Various Jams 10/28/18

Rumors Jam

With
Al Hendricks-Lead Vocals, Guitar (Trouble, Gone, Josephine, Bye Bye Johnny)
Tommy Bruner-Guitar and vocals
Mike Clair-Slide guitar and vocals
Billy Bourbon-Guitar and vocals
Dan Hartman-Guitar and vocals
Rick Clay-Lead vocals and guitar (Cheap Sunglasses, Dreams, Jesus)
Jeff Craft-Vocals (3 Songs)
Bird-Bass
R. Smith-Drums

Terry McDowell got new cymbals for us to pound on.


Songs (that I remembered)

Trouble In Mind
Gone To Chicago
Hello Josephine
Bye Bye Johnny
Spooky  (Jeff Craft: Lead Vocals)
I have Been To Chicago  (Jeff Craft: Lead Vocals)
Who's Been Talking (J.C.Vocals)
Cheap Sunglasses
Dreams I'll Never See
Jesus Just Left Chicago
Superstition (TB vocals)
Tomorrow Never Knows (TB vocals)
Little Sister  (Dan Hartman lead singer)
Black Magic Woman (Billy Bourbon; Lead Vocals)
Going Down (Bird: lead Vocals)
Knocking On Heaven's Door (Billy: Vocals)

(Dreams Of Arcadia, Ryan was Paul Stanley, Julie is the Witch, Pat Geisland is Batman and I'm not sure Rich Bryan dressed up as.  I arrived later.  Pat and Rich were the special guests)


With Dreams Of Arcadia-The Grove Bar in Scotch Grove 10/27/18

I played  Stop Draggin My Heart Around on Guitar,  Julie sang the song.
I broke a guitar string in the process

Then played drums for the last half hour.

My Halloween costume;

Notes:

A rare occasion that I did dressed up. I found a couple things at Halloween Express that changed things, An Invisible mask and some plastic skeleton fingers and transformed myself into the Grim Reaper.   Took me about 20 minutes to put the plastic fingers on but I shocked everybody at the Grove Bar.  Neither Julie nor Ryan knew how I was.  But then I sat in Julie's blind spot through the second set.  Ryan eventually figured me out by the way I walk that it was me. *sigh*.

I had no intentions of playing but Julie wanted me to play  a song so we settled on Stop Draggin My Heart Around.   Halfway through the song I broke a guitar string, but still played along.  Then I spelled Pat a while on drums.  It was the first time I played guitar live in about a month.

Sunday:  Only Herm Sarduay was the other drummer at the Rumors' Jam so I filled in for just about an hour it seems with at least 16 songs (although I might missed one or two).  81 year old Al Henricks did the first four songs including My Girl Josephine.  I was kinda rusty on the Gone To Chicago song, very sloppy on Going Down. But as far as I'm concerned I did a pretty good job.  They tend to play Superstition a lot slower than I play it.  I think this goes back to Tom Giblin saying not to play songs too fast.   Eventually I have to find their own groove to settle to.

Jeff Overly was in town, so I visited him and Karl Hudson playing at Bo Mac's before going to the Grove later on.  What was forgotten was that Cedar Rapids has the 2nd annual Halloween parade so it took me 40 minutes to find a parking spot and navigate my way down to Bo Macs.  Ended up having a small pizza that was okay but my waitress forgot about giving my change back for about 20 minutes.  I know she was busy with other customers so I still left her a tip.

Terry continues to switch over to Paiste, he had a 24 inch 2002 ride, a 18 inch crash and a 18 inch power crash and 15 inch soundedge hats, still has his 10 inch Zildjian A Splash though.  The 2002 sound better than the Rude's and blended in with the guitars and vocals. I still have mine but I still like the K's overall.   Perhaps I should break my Paistes out soon. I know Terry don't have sizzle cymbals like mine.

Rick Clay came down and of course we jammed to Dreams I Never See and Cheap Sunglasses.  The extended jam between him and Tommy and Bear was quite great.  Bird mentioned he did record the whole thing.  Perhaps it's worth hearing, including the mistakes made on Superstition and Goin Down.  Also great to see Andi Clay and the lovely Tami Soukup as well.  I know Tami caught a couple videos, likewise Shelly Foley.

Lisa Fox was supposed to sing a song but she opted out and went home soon afterwards.  We talked about helping her band out but she didn't like my arrangements of trying to work the weekends for this to happen.  I didn't turn down her band invitation, just told her I had to work around other music commitments.

One of the longest songs and setlist I have done in quite some time.  Might be the longest I ever done without being a host drummer.  Plenty of fun.