The Goodfoot Pub and Lounge Portland, OR Words by Maximo Menchaca Photos by Coleman Schwartz Media New Year’s Eve is a time for reflecting backwards and looking forwards. A concert is the perfect environment for resetting intentions. My usual haunt has been Umphrey’s McGee’s venue, but I know I made the right decision to spend my New Year’s Eve with Yak Attack and the “Yak Pak” at the Goodfoot this time. Let me say it bluntly: this show might be the end of an era. It was an unseasonably chilly night in Portland, but you wouldn’t have guessed it from the line wrapping around the corner. Yak and Brett McConnell, the man on the lights, were in full force. The current trio - Nick Werth on the drum kit, Rowan Cobb on bass guitar, and Dave Dernovsek on keys, guitar, and looping – spent diligent years growing a fanbase and honing their craft right here at the Goodfoot. All that hard work finally culminated in not only playing this familiar venue on a holiday, but selling it out! Ma