Rumors-Idol Threats

Songs:

Gold Dust Woman

Dreams

Drift Away

Me N Bobby McGee

Kat Blue-Vocals

Donna Jo-Percussion and vocals

Billy Bourbon-Lead Guitar

Tommy Bruner-Lead Guitar

Ed Butler-Bass

R. Smith-Drums

Terry McDowell and Tim Canfield Hosts

(Mr. Idol via way of Ken Smith) 

Billy Idol was in town tonight so the thought was that there wouldn't be many jammers, but 7 drummers showed up to play (all after six o clock). Last week, Terry seemed to be the only drummer, this week he didn't have to worry about playing.

Prior before the jam I did a New Bo walk about the area and discovered a shaker of salt in the ground. I returned it to the Gaucho table, but somehow it connected with Margaritaville song.  To which Russ Gracklin continued to lament of his lost shaker of salt.  Perhaps I should have taken it to Rumors to present to him.  That would have been a funny.  Guess which song he was playing when I walked into the bart.

Ed Butler did guitar and entertained folk with his songs of oddball. Ode To Billy Joe, Battle Of New Orleans, Stairway to Gilligan's Island and of course his wonderful destruction of Wicked Game. and D'yer Maker, Bob Miller played drums.  Terry gave me the choice to perform with Ed or wait till Kimberly got on stage, but I told him whatever he wanted to do was fine with me.  Kimberly did her songs of note.

The jam went over past eight oclock, what got done in, was a short break that turned into a thirty five minute break.  At that time, we didn't have Rick Wengle, Birthday boy Mike Lint and DJ Hovenstot in the house.  In defense, nobody thought it would get busy, due to Billy Idol being in town.

Herman got to play a while with Randy Swift but he had no swing to his shuffle and got lost in the shuffle on a blues shuffle.  Seems like while the band playing was like from Venus, while his drumming sounded like he was from Uranus.  Bob was like that with the eccentric Ed on guitar and playing Dyer Maker.  Perhaps I should have played instead, but I know if Bob knew the songs he would worked out great too.  It was the third straight week that Ed and I followed each other to the jams in the past three weeks.  Nobody mentioned who was hosting the Stone City open mic, so I went into town instead.  Nothing out of the ordinary on my drum playing, just to the beat and to the point, tho I did messed around with a tom beat to Gold Dust Woman.  There was more tom accents to Gold Dust and Dreams and leaving Tommy Bruner to start the latter song.  If I do the Fleetwood drum roll intro, it throws everybody off a half beat.  

Mike Bear Clair and Renee and family did a four song acoustic set during break number 2.

Kimberley Hovenstot sang Already Gone and amazed people along the way.  I knew she did sing Karaoke from time to time but she did fine.  DJ Hovenstot backed her up on drums with Bear, Mark Awad, Billy Bourbon and Tommy Bruner in tow.

Next week, I take a break from the Rumor's jam and Stone City to help Kat Blue and the No Limits band in Homestead.  Temps will be in the 90s, just like it was in Monticello last weekend.   I will have to break a fan and a couple towels and a couple shirts along the way.  

And shorts.   

As of Monday, the salt shaker was still on the table at Gauchos'

Charles Connor....I never knew who this guy was but he was the drummer on the Specialty Recordings of Little Richard.  I've seen him in the old movies like Don't Knock The Rock, but it is his chugging train beat shuffle that drives Lucille and Good Golly Miss Molly.  He also drummed for Sam Cooke and James Brown, who always seem to get the most funky drummers in his band at some time.  He was a lefty but still a fine drummer who influenced me just like Earl Palmer did.  I need to put him in my top 100 drummers of all time.