Jam – 2010-29-12 – Carroll’s

31 Dec 2010 1 Comment

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This was the week between Christmas and New Year’s and there is a lot going on.  The Fab Faux are playing a 4 night stand at the City Winery and Alan went Monday, his first time seeing them, I went Tuesday and Scott was going this Wednesday; the night of the jam. We we lucky enough to be able to enlist the drumming skills and styles of Bayside Russ.  This was great to be able to get our final jam in for the year and it was a difficult one to pull off.  The region was hit by a blizzard that dumped 20-24″ of snow on the city and Manhattan was still reeling from the hit and the streets, parking spots and sidewalks were all covered with snow and slush to varying extents.  In addition, Terminal 5 was holding a show and this meant the area around Carroll’s was about as crowded as I have ever seen it.  One wrong turn trying to find a spot and you could be stuck in a 30 minute traffic jam.  I avoided it for the most part and so did Kevin.  Russ was so fortunate as it took him like and hour to circle around looking for a spot.

With all of this said, we got a very late start, after 9:09.  Speaking of which, I was still recovering from a cold I had over Christmas but that gave me the opportunity to chart out some new Beatle songs for us to plow through.  Some showed potential, actually, I think they all showed potential and are quick and easy.  We learned Rich and Alan used to play the One After None-O-Nine so they were well rehearsed in it.  Below are the first five songs we played of the night that were recorded for your listening, so called pleasure.  Set 2 had a corrupted file issue on Rich’s recorder so I list what I remember we played, but I am sure I left a few out.Carroll’s was virtually abandoned as we were the only ones playing this week.  They even unplugged the soda machine during this hiatus.  We had no guests in the room as it was just Alan, me, Kevin Rich and Russell to hold down the fort.  I thought we did an okay ob of it also as the music got better and better as the night moved on. I also have to thank Alan for risking his life checking the electrical shock potential using his screw driver detector for me.  I started the night with a shock from the mic on my nose, but Alan  resolved that and worked for me as a human guinea pig.

http://www.deadstein.com/audio/12-29-10/

Let us not forget as we were mutilating Beatles songs uptown, Scott was capturing the Fab Faux playing them nicely downtown and below is a link to one of his great videos of the Fab Faux playing Rain.

[Youtube = http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDuwzS4pASg%5D

Jam – 2010-20-12 – Carroll’s

27 Dec 2010 1 Comment

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In order to get this last jam in before the Christmas holiday, Deadstein was forced to do the Monday jam.  It didn’t matter we were able to field the full bad including Jeff Blues who showed up after we started the first song or two.  I don’t thing we have a poster, photograph or anything to remember the night and I am writing this post exactly one week after the jam so there is not much memory of the jam to help me out.  Hopefully Rich got the recordings and we will be able to relive the moments through the music.  Or maybe a vague memory of it all leaves a better taste in your mouth and your mind than the sound of the  Sailor/Saint which we did butcher.  Now as I recall, we were doing a round robin all night with each person selecting a song to play, and the Sailor / Saints was Kevin’s selection.  Our guests for the night were Rob and Miriam as well as Scott Bayer.

It looks like with the Fab Faux in town at the City Winery and we will not be able to get everyone together for the final jam of the year.  Alan’s seeing them Monday, me on Tuesday and Scott on Wednesday.  Scott decided he would bow out for the week, enjoy the show, and we got Bayside Russ to fill in for Scott.  So it will be Russell and Deadstein closing out 2010 in some type of fashion, what type of fashion, you ask; that’s why you have to go to every show.

To hear the songs from this week go to:

http://www.deadstein.com/audio/12-20-10/

Jam – 2010-12-14 – Carroll’s

15 Dec 2010 Leave a comment

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It was good to be back as a 5-man band with the addition of Jeff Blues to round out the crowd.  Before Jeff got there we decided to once again try a revised version of the Beatles Abbey Road medley.  It was better this week than last week and should get better and better the more we play it. It’s a good time to play that piece of music.  Fresh off is Fab Faux experience next door at Terminal-5, Scott was in a Beatles mood and it was good to attempt it early in the night.   Before we did the medley, we warmed up with Lied and Cheated which was a good warm up choice.  After we finished the medley with a fully blown The End, Jeff joined us and we hopped into a Feel Like a Stranger to start the silky, silky, crazy night. We later played She Belongs to Me at Jeff’s request which is one his new favorites as he has been exposed to many new songs since playing with us.

We played fairly solidly through most of the night. Only during the Morning Dew right at the end of the night did we really begin to fall apart.  I played bass for a couple of songs (You Win Again and It Takes A Lot to Laugh) while Kevin was attending a phone call.  We did 5 or 6 Beatles songs after the Morning Dew in about 15 minutes and their simplicity and requirement to pay attention woke us up to perform these with a little proficiency.  It was a good was to end the night. Out into the freezing cold we went.

