Jam – 2010-07-12 – Carrolls

14 Jul 2010 3 Comments

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Monday night means a long week ahead of us but when it is the only night to play, well, watch ya gonna do? The good thing is it seemed as if we had additional energy coming from the “pos” we all experienced over the recent weekend. This is the sacrifice we make for Deadstein.

Some one called for a Slow Train Coming, being the July 12 anniversary of the great July 12, 1987 Giant Stadium show with Bob Dylan. Anyway, none of this was in my mind and all I heard in my head was Stop That Train and started noodling on it while others were getting set. It was sounding good so Scott called to play the Stop That Train first and then we would go into the Slow Train to remember the great Dead/Dylan show. We spent much of the rest of the night playing songs reminiscent of of that show including the Morning Dew Playing and the Touch of Grey Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door to close the night at midnight.

The only guests we had were Rob and Miriam who hung and enjoyed for most of the night.  I think they are heading out on the bus to a few Furthur shows so we are a good prep for that encounter.

I was on top of my guitar game, playing well for me, and the amazing thing about it is that is was not premeditated or contrived, just a stroke of right place at the right time in the right state of mind. I fear listening to it realizing that it will ruin my fond memories and the recording will hit me with a brick wall of reality.

Nevertheless, to listen to the songs of the night go to:

http://www.deadstein.com/audio/07-12-10/

Jam – 2010-07-07 – Carroll’s

08 Jul 2010 5 Comments

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After enjoying a week of playing with Terez, Deadstein was back to its standard setup with me playing lead and Alan on rhythm.  I was featuring a new set of silicone coated strings, thanks to Larry Brent, and an intonated guitar which I took care of when I changed my strings the night before.  The guitar was feeling especially good in my hands from the perspective of the new strings and and inotation and it helped me play well throughout the night.  Since it was super hot outside and Carrol’s air conditioning was struggling to keep the room cool, 73 degrees was as cool as it got which is hot by Deadstein standards, so hopefully the silicone on the strings will help them last because last night my hands were like liquid salt.

There was some good music last night and as it was time for us to poop-out as the 5-hour energy drinks were wearing off, in came Mike from Georgia and he acted as an energy stimulant to give us a boost to finish the night with a little dignity.  The closing Jack Straw was a forceful ending to the long hot jam.  The only other guest of the night was Scott Bayer who for the first week in many was without the bongos. Hallelujah!  Our big long segment of the night was a Scarlet –> Estimated –> Terrapin –> Birdsong -> Gloria –> Birdsong.  That kept us busy for an hour or so in the middle of the night and was quite and undertaking.  I thought the Terrapin was the weakest of that grouping but still nothing to write home about.  We also did a nice Here Comes Sunshine -> China/Rider combo earlier in the evening.  It was a fun, hot, sticky night and there is more fun to be had furthur down the road, so get your bus pass out and come join us as we go down road freakin’ bad.

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/

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/

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