Jam – 2013-10-07 – Carroll’s

07 Oct 2013 Leave a comment

by lgindoff in Jams, Recording Tags: , , , , , , ,

ds131007With Scott on a sojourn in Italy, it looks like Lee is our solo drummer for two weeks until Scott returns. This certainly makes it easier on me to setup the recording of the band as I do not have to place microphones all around Scott’s kit. Besides Scott missing, we had the whole band in tow including Donna for the first set, who left us to our own devices after departing to a Truckin’. We had no guests on this Monday night.

While I was setup to record and everything seemed to be working perfectly, the recording session doesn’t work unless you actually hit the record button. Unfortunately, I missed capturing the first two songs of the night, Slow Train Coming and Scarlet Begonias, due to my failure to implement the pressing of the record button sequence. This left the recordings to begin with the Women are Smarter, the 3rd song of the night.

The Candyman that followed was our first where Donna sang lead vocals and it was commented that this Candyman was one of Deadstein’s best versions. Rich described some of the songs as having better than usual texture, even if some of the grooves were misplaced and off. Second That Emotion had such a texture. The Help on the Way was a bit straining but in the end we salvaged something in the final MP3. Somehow, the end of the evening was strong with a pretty assertive Valerie and closing with an opener, the Mississippi Halfstep. Considering this October 7 represented Deastein completing its 23rd year of freakin jamming since commencing on October 9, 1990 and our next jam on October 14 will begin the 24th year of Deadstein, closing with an opener only seemed appropriate. I can’t wait to see what the next 23 year will bring us. Wow, I guess it’s time to Freak Out!

The audio files are provided in the following folder:
http://deadstein.com/audio/10-07-13

Jam – 2013-10-01 – Carroll’s

01 Oct 2013 Leave a comment

by lgindoff in Jams, Recording Tags: , , , , , , , ,

ds131001It was another multi-track evening with Deadstein. The whole band was together including Donna for the first set. We had no guests. Carroll’s didn’t even haven us in their schedule but fortunately Kevin was there early and got them to set up the studio in plenty of time.

While I was setting and tweaking the recording session everyone played a great version of the newly minted Wednesday Morning Blues written and belted out by Donna. Wow, throwing in Morning Dew references throws it over the top.

To open the second set we counter balanced the Brokedown closer of the first set with a Ripple. For the Ripple Kevin broke out his 4th guitar/bass of his recent coming out display, a 4-string Guild bass. From there we launched into a threesomes with the Here Comes Sunshine –> China –> Rider followed by a Truckin’ which died a quick and painless death. This was followed by another big threesome of Uncle John’s Wharf Rat and Sugar Magnolia, without a Sunshine Daydream to close. We finished with the figurative encore of US Blues. Surprisingly enough, another pretty solid night of music, all things considered.

The audio files are provided in the following folder:
http://deadstein.com/audio/10-01-13

Jam – 2013-09-26 – Carroll’s

26 Sep 2013 Leave a comment

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ds130926It was another multi-track evening with Deadstein, this week commemorating the great Buffalo 9-26-81 show by playing its setlist. We had the whole band there and Donna was scheduled to play but had to cancel at the last minute.

There are more comments to come so hang in there and don’t Freak Out.

The audio files are provided in the following folder:
http://deadstein.com/audio/09-26-13

Jam – 2013-09-17 – Carroll’s

17 Sep 2013 Leave a comment

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ds130917This week it was Scott and Donna’s turns to take off and we had Lee pull the drumming load on his very own. This week, like last week, we recorded the night’s music with only Rich’s 2-track MP3 recorder. I’ll have to get back to the multi-tracking soon. Its was a quiet night without any guests to speak of.

