Checker's Jam: 7/12/17 Benediction

Checker's Jam-

Hosts: Julie Gordon/Steve Black Wolf

Songs:

Branded Man*

Logic And Lies

Jet Airliner

Everybody's Talking

No Expectations/For What Its Worth

*debut

With:

D.J: Backing Vocals on Jet Airliner and Everybody's Talking

Skip Richards: Bass

Belinda James: Backing Vocals

Mark Randolph: Lead Guitar on No Expectations/For What Its Worth

Started today out by replacing the drums on the first version of Drawn In The Dark with a different take and it sounded better.  Then had enough time to run through versions of Southern Pacific and I Don't Need No Doctor but I think we have enough songs to compile the covers album.

The big question was if anybody was going to show up to the jam, since Bart decided to have a rival jam down at Rumors but I committed myself to the Jules And Wolf showcase.  Friends helping out friends, I bought a snare drum but didn't play that much, and certainly not after Mike Williams and his lovely companion showed up. To which she proceeded to take off most of the drum rings and didn't bother to put them back on the drum after she finished them.  Then she complained about how they sound, which really made me disgusted with her.  The rules are simple, if there's any sort of percussion at a jam, make the best of it.  If you don't like how they sound, don't fucking play them, get your own drum. But it was kind of her to provide her own drumsticks to which they made the snare sound like crap after that. 

Despite that, there was a decent crowd, a bit more people than last weekend.  Lorie Parker showed up and did her Boobieful song and I thought Steve and Julie did a very good job.  As promised Belinda and Mark showed up and helped out a lot too. Skip Richards also popped up to play bass during my segment and while I didn't debut Southern Pacific as originally threatened, I went with Branded Man, the old Merle Haggard song.    Donna Jo aka D.J. as she would like to be known helped me out on Jet Airliner and Everybody's Talking.  And the improvised No Expectations going into For What Its Worth seemed to work, especially with Mark Randolph adding lead guitar.  

Of note was Lorie Parker coming to the jam.  That does speak volumes and perhaps that might lead somewhat of the Acousta Kitties returning to play together again.  I remain hopeful, just like the rest of the folk do.