Artisan Sanctuary Showcase 4/4/19

Songs:

Good Time Charlie
Touch Of Grey
Desolation Angels
Logic And Lies
Go Out And Get It
Long Black Veil
Love's Made A Fool Out Of You

With:
Jim Jacobmeyer, Patrick Lower, Phil And Darryl, Glen Gardner, D. Harris, Bill Schlatter and others.

Observations:

(photos by Glen Gardner...I'm going to miss my good friend who takes pics of me playing)

A surprise showing by myself.  Took yet another sick day to deal with the walking pneumonia issues and doctor prescribed another antibiotic to see if this would work better.  Perhaps I should have gone in sooner than I did. The micro-plasma seems to be immune to all these cold meds I have been taking.

Unlike yesterday, I had better sound thanks to Patrick.  He knows how to make things sound pretty good.   Ron did donate that big mixing board he talked about giving the Sanctuary and he came though, however he forgot to bring the power supply chord to plug it in.    Dave Bonham was up there briefly, but left when he discovered he wasn't playing the Woodstock Fifty bash up in Lowe's Park this August, but Boy Scout Hippies are.  I'm not sure that I will be playing anyway, tho' Ron will probably ask me if I'm interested to help the band out.  By then, I think he'll have a working drummer to help them out.  However, the Elsners' Cabin Jam is on that Saturday before Sunday.

There's a bunch of bands playing there, including Winterland, the Grateful Dead tribute band that Byron Stevens and Jon Wilson play in.  Zoot and Neut with a full band and a few others. Kind of a big deal to play in.  I can't imagine why Dave was passed over, we talked about playing a couple songs but I think Jim has made this more of a actual band setting.  Whatever was said tonight, Dave just decided to head home and not take part of the open mic tonight.   He may not return again judging how things would go.

In an attempt to try new stuff, I played Touch Of Gray and Desolation Angels for the first time and concluded with Love's Made A Fool Out Of You, but still the after effects of my illness kept me to play the songs I have been playing for the past couple weeks.  They were rough but they did go over quite well with the small crowd and two little boys bopping on the floor.  One little boy made me smile at the way he was having fun, despite my playing Touch Of Gray, another sad song about getting older.  But I did Logic And Lies since I knew the words and didn't need the book of lyrics.

Glen returned back to the Sanctuary for the first time since coming back from Arizona and he's been busy packing up and selling things in between playing the acoustic circuit.  I'd love to go to Arizona and jam with him and the AZ musicians this summer but since I have taken too many sick and vacation days due to my pneumonia problem  I may have to wait till 2020 to do that.

The whole week, I have been playing with that fedora hat I found for 5 dollars at Target last year and put it to good use at various gigs and jams. It's gotten to the point that I can't stand seeing my hairs stand straight up and all over the place when I do play.  I can't control my hair, or what's left of it.  Last year when Sonya popped up to take photos of me and Julie, that I had about 20 of them standing up to give me the Alfalfa look and didn't care much to see them.   Used to be I wasn't a fan of wearing hats, nowadays I think I rather much have one around just in case.  Sign of the times, trying to look better on stage than the usual rumpled sweatshirt.

And forgot to take it off before I hit the stage.