Wikler | my Steal Your Space book

It was a week that we welcomed Kevin back to the jam after missing it for 2 weeks. That’s a long time off the wagon that only a Deadstein jam can cure. Kevin came back to his normal-C from what he used to B. And felt brand new about it. So I digress.

Well Trister had to cancel at the last moment and Jason was in Colorado and Al D is in Hawaii, so it left no one but me, who was at home, to play lead. Scott was able to get Alan Wikler, of August West fame, to play the Bob guitar as I attempted to hold on to the reigns of the Jerry guitar. In many respects it was quite masturbatory for me all night as I felt I was playing with myself and in many respects I was as I heard many things in Alan that I hear in myself, that we hopefully both hear in Bob. So while Alan played the Bob guitar, he didn’t sing so I also sang the Bob parts while playing the Jerry guitar. It was a split personality I was trying to come to grips with all night. It was a cool experience. Probably the only time that I have ever played Jerry guitar where I had a person playing Bob. I think it worked well though my Jerry playing is woefully short and results in a hollow sound in the music. Nevertheless, it is fun.

I think we got lots of songs in on the night. We didn’t take too many breaks. We did have one guest, Scott Bayer to played a great 1-minute bongo boogie with Rich. I’m glad I captured it on video. A real collector’s item. We played all the way to the end with a Brokedown to cap it all off. I tried the Let it Bleed and I thought that showed some fun potential. It would be fun to do this grouping again. It was a nice peaceful calm session of Deadstein.

Look at the songlist below. Rich recorded 18 songs and I show 4 additional songs. So that is 22 and probably one or 2 others. That a plateful and quite satisfying.