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Jam – 2009-10-13 Carroll’s

14 Oct 2009 3 Comments

by deadstein in Jams Tags: Carroll's, Jam, Jason, Kevin, Larry, Rich, Scott

It seemed as if we were back to a semi-normal jam this week. Jason was scheduled and psyched to play and he got there by the 2nd or 3rd song. He came in with a nice Dunkin Donut Dozen (alliteration) and by happen-chance, I brought in a thermos of coffee and it was a nice mix. We now jam like my mother plays canasta, it’s embarrassing; not quite rock and roll, but when we were ready to play we left it up to the random iSpinomatic. And the iSpinomatic spun us up a Morning Dew to play as our first song with Jason. It all worked and we pulled out one of Deadstein’s best played Morning Dews to date. Really sweet stuff. It must have been the donuts. Maybe it was the Halloween cookies Ken brought. Whatever it was, we played it very solidly and relaxed.

Ken was there, the friend of Phil the Vet who seems to really dig us. His positive vibe engages us to play it up a notch when we can. Eventually Ken’s friend, Art came in to dig us also. Besides Scott Bayer, that was the extent of our guest list, but I get the sense we are really beginning to amass a following. We have Carol on the cell-phone that feels as if she is in the room with us on the speaker phone. It’s a crazy world. When we later played Stella Blue, Art got all excited and got the idea of playing the song live to his daughter, also over the cellular network. We are such a forward looking and far reaching band, allowing our fans, known as Deadsteinheads, to transmit our shows over the cellular network. Too bad the Stella Blue’s lead was masqueraded.

Looks Like Kevin's Playboy Interview Photo Shoot

Jason was only able to play for 6-8 songs until he got pulled away. Too bad because I think we were gelling nicely. Oh well, Deadstein moves on. We got into a lot more GarBand and ended the night a few minutes early with a very unsatisfying Satisfaction. Not to worry, the bad Satisfaction was the exception and not the rule. For the most part we played well with feeling and sensitivity. We played with a pink tone for Breast Cancer Awareness month. Whatever it was, it was pretty good. Good enough to get Ken to ask Scott for his number to keep tabs on the Deadstein experience. We must be doing something right.

In the world, global warming concerns peaked during the jam as I had a tremendous case of the winds. It was advisable that Ken and Art found seats that were not behind me.

As you can see from the song list provided through Rich’s recording, we only got to 15 songs, way short of last week’s 24 songs. Anyway, it’s about quality and not quantity. To hear them all you can go to the website or just click the song below.

http://www.deadstein.com/audio/10-13-09/

Jam – 2009-10-07 – Carroll’s

08 Oct 2009 8 Comments

by deadstein in Jams Tags: Carroll's, Jam, Kevin, Larry, Rich, Scott, Wikler

It was a week that we welcomed Kevin back to the jam after missing it for 2 weeks. That’s a long time off the wagon that only a Deadstein jam can cure. Kevin came back to his normal-C from what he used to B. And felt brand new about it. So I digress.

Well Trister had to cancel at the last moment and Jason was in Colorado and Al D is in Hawaii, so it left no one but me, who was at home, to play lead. Scott was able to get Alan Wikler, of August West fame, to play the Bob guitar as I attempted to hold on to the reigns of the Jerry guitar. In many respects it was quite masturbatory for me all night as I felt I was playing with myself and in many respects I was as I heard many things in Alan that I hear in myself, that we hopefully both hear in Bob. So while Alan played the Bob guitar, he didn’t sing so I also sang the Bob parts while playing the Jerry guitar. It was a split personality I was trying to come to grips with all night. It was a cool experience. Probably the only time that I have ever played Jerry guitar where I had a person playing Bob. I think it worked well though my Jerry playing is woefully short and results in a hollow sound in the music. Nevertheless, it is fun.

I think we got lots of songs in on the night. We didn’t take too many breaks. We did have one guest, Scott Bayer to played a great 1-minute bongo boogie with Rich. I’m glad I captured it on video. A real collector’s item. We played all the way to the end with a Brokedown to cap it all off. I tried the Let it Bleed and I thought that showed some fun potential. It would be fun to do this grouping again. It was a nice peaceful calm session of Deadstein.

Look at the songlist below. Rich recorded 18 songs and I show 4 additional songs. So that is 22 and probably one or 2 others. That a plateful and quite satisfying.

