Monday, September 8, 1997

First Set Shakedown Street Mama Tried-> Big River Ramble on Rose Throwing Stones Brown-Eyed Women Looks Like Rain Second Set Doin' That Rag Queen Jane Approximately Dancin' in the Streets-> Touch of Grey Playin' in the Band Visitor Last Revised: 02/07/06 Next Jam:

• I was sick as a dog this week, aching, cold, congestion, etc., and took the day off from work so I could be geared up for the Deadstein barrage. I can't say I was ready for Deadstein, but I gave it my best shot. As others agreed, I am a lucky man in that I can take off from work and not have anyone tell me, "If you're too sick for work then you're necessarily too sick for Deadstein." I know my priorities.
• The music was slow, not that there is anything wrong with that, for much of the night and it was attributable to many synergistic factors.
  1. Most importantly, I don't think I ever felt worse from an illness perspective for a Deadstein jam. Lucky for me the cold gave me a really light headed, dazed and confused feeling all day. That always helps so I kind of got into that.
  2. Larry continued his never ending quest to clean up his guitar sound. I think last night was a bold step. Kevy did a set up for him, whether that is good or bad I don't know, without distortion, minimal speakers and very clean. It was like knocking the crutches out from a hypocondiatic-cripple's hands and making him walk. Sure, Larry stumbled a bit, hit some real clunkers, but boy who doesn't? If he resists the temptations the effects present him he'll have to learn to make his own effects. Then when he plays effects he'll have a stronger foundation in which to lean upon for when those trivial toys fail him. I say stick with the sound and slowly learn to use it. I like it. In any event, I think Larry's new use of a clean sound also attributed to the slowness.
  3. Larry M. didn't show up until the Doin' That Rag. This left Scott alone and no one ever accused him of being the fastest.
  4. Freakboy was not rambunctious in moving us on.
  5. Lastly we come the Kevin. Actually, I think he played pretty well and was not a factor in the general slowness of the night.
• In the end I'm not the fastest either and a little slowness, while not boiling the blood of the Freaky One, does give us more room to explore the caverns in the songs. With Brotman not there either, there were many more paths to to go down. Kevin seemed to love the Ramble on Rose from that perspective.
• Scott picked up some nice lighting effects including a real Lava Lamp as well as colorful tubes to cover up the fluorescents. I like them. The Lava Lamp made me loose my place during the Ramble on Rose.
• All in all, it was a weird night.

• We went for the second week in a row to Mama Manganoro's Heroboy located at 492 Ninth Avenue. While the place shows a lot of promises it is also filled with many lies.
• Don't get me wrong, the food is pretty good, it's just no sufficient for our appetites.
• We had veal and chicken parms, sausage and peppers, salad and rice balls. In many respects, it's like Chinese food. You get it, your psyched, you munch but then you say what's next? The variety in tastes and textures is too limited without being superlative in any aspect. As a matter of fact it is lacking in salad content, crunchiness, desserts, drinks and whatever other little specials there are to end up with a good posting.
• We ate prior to the jam, which really works well, we get lots of music in without the major disruption. We just need to plan a sweet miniature halftime where the desserts are just waiting. Maybe our hotel manager from Brazil also delivers Yankee Doodles. Some how I doubt it. Most of the second set, Freakboy stood guard trying to get us a room. We are going to have to plan a band vacation down there when that place opens up.
• Spillboy, maybe a one day heir to the Security Office Furniture fortune, was kind enough to find us a few drinks. Think "sell chair, get check" and that the word "baked" is not in you creed.

• Shakedown was pretty good. It was in that slow vein but it did have a solid foundation which we hung from and had confidence in. It eventually showed us the way to the end of a successful song. When you get confused. . . , you know how the song goes.
• I'm a little foggy on the Mama Tried but I recall a lot of trouble getting the Big River going.
• Ramble on Rose was super slow. As stated above, Kevin liked it for it. I thought it was "eh."
• Throwing Stones is one which I sang while hacking my lungs out between verses but I gave it the old Larry try.
• Brown-Eyed, Looks Like Rain, some one's going to have to refresh my memory on those.

• Perfect

Name: Larry G.
Date: 9/8/97
Time: 12:34:24 PM

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I writing during the afternoon prior to the Jam. I got some type of cold/flu, probably similar to what Larry B. had last week. I stayed home from work and I am planning all this out so I will be able to play tonight. What happens after that is my problem. Wish me luck and stay away from me. You don't want to share my microphone.

Name: Paul Pos
Date: 9/9/97
Time: 11:08:41 AM

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Thanks for the support. You're hired. The setlist for the wedding is looking something like this: NFA>Hora>NFA>GDTRFB>Kiddush>TLEO>Here Comes Trouble>It Hurts Me Too> Tradition>Lovelight E:Baby Blue Lips. Think you can handle it? Also, check out 'The Deadbeats' under Colorado on the Uncle John's Band page. That's my band! Our web page pales in comparision to Gin's (hell, so does Intel's) but it's something skoppy from Colorado. Jam on...

Name: Paul Pos
Date: 9/9/97
Time: 11:11:45 AM

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Kevin summed up Deadstein perfectly on the phone yesterday: COMPULSION and REVULSION. Get into it.

