Stone City/Rumors Jams 4/14/19

Rumor's Jam

Songs: (on drums)

Six Days On The Road
Nadine
Born In Chicago
Hello Josephine
Ain't No Sunshine


Al Hendricks-Lead Vocals and Guitar
Tommy Bruner-Lead guitar
Bob Gleason-Harmonica
Bird-Bass
Terry McDowell-Host Drummer
Billy Bourbon-Guitar on Ain't No Sunshine
Mike Lint-Lead Vocal on Ain't No Sunshine


Stone City Songs (Acousta Crabby)

Looking For A Woman
Go Out and Get It
My Girl
For What It's Worth

Mike Moran-Harmonica on My Girl
Steve Black Wolf, Lauren Shuster  and Lane Gaffney-Backing Vocals on My Girl
Glen Gardner- Guitar on For What It's Worth
Dave Bonham-Lead Guitar on For What It's Worth

(Glen, Bill Schlatter and Guitar Dave:  Laruen Rene Shuster took the photo)

(Dave, Bill and Glen with Acousta Crabby in the back)

(For What Its Worth, Glen and Dave help out)

Notes

It was the first time I did the Rumors jam since February and I was welcomed from the cold and onto the stage to help out Al Hendricks on his numbers.  Afterwards he smiled and said Betcha weren't ready for those songs?  He's 82 years old and tho it takes a bit of effort, he still does a good job on the songs.  I wasn't sure what he wanted for Born In Chicago, be it the Paul Butterfield stutterbeat or the typical shuffle blues and was somehow a half step ahead on that and Hello Josephine  Randy Burgendorff, bless his heart managed to coax me back into playing.  It's hard not to rush the beats on Ain't No Sunshine and somehow I managed to be on the beat.  Being away for about 10 weeks kinda got me out of practice with the guys.  Later on Mike Lint and Billy came up to do Ain't No Sunshine.  A clash in styles with Mike singing and it was probably the most aggressive of the songs I did with the guys.  In terms of theory, I didn't break much of a sweat.  I really don't need to go all out anyway, just go with the guys and not overdo things.  And not rush the beat too.  Got to say hi to Randy Cordell, haven't seen him in a while at Rumors.  Nick was there playing harmonica but on my segment Bob Gleason got the honors.  Nick has said that Judy Cady (Dusty) has been playing drums on the weeknights, when the Saturday photo from Waubeek was taken, I didn't see a drum set there.  And Judy plays in the Gamblers band at Aces N Eights on Saturday.   Ron's been quiet of late about having me play in any more gigs but I still think we'll be playing some Saturday Night.

(Steve Black Wolf and Acousta Crabby)


Originally I didn't think I would make it to Rumors' but I finished my set before 6;30 and decided to head into town.  Looking For A Woman was done again after debuting it at Whittier.   Glen usually does My Girl but today he didn't, so I did.  Mike Moran, back in town for a few days, played Harmonica out in the crowd.   Lane was manning the control boards and singing too.  So, they get credit for helping me.

Finally, I bought Glen and Dave up to help out on For What It's Worth and had Dave played a extended lead guitar at the end.   With Glen being here for six more days, I figured he should have some fun playing guitar alongside me.  There will be one more final get together before he and Lauren leaves for Arizona Saturday.  I have the night picked out.

One of my classmates, Kevin Herren was there and we exchanged hellos before he went home.  It's always fun to have classmates surprise me when I play.  It take a while for me to recognize them or they have to mention their name but once they do, I do remember them.   I may opt to do the 40th Class of 79 Reunion if I'm not playing after all.

Looking For A Woman, is done by Steve Earle and was considered to play about a year or so ago and I never gotten around to it to polish up to play.   I like the dark songs of Looking For A Woman and it's fun to sing.  But people love to sing to My Girl a bit more than Looking For A Woman.

I'm still dealing with micro-plasma that has been driving me nuts since March, but am not contagious. I still get tired fairly easy and I have to be around a bathroom and watch my walks I guess, I tried to do a bit of walking but my bowels acted up.  Last night after Whittier, I felt too tired to pay a visit to F B Company and was in bed before 1 AM once again.  The hope is trying to get back into being used to my night owl hours but my body is not having any of it.  But it will wake me up at 5 AM for a pee break and then never getting back to sleep again.

And it was one year ago, that I had to back out of the Quentin Duarte Benefit due to...getting the flu.  I'm still pissed off about that.

The Connection of the day, Steve Black Wolf and Al Hendricks both sang Six Days On The Road at the jams. Steve at Stone City, Al at Rumors.

Finally, this picture speaks volumes of not to do things on Impulse.  Lauren, Steve's wife, Steve and yours truly after five Pepsi Colas and no food which gave me that demented look and the bunny ears for Steve.  Hell, I even scare myself looking at me in this photo.  Here's hoping the Farewell to Glen Show I can at least redeem myself and get a better picture taken.  Not to be used in my E Harmony profile.