Rumors Jam 1/1/17 Who Goosed The Soparano

Lineup featuring.

Ed Butler-Lead Vocal and guitar on (Wicked Game, Jolene) (pictured above)
Tommy Bruner-Lead guitar on all songs
I played drums on all songs.
Troy Harper-finally got back on stage to play bass after Wicked Game
Mike Lint-Sang Ain't No Sunshine
Sippie (Ernest) Bynum sang on The Twist and Bring It On Home
Nick Lnenicka played harmonica on Bring It On Home
Aaron Barltrop-vocals on Roadhouse Blues
Courtney Trimble-Vocals on Bobby McGee and Mercedes Benz.

Terry McDowell took notes and arrangements of players

Songs:

Jolene
Wicked Game
Ain't No Sunshine
The Twist
Bring It On Home
Roadhouse Blues

So we begin another year......

This jam was the only one going around town.  The Cooters Acoustic Jam wasn't going on and Dan Hartman came over to do about 10 songs from his KICK IT band and playing with Herm Sarbuy on drums for the first time since Herm left that band.    I didn't get to Rumors till after five, I was doing my Sunday Afternoon walk around Downtown Cedar Rapids, since Temps were over 32 degrees and it didn't feel like a winter day.  It was also the first weekend that we didn't have any snow or below zero temps unlike December.   I was disappointed of going to Green Square Park and seeing somebody breaking at least five of the colorized lights before hand.  You can't have nothing nice in town, some dumb fuck will come along and destroy things.  Sad fact of life we had to deal with.  So I sat there watching the remaining light flicker on and off, disgusted with mankind.

Tommy did a wild weekend with the Past Masters, driving 500 miles from a snowbound Wisconsin out of the way casino to a place in Burlington and only had very little sleep in the process along with his girlfriend Brenda, to which I gave them a copy of the latest project I was doing.   I think it was a fun jam and I didn't intend to play all that much but Terry paired me up with Ed Butler, who did a interesting choice of covers, I don't think too many guys ever cover Jolene and I didn't figure out Wicked Game till I caught wind of the lyrics later on.  Basically, a slow and quiet beat, nothing less nothing more.    A couple of women came up to do songs, one woman warbled her way through Fever (Belinda Christensen James need not worry, she still owns that song) and a blonde came up and did a thorough deconstruction of Bobby McGee, (Abigail need not worry either) but I admire anybody who can jump up on stage and try to sing.  Takes a lot of effort and drive and encouragement. I'm sure their boyfriends were proud of them too.   Somebody goosed the soprano. The boyfriend of the Fever singing chick came up and did Roadhouse Blues and Tommy was not too pleased of the way the dude was tripping over Tommy's microphone.  And so it goes.

Mike Lint wasn't exactly pleased of the drum songs he got to do, I think he did about three songs and sang on Ain't No Sunshine to which I would turn the drum stool over to him after Roadhouse Blues.  But the highlight was getting to back up Ernest the Soul Man on The Twist/Bring It On Home and the man worked out some mean twist moves during the song.  It started out shaky, I don't think Troy was used to play on stage with Ernest, Dan Johnson is perfect for when Ernest hits the stage, and then slowing it down on Bring It On Home.  Hell, on The Twist, Ernest got everybody and all them girls up on the dance floor.  I'm glad I provided the dance beat on that. 

I was satisfied with the end result but Terry kept me up there for one more song and then I finally motioned Mike to come up and play drums for another song before Terry concluded things with Comfortably Numb.  But for added surprise, somebody bribed Troy Harper to do a one man bass/drums arrangement of Black Betty the Ram Jam song.  It's been said Troy has done that before and better but I thought considering the situation he fucking rocked on that one.

And that was that.