Checker's Acoustic Showcase 11/29/17

Songlist:

I Won't Back Down
Fire
Spoonful
Mercury Blues
Boom Boom (Snippet)
Everybody's Talking
Jet Airliner
For What It's Worth
Gold Dust Woman
Come Together
Summertime Blues
Man Of Constant Sorrow
Love Song
Stand By Me

With
Steve Black Wolf-Lead Vocals 1,14
Julie Gordon-Lead Vocals 2,9.10,12,13
Tony Nickels-Percussion

And

Carl Meiners
PJ and Pam Harrington
Craig Mccune

And the regulars at Checker's Tavern

Let's Jam Hosted by Julie Gordon/Steve Black Wolf


Do we dictate on how the jam is going to be if we play it rough and mad?  I think it brings out the best in the other jammers of course.  Things didn't start out very well since the the GD cup of tea I had in the car tipped over and I ended up getting a wet seat.  I can't get a decent day no matter what I do.

Dave Bonham caught the flu, so Steve took over and helped Julie and I supposed I added something to the equation.  Steve took care of the Tom Petty song and Julie did Fire, which thankfully her vocals were a big upgrade than the toad croak I did Friday Night.  I have to say that tonight's performance was a lot more inspired than what happened over the weekend.  And the songs were made up as we went along, even when Tony was playing the pocket drums on Spoonful, he even managed to follow the choppy to straight beat on the lead part.  Geez another lead guitar specialist now playing coffee cans behind me, just like Rich Toomsen.  I'm supposed to be playing drums.  I worked on Mercury Blues this afternoon and managed to remember most of the lyrics, in fact I didn't use my cheat sheets tonight.  The first couple songs were improvised on the spot,  Spoonful and Mercury Blues   Julie was used a lot during my set, she sang backup on For What Its Worth and went along on Gold Dust Woman on the extended ending.  And of course Come Together.  We did work on Fire Sunday Night and was mostly in the neighborhood of how the song went tonight. She is such a lover of music, when you find the right song for her, she can sing the hell out of it.  She did reach deep down inside on the finale of Gold Dust Woman.  After Summertime Blues, I went back to playing on the side, and didn't know  how Love Song by The Cure went although Man Of Constant Sorrow worked better.

I really pounded on the guitar, the repetitive  two note riff to Spoonful, and the odd time bar chord to Mercury Blues really were the highlights and it was great to have Tony join the jam on a rare occasion, he does the Long Branch Jam on Friday Nights to which I have to take a rain check on. I do like my Guild guitar better than the Ibanez, I'm sure the Ibanez would have had half the strings breaking on tonight's gig.

Afterwards PJ, the owner of the Checkers complimented me on the way that I play, which I was very humbled to hear.  Thought about asking him if I was good enough to have The Townedgers play Checekrs in the future, but I would need more songs,more polish and a actual band to boot.  Oh, and more ambition wouldn't hurt either.


Notes;  Carl was under the weather and decided not to play on stage.  Steve was finally getting over his cold and Julie was still dealing with her cold but despite that,  she was in a perky mood....Although the Rumors Jam the past few weeks have been packed with jammers, the weeknight jams have been single digit performers. Basically it was Julie, Steve, Tony and myself doing the songs and playing.  Of course Steve was telling me to hurry it up while I was grabbing a taco salad for supper and the jalapenos packed a wallop tonight.