy to still be playing in it."

Magpie. 8 p.m. Thursday, May 6, the Soiled Dove, 1949 Market Street, $7, 303-299-0100.