Jam – 2011-10-20 – Carroll’s

22 Oct 2011 3 Comments

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Below is the unedited text of my posting as dictated into Siri on my new iPhone.  This was dictated to the iPhone sitting in a cradle on my dashboard while driving home from the jam.  The amazing thing is Siri is so much more coherent than when I type the postings myself.  Enjoy.

so tonight was a pretty interesting night. Rich wasn’t out of town just for Alan Kevin Scott I’m home now another very interesting aspects of tonight in Baghdad since Rich was not at the gym we didn’t have our typical MP3 record what was happening with you. Eric at yet improvised cigarette heaven for tonight. Fortunately this was our first week. 9/2 an hour to iPhone for less. The thing has a kick ass video camera. So why not use it to record the jam?

So that’s what we did I laid the iPhone 4S on the music stand on its side with the video camera on what in the back corner of the room and probably got a good shot time will tell when I get home if the audio is listenable but it maybe something to remember the night.

Additionally as what may be printed is illegible my experiment is I’m using the iPhone and Siri dictate the nightstands posted I also want to show you how well or not well this posting work so I am not going to change any of the mess up that Siri has made while I’m dictating to you think this will be a funny exercise.

Now I’ll probably fix the grammar but in punctuation not sure what that’s all supposed to be but it’ll really give you a great understanding of how unbelievable this dictation is all done

Four instance, I’m driving down Route 3 after the gym and dictate a chance message I’m sorry Jen posted into the iPhone. It’s quite fun and a great use of my time on the way home. Keeps me up and it will give me a huge chunk and I need you and that’s what she said of writing which to put into the blog post this is truly a new revolution the blog posting Europe for me I can tell this thing going to be quite handy and quite great use of my time on the way home.

So let’s get back to the purpose of this dictation exercise and talk about tonight’s gym. It was just the four of us as I said in tight quarters playing tight you soon. Without the keyboard and the piano my billing the room with reverberated sound we were able to accomplish a clean quiet sound at many points through the night. We had a nice set of standard top-quality Grateful Dead songs to begin the night we played really well the beginning of the night started pretty good all locked in there.

Then we went into a nice Jerry Garcia band or five songs said I was also pretty good. I got to play my positively fourth Street style I like and was able to take advantage of my ability to play as many leads as I wanted since I really patrolled the song. However there were no guests for the night not even one for people in the room. Faroles is currently a pretty busy place days and didn’t have much equipment and had really scrounge to get a love the play yet, scrounging at Carol’s is quite enjoyable experience. Alan and I both had super twin reverb the playground and they sound great. In addition the only three microphones on in the room so get that quiet sandwich I just meant.

I actually had an excellent time singing and playing virtually every song is matter of fact every song for the night. Playing lots of leads and singing songs I selected the mall and it was cool time. Eric I like the song selection, I had a really good phone and rolled the guitar, and I wasn’t full control of how long the leads should be late provided a nice black just let loose and do what they would like. I think I was able to accomplish lots of good stuff actually kept the band going by solid way and send Wyatt was only a few mess ups I think you’re being Rivervew the biggest swap tonight I was just to stir. Yet nothing been teleported by get the song “soon you’ll be doing some sort.

So speaking gets you writing quite a bit I can only imagine and I will see you when I cut-and-paste this montage of messed up blog posting into you hope you’re in law. Therefore, I will sign off now did you have there to do and wish everyone a yank your voice into the next week and weekend it was a thought on Thursday night and I look forward to another engaging Goodstein jam sometime next week.

Video recordings made from on my iPhone are provided on Youtube in a playlist as well as individual files.

Click here for the Youtube Playlist

Jam – 2011-10-12 – Carroll’s

14 Oct 2011 1 Comment

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It felt good to get back to a night with virtually no guests, only Scott Bayer intruded on our cocoon for a few minutes.  We decided to use the date of October 12 to play a real show, so we selected the 1981 show from Olympia Halle, Munich, GE as our template.

It was along show and a lot to tackle.  We almost accomplished the entire setlist but we missed out on the last two songs.  It was a pretty good run nevertheless.  Our first set rendition felt really good and solid.  There were some challenging selections including a bunch of cowboy songs, but they went well.  Short of that, the set was filled with lots of standards from 1981 which provided a great sense of familiarity leading to some confident playing.  Completing the 12-song first set with such aplomb was quite satisfying.

I think we lost a bit of our stride in the second set as some things fell apart.  I total destroyed the Around and Around in the middle of the song by forgetting where I was.  OK, my new iPhone 4S arrive and I have no time to post.  I look forward to the MP3s.

http://www.deadstein.com/audio/10-12-11/

Jam – 2011-10-05 – Carroll’s

07 Oct 2011 Leave a comment

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This was another fun week with several guests in the room to enjoy us, so that always gets us inspired.  In addition to the standard-5, we had Larry Brent sitting in with us, assuming the responsibility for most of the Jerry work.  This combo has been working for us recently and tonight was no exception.  It was a big full night of music with lots of songs.

As usual, the night starts strong but wanes as we all give in to a bit of fatigue and we lose our focus.  Not a big deal because at least at some point we had some focus.  I can’t remember too much of the set or the guests as I am writing this about 10 days after the fact and we already played another jam subsequent to this one.  I do remember Michael and his entourage at the jam.  The setlist should speak for itself, because at this time I can’t speak for anything so here it is below:

http://www.deadstein.com/audio/10-05-11/

Jam – 2011-09-27 – Caroll’s

28 Sep 2011 Leave a comment

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Back at Deadstein with no guests this week and no agendas, just a night to make good music.  We did have a few guests including Rob and Miriam and a friend of theirs.  Additionally, Rich had a buddy stop by and we also had the inevitable Scott Bayer with his friend Carol live via the cell network.

