Rumors 6/13/21 Jam

Songs played

Gimme Shelter

Willin'

Kansas City
Hey Bartender

Redneck Mother

Today I Started Loving You Again

Rodeo Song

Suspicious Minds

Elvis Has Left The Building

Billy Bourbon-Guitar and vocals

Tommy Bruner-Sing lead on Gimme Shelter, guitars.

Dan Johnson-Bass

Jeff Taylor-Keyboard and lead vocal on Hey Bartender

Morris-Guitar

Terry McDowell-Host

Rodney Smith-Drummer for the final 8 songs

Nick Lnenicka played Harmonica from time to time

Rocky Burmeister played harp on Kansas City.

(Paris Iowa, Wapsipinicon River and the final destination of our kayak trip)

Julie and myself went kayaking today On the Wapsipinicon River, started somewhere outside of Troy Mills and ending next to the Paris Bridge, where a lot of teens were blasting rap music and jumping off the bridge.  Not exactly a good idea, the Wapsi is only four and half feet deep.  I never went kayaking before, and Julie was talking how fun it would be.   With her friend Rick in town, we decided to do this.  It took about three and half hours to maneuver the river and I did panic at the start but thankfully I managed to keep my cool and finally overcome such things as sandbars, fallen old trees and a hot but not humid sun..  And seen a lot of cool butterflies as dragonflies hitched a ride on the kayak  Even with sunscreen, my legs and arms are sunburned. 

Julie had a bit too much sun  and hurt her back so I took her home and picked up weeds as she watered her garden.  But she wasn't happy with me, so  I figured to quit while I was behind. And after a while, I bid her goodbye and head to Rumors to hang out.  A small crowd and smaller jammers, I came up after Rocky blew his voice out on Roadhouse Blues and Born To Be Wild.  Highlights included a crazed Gimme Shelter which was part Stones and part Grand Funk Railroad.  I got a bit wild but stayed in the confines of Dan's bass riffs.  Jeff Taylor went keyboard crazy on Hey Bartender which started out with me messing around with the high hat accents to the start of the song and Jeff followed suit.  Quite a few slow numbers from Billy, Willin' went pretty good but he discovered the infamous Rodeo song which I never played before, nor Today I Started Loving You Again, to which I ended with a double bass petal beatdown.  And concluded with Suspicious Minds, the old Elvis Presley song, which I also didn't play at all before.  

Over all, a end to a long and busy week.  And a decent sunday funday jam to boot.