Stone City Acoustic Showcase 11/18/18 L'arity Ensures

Songs:

Ring Of Fire
Realitiesville
Summertime Blues
Everybody's Talking
I Won't Back Down


I can't say if this was my worst performance but the kind people at The General Store were very gracious in their applause.  Cause, nothing worked very well.


First of all, the guitar was out of tune when I took the stage and couldn't get the GD thing tuned right. So anything that used a capo was out of the setlist.  And then I was turning up the wrong fucking string, I almost busted the G string when it should have been the Low E string.  And then I dropped the pick on Realitesville and proceeded to play so hard I end up getting a blister on my thumb.

Overall, the vocals went okay.

For the most part , this afternoon's jammers opted for slower songs that kinda put things out of the mood. Steve Black Wolf changed things with a Irish drinking song with everybody helping out on the clapping.  Then proceeded to redo a verse in Lyin Eyes, since he couldn't remember one line.  I do that sometimes myself.

I sat with Steve and his wife most of the day, when they left Katy and Maki Dervo came over and kept me company.  Katy didn't play but she sang out in the crowd.

Maki saved the best for last, but reciting the whole Alice Restaurant Massacre since it was Thanksgiving weekend.  I thought he would do a short version, he actually did the whole version, all 20 minutes of it.  I did hang around only to tell Maki he owes us a drink next time he plays.  We talked about bringing drums to the Waubeek jam in December.   I can hook up the Tama set for some double duty and let somebody else play them while I take a break.  Probably a good bet, I'll be bringing the Impulse Cymbals should that happen.


Tuesday, I stopped to Parlor City for the Blues Jam but didn't play drums.  Nice of T Bone, Jon Wilson and Dan Johnson asking if I wanted to play.  Wasn't many drummers up there and perhaps I should have.  Both Brook Hoover and even Tommy Bruner played drums, had I known that I would have stayed and watched that.


Thanksgiving:  Glen Gardner had a Thanksgiving dinner and acoustic jam, so I showed up.  Jim Jacobmeyer, M.J were there, M.J played some cool blues lead guitar.  Steve Black Wolf, Sofia Chesney, Demtris Young and Rocky Smith were there.  Dave Bonham was there too with a new date, Sharon, who usually sings backup at various acoustic jam sessions at Whittier, Waubeek and Ramsey's.  Molly Wade was there with her new boyfriend as well.  I really didn't feel like singing but they did coax me into singing two songs, Let's Work Together and Rock Me Baby.

Dave mentioned he and Julie did play from 11 to 1 at Chrome Horse Benefit for the Veterans but Ryan was a no show, he was supposed to come up and play.  When I got up there after 2, nobody was there, and my guess was that Julie went over to Ryan's to practice.  Ryan is supposed to play keyboards for the return of Skin Kandy  Friday Night at Rumor's.  Will he show up to play is anybody's guess but I'll make a trip in town to see if they do play.

The weekend is up in the air. A major winter storm is bearing down and everything will be buried in snow again.  Not what I want nor need but we haven't had a major snow winter in about four years.  I'm sure that will change.  I haven't done much walking around town.  And the way it's going, I don't forsee much walking in the future.  Stone City is the first destination, snow or no snow.
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