Name: Menaker
Date: 9/10/97
Time: 1:48:48 AM

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Kevin's Mantra: Think "sell chair, get check" I can't stop giggling....

Name: Menaker
Date: 9/10/97
Time: 1:50:22 AM

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Kevin's Mantra: Think "sell chair, get check" I can's stop giggling....

Name: KEVIN
Date: 9/10/97
Time: 8:37:02 AM

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If only my reality was as funny as a Deadstein post.---Anyway, this week was Skoppy as usual, with some interesting moments. The big news is most definitely LarryB and his wacky-music-machine, after days of agonizing about his sound and equipment, we have subdued the problem and gotten a more-than-adequate result. Now LarryB can focus on the real and important issues at-hand. Good luck, I'm sure all will go well. Freakboy gave another -75% performance. I'm getting used to it (I'm sure that's his freaky plan in order to keep the pressure off--expect nothing, get nothing). Good effort by TheGind for his ambulatory Bobbyisim and by Scotty for his solo slow drumming and making the ambiance at WWI freakier and freakier, that's a good thing. The overall sound in the room has gotten really good, I'm happy with it, I like the sound of the tapes as well. One last thing---EEK ! A MOUSE!!

Name: Jonathan Long
Date: 9/10/97
Time: 4:25:56 PM

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Comedic Genius. That's what we'll change Larry Gindoff's name to. Because that's what he is. I'm Freakboy. That's what they call me. Because that's what I am.

Whenever I feel that LG has outdone himself with his posting, I so state it in my comments. Well he has outdone himself again. This stuff is funny. Real funny. When I read through it this morning, I was laughing so hard, I thought I was going to hurt myself. Lucky for me I was able to gather myself together and get through the day. They did not have to send an ambulance to take care of me. But it was close.

I didn't move the slow tempos along because I enjoyed them. It does give you room to explore the tune when you have more time to do the exploring.

Kudos to Scotty for picking up that Lava Lamp action. Watching those gobs of goo go up and down and all around, separating from and combining with itself is hypnotic and entertaining.

But back to CG:

I enjoyed the Brazilian Yankee Doodle line but I think we'd have to pay some sort of premium for those Doodles.

More to follow.

Name: Larry G.
Date: 9/10/97
Time: 8:59:55 PM

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I appreciate everyone's kind words on the posting. It's unfortunate it takes me three pages to get 2 two funny lines. At least it's like Jerry. I could live without comments on the postings if you guys could focus a little more on the specifics of the songs we played and what was good and or bad, those are the memories to have. The cybermade post-memories are worth virtually nothing. Provide musical critcisms that could help us play better. After all, we don't go to up to Kutcher's on Sunday Nights as "Dead Troupe"

Name: Slow Drum
Date: 9/10/97
Time: 10:03:59 PM

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The Gind's comments on the nights festivities were on or close to the way I remember them. If you want to talk about the Mama / Big river , Yea those tunes just didn't get goin. But the Ramble on rose was so sweet, and the Throwing Stone I thought was really powerful and just kept going full force. The Brown Eyed Women although was suposed to be a fast tempo,but we couldnt even start out all together. I feel after we all established were we where going the tune got going.Well what can I say the Doin That Rag just does it for me. I would love to do more obscure/ rare tunes in the rotation. I guess my only opportunity is going to be next week when my birthday set will be designed accordingly. Dancin has some real potential if only we could check out some 76 - 77 tapes to get the right groove. We were real close!!!!! The Touch Of Grey was unbeleivable. Why wasn't Freak Boy downstairs at this point. It was by far the best we ever played that nugget. By the time Playin came we were all pretty much spent. All The Best To The Brent Family. Can't wait for the email of new arrival.

Name: Larry G.
Date: 9/11/97
Time: 1:57:11 AM

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Wow, I didn't think the Touch was too good but I do appreciate Scott's effort in talking songs. You gotta realize the more obscure stuff tends to be weirder and just more of a pain in the ass to complete. In many respects you thinks what's the point. It's probably the main reason the song became obscure.

Name: KEVIN
Date: 9/11/97
Time: 8:09:05 AM

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I'll give 'ya some song talk...This week had a peculiar, but endearing trait in the jams. The Shakedown, Ramble On, BE Women all fell apart at one time or another in the jam, not completely apart, but out of key, out of structure and out of motif. They then came right back together without missing a beat or a raise of an eyebrow. Almost as if they were rehearsed; very Dead-Like. I liked that. Back to LarryB and his sound for a moment--In the Ramble On Rose LarryB had a couple of notes in the lead that employed a technique that was previously unavailable to him, due to tone: The thumb-nail-touching-the-string picking maneuver. A very effective and tasty move, I look foward to the development of this procedure.

Name: Jonathan Long
Date: 9/11/97
Time: 11:11:56 AM

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Mazel Tov to the Brent Family on the arrival of their bouncing baby boy.

Name: Scott
Date: 9/11/97
Time: 2:20:25 PM

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Mazel TOV to the Brent family. All the best from the Gibson clan

Name: Menaker
Date: 9/11/97
Time: 4:09:37 PM

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All the best to the Brents. Congratulations!