Monday, June 11, 2001

Larry has his new EMG prefab pickguard/pickup combo and he was howling notes out for that thing after he arrived a little late.  He had the David Gilmoure setup and we played Another Brick in the Wall Jam in honour of it but he didn't partake.  I thought it had some good moments.  Time will tell with his new pickups as it does with all stuff like that.  Speaking of which, I was playing my old 79 Strat for the first time in a while with an abbreviated effects setup.  It's the first time I didn't have my midi for a while.

Mexicali had a terrible transition and some bad parts but when it worked it was good.  I liked most of the music for the night.  We were in the reverberating first floor studio but it wasn't ear piercing loud, even though I did see Rich put up a music stand in a feeble attempt to ward off the onslaught of Trister's guitar.  Scott ended up on my side as Dave was on Andy's to his chagrin.   Finally the PA was nicely placed behind Tommy B. for easy adjustment although it wasn't sounding good.

I locked my car keys in my car in the lot and missed a few songs while I dealt with that and Johnny can attest I'm quite a dealer.  We looked for Scott to give him a ride home but never found him.  I hope he got home.  We had thunder storms on the way home with some nice lightning.  Chinese food before hand was quite good and Kevin's back didn't make it through the end.

Till next Thursday

Name: tbanjo
Date: 6/13/01
Time: 8:14:07 AM
Remote Name: 216.173.8.66

Comments

Eyes needed glasses, and Birdsong fell out of the nest, but Fire built to a roaring bonfire, and we had many snappy skoppy moments....Brick in the wall was not one of them...add me to the list that did not know the musician upstairs.... Brotman, you need to pick a show....but alas, I will not be there next week

Name: scott
Date: 6/13/01
Time: 8:32:20 AM
Remote Name: 64.64.50.18

Comments

Nice invitation Banjo' Looking forward to the party. Johnny, you ran off with my drum sticks in the height of a down pour.I rode with LB. Sorry to alarm anyone. Great time Monday. I really really thought Kev was going DOWN:~( RU OK Bud?

Name: tbanjo
Date: 6/13/01
Time: 9:10:17 AM
Remote Name: 216.173.8.66

Comments

thanks Scotty! Even though the invitations say 1PM, remember, I want all band members at 11 AM to set up the equipment. I will jerry-rig barricades to keep kids and folks away from our stuff until we play. Everyone is important in this situation...If you are coming from far away, and wish to bring your families with you at the early time, you may. I'll have bagels and cream cheese/butter/coffee/juice/tea for you all. Let's get a good vibe early, gentlemen.

Name: SCOTT
Date: 6/13/01
Time: 10:09:55 AM
Remote Name: 64.64.50.18

Comments

F.Y.I. Joe Gallant As Peter Watrous reported in the New York Times, "The Grateful Dead underground is a busy place. And now that the band has called it quits, after the death of Jerry Garcia in August, the group's countless followers are looking to find the Dead's legacy in places they might not have looked before. Hence three sold out shows [at the Knitting Factory] by Joe Gallant. His project merges musicians from California connected to the Grateful Dead - the pianists Tom Constanten and Bob Bralove and the guitarists David Gans and Henry Kaiser - with musicians from New York." Gallant has transformed the Dead's music into wild arrangements for a twenty four piece band, and over his three shows at Knitting Factory, which raised more than $5,000 for the Rex Foundation, he reinterpreted the Blues For Allah album, highlighting the seminal work's jazz improvisation, developing an interesting, and widely heralded, interpretation of the music of the Dead. Richard Gehr wrote in the Village Voice, "More sophisticated and ambitious than Gil Evans's Hendrix rearrangements, Gallant's take on Garcia and company embodied a sympathetic fan's notes. Gallant, his Illuminati big band, and guests made the music rumble and sweat, shimmer, and expand to-nearly double its CD 45 minutes."

