Rumors Sunday Funday Jam-Shelly Foley Birthday Bash

Songs

Sharp Dressed Man
Fire
Wild Night
Far Away Eyes
I Saw Her Standing There
Message In A Bottle


Raven-Lead vocal on Sharp Dressed Man
Billy Bourbon-Guitar and Vocals on (Fire, Wild Night,  Far Away Eyes)
Tommy Bruner-Guitar and Vocals (I Saw Her Standing There, Message In A Bottle)
Mike Clair-Bass and Vocals (I Saw Her Standing There)
R.Smith-Drums
Terry McDowell-Host Drummer


Terry let me finish the jam by doing Message In A Bottle, which I do a more choppy version than Terry did.

Shawn McDonald made a appearance at Rumor's tonight.  It's the first time I have ever seen him anywhere that Russ and Deb were not around.

Don't know who the guy Raven was but he was the dude that sang Sexy And 17 a couple weeks ago.

A new drummer Andy English  came on board to play a bunch of blues tunes and turned the jam into a dance party.

Basically I had to follow him.  Imagine that.

So I kept it simple and kept it rocking and played around Message In A Bottle with many different types of drum accents and playing. It's somewhat of a reggae beat but I was messing with the offbeat. But I do think Message In A Bottle did work even though I only played it one time before.  The key is to focus on the off beats and provide a reggae beat like Stu Copeland did with The Police.

Since it was Shelly's and Steve's birthday I decided to do the jam.  By the time I got the stage and played the birthday guy and girl already left as well as Dave Bonham, Drum Store Mike, Herman and a few others.   But I got there late and was the last drummer to play.

Drummers:  Terry, Steve Stratton, Mike Lint, Andy English, Herm Sarduay.  Rob Haskill and Randy Faulkner were there but didn't play.

Thankfully Shelly didn't take any pictures of me.

I wish Tommy the best on his new girlfriend.  She's seems to be a bit more grounded than the last one.  The last one kinda made a fool out of herself when she showed up but still danced with a couple other dudes.

The Cedar River was out of its banks due to the big rains we had last week (as well as the Wapsi at around Stone City) and I couldn't take Otis Road, usually that's the scenic view of the river, this time, the road was the river.   The sump pump still is working over here, a week after the last big rains which caused some bit of leaking from the old sump pump in the storage room.  Good thing we had the basement waterproofed, Otherwise I would be coming home to a watery mess.  Thankfully those days are gone.  Eight thousand dollars well spent.