I had some new stuff to deal with that made my night a fulfilling experience.  Since I ruined Alan’s MXR envelope filter 2 weeks ago, I found a Proton Envelope Filter by 3LeafAudio last week and had it delivered on Monday and ready for Tuesday’s jam.  As I was off on Monday, I had some time to set up the new effect in my effects rack and practice some new things.  I worked on Operator, New Speedway, Stranger and Brown-Eyed at home at playing them at the jam was really good.  We did Operator twice and they were both really good and the New Speedway was the best Deadstein has ever done.

In addition to the new envelope filter which I have to say was pretty darn good and solid.  It was filled with more good sounds than bad ones and handled chords with some decorum.  I added by Boss compressor to the effects tray as well as my chorus.  I didn’t use the chorus at all but I did find my compressor useful, which I had previously had trouble doing.  The use of both envelope filter and compressor really get you in touch with your touch to make both effects work properly.  I felt as if I was within their grasps throughout the night.

Coupled with all this changed effects stuff I also changed my guitar from my 1979 Stratocaster to my mid 2000 Epiphone Les Paul Standard.  I have never been comfortable with the Les Paul but I’ve been playing with it more at home and I changed the strings this weekend, lowered in the action and intonated it.  This all lead to my best use of the Les Paul to date.  I really enjoyed it during the night, the touch, the action and the sound.

I think as a band we played better than usual this night.  Our first set was really solid.  Our only great faux pas was the Help -> Slip -> Estimated and some (Kevin and Scott) slipped into Estimated without the knot!  That hurt that segment of the night, but short of that we did pretty well.  We had lots of meaty songs starting with the Stranger Shakedown, very few blues, ended the first set with the Playing à Morning Dew that was one of our better Dews.

For the second set we picked up the playing following the Uncle John’s we dished out.  I had some nice feeling leads during the Looks Like Rain and the While My Guitar Gently Weeps.  I totally flubbed the Help on the Way lead.  You can get them all, but I got enough, more Ying than Yoink.  Next week promises to deliver even more Ying, so stay tuned.

To hear what we played go to:

http://www.deadstein.com/audio/09-27-11/

Jam – 2011-09-19 – Carroll’s

21 Sep 2011 4 Comments

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This was a nice week of Deadstein where we were able to play once again with Andy Trister.  We are pretty comfortable these days with our 5-man arrangement with e on lead and Alan playing rhythm, so Trister playing with us sends us back to days of lore, when I had Bob on my mind.  This is a challenge for us as I traditionally hand off all the Jerry part to Andy when he is there leaving Alan and I to fend for the rhythm spectrum.  I think there is enough spectrum there for the two of us to coexist without stepping on each other’s signals and I think we achieve that this week.

Playing Bob is once again a very comfortable thing for me to do compared to  having the responsibility to play Jerry leads, so I found myself in a good zone during this jam, which I am sure helped contribute toward the goodness of the jam.

You know it is a good jam and a fun one when Andy finishes playing theBrokedownPalaceto end the night and says, “Damn that was the best Brokedown you guys have played and this is too much fun to leave.”  As such, he ended up playing an addition 3 or 4 songs and then he parted ways with us.  It just goes to show how when you try and make good music, the music is good.  It’s self fulfilling in so many respects especially verbally.  As a matter of fact, that may be the only respect, but I digress.

It was an especially rewarding and satisfactory evening because from the beginning it did feel as if it was to be such.  We were bickering at the beginning about when or when not to invite guests, playing for a keyboard last week that we did have to elevate to the of having to pay for it and other issues.  They excellent music and attitude during the playing itself, made all that other nonsense trivial compared to the reason we get together anyway, so G-d bless us all and pray for more ying than yoink.

http://www.deadstein.com/audio/09-19-11/

Jam – 2011-09-14 – Carroll’s

15 Sep 2011 3 Comments

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I was at dog camp last week and missed the Deadstein jam.  It was probably a Brotpen dominated night.  This week the tide turned as Brotpen was sick and unable to attend.  Marty Goodman filled in on the keys so we kind of had that covered.  It was Scott’s birthday earlier in the week so it should have been his turn and obligation to call the setlist.  Unfortunately the stars didn’t quite align to achieve that.  First of all, Marty’s repertoire favors the simple songs, as he calls them, and I was on the waning side of a cold I picked up at dog camp.  With the prospects of having to sing every song for the night while being as sick as I was; well let’s just say it wasn’t going to be pretty.

In the end, it was a challenging night.  I was coughing between every verse, I think we lost Kevin sooner than usual and Marty  didn’t quite know every thing we played.  My head was swimming in it’s own mucus.  Thank G-d I think Scott seemed to be on his game and leading us more so than usual.  It was a big help.

I was able to borrow an MP3 recorder to capture the night so I do have MP3s to listen to, so check them out if you must.  The recorder at least worked. By the way, the orange poster for the Nov 4, 1981 JGB Concert at the Albany Palace Theater was from my first show.  I was just searching the web for an image to place up for this weeks jam posting and stumbled upon this thing.  It popped out in my mind as hung in my freshman dorm-suite.  It’s a pretty cool memory.

http://www.deadstein.com/audio/09-14-11/

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