Jam – 2010-06-30 – Carroll’s

01 Jul 2010 8 Comments

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What a nice night a Carroll’s we had tonight as we had the return of Terez after several years of not jamming with Deadstein.  The impressive thing is that we seemed to be able to play all her songs and that she was able to lead Deadstein through and entire night of  music.  I think we played the stuff well and in many respects it could have been our best Terez music to date.  One could only imagine how much better it could be  if we did it more than once every 4 years.  It was a lot of songs considering.

We had al sorts of speaker PA issues early in the evening but those were ironed out and it sounded pretty good.  We played relatively softly and dynamically so it was some good sounding stuff.  There was a hodge-podge of recordings since Rich’s MP3 recorder lost it’s charge.  Some of the music was recorded on my iPhone and some on video tape.  Scott Bayer was there to video the Come Together and the video was also used to record some of the songs while Rich was desperately trying to charge his MP3 recorder in the meantime.  At least we got some YouTube.

To listen to most of the songs from the night go to the following ink or just click the MP3s below:

http://www.deadstein.com/audio/06-30-10/

Jam – 2010-06-17 – Carroll’s

18 Jun 2010 6 Comments

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Late in the week Thursday night jam meant we were weak from the grind of the week and the lure of the weekend wasn’t enough to excite the jam into overdrive. In addition, we had no guests so we had nothing to play for except ourselves. As I said, we had nothing to play for. Kev, was late as he typically is for a Thursday night jam so Scott played with my iPad art program and created this week’s artwork. Well done.

The music of the night is available from:
http://www.deadstein.com/audio/06-17-10/

Jam – 2010-06-09 – Carroll’s

12 Jun 2010 7 Comments

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Wednesday night jam and I thought we played better than the previous week and it felt pretty good for much of the night.  We had a few guests who stayed, listened and enjoyed, so they helped prop u our spirits and playing.  The guests included Ken Levin and his buddy Rob as well as the other Ken who came baring pizza’s for us all.

Thanks to Rich and his recording, we have the setlist below with the MP3s available. for your so-called listening pleasure.

http://www.deadstein.com/audio/06-09-10/

Joint Dragons 2010-06-04 – Carroll’s

05 Jun 2010 Leave a comment

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On this rare Friday night Rich organized a reunion jam of his old time band the Joint Dragon Travel Agency.  This was a 20-year or so reunion of Chris Law on Bass, Marc Sugarman on drums and Rich on piano.  They haven’t been together for a long time so it was a nice treat for me, playing rhythm and Bil, who jams with Chris playing lead on some of our favorite Dead songs, and a couple of Brotman originals, 33rd Street Blues and some other love song and they were probably the best versions yet played of those songs.  I think I have played those two before.

Being a Friday night, there was a slew of traffic getting into the city but I got there just after 8:00 and we got going by about 8:30.  I guess we will see the song list when Rich gets it uploaded.  There was some good, some bad, but fun and jamming nevertheless.  Low points were probably Dark Hollow and Mama Tried but highlights included the Samson, Eyes, Not Fade Going Down Not Fade Combo.  The room never seemed to cool down to a cod level and we were struggling not to break a sweat.  I had a good time, nice meeting those guys and paying with another bunch of peeps.  Heard an inspiring dog story from Chris about his dogs long-term survival with cancer and we all seemed to share stories and pictures of our dogs.  Speaking of which, I had to get up at 6:30 to get to a dog agility trial with Scraps the Dog.  I’m proud to say he went 5 for 5 and qualified on each course he ran.  He has never done that before and this was at a more advanced level than beginner, so that pretty good and worth waking up for.  Check out http://ScrapsRags.Wordpress.com for more info on that.

To listen to the music from the night, click on the songs below.

Jam – 2010-06-01 – Carroll’s

03 Jun 2010 4 Comments

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This was a week where we had a bunch of problems and the music probably displayed our issues.  First of all we were like amplifier whores this week, blowing any PA we could get our mouths on.   We went through 1 PA, 2 amps and probably could have easily blown the 3rd replacement PA if we didn’t show a little restraint.  There was something wrong in the room this week.  Maybe it was Liza Minelli who rehearsed at Carroll’s earlier in the day.  It was a tough day, all of 55th Street was a Tow-Away-Zone due to paving and lo-and-behold, when we left there was actual paving going on, so if someone did park on 55th, they would have been towed.  When not getting towed is the best part of the night you know the jam has issues.

We got through the jam somehow, even though Alan left a little early to leave us to our own devices, which I can’t blame him for, there was obviously nothing worthwhile going to happen in the room that night. It was going downhill pretty quickly from the get-go.  A good thing is we had Rob and Miriam join us so at least we had some happy guests other than the ubiquitous and babbling Scott Bayer.

If you want to hear the music, and I suggest everyone avoid this week, it is at:
http://www.deadstein.com/audio/06-01-10/

Jam – 2010-05-25 – Carroll’s

27 May 2010 5 Comments

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This was a week that we jammed in the big studio with the Live-Five setup including Alan on rhythm, me on lead, Rich, Kevin, who is still using the Roland dual amp set up and Scott on drums.  Kevin has new round-wound strings on his bass, may be they were flat-wound, I forget, but they were new strings.   We did the Here Comes Sunshine into Bertha to start the evening and I thought Kevin with his new string was right there and on his game.  That only lasted so long.  Eventually during the big Estimated ->Eyes combo I notice Kevin slipping into oblivion and decided to end the Eyes of the World with a straight forward rocking Not Fade Away à Going Down the Road.  It may have worked a little but playing after that whole combo seemed a bit more laborious despite the Jolt gum Kevin was chewing.  The other big combo we did was the Help Slip Franklins which had its moments both up and down.

With it being Bob Dylan’s birthday, we attempted to end the evening with a Like a Rolling Stone which was not very good.  We also did a Good Morning Little School Girl in the 1st set where Rich instructed us to jam in A during the middle of the song jam.  After the song was over Rich was quite dismayed as he heard Kevin playing the song structure in his head in opposition to his previous instructions.  To be honest with you I don’t think I heard Kevin playing the 4 or the 5 to the A jam so I guess we will have to wait for the recordings to hear what really went on.

We also did a bit of a Beatle segment in the middle of the night which was highlighted by the Savoy Truffle.  The Here There Everywhere wasn’t too good.  Finally, there was only the lone Scott Bayer as our guest for the night who was pounding the skins on the bongos during a song or two.  Until we freak out again next week, Freak Out and enjoy the holiday week-end.

If you want to hear the tunes from the night, go to the following folder, or just click and pay the song.

http://www.deadstein.com/audio/05-25-10/

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