Jam – 2011-11-30 – Carroll’s | my Steal Your Space book

This Wednesday night at Deadstein we were supposed to fight the lighting of the Christmas Tree in Rockefeller Plaza. Trister, who was planning to jam with us, was about to abort, but Scott’s wise advice was to stay on the west side and Trister heeded it. As a result, traffic and parking was not an issue and we got there in plenty of time. We played with Andy for the first two-thirds of the jam.

When jamming with a great resource like Andy you don’t want to waste any opportunities, so I decided to start the night with a jammy beginning to get us going before we can begin to doubt ourselves. I think the Uncle Johns –> Playing –>Uncle Johns sent us toward this direction. Andy tried to reverse the ship with the Rosa Lee McFall, but Deadstein would have nothing of it. After almost being deep-sixed after a couple of false starts, Andy pointed out a structural issue in the song write-up we agreed and thereafter we were good to go. It was one of those situations where communication within Deadstein actually worked.

We started the Tristerless portion of the jam around 11pm. We wanted to try our quick in-and-out- song strategy to keep us moving toward the end of the night so the Beat It on Down the Line on 11 at 11 was the choice. Being the last day and hours in November (11) in 2011 we decided to keep the eleven theme going. This resulted in a very rust attempt at the St. Stephen –> Eleven but a cool trip nevertheless. Midnight Hour should have been the closer at about 12 but I could afford the risk of losing momentum at that moment by having anyone turn a page in the book so I opted for the Not Fade Away to Close. A good evening of Deadstein and we made it up to the finish-line better than we had in the previous several week, so that was a good thing.

Next week we play on Monday and fight traffic and parking that is going to be brought on by Snoop-Dog playing at Terminal 5. Being December 12/52011, it will be the 40th anniversary of the Dead playing down the street at the Felt Forum, one of the great shows of all time. That is going to be out focus for then.

In the meantime, if you ant to hear what we did this night listen to the MP3s provided below:

http://www.deadstein.com/audio/11-30-11/