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at the venue. It was run and gun certainly play a role, possibly for a lot of it. My brain didn’t involving house concerts and the hell was going on,” he said. Lombardi has played his share of even have time to process what While on the road, Lombardi and Martin often talked about touring — the state of touring now, what it might be like in the future, and how the process could be improved. Lombardi isn’t sure what the answer is but he thinks technology will almost lodging throughout the country. house concerts and knows that they’re usually well attended by people who want to hear the artist and who will usually buy mer- chandise — two things that art ists generally cannot count on when they perform in clubs. “Everybody is trying to figure Watch Francis Lombardi perform “Power and Virtue” NewJerseyStage.com 2016 - ISSUE 1 Table of Contents 13