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Jam – 2010-11-11 – Carroll’s

12 Nov 2010 Leave a comment

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

It is 11/11/2010, that’s a lot of ones, one two and two nothings. It was also Veterans Day so we salute those who secure our freedom to do the vodoo which we don’t do so well, but we vodoo it. This night we had a very special guest in Kevin’s oldest friend and original Lemons band member, Gene Foreman.

Gene came with a friend of his Ken and they stayed for about an hour or so and Gene belted out a handful of songs with us. This was a challenge for us as none of them were in our repertoire. The important thing is we gave it the old Lemons try and had a great time with it. Having Gene there afforded us the luxury to try somethings we could have never attempted; Led Zeppelin’s Going to California is such an example. Let’s not forget Bowie’s Changes which started the whole fiasco.

For the second week in a row, Kevin came with his Uncle Patty and this time had the perfect amount for everyone. Couple Uncle Patty with the Limeys Scott had and we a a delicious combination that had tho be tempered. Uncle Patty was a nice change of pace. Closing thoughts can only be Bayer the guest (welcomed?) and his bongo. Oh’ Vey! Speaking of which, Rich was way under the weather hopefully he kicks that colds butt soon enough.

To hear the MP3s from the night go to the links below:

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

Jam – 2010-11-03 – Carroll’s

06 Nov 2010 4 Comments

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

Wednesday night jam and the core-4 showed up first and got a Stop That Train in. Kevin came in with a nice portable bar, cooler filled with ice, cups and a little bottle of Patron which he shared with us all to the point that there wasn’t enough to get even a single-coiled pickup buzzed. Trister then arrived and played with us for a good chunk of the night . He taught us Big Six, a Nelson Hunter New Rider’s tune and I think we did pretty well on that. Alan walked in as we were playing the Big Six and then we were the bog six for the next couple of hours. We did some good playing in this stretch.

Eventually, Andy left and Deadstein was back to a five-man band where we did a little JGB and Beatles. That eventually struck a raw nerve in Scott and he was relinquishing his drum sticks. We then played the Norwegian Wood without a drummer and I finished the night drumming on Taxman and Money. I’m sure it wasn’t pretty but I had a blast drumming. I don’t recall any guests which I guess is good as we got the $200 a$$hole damage bill from Carroll’s and the divider in the bathroom was reinstalled. Was a fun night of Deadstein, I hope Scott’s nerves get better and better and look to see and hear everyone on the frreak-bound.

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If you want to hear what we played, go to the links to MP3s below:

http://www.deadstein.com/audio/11-03-10/

Jam – 2010-10-25 – Carroll’s

28 Oct 2010 1 Comment

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

We had the 5 of jamming again together this week. Some news includes Chris, the tech manager who was so cool to us over the years is leaving Carroll’s until spring in order to pursue a big band ambition. He’s forming his own big band to see where it will go. We gave him a Deadstein invite to jam with us any time he wanted to and he seemed pretty excited about the prospects of that. We will miss him and hope he takes us up on our invitation. Alan left before the final push to take care of some family business and during that time we did a little Beatles thing into the end of the night. Scott did really well playing through the end of the night but Kevin had a little trouble.

As far as guests, we had Scott Bayer and his decrepit bongos. Rob and Miriam surprised us and showed up and accompanied a guy Neal who they picked up at a bar earlier in the evening. He is a wine merchant in Jersey City and seemed to enjoy our groove. Another first for Deadstein was playing music for two people over the cellular network , both Carol and Steele. That was pretty cool.

To hear the music from the night go to the links below:

http://www.deadstein.com/audio/10-26-10/

Jam – 2010-10-20 – Carroll’s

22 Oct 2010 1 Comment

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

For the beginning of our 3rd decade of Deadstein it was good to get back to some modern, 5-man Deadstein jamming. Rumors of guests showing were just rumors and we just barreled through a night of standard Deadstein music.

We played some nice older songs that we rarely play including the Doin’ That Rag, Mountain of the Moon into Dark Star. We had some nice authentic jams in this segment of music. The late set began with a Help on the Way which concluded where Scott and I fooled everyone and pulled out the old Deadstein classic Help Slip Estimated. It was pretty smooth and the Estimated felt pretty comfortable. We closed the night playing the Casey Jones to celebrate Scott’s recent big sale. Great to have the Deadstein “pos” back in motion. Freak-Out!

To see a little of it, actually it is just kevin turning up his levels and Rich tinkling, Mr. Ed style.

To hear the music played, click the links below:

http://www.deadstein.com/audio/10-21-10/

Jam – 2010-10-13 – Carroll’s

14 Oct 2010 4 Comments

by deadstein in Jams Tags: Bayside Russ, Carroll's, Jam, JeffBlues, Kevin, Larry, LLBrent, Rich, Scott

This was a pretty momentous week of Deadstein as it celebrated the 20th anniversary of Deadstein’s first jam on October 9, 1990. For the occasion we had Larry Brent, Deadstein’s original lead guitarist, back in his lead seat. It really was a surrealistic experience playing with Larry again and thinking back to those jams now spanning two decades ago.

There were too many guests to name them all and probably the only ones I knew were Ken and Stu as well as Michael. We also had Jeff, who played with us last week play with us this week who came with his friend and connection to us, Peter. The rest of the peanut gallery was suspect and Alan probably picked the right week not to show. There was a lot of guitar going on and a lot of mischief. One off those assholes probably tore down part of the bathroom and will be a neg-black eyed on Deadstein’s steal your face.

I mentioned that Jeff was jamming with us and last week we geared our setlist toward his style. This week, celebrating the 20 years, we had no such mercy. We decided to play the entire setlist that we played 20 years ago which was big and meaty. Even when Rich asked for some mercy on the setlist for a You Win Again, I also had no mercy. I was determined to finish the setlist from 20 years ago. It took us until 12:15, but we did it all the way through the Going Down the Road. It was a good thing Russ was there to help out with the drums because I don’t think Scott would have made it all the way through on his own, but this week, Scott was going strong at the closing. It was a big night of music and scop only to end with the neg-scop of the bathroom incident. WTF.

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

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

Anyway, look forward to another 20 years of jamming, the first 20 was a life saver and we will all need a life saver for the next 20. It all starts next week unless we have been kicked out of Carroll’s. Whose friend was that bozo

Jam – 2010-10-05 – Carroll’s

08 Oct 2010 5 Comments

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

During the day of this jam Scott sent out an email about some friend of a friend of his who wanted to stop by and play a little guitar with us. His name was Jeff and he played blues guitar and so in Deadstein fashion we welcome him with open arms and there he was. Showing up slinging a worn-out ’82 Straocaster in one arm and a golden Washburn, I guess, it had a “W” on the headstock, Les Paul clone. Actually, Jeff play sweet and bluesy/rocky. He was quite and and definitely spoke an articulate language I didn’t quite converse in. He really did rock.

This gave Alan a chance to break out a little harmonica playing as that added a real nice tonality to the blues that was going on. Was a nice new sound to Deadstein for the evening. As far as guest we had Scott Bayer and someone who looked like his step brother / father, where to the grow people like this? The guy’s name was Norm, I think. They were quite the duo. Scott did bongo away for a song or two. Additionally, I ended up playing drums on the last 3 of 4 songs (Big Boss Man, Hard to Handle and Morning Dew) as Scott petered out by the end in a big way. I couldn’t complete it the drumming with the Good Lovin’ as I just couldn’t pull that and that forced Scott to get back into his taintable throne and play the Good Lovin’. That was a good wake up call for him as a way to send him home out of Deadstein land.