This was a Monday night jam stuffed in the middle of the The Dead tour. We had the Garden this Saturday (Jason had Hartford last night) and we have 2 Byrne shows tomorrow and Wednesday. A Busy time in the Grateful Dead family but Deadstein still finds its nook.
With the shows in town and lots going on we had more guests than usual. We had Leo of Ludlow, Scott of Bayer, Trebor (Robert and Miranda of Thinkspace, not Drums and then we had Marjorie, Jason’s friend from the day. Lots of people and place and things to discuss. We almost didn’t have the jam, but Scott was cool enough to muster up the energy to play and play he did well.
Until 10:15 or so we didn’t have a Jerry so we had to resort ironically to playing only Jerry songs. The exception to this was playing a Mexicali which was a request by Miranda. I think we did several real nice Garband things before Jason showed up. The Brothers and Sisters,Stop That Train, Dear Prudence opener was overly solid. Throw in a Cats Down Under the Stars , Tore Up and more and you had a very respectable JGB Effort.
Jason arrived fresh off 2 shows in a row and psyched to play after a long day of work. He had the Q-Tron going so we opened with the sultry Fire and played an Estimated. Played a few more in between including a late night Rooster and closing with a Here Comes Sunshine. There wasn’t enough time, so it seemed but it was all the time there was.
Off to the Byrne then back next week for some more Deadstein. For when the The Dead is all packed and gone on; Deadstein remains to hold on to.
The snake from hell I was staring at all night.
If you want to hear this night’s jam it is available at the link below or just use the embedded WordPress media player to stream the song right from the link below.
http://www.deadstein.com/audio/04-27-09/
- 01 Brothers & Sisters.mp3
- 02 Tore Up.mp3
- 03 Dear Prudence.mp3
- 04 Stop That Train.mp3
- 05 The Maker.mp3
- 06 Gommorah.mp3
- 07 Run For The Roses.mp3
- 08 That’s What Love.mp3
- 09 Mexicali Blues.mp3
- 10 Cats Down Under The Stars.mp3
- 11 Stuff Jamzinta Fire.mp3
- 12 Estimated Prophet.mp3
- 13 Cold Rain & Snow.mp3
- 14 Little Red Rooster.mp3
- 15 Music Never Stopped.mp3
- 16 Here Comes Sunshine.mp3
This was a big Tuesday night jam where we had many more guests than usual. That usually puts us on our best behavior and for the most part we played well, though we may not have played too many songs. As far as guests we had Scott Bayer, our current Freakboy, Stu, Ken Levine and like 3 or four other people who I don’t really know. Jason brought along his ’83 tour buddy Craig. It seemed they enjoyed us. By 11:00pm, it was just the four of us as Jason left early with Craig who had to catch an early train home.
It was Wednesday night and I hauled my ass into the jam despite suffering from a bad cold over the previous 4 or 5 days. It was a night I was trying not to sing too many songs and it felt like I sang plenty. Actually, my throat wasn’t killing me too badly until the Gloria at then end of the night. I shouldn’t have tried that one. I’ll be interested in seeing how many songs I ended up singing. There were many good moments. We had Jason on guitar and Scott Bayer and his new teeth played his C harmonica, though we never played a song in C. Good thing I turned the extra microphone off immediately. There were no other guests as Rich, Scott, Kevin and I filled out the band. 
This week we were in the nice cozy Studio 2 of Carroll’s. Kevin was back with us after a week off and Jason was back for the thirs week in a row. We played lots of hot stuff. Kevin commented how good the music felt and it did feel good. Rich’s friend Scott stepped in for a song or two and was mesmorized at the groove of our Jack-A-Roe. The Hurts Me Too had good soul and tempo. Jason’s slide tone on his aluminim necked guitar was screeching. We played 17 songs, some big, some small some standard and some obscure. It was a nice balance and variety and never got boring. We even did the Stephen OK. You can find the music at the link below:
my Steal Your Space book 