For this show, Joe and his twenty member plus ensemble will be performing two sets of Grateful Dead music. The band is rehearsing the Terrapin Station album which they are planning to perform this night as well as a set of Grateful Dead classics. sg

Name: tb
Date: 6/13/01
Time: 11:25:04 AM
Remote Name: 216.173.8.66

Comments

good info there Scotty. I e-mailed Gans for some poop. I like the part where the article says that his take is from a sympathetic fan's point of view. Unlike- Jazz is Dead. Where Billy the Bum Cobham says that the boys were limited, they only played what they knew, and that the vehicle was created to lift $$ from the wallets of unrequited deadheads that need an outlet.

Name: scott
Date: 6/13/01
Time: 11:48:30 AM
Remote Name: 64.64.50.18

Comments

I'm one of those heads who went to the Knitting factory, AND WAS BLOWN AWAY from there take on blues for allah.Great talent.

Name: Tbanjo
Date: 6/13/01
Time: 2:31:48 PM
Remote Name: 216.173.8.66

Comments

Dave Gans confirmed that he played with Gallant once upon a time, but that it did not have a happy ending. He says he is over it. Scotty, just seems to be you and me holding up this week's discussion. I hope people are not surprised when I do not show up next week.

Name: Scott
Date: 6/13/01
Time: 3:52:47 PM
Remote Name: 208.249.55.66

Comments

I love you Tom Banjo. I love your singing and twirling. Let's go to a Joe Gallant show together. Can't wait for 2 weeks to see you again.

Name: scott
Date: 6/13/01
Time: 4:23:21 PM
Remote Name: 64.64.50.18

Comments

in fact, I'm not going to next weeks jam either just because you won't be there tom banjo.

oooopps, someones listening.... sshhhhhh

Name: tb
Date: 6/13/01
Time: 4:55:46 PM
Remote Name: 216.173.8.66

Comments

Andy, you are not fooling anyone. I can smell your perfume. Sorry, but I do not date musicians. Try Kevin.

Name: KEVIN
Date: 6/13/01
Time: 5:03:25 PM
Remote Name: 207.97.189.193

Comments

I'm a Rock-n-Roll slut. Show me your axe, and I'll show you mine.

Name: Trister
Date: 6/13/01
Time: 5:05:36 PM
Remote Name: 208.249.55.66

Comments

damn Gindoff and his identifying remote names.

Name: Trister
Date: 6/13/01
Time: 5:27:48 PM
Remote Name: 64.64.50.18

Comments

Lets do Unbroken Chain next week. I think we gave it enough of a break. I'm ready if you guy's are?

Name: KEVIN
Date: 6/13/01
Time: 5:48:00 PM
Remote Name: 207.97.189.56

Comments

Trouble maker. Be careful what you wish for...

Name: tb
Date: 6/14/01
Time: 7:34:42 AM
Remote Name: 216.173.8.66

Comments

got to admit - that made me laugh out loud. Thank goodness that there was no coffee in my mouth.

On the other hand, that means that you have identified that song with me, and you not wanting to play it when I am around signals that somehow you deliberately are trying to provoke me...and that is NOT NICE.

Name: Tommy Banjo
Date: 6/14/01
Time: 10:08:45 AM
Remote Name: 208.249.55.66

Comments

It's all about ME!!!!

Name: Andy Trister
Date: 6/14/01
Time: 10:27:05 AM
Remote Name: 216.173.8.66

Comments

I don't give a dam about yoo or anyone else in this thing that you call a band! Havent you figyourd it out yet? I may tell everyone that they are being selfish, but if you don't realize the reazon I play so loudly is to drown all the rest of you slackers out, then I for one will not clew you in!

Name: scott
Date: 6/14/01
Time: 10:52:58 AM
Remote Name: 64.64.50.18

Comments

Oh' this is getting good and OUT OF HAND..Look what you started Mr. TRISTA'

Name: SpongeBob
Date: 6/14/01
Time: 11:11:21 AM
Remote Name: 208.249.55.66

Comments

You freaks take all this stuff way too seriously.

Trister loves to start trouble....

Name: tb
Date: 6/14/01
Time: 11:37:32 AM
Remote Name: 216.173.8.66

Comments

no,no. I'm cool.

