Whittier Acoustic Showcase Set List 9-8-18

Songs

Slipping Away
Me And Bobby McGee
Green Onions (Interlude)
Rainbow In The Dark
Summertime Blues
Peter Gunn (Interlude)
Bring It On Home To Me
Peace Love And Understanding
Rumble/Stop Draggin My Heart Around
Sundown
Tulsa Time


NOTES;

My original intention was to go take in the first game of the MILB division championship but at the last moment decided to stay close to home and do the Whittier Jam instead.  Good thing I did, The Cedar Rapids Kernels blew the lead and lost the game 5-3, I would have been a angry mood had I went to watch the game.

I scared off Belinda from joining tonight, I told her I was going to the game but changed my mind and told her of my intentions. But she didn't get the memo in time.  So we did not do What's Up. She would have been used for Fever and Come Together and probably a couple other songs that she does. I miss her but it's probably better for her not to make the 45 minute trip on a hurting knee.

Not a lot of musicians tonight, the Idiot Jam in Garrison probably took a few of them up there but we did play the full three hours.  Bill, who lives up north helped play lead guitar on a couple numbers mainly Stop Draggin My Heart Around and Sundown.

I think I threw a couple curves in this set list.  One playing Stop Dragging My Heart Around without a female vocal and Rainbow In The Dark, a song that Ronnie James Dio played, Julie sings with Ryan Paul and I took her arrangement and did the song in her way.  We both worked on that song but I have never played it live with her with me on guitar and her singing.

Peter and Green Onions were done as time killer between songs between the jammers.  I did play Rumble to the beginning of Stop Dragging My Heart around.  Bill said he would like to do that song again next month when he's back at the jam.  We'll see if I can get a female singer to help out next time.

Bring It On Home To Me, I don't think I played it live but one time, usually somebody else does that song.  But in a attempt to do more songs people can relate do.  It's done in a C G F but i didn't play the F chord till the chorus.   Peace Love and Understand got undermined by missed chords so I extended it to try again, only to mess it up again.  I shall continue to play this song till I get it right. Somehow I wasn't happy with the result although the folks there liked the song. Appentarly, I finding that when I make the mistake I repeat the mistake and let people think it's part of the song.   I must have done a good job to mask the mistake.  If people don't know I won't tell them.

Tim Nemec joined about a half hour before 10 and did three songs and continued to play after we all got done.  Rose Slaymaker stayed home due to a cold. She might have pawn her cold off Julie Wednesday Night.

I went electric, bringing the Fender Tele and Gorilla amp  for the night's jam.  It sounded good.