Blues Rox At Checkers

What goes wrong, will go wrong.

I haven't been the same since my bone spur in the shoulder issues and setting up the drums before, really wore me out.  Nothing like having somebody stabbing you in the heart about 100 times.  So I stumbled upon a pointless drum solo to Wipe Out, to which Kristopher's mom was long gone by then.   Kris had a bad chord and it shorted on him during the second set.

Not much to say about this performance.  By the time Kris got a better chord, we were ten minutes away from concluding this gig.  Another try at Texas Flood, Leave My Woman Alone before throwing in the towel with a tossed off Your Momma Don't Dance.  

Julie and Dave were there, so was Rick Wingle and Scotty Bascom and Russ's Brother Ron with Matthew Russell. and Virginia Harlow too, she was there from the start.  Ron took the photos provided.

Russ was a hurry to get to his Cancun vacation that he forgot to take his bass guitar home. But I got it back into his procession when I was going home. 

(Kristopher's Mom took this photo) 

Due to technical difficulties, we didn't play Free Bird, nor Voodoo Chile, had we played the latter, it would have been the first time we played it in over a year.  having Kris play through the monitor didn't help much, in fact it hampered him on the final set.  We might have done the worst version of Rocky Mountain Way ever.  Can't Get Enough wasn't an improvement either.  The problem remains that if Brian sings these songs, it sounds like he hasn't played them since our last gig.  There was a disagreement on the chords to Rocky Mountain Way, and Russ might have picked up on that. Another problem was that Russ' bass was overpowering of trying to follow Kristopher.  Last month, when Chris Avey sat in, we were at our best.  This gig, showed us at our worst, tho we did rebounded with two blues songs and the odious Your Momma Don't Dance.  But nobody danced to our songs tonight.  We were out of it and it showed. 

Cymbal lineup:

20 Inch A Sizzle Ride

16 Inch S Trash Crash 

18 Inch A Medium Thin Crash (Brillant)

18 Inch K Custom Dark Crash

14 Inch K Dark Crash (Top), I4 Inch K Custom Trash (Bottom) for Hi Hats

The 18 inch Custom Dark Crash made its debut and it sounded at home better than the Medium Thin Crash.  For a budget priced cymbal, the S Trash Crash still sounds mighty good as a China sound cymbal, I think this compares to Charlie Watts' FPIP China cymbal, tho Charlie usually mixes and matches other cymbals.  I still go with either a all Zildjian or all Paiste cymbal.  The guys would love to see the 24 inch A Ride return and I'm thinking perhaps they'll get that wish at the Artisan next month. 

We did do a good version of The Sky Is Crying earlier in the evening which can be found somewhere on the net, but I'm still not that impressed in the way that I played that song.