Jam – 2010-12-14 – Carroll’s

15 Dec 2010 Leave a comment

by deadstein in Jams Tags: , , , , , , ,

It was good to be back as a 5-man band with the addition of Jeff Blues to round out the crowd.  Before Jeff got there we decided to once again try a revised version of the Beatles Abbey Road medley.  It was better this week than last week and should get better and better the more we play it. It’s a good time to play that piece of music.  Fresh off is Fab Faux experience next door at Terminal-5, Scott was in a Beatles mood and it was good to attempt it early in the night.   Before we did the medley, we warmed up with Lied and Cheated which was a good warm up choice.  After we finished the medley with a fully blown The End, Jeff joined us and we hopped into a Feel Like a Stranger to start the silky, silky, crazy night. We later played She Belongs to Me at Jeff’s request which is one his new favorites as he has been exposed to many new songs since playing with us.

We played fairly solidly through most of the night. Only during the Morning Dew right at the end of the night did we really begin to fall apart.  I played bass for a couple of songs (You Win Again and It Takes A Lot to Laugh) while Kevin was attending a phone call.  We did 5 or 6 Beatles songs after the Morning Dew in about 15 minutes and their simplicity and requirement to pay attention woke us up to perform these with a little proficiency.  It was a good was to end the night. Out into the freezing cold we went.

To hear what we did,go to the links below:

http://www.deadstein.com/audio/12-14-10/

By the way, Scott’s been doing  yeoman’s work capturing concerts and he’s got some great stuff from his recent Fab Faux show, check it out below and subscribe to his channel.

Jam – 2010-12-08 – Carroll’s

10 Dec 2010 1 Comment

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This week was a” Core-4″ jam as Alan was away and missed as he was attending to family matters.  Even at “Core-4”, we had trouble achieving that as Rich was at “woik,” which is different than “work,” in that you actually get paid for “work” as he says; anyway, there will be a cool new project that Rich has been “woiking” on coming out for all of us to see. He did eventually show up about an hour into the jam as we were starting to play a Victim or the Crime. Scott Bayer was our only guest for the night in addition to Carol on the celluar phone.

With Rich not getting there until nine and change we started the Oui-Three segment.  It started with a blow through the Abbey Road medley that I charted out this previous week.  I was playing both piano and guitar at parts with Kevin and Scott and it was a disaster as one would expect at that moment.  What it did do for us was prepare us for when we did the Abbey Road medley at the end of the night.  With Rich singing and playing piano and me focusing on guitar, the medley sounded good.  It was fun and inspiring at that moment; more fun than a Day Job.

It will be good to have the whole band back together next week  but for the record we played the following.

http://www.deadstein.com/audio/12-08-10/

Jam – 2010-11-30 – Carroll’s

01 Dec 2010 2 Comments

by deadstein in Jams Tags: , , , , , ,

This week was another tough week to get the entire gang together and we could not pull it off.  With Scott looking at potentially missing three weeks in a row, we moved the jam to Tuesday to suite his schedule.  On the short end of the stick was Rich who couldn’t make it on Tuesday.  For the first time in quite a while we played without Rich and had no keyboard substitute.  This had a whole host of implications including an evening without a recording since Rich is the one with the mics and MP3 recorder.  Additionally, since Rich and I split most of the lead vocal duties these days, it meant I was singing lead on every song.  Not a great prospect for anyone involved. While this gave me the opportunity to sing songs I never never sing, I also gave me the reminder not to select songs I don’t sing.  The Row Jimmy early in the night was such a slap in the face once I realized I couldn’t sing, play and read the music all at one time.

At least we did have one substitute and guest for the night who was Jeff Blues with his new 2009 Gibson 335.  He also brought his Strat to switch on and off with but Jeff was just trying to tune in a sound for his new guitar though he still seems more comfortable with his trusty-old Strat.  Thats rights we had the southern blues thing going on with three guitars but it was still a good time.  Since we did have recordings it was tough to remember what we played by below is the setlist as best I can remember.

Sugaree
Row Jimmy
Little Red Rooster
Positively 4th Street
After Midnight
Thrill is Gone
Pretty Peggy-O
Looks Like Rain

It’s All Over Now
Comfortably Numb
She Belongs to Me
Like a Road
Touch of Grey
Dear Mr. Fantasy
Quinn the Eskimo

Next weeks will prove to be a totally opposite experience, so I am guessing, so to keep you all guessing out there on virtual freaky-highway, tune in, same freak-time, same freak-channel.

Jam – 2010-11-22 – Carroll’s

23 Nov 2010 3 Comments

by deadstein in Jams Tags: , , , , , ,

This week was the always difficult Thanksgiving week in which to squeeze a jam out.  It’s like taking a dump after eating too much Thanksgiving stuffing and potatoes without salad and asparagus, if you get me drift.  With the Allman Brothers at the Roseland, we knew Scott was not going to be around for the second week in a row.  Not to fret, pardon that drummer joke, we were able to get Bayside Russell in to do the proverbial squeeze and fill the throne.  I personally hadn’t done that since that  morning, but that’s my own sickness. Russell did a great job drumming, he really gives us an authentic Dead drumming attitude.

Kevin was back in the saddle and ready to jam and was quite bummed that he got saddle sores from the not well done Been All Around the World.  I think we made it up with a pretty good rendition of the Cats directly thereafter.  Hot off a version by Further at the Garden the night before, we did the full Weather Report Suite, sans the prelude.  I recall a real nice transition into the Let it Grow which was exciting and worked more smoothly than any other one I was a part of, so. kudos to everyone.