To hear what we did,go to the links below:

http://www.deadstein.com/audio/12-14-10/

By the way, Scott’s been doing  yeoman’s work capturing concerts and he’s got some great stuff from his recent Fab Faux show, check it out below and subscribe to his channel.

Jam – 2010-12-08 – Carroll’s

10 Dec 2010 1 Comment

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This week was a” Core-4″ jam as Alan was away and missed as he was attending to family matters.  Even at “Core-4”, we had trouble achieving that as Rich was at “woik,” which is different than “work,” in that you actually get paid for “work” as he says; anyway, there will be a cool new project that Rich has been “woiking” on coming out for all of us to see. He did eventually show up about an hour into the jam as we were starting to play a Victim or the Crime. Scott Bayer was our only guest for the night in addition to Carol on the celluar phone.

With Rich not getting there until nine and change we started the Oui-Three segment.  It started with a blow through the Abbey Road medley that I charted out this previous week.  I was playing both piano and guitar at parts with Kevin and Scott and it was a disaster as one would expect at that moment.  What it did do for us was prepare us for when we did the Abbey Road medley at the end of the night.  With Rich singing and playing piano and me focusing on guitar, the medley sounded good.  It was fun and inspiring at that moment; more fun than a Day Job.

It will be good to have the whole band back together next week  but for the record we played the following.

http://www.deadstein.com/audio/12-08-10/

Jam – 2010-11-30 – Carroll’s

01 Dec 2010 2 Comments

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This week was another tough week to get the entire gang together and we could not pull it off.  With Scott looking at potentially missing three weeks in a row, we moved the jam to Tuesday to suite his schedule.  On the short end of the stick was Rich who couldn’t make it on Tuesday.  For the first time in quite a while we played without Rich and had no keyboard substitute.  This had a whole host of implications including an evening without a recording since Rich is the one with the mics and MP3 recorder.  Additionally, since Rich and I split most of the lead vocal duties these days, it meant I was singing lead on every song.  Not a great prospect for anyone involved. While this gave me the opportunity to sing songs I never never sing, I also gave me the reminder not to select songs I don’t sing.  The Row Jimmy early in the night was such a slap in the face once I realized I couldn’t sing, play and read the music all at one time.

At least we did have one substitute and guest for the night who was Jeff Blues with his new 2009 Gibson 335.  He also brought his Strat to switch on and off with but Jeff was just trying to tune in a sound for his new guitar though he still seems more comfortable with his trusty-old Strat.  Thats rights we had the southern blues thing going on with three guitars but it was still a good time.  Since we did have recordings it was tough to remember what we played by below is the setlist as best I can remember.

Sugaree
Row Jimmy
Little Red Rooster
Positively 4th Street
After Midnight
Thrill is Gone
Pretty Peggy-O
Looks Like Rain

It’s All Over Now
Comfortably Numb
She Belongs to Me
Like a Road
Touch of Grey
Dear Mr. Fantasy
Quinn the Eskimo

Next weeks will prove to be a totally opposite experience, so I am guessing, so to keep you all guessing out there on virtual freaky-highway, tune in, same freak-time, same freak-channel.

Jam – 2010-11-22 – Carroll’s

23 Nov 2010 3 Comments

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This week was the always difficult Thanksgiving week in which to squeeze a jam out.  It’s like taking a dump after eating too much Thanksgiving stuffing and potatoes without salad and asparagus, if you get me drift.  With the Allman Brothers at the Roseland, we knew Scott was not going to be around for the second week in a row.  Not to fret, pardon that drummer joke, we were able to get Bayside Russell in to do the proverbial squeeze and fill the throne.  I personally hadn’t done that since that  morning, but that’s my own sickness. Russell did a great job drumming, he really gives us an authentic Dead drumming attitude.

Kevin was back in the saddle and ready to jam and was quite bummed that he got saddle sores from the not well done Been All Around the World.  I think we made it up with a pretty good rendition of the Cats directly thereafter.  Hot off a version by Further at the Garden the night before, we did the full Weather Report Suite, sans the prelude.  I recall a real nice transition into the Let it Grow which was exciting and worked more smoothly than any other one I was a part of, so. kudos to everyone.

Next Time You See Me was nice when Alan broke out the harp. That’s harmonica for all you noobs out there, I mean “new-bes” for all you non-geeks out there.  Back to the harp, I’m never ready for it, don’t have it on my mind, but there it is, shocking me every time I hear it. The sound of it brings me back to those old tapes and Pigpen versions.  Cool stuff and he plays it so it sounds right on.  At that moment, the harmonica is the most authentic sounding instrument in the room.  Okay enough droning on about droning on.  I won’t drone no more, maybe that’s I will drone no more.  How about, I won’t drone more? So give it listen at the links below, enjoy the Thanksgiving and get set for some joyous Deadstein fun closing out the rest of 2010.

http://www.deadstein.com/audio/11-22-10/

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