Whittier Acoustic Showcase 11/10/18

Songs played

If You See Her
Tulsa Time Revisited
For Shame Of Doing Wrong
Slipping Away
Love The One You're With
Good Time Charlie


And

With Julie Gordon and Ryan Paul at the Office Lounge In Monticello
Dreams Of Arcadia

Baby What You Want Me To Do
Stop Dragging My Heart Around
Gold Dust Woman

Lee and Nancy, the inspiration of the Acousta Crabbies, I did sound like Lee tonight.

I continue to have shit luck of going anywhere.  Before going to the jam, I drove down to Mount Vernon for supper,only have to deal with speeders, a wallet that continues to throw half my credit cards and driver's ID on the floor,and dealing with the romper room crowd of people and five or six brats not behaving, once they leave another family comes along.  Then the Iowa Hawkeyes fumbled the ball twice in the forth quarter to lose the ball game and then I had to wait about 10 minutes to get the check.  Usually the place is quick to get me in an out but not was the case tonight.  And then over to the store to pick up some milk only to deal with more stupids and then the car didn't want to start and then I hit the GD curb.  That's where I lost it.  I cursed everything, the day I was born, the creator of this paradise we call earth and all the crappy luck.  It was a black cloud of hatred coming down the road, back to home, back to pick up my guitar and Julie having issues with her PA system, thankfully she got that working again.

It's been a while since I let off such a scream fit that I was screaming in a higher octave.  That's when I realized I blew out my voice.  And just in time for the Whittier Showcase.

Mike Moran had the Goat Singers thing going on at Artisan Sanctuary, Julie and Ryan were at Monticello, Karl and Jeff were at Cooters and fighting the crappy Hawkeye game and then Karl losing it on Facebook. Phil Bo King had his birthday bash but once again it fell on the Whittier Jam so I had to take another rain check.

I went acoustic since I had no time to get into the electric and deal with 20 degree cold weather.  They started earlier than usual, I wasn't ready so I deferred to Stuart Pershing.  With hardly any voice I started it off with If You See Her which went better than it did Thursday Night.  Allen McGrew did a short version of Tulsa Time so I decided to reprise that song after he left.  Stuart gave me some song ideas to do in the future, Fire On The Mountain and Feeling Alright.  I can see why people play Wonderful Tonight, it sucks playing drums but the chords are easy.  I also jotted down Pink Houses for future shows, but I don't really think I need to play it.  Unless Julie is around.

The other highlight  was playing For Shame Of Doing Wrong in a new arrangement. Slipping Away suffered from not playing it for a while and I don't think I can hit the notes on Love The One You're With, I may just retire that song.

Things ended at 9:30 so I had time to change cars and return to Monticello and helped Julie and Ryan finish out the night on Congas and did three songs with Julie.  We fought with the arrangement of Baby What You Want Me To Do, she wanted to do Etta James and I wanted Jimmy Reed's version but we did find a happy medium. Stop Draggin My Heart Around was rough but Julie believes that tonight's version of Gold Dust Woman was the best so far.  Which is saying something.  I had no voice whatsoever on this segment but managed to harmonize a bit on Gold Dust Woman and went for a croaking bass vocal on What You Want Me To Do.

In order for me to help my raw, ripped apart throat, I decided on Rum n Coke, a very rare chance of me drinking but it did help a little bit.  Tonight I thought about maybe covering Ryan's song Higher for the next Townedger album. He and Julie do have some good originals that might make a good album.  I'm still fighting the indifference and blah attitude of playing guitar but at least I'm taking notes on doing new songs and pitching them to Julie if and when the Acoustic Crabbies get going.  She's better off continuing her gigs with Guitar Dave or Ryan. I still think I'm better off just doing a few songs with her than a whole gig.  We're still getting along just fine.  And I can live with that.