Next Time You See Me was nice when Alan broke out the harp. That’s harmonica for all you noobs out there, I mean “new-bes” for all you non-geeks out there.  Back to the harp, I’m never ready for it, don’t have it on my mind, but there it is, shocking me every time I hear it. The sound of it brings me back to those old tapes and Pigpen versions.  Cool stuff and he plays it so it sounds right on.  At that moment, the harmonica is the most authentic sounding instrument in the room.  Okay enough droning on about droning on.  I won’t drone no more, maybe that’s I will drone no more.  How about, I won’t drone more? So give it listen at the links below, enjoy the Thanksgiving and get set for some joyous Deadstein fun closing out the rest of 2010.

http://www.deadstein.com/audio/11-22-10/

2010-11-21 Furthur at Madison Square Garden

22 Nov 2010 1 Comment

by lgindoff in Concert, Grateful Dead Tags: ,

I don’t see to many concerts, especially Grateful Dead legacy ones, but my brother Jay got me a ticket to Sunday night’s Furthur show at the Garden, so off I went.  Bruce and I had an easy trip into the city, met Jay for dinner and a couple of beers, and into the Garden we went.  Amazingly enough, we had seats in section 325, row D at the center court, that were Jay’s exact season ticket seats for the Rangers.

The city was tame and so was the Garden in that nothing was sold out or crowded.  Things were in control and civilized. The Garden was half empty but it doesn’t matter, the band it there to play and make music, not to exhilarate the audience.  Everything was working as it was supposed to in 2010.  The band and the lights were right on and modern.  The music has developed into a more sophisticated brand of music that ties together the worlds of the past and the future. Enough of an homage to classic Grateful Dead while providing enough freedom to explore new and future realms.  At times they left us behind in their crazy style of music, but the band kept me as a fan in their rear-view mirror never running too away from me. Always letting catching up with the at the proverbial red light which is a new song, which are few and far between.

Below is the set list and a few notes on reach.

Set 1

  • Truckin’> Disappointed when they did it, vocally seemed meager but jam afterwards was great.  Made me realized the bass/keys stuff going on could be really out there in a very in there type of way.  Impressively and seamlessly switched keys from Truckin’ to Cumberland.
  • Cumberland Blues>
  • Any Road
  • Viola Lee Blues Surprisingly now as out there as one would think which made it hotter
  • Cassidy
  • Eyes of the World >
  • So Many Roads >  Really well sung
  • Going Down The Road Feeling Bad

Set 2: Better than the first set

  • Born Cross-Eyed > It’s embarrassing I thought it was a new Bob song
  • The Wheel > Really well sung and powerful
  • Weather Report Prelude > Part 1 >  Really well done
  • Time > Breathe (reprise) > Powerful and well sung
  • Let It Grow >  This was really hot
  • Unbroken Chain >
  • Morning Dew > This was really well done, they did Jerry and the Garden proud.
  • Playin’ In The Band Thought they would have stopped at the Morning Dew this seemed like a nice added bonus
  • Donor Rap
  • E: Brokedown Palace – Sweetly sung by Bob and had a great lead, nice encore

It took some pictures during the show and they aren’t good but if you want to look at them, take a look.  I haven’t figured out the concert photo thing yet but I am still trying.  Another cool thing is that I was able to stream video during the show via U-Stream and I had 2 viewers including Scott Gibson, so I believe.

http://fidogenic.smugmug.com/Music/2010-11-21-Furthur-at-Madison/14763611_equHV

Scott went to the show the night before and below are a couple of the videos he shot on Saturday night.

[Youtube = http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjfMXMeGHeY]

[Youtube = http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8zOKvbtidg]

Jam – 2010-11-17 – Carroll’s

18 Nov 2010 2 Comments

by deadstein in Jams Tags: , , , , , , , ,

This was a strange night for Deadstein. For the first time that I remember, we actually had two drummers playing on and off with neither one them being Scott, who happened to be at the Radiators concert and wasn’t playing with us this week.
We had both Bill Sloan and Russell M who both Rich and Alan new from previous bands. In addition, we had Jeff Blues blues rocking out on his variety of cool old guitars.  He brought a giant bag of chocolate covered almonds for us to munch on.

It all sounded really well  throughout the night. When it came to quitting, we didn’t seem to want to, as we played well past our 12 o’clock stop time.   As far as guests, besides these three guest musicians, we didn’t have any. Ironically, with all the drummers we had for the night,the evening started with me playing drums using my hands during the Big Boss Man. I then borrowed a pair of sticks from Alan of Caroll’s and started playing the Deep Elem Blues and that is when Bill walked into the studio. I tried to pull off the seamless switch from drumming to the new drummer in the middle of the song but to no avail. Nevertheless, we finished off the Deep Elem Blues in its entirety with Bill drumming.

Bill played the first set for five or six songs, maybe even seven, songs. I guess I’ll see when the MP3s get posted. We then switched and had Russell play the second set and that was also fun and good. We granted him the setlist he requested prior to the jam including Scarlet, Fire, Playing, Other One Death Don’t Have No Mercy and Sugar Magnolia. Fun and exciting stuff. The Death was one of the highlights of the night where we displayed some nice dynamics.

We continued with the third set with Bill on drums and we did some big stuff there also including an Estimated, Eyes with the entire ending jam that ended with a big D minor jam that we didn’t seem to want to end and fortunately Alan figured out how to lead us into the closing of Playing in the Band.  We finished the around 12:30.  Hopefully we can piece together a jam for the always difficult Thanksgiving week.

For the MP3s of the night go to:

http://www.deadstein.com/audio/11-17-10/

 

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