Jam – 2009-09-29 – Carroll’s

01 Oct 2009 2 Comments

by deadstein in Jams Tags: Bill Siegel, Carroll's, Jam, Kevin, Larry, MCarpetsteen, Rich, Scott

Michael Carpetsteen and his Modulus

After missing a week due to Kev’s son’s Dylan broken arm, we were able to get our act together this week although still without Kevin. We all look forward to the return of Kevin and the rehab of Dylan. It looks like Kevin’s going to be able to make it next week. “How come the future’s gotta take such a long, long time?”

Without Kevin to play bass we reached out to some old time friends from the stinking mainland to the west, New Jersey. We were joined by Michael Carpetsteen on bass and vocals and Bill Siegel on keys and vocals. It was really nice seeing them and playing with them after all these years. Michael had his relatively new Modulus 4-string, semi-hollow-body bass guitar. A really nice instrument. Jason also joined us for the first time in weeks and he brought along a Strat of his and some type of powerful distortion box. Jason stayed until about 11:00, but it was enough for a dozen songs. or so. On the guest role we had Rob and Miriam and of course, who could forget Scott Bayer playing his deep philosophy.

We relied on the magic, random song selector to help us at time when we needed it, but for the most part, we didn’t need it. We did get 22 songs on the setlist, so we did end up playing lots of songs in the 4-hour stretch. Scott was definitely having trouble keep his eyes open by the end of the night, but we did go to 11:45. That’s what is so amazing about getting 22 songs in while even ending 15 minutes early.

If you want to listen to this week’s music go to the link below or just click the individual songs.

http://www.deadstein.com/audio/09-29-09/

Jam – 2009-09-16 – Carroll’s

17 Sep 2009 Leave a comment

by deadstein in Jams Tags: Carroll's, Jam, Kevin, Larry, Rich, Scott, Trister

Once again this week we were blessed for all that goes good in this world. Andy was able to jam with us for most of the night, there was a bountiful feeling in the room and finally, we experienced the most distracting moment that I recall since we had a “the midget” come in a Deadstein jam in the early 1990’s. During the Race is On Jam we saw this really hot blonde looking and smiling in the window. She eventually walked in a gave us 2 pizza pies and walked out shaking here beautiful tiny butt. As you can tell I’m still visualizing the distraction. The rest of the Race Is On was a well deserved mess.

Our only guest of the night, Scott Bayer, quickly scooped up the 2 pies, in actuality there were just 6 slices leftover from 2 pies, and delivered them to Carol. Out fan club at the other end of the cellular network. I assume that was out mitzvah for the night. Easy Come and Easy Go.

So we started with the Bucket which was quite mushy but we solidified more immediately following it. The loud band in Studio #1 next door was filling our sonic space with mush so I tried to freeze them out of there by turning down the thermostat in our room, which is connected to Studio #1. The result is the music stopped soon next door and it was quite cold in our studio.

It wasn’t one of those rock solid nights but we did have out moments. The Dancing in the Streets really went out there. I remember Tangled Up in Blue kept a nice groove and ended with a Crazy Jam. It was the night before Scott’s birthday so he was calling many of the songs and we got some good ones such as the Tangled Up. Andy ended the night with a mistake, If I Had the World to Give and it was over for him.

After Andy left we did lots of random JGB selections but Kevin and Scott were struggling to keep there eyes open. The song selector nicely selected a Tore Up to open the mess. We played the nice slow It Takes a Lot to Laugh and I even snuck in the Norwegian Wood. The Cats Down Under the Stars we closed with was a mess so we decided to close up shop 15 minutes early and call it another Deadstein jam.

If you want to listen to the jam go to the link below and or go directly to the songs and give them a listen. We got 17 songs in that’s okay. Actually it probably below par for 2009 where in 1997 it was probably a shit load.

http://www.deadstein.com/audio/09-16-09/

Jam – 2009-09-10 – Carroll’s

11 Sep 2009 Leave a comment

by deadstein in Jams Tags: Al D, Bayside Mitch, Carroll's, Jam, Kevin, Larry, Rich, Scott

Thursday night at Carroll’s and we were playing with the Bayside Boys, Mitchell and Alan who were sharing guitar responsibilities with me. Mitch had his newly acquired Gibson SG and Al was playing is semi-hollowbody Fern. I had my Strat, Kev had his Modulus, Scott had his drums and Rich had is Yamaha piano amplified with the non-PZM mic situated where we could close the piano lid on it. This not only made the piano sound better, but it also enabled use to keep our prized processions from sliding off the piano. Let us not forget Scott Bayer who was banging his bongos with gusto for a few songs. Where those things came from I don’t know. Scott wasn’t the only guest as we had Rob and Miriam who also stayed and partied and danced to our music. Miriam slipped me a Slim Jim since she was under the impression that I liked those things. Thanks Scott but I’ll leave it up to Rob to slip miriam the Slim Jims, Thank you very much. I’m just glad I took it out of my pocket before I went to bed last night or else I would have awoken to my dogs chewing a hole in my pocket trying to get to that Slim Jim.

