Rumors Sunday Funday Jam 12/30/18

List of songs that I can remember

Hello Josephine
Move It On Over
Gentle On My Mind
Gone To Chicago
Johnny B Goode
Heart Of Gold
The Joker
The Fugitive (Down Every Road)
Wicked Game
Rhiannon
Dreams
Old Time Rock And Roll
Willie And The Hand Jive
Midnight Rambler
Jumpin Jack Flash
Dead Flowers
These Boots Are Make For Walking
Me And Bobby McGee
Working Man Blues
Oh Lomesome Me
Oh Boy
Dooley



Players:

Terry McDowell: Host
Al Hendricks-Lead Vocal and guitar, 1-4
Tami Janey-Lead Vocal on Johnny B Goode
Billy Bourbon-Guitar and vocals on Move It On Over, Willie And The Hand Jive, The Fugitive
Mike Clair-Guitar and vocals on Working Man Blues
Randy Burgdorff-Bass
Ryan Matthew Paul-Keyboards and harmonica (7,9,10,11,12)
Matthew Caldon-Lead vocals on Heart Of Gold, Dead Flowers and The Joker
Nick Lenicka-Harmonica on Midnight Rambler, others
Julie Gordon-Lead vocals on 9-13,18,19
Renee Clair-Backing vocals on Rhiannon, Dreams and Boots
Tommy Bruner-Guitar and lead vocals on Jumping Jack Flash and Midnight Rambler
Dan Hartman-Lead vocals and guitar on Oh Lomesome Me, Oh Boy, Dooley
I played Drums throughout this set

Only three guest drummers outside of Terry,  Myself, Steve Stratton and Mike Lint played.  And I got to play almost a full hour of 19 to 21 songs.  It took me three days to remember the whole list of songs I played.

A lack of bass players, Bird, did the majority of the jam.  Billy Bourbon relived me on drums on Knocking On Heaven's Door. But by then I did almost a full set.  Not too bad. actually.

Julie showed up later to sing on about seven songs.  I was having trouble trying to hear any of the vocals or Nick's harmonica

I think the highlight was another run through with Midnight Rambler, to which I managed to hit the breaks and at the same time knew where to kick in the rocking part and then the finale where I managed to match Tommy stride by stride on where the beat changes. Tommy says afterwards that I owned that night tonight.  I did tell him I did practice on that song last weekend.

I spent the weekend with Julie.  Ryan's son, Matthew was in town so we did an jam over at Ryan's place and didn't get done till after midnight.  Basically decided better to stay in town and hang with Julie.  Plus I got most of Dreams Of Arcadia band stuff out in the car and Ryan's congas inside.  By being in town, I didn't make the Stone City jam as originally planned.  But it was fun to have Julie come down to Rumors to take part of the jam and not have to worry about other things.  Brenda and Greg decided to go to Stone City instead.

This ends the 2018 seasons of jams and this jam was one of the best.  Terry McDowell has done a fine job of hosting the jams despite having more drummers than anybody else.   Afterwards, I told him, I'm sure I'll do my best to post the songs that I played tonight but I don't know if I remember the whole songs that I did today.  I try to jog my memory by reading past set lists and see if I missed any. I do know there's a couple I can not remember, Al Hendrichs did play 4 songs but I can't remember the third one.

I'm sure next year, there'll be more jams.  The question remains if Checker's resumes their acoustic jam or if we can get new jammers out there.   I will be busy with Dreams Of Arcadia,  The Townedgers, Julie's projects, the Meins, Boyscout Hippies and so on and so forth.  Russ talks about getting back together since the other guy is ready to play again. I'm sure there'll be highlights, lowlights, falling outs and self doubt and stage fright, but three years onward and this point, I'm playing my best ever.

Tomorrow, I'll be playing alongside Julie and Ryan in Dreams Of Arcadia in Monticello to bring in the new year and it's supposed to be snowy day.   And the journey of rock n roll will continue.

I'm happy just to be part of it.