It’s a Monday night jam which tends to be our least favorite of day of the week to play but even an undesirable Moday is better than noday so Monday it is. It seems like Bayside Al will be playing the lead role for the early portion of the night but it may be core four thereafter.
I ended up shooting about 3 minutes of video and below is a bit of it. Not much to see unless you are one of the ones to be seen. So look if you must but don’t expect much. Nevertheless, youtube makes looking at worthless stuff pleasure so take a look.
While it is fairly nice outisde, the chill to the air tells us the summer is over for sure and the winter is not far behind. Never-the-matter, I’m still wearing shorts and I am sure ther air conditioning will be cranked. I’m gonna bring the camera and the video so I hopefully be able to get some shot and footage posted.
Rich is passionate about something
So I got to Carroll’s pretty early, lucky to get a spot since there was a show at Teminal 51, and Kevin was at the computer by the soda machine looking up tabs for some Metal-Talica song. For the most part we aren’t metal heads or Talicas so it never materialized. What eventually materialized were Rich and Scott followed by Al D.and JB, they have a lot of initials at the Ludlow camp. The Ludlow campers were only available to 11:00 and somehow the starswere aligned and Jason showed as they were packing up their gear. We were able to get 5 to 6 songs with Jason before the midnight hour came upon us. Scott Bayer was there for a few songs and we did play over the cell phone to Carol.
JBs eyes match his guitar.
I think we played well and had a lot a good moments with Al and JB. We made it through a Cats Down Under the Stars pretty well and JB snag a Balland of a Thiun Man where I was able to pull off one of the better leads of my life, thanks to my effects rack and setting 151. When Jason showed up around 11:00 it gave us a bit more energy than we would typically have during the last hour of the night. That carried us throught 5 or six good songs including a Terraping, Saturday Night and a few others.
The spider I should charge rent for living in my front door.
The lineup at Carroll
So, it’s another week and I hear Al D is the lead-du-jour. Good to see him, maybe we’ll get some of that Bayside entourage going with Al. It’s always a bit freakier every time he shows up. While the jam hasn’t happened yet, get a load of the pictures of the spider that spins webs in my front door every day that I walk through every morning. I would kill it if it wasn’t so photogenic.
Halftime here at the jam eating bugles as Kevin is vending like a madman. Great stuff to post at halftime. Alan showed up with Alan on harmonica and Coffee Boy also showed. Super big sound in the room. A bit out of control.
Mitch with the blue Maple Sparkling kit
Made it home nicely. I was able to score 3 bags of primo coffee, so I’m all excited about that. Was great to see Coffee and play with him. The same will bayside Al who always kicks up the freak level a notch and then let us not forget Harmonica Al who played rhythm harmonica throughout the evening, with me trying to remember to call out the keys for him.
Scott Bayer was there for a song or two, asking us about short films. We played a China-Rider over the cell phone to Carol. We played, we hing and we ate lots of vending food. All and all a fun night a raucus activity. You knew the energy level was going to be pretty high when we opened with a lengthy Other One. There wasn’t much that was slow and easy. The Masterpiece that I atempted may have been the lowest we got.
Al posing for the shot
Harmonica Al wetting his lips
Nothing left of the jam but an empty bag of Crunch and Munch.
This was a nice surprise where both Alan and Lynn Elliot joined the rest of us (Larry, Kevin, Rich, Scott) for a nice night of Deadstein music.
my Steal Your Space book 