Monday April 6, 1998

First Set Cold Rain & Snow C.C. Rider Looks Like Rain Candyman It's All Over Now Pretty Peggy-O Me & My Uncle-> Mexicali Blues Brown-Eyed Women Minglewood Blues-> Bertha Second Set Cumberland Blues Truckin'-> Black Peter That's What Love Will Make You Do Go To Bottom Visitor Last Revised: 03/12/06 Next Jam: Wednesday April 15th with Pauly Pos

• We were lacking a little freak for the night since Johnny was home sick.   Actually, consensus was that he staged the whole day of sickness so he could stay home and see the Nets try for the playoffs.  It's too bad, we missed him and so did Virgil.
• Kevin's friend Donny was there to fill in the freaky void.  He orchestrated a great half-time feast and showed us the great video of the "Naked in Seattle"
• Larry M. was there for the first set and it sounded refreshing from the first note of Cold Rain and Snow.

• Cold Rain was bestter than usual.  The jams had leadership and aggression so not to waiver.
• C.C. was also pretty good.  I had a good Jerry finger picking thing going and a sloppy yet hot lead.
• Looks Like Rain was nicely done, big, bold yet almost delicate.   Larry had this whole midi bass, thing preordained.  He thought it was pretty good.  To be honest, I either didn't notice or the big plan was a masterpiece of understatement.  In either case Larry was psyched at that's what counts.
• Candyman was also pretty good.  It had some nice dynamics and my tremolo effect fit right in.
• It's All Over Now was a bit slow, probably due to me ineffectively playing that stupid blues slide riff I now know.  When done well in that song it is good.  The problem is the phrase "when done well."
• Peggy-O was good.  I had that good Jerry Picking going, very steadily throughout the entire song.
• Me and My Uncle-Mexicali was the highlight of the night for me.   It moved and was the most authentic thing we did.
• Brown-Eyed was also pretty moving.  Much better than the debacle of a Brown-Eyed we did two week ago with John Spitz.  This on had some grace to go with the speed.
• Minglewood was good as usual, leads, the whole thing.  It wasn't the tightest or the gooviest ever.
• Right into the Bertha was a surprise and caught me off guard but we caught up and by the second round of the lead and the last verse it was good.
• Scott started the Good Lovin' out of the Bertha like he can't resist and I started it and suffered through the intro.  We really need to work that out but the lead was great.  It had dynamics during it.

• Virgil's - Memphis Pork Ribs, Chicken & Rib Combos, Biscuits, corn bread (did it show up in your morning stool?)  Cokes, Hush Puppies, Kevin got the fried shrimp with maple butter.  Beans, potatoes, coleslaw.  Donny did a great order.  The Carnegie Deli refused to deliver to us.  What a bunch of saps.   The only mess up on Donny's part was the omission of the banana pudding which is so good.  There was a lot of moaning going on.  Who could blame us.  The deepness in the texture of the ribs was a sight and taste sensation to behold.  Think about the crap Zorns we all used to eat.  Virgils would spit on them.

• A beautiful warm spring day.

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Date: 4/7/98
Time: 8:06:31 AM

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Name: KEVIN
Date: 4/7/98
Time: 8:29:23 AM

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This morning Dr. Smith and I are sharing the same mantra, "Oh, the pain!" It seems as if my digestive tract has shut down. All of Virgil's is sitting maliciously in the back of my throat, sending false vomit messages to my brain. My belly is swollen like a bag of microwave popcorn, making it very difficult to breathe. We're not going to slow down until someone has a heart-attack, right? We better get a defibrillator down there or somebody is going to have to make an unpleasant call to a wife. It was nice to see Menaker, he looked good. It's wacky how the Dave-being-late thing worked out by itself. I would like to say that Freakboy was missed, but what was the difference between last week and this week? Not much, this week he was sitting on his couch instead of ours. TheHutch seems to becoming a member of Deadstein by assimilation (much like the Borg), and there's nothing wrong with that. If anyone fits the job description, it's him.

Name: Larry G.
Date: 4/7/98
Time: 1:45:14 PM

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Very funny Kevin. I think Virgils is the toughest to get over in the morning. I just had the left over chicken & ribs and salad for lunch which makes me sick all over, once again.

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Date: 3/12/2006
Time: 4:45:13 AM

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what is this all about???????????

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