Name: tbanjo
Date: 6/15/01
Time: 7:49:24 AM
Remote Name: 216.173.8.66

Comments

hey, check this out:

In October, a 12-CD Warner Bros./Rhino GD box set will be released. According to the L.A. Times, "The first two discs will be a set titled 'Birth of the Dead,' featuring material recorded before the band signed to Warner Bros., compiled by band publicist and historian Dennis McNally. Then each of the Warner Bros. albums will be presented on its own disc, with a running time of about 40 minutes each, supplemented by about the same amount of bonus tracks. 'Each CD is filled to the maximum time of 79-minutes-plus,' [Rhino's James] Austin says. 'The bonus tracks will be a combination of unreleased studio tracks plus live recordings from that era.'"

Name: dave
Date: 6/16/01
Time: 2:42:04 PM
Remote Name: 205.188.195.41

Comments

i believe if you think about it this band, its existance and is greatness (oops sorry andy..its crappiness) is all about kevin...at least that what he told me

Name: dave
Date: 6/18/01
Time: 2:00:54 AM
Remote Name: 205.188.199.57

Comments

...hey friends, just got back from shea....yee ha ------hope we really are doing that Unbroken Chain this week, if not i'll have to put it on my upcoming birthday list.

Name: dave
Date: 6/18/01
Time: 10:13:22 PM
Remote Name: 64.12.102.159

Comments

STEINWARS-A NEW BEGINING: EPISODE IV

Name: Luke
Date: 6/19/01
Time: 12:42:33 PM
Remote Name: 208.249.55.66

Comments

Dave...you Are my father... May the schwartz be with you.

Name: Larry G.
Date: 6/21/01
Time: 10:09:03 AM
Remote Name: 63.44.11.31

Comments

Does any know when we play next week. Is it supposed to be Tuesday the 6/26/01. I have to RSVP to an event on that day and I need to know about Deadstein. That is my birthday show eventhough I will not call for an acoustic jam, nor will I call for an Unbroken Chain so we have a few weeks to learn it, if we must. I will never make that acoustic error again. Last year was such a disaster, I don't need to get any negative feeling about Deadstein brewing.

There is some very exciting news on the horizon for us. Larry B. has found us a permanent home. An empty office at the corner of Houston and Broadway, a top the Pottery Barn. It'as a place to move our equipment into and to have a free place to jam until at least the end of the year. We need to jump on it and take advantage of this offer right away. Probably moving in next Tuesday if we can get our act together. There are so many benefits to this opportunity that we need to get our act together and jump on it right away and make it happen. It's exciting and we can talk about it tonight.

Looking forward to it.

Nevertheless

Name: Trister
Date: 6/21/01
Time: 12:00:13 PM
Remote Name: 208.249.55.66

Comments

I predict two hour dinner breaks will be coming back to the Deadstein experience.

Name: KEVIN
Date: 6/21/01
Time: 12:29:07 PM
Remote Name: 207.41.174.107

Comments

I freakin' hope so.

Name: scott
Date: 6/21/01
Time: 1:07:32 PM
Remote Name: 64.64.50.18

Comments

who delivers in that area?

Name: Trister
Date: 6/21/01
Time: 3:50:36 PM
Remote Name: 208.249.55.66

Comments

I already miss Carrols wher the music was contiuous and there were no ditractions. Goodbye skoppy studio and hello vacant office hell.......

Name: Larry G.
Date: 6/21/01
Time: 4:22:19 PM
Remote Name: 63.44.11.31

Comments

Don't fear this Andy, this place seems so perfect for us. It's not just an empty office building, but has so many other positive attributes it's impressive. 1. will be a full time sound man to mix us and therefore taping will be soundboards. Deadstein will be broadcast live over the Internet so all our friends could listen to as we play. I have a feeling this place is going to have lots of guests and partying people who will be there to encourage us to play our very best. The room won't nearly be as echo ridden. On the bad side for you Andy, we need the PA system back for it.

Name: scott
Date: 6/21/01
Time: 4:57:45 PM
Remote Name: 64.64.50.18

Comments

Positive Vibration Mon'/ Give peace a chance / LET IT ROCK !

Name: Trister
Date: 6/21/01
Time: 6:27:28 PM
Remote Name: 24.151.63.124

Comments

dammit. sounds like fun!

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