Thoughts From The Townedger March Edition

The Checkers Jam have started up again.  A lot of folk showed up for the Lorie Parker/David Kirksby one but somehow turnout was less when Julie and Dave hosted theirs.  Perhaps the weather sucked but I always have noticed the when the latter does the jams there's less folks.   It will probably rebound once Carl Meiners returns from Arizona next month.   The Conservative bunch always have more people it seems than the radical liberals musicians.   I couldn't stay very long for both and I thank Lorie for letting me get ahead of the crowd and do a quick three songs and then back to the salt mines.  But I was somewhat late for returning on Julie's thing, I can only get away with so much.  I will support both jams if and when time allows.  

The Doug Case celebration of Life and jam went without any incidents, tho I had to leave Kim Bean hanging on the drums after having to get back to my significant other, only to find that she would have rather have me played the jam then come back and messed up her plans.   I still get a chuckle when Kim came up and say I could played his drum without bashing the hell out his cymbals, but I told him it's all good, I don't play that demented anymore, loss of hearing with do that.  Hell of a way to start up a friendship shall we say?  He had most of his front line cymbals, (he said having them way up high is easier on his ears and did you know that he polished them up for 3 and a half hours?  That dedication, but I like my cymbals to be on the more dirtier side.  Not sure about Paistes but Zildjian K's really do sound better when they're a bit grimy.  I'm not sure who else showed up for the jam but Daddy O McMurrin was there and Al Hendricks made a quick cameo.  And of course our favorite lush Craig Dewitte, who I enjoyed jamming with at Rumors years ago, but he doesn't seem to remember me and wanted Kim to back him up for his two songs before he went out the door.  He wrecked his brain cells years ago after drinking many a beers, perhaps if he had a case he would have known me.    It's the way of the world it seems, let's start up a band one minute, forgotten the next.    Consider the source.

It was not the first time that I got passed up by somebody,  it happened earlier in the month at Rumors when some cube ball headed dude wanted Terry to back him up and it got to the point that I couldn't hang around.  Just by showing up, I support the jam and try to keep the music alive.  I do have an ego and there will be this competition inside of me always going.  A mark of a great musician to be passed up is something of an insult.  But it comes down to whatever they can play and how I can help.  In the case of Craig Dewitte, I did feel slighted, after what we could do with Green Onions how can he forget that.  I'm sure we'll cross paths again in the near future, and probably will ignore each other since his mind don't go that far back into the past.  I'm sure if I didn't document that day, I'd forget that too.

And Bruce Stanley is still missed.