As far as the song selection, we started with an opening Let It Bleed as Lee was calling for a Rolling Stones song to loosen up the evening’s beginning. After the Let It Bleed Alan arrived as we launched into more a typical Deadstein, Grateful Dead based setlist. This started with a Feel Like a Stranger. After the Sailor-Saint Rich requested that we play the suite of music he had been listening to earlier in the day from Jerry’s birthday on 8-1-1973. It was the Dark Star, El Paso, Eyes of the World, Morning Dew combo. The whole medley comes in just under 55 minutes. The 16-minute Dark Star opener was spacey and didn’t involve words and the 18-minute Eyes of the World had the extended Stronger Than Dirt type of jam at the end. The Morning Dew was 13 and a half minutes but that was probably due to the lagging tempo rather than any extended jamming. We really should focus on not having lagging tempos in songs.

For the second set, it was immediately thrown into a tizzy by the undulating chord patterns of Touch of Grey which I had trouble recovering from for the rest of the night. It was on Touch of Grey that Kevin played his Danelectro bass from c.1959 as the tone of it reminded me of the beginning Phil notes on Touch of Grey. I was a difficult second set for me as my head was not in it, and was out of it. I did make it thought it all and did not freak out, which I am doing right now, Freak Out!

The audio files are provided in the following folder:
http://deadstein.com/audio/09-17-13

Jam – 2013-09-12 – Carroll’s

12 Sep 2013 Leave a comment

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ds130912For the first time in what seems like weeks, we had the whole band together to jam this week in Deadstein together, at least for the first set. By the time the second set began rolling on by, Donna had to catch her train out of Dodge. First the first time in like 5 weeks, I decided to take a week off from multi-track taping as I was falling behind, so I figured, I would leave it up to Rich to record the night’s music. As far as recordings, we on successfully got the first set as something in the setup failed for the second set.

The other big event for this jam was the fact that it was a celebration of Lee’s 50th birthday. That bestowed upon him the honor as well as the obligation to select the setlist for the night. Lee’s maturity really shined during this obligation as he spit appropriate song after appropriate song considering all that had to be considered. He had the Bob-Jerry trade-off to consider as well as the , what does Donna sign consideration. In the end, Lee was very considerate and set Donna up to rip through several of the songs she sings lead on. Lee’s choices were right on as he expertly ended Deadstein’s first set promptly at 10pm.

As far as guests we enjoyed the presence of Stu who was doing work at the back table while enjoying the groove of Deadstein. The we also had Monica with a new ultra-freaky guy, I think also named stu, who came in with a magical book of secret potions of art or something like that. In any case, he appeared to by quite the freak and seemed to fit in quite well with all the freaks that have preceded him. He asked us if we were “burners.” We didn’t know what that meant but it was a reference to going to burning man. You learn something new every jam at Deadstein.

Wishing Lee a super freaky Deadstein happy birthday for his 50th and we all look forward to celebrating another momentous birthday again when he turns 100. Can’t wait for that September 2063 when we can all freak out again.

The audio files are provided in the following folder:
http://deadstein.com/audio/09-12-13

  • Saint Stephen
  • Shakedown Street
  • Samson and Delilah
  • Terrapin Station
  • The Wheel
  • All Along the Watchtower
  • Midnight Moonlight

Jam – 2013-09-03 – Carroll’s

03 Sep 2013 Leave a comment

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

ds130903On this Tuesday night,, Deadstein found itself jamming at Carroll’s without Rich or Donna. What we were missing in musicians we made up for with recording equipment. For the 4th week in a row, I managed to haul all the mutli-track recording gear into a jam to capture the “goings on.” That was a good thing because the “goings on” were worth capturing, working on and remembering.

You would think it would be scary to have to listen to a full night of Deadstein where I was singing all the songs including a bunch of Jerry songs typically sung by Rich. I did my best and the result was at least a recording I could stomach. Not a ringing endorsement, but considering everything involved, being able to stomach is a compliment., In the end the music was much better than this a a true joy to listen to overtime. As Kevin described it, so much wrong with the music yet so much right about it also. If you listen to it enough, there is plenty to freak out over, so from me to you, Freak Out!

The audio files are provided in the following folder:
http://deadstein.com/audio/09-03-13

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