Checkers' Acoustic Showcase 9/5/18

Setlist:

Peace Love And Understanding
Please Don't Leave Me
Games People Play
The Race Is On
Fox On The Run
Rainbow In The Dark
For What It's Worth
Summertime Blues
You Can't Judge A Book By It's Cover

Rose Slaymaker; Backing vocal on Fox On The Run
Julie Gordon: percussion on Rainbow, For What it's worth, Summertime blues, Book

encores:

Six Days On The Road
Much Too Young To Feel This Damn Old
Hard Luck Woman
Turn The Page
Ventura Highway

Steve Black Wolf-Lead Vocals, guitar
Donna Jo Elsner-Percussion and backing vocals
Rose Slaymaker-Backing vocals


Can't Find My Way Back Home
Black Water
Suite: Judy Blues Eyes
You Don't Have To Cry

Glen Gardner: Lead Vocals and guitar
Dave Bonham-Lead Guitar and vocals
Donna Jo Elsner-Backing Vocals and Tamborine
Scott Sanborn-Cajole

Carl Meiners and Tim Nemec: In The House

I played Coffee can percussion and sang backup believe it or not on the encore numbers.

(Laura Shuster; Photo Credit)
(L-R-Dave Bonham, Glen Gardner, Scott Sanborn, Donna Jo, Myself, Julie Gordon)

Julie noted that I was playing louder than usual on percussion.  Even more so than at the winery a couple weeks ago.  I suppose if I did play louder I did although it didn't sound anything different than I usually do.

Scott Sanborn was the surprise guest and he bought his own percussion.  He's been quite busy since retiring as a new anchor from FOX 28 and 40.  I let him dictate the beat and I would throw some accents around to see what happens.  I do enjoy and welcome him on the stage always when he wants to play drums or percussion.

Basically my set list was continue to polish up the songs that I have been doing the past couple weeks, namely Peace Love And Understanding.   Please Don't Leave Me was the original thrown in. I didn't play Slipping Away or I Don't Know Why You Keep Me On, I wanted to not do the darker numbers, at least not this time around.    Julie helped on percussion and sang some backup on Peace Love And Understanding.  Rainbow In The Dark was the first time I played this live and I went on a blind take, no rehearsal.  It's probably better suited for Julie to sing but I did it anyway.

I had to make this a long lunchbreak instead of hanging for the full three hours.  Our senior had car problems so I had to take over her workload for tonight and managed to get everything done at work.
Very productive from both the jam and work.