Rich had a video shoot and was late by only a song. He missed the purposely easy to play first song, which I sang, but that was it. he was there for everything else. Kev, who is usually late on Thursday nights , made it there in virtually record time and beat me to the jam. We were in Studio #2 of Carroll’s following on the heals of Marshall Crenshaw who was rehearing in Studio #2 earlier in the day. While I have heard of Marshall, I have no idea who he is.

We used the iPhone quite a bit to select random songs for use to play, but I often selected the “goesinta” to following. This lead to a combo of I Know You Rider –> Hey Pocky Way and Crazy Fingers into Masterpiece. Most of those transitions were good and lead to some good playing. We had a pretty cool space jam in the Hey Pocky Way. The iPhone pushed us into a complete performed That’s It for the Other One Suite which was a nice surprise by the end of it. We ended the night with a Wake Up Little Suzie which we also did pretty well, getting through that songs in its entirety for what I recall to be the first time in decades. The iPhone told us to end the night at 11:53 with a closing Bertha, but that was rejected and ended with the good feelings the Suzie provided us. Other songs we rejected were I Wash My Hands and Oakie From Muskogie but listening to them in the PA system when the iPhone selects them was a nice feeling. Other gems were West LA Fadeaway, Looks Like Rain and few 1-4-5 songs like Johnny B. Goode and Promised Land. The rest of the setlist will arrive when Rich posts the MP3s. Until then, I await our next get together is currently tentatively scheduled for next Tuesday.

To hear the songs listen to the MP3s below:

01 Johnny B Goode.mp3

02 Crazy Fingers.mp3

03 Masterpiece.mp3

04 Friend Of The Devil.mp3

05 Jam To Pockey Way.mp3

06 Jet To The Promised Land.mp3

07 I Know You Rider.mp3

08 That’s It For The Other One.mp3

09 Looks Like Rain.mp3

10 West LA Fadeaway.mp3

11 Al De Song.mp3

12 Monkey & The Engineer.mp3

13 Deal.mp3

14 Wake Up Little Suzy.mp3

Jam – 2009-09-01 – Carroll’s

02 Sep 2009 3 Comments

by deadstein in Jams Tags: Carroll's, Jam, Kevin, Larry, Rich, Scott, Trister

Tuesday night in the city and another concert at the club next door meant parking my new Honda Fit would be difficult. That’s right, the Dodge Dakota I was so psyched about last week is no longer and the moldy white Jetta Trek I’ve been driving since before Deadstein.com is also no longer. Say good-bye to Jetta cam and hello to FitCam. Different car, same trip if you know what I mean.

So I got there at 7:45 and we were scheduled to play with Andy, for the third week in a row, but this was going to be a one drummer evening. Scott brought in his 6-7 shots of espresso and was alive and vibrant all the way through the finish line at midnight. Andy stayed to 10:38 so we had him for a good 30 minutes extra, so that’s always nice. After he left we broke out the iPhone’s random shuffler for a few Garband songs including a Gomorrah. After that, 3 of Scott’s friends came in from the show next door to experience some Hard Core-4. This included an I’ll Take a Melody, Dancing in the Street and and U.S. Blues to commemorate the passing of the summer. I’m glad I got some photos of of these three including Wanna, Shy and I forget her name but I got a hug after she removed her shoes. Wanna and Shy were living on the iPhones and seriously used them to communicate with others as opposed to me using mine to keep me entertained. I assume the were texting each other since they couldn’t hear themselves in the room. I’m glad I got a picture of them for posterity’s sake.

On that note, we played with some nice dynamics this night and had some good moments. We started slow but kept up the pace as the night wore on. Another nice night of Deadstein music. Oh, let’s not forget that Scott Bayer showed his mug in the room for half a song and called Carol to let her listen in for a song or two.

If you want to see what happened, I sat out a songs and listened to the rest of the guys play Waiting for a Miracle while I video taped it on my iPhone for posterity’s sake. I love that Japanese rice wine.

To hear what went on go to:
http://www.deadstein.com/audio/09-01-09/