Tuesday, December 17, 1996 Notes | First Set | Second Set | Food | Weather First Set Bertha-> Feel Like a Stranger Ramble on Rose Mama Tried Mexicali Blues Scarlet Begonias-> Estimated Prophet-> Peggy-O Me & Bobby McGee Ship of Fools Good Lovin'  Second Set Victim or the Crime-> Foolish Heart-> I Need a Miracle-> Morning Dew-> One More Saturday Night Notes: We are all lucky, Kevin's Security Office Furniture Store web page, which I accidentally wrote over with my Father's Topco Inc. web page was able to be restored by the backup on my computer by 12:15 a.m. by 12:20 a.m. I was already starting the more important Deadstein page. It's not bad though, I'm watching a good Knicks replay against the Jazz as I do this. In addition, I prepared a page for next week for you guys to fill in the setlists and other info. You gotta love me. Well it's off to Court in the morning, pretty exciting stuff. I'm psyched. Well I better get this done soon, because if I show up late the Judge by bind and gag me like he did to Schmell in southern N.J., on the way back from a Phila. show. Ask Fortgang about it one day, good story, he was there. This was the first week in ten that we stopped our no repeat syndrome. There was a little pressure on use to perform and we choked a bit. Unlike most of the no repeat weeks where we played rarely played songs like we play them often, this week we played lots of standards and played them uncomfortably. In any case, it was sure fun to play lots of classics In attendance was the more subdued freak boy, or Crab-Boy as depicted on Kevin's setlist in the classic Crab-boy pose. Still wearing a tie-dye cape and ordering Flourent. There was no Rich Brotman, but Dennis filled in only during the Bertha. Stranger is a Dennis killer. Dennis installed a pretty cool new red light that shines on the Hendrix picture. Some dude, Ted, I think (Scott's friend), a Stationary Man showed up to sing a few songs. he had a nice soothing country like voice and sang a few songs in the first set. Actually he asked to a Dark Hollow early in the evening and was soon to learn the meaning of Kevin's set list. You'll sing Mama Tried and like it or sing nothing at all. This was one setlist we played in its entirety as originally written. I think I have noticed a nice trend of better, more reliable drumming over the past several weeks and it continued tonight.

General Comments About The Jam

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Name: Jonathan Long
Date: 19 Dec 1996

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Name: Jonathan Long
Date: 19 Dec 1996

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I enjoy our weekly jams. I know that my singing is not that good. I do, however try very hard to sing well. In fact, one of the many reasons for this recent period in my life is to gather the strength necessary to sing well. Please be patient with me. See you in '97.

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First Set Comments:

• Dennis was on the organ for the Bertha. This resulted in a waverly Bertha, if that means anything, but if you were on it you know what I mean. Like any of the songs we played, we played them with a little trepidation, apprehension and general stailness like we hadn't played them in a little while, which is true for many of the songs. It was good though, a predetermined three round lead resulted in a three round lead. Even at the time I bet Larry wished he hadn't predetermined to play three rounds because it was really cool for two.
• Feel Like a Stranger had a weak transition out of the Bertha and was sloppy and grooveless during the singing. It had its usually microwave burst during the jam into a powerful and successful whip to close.
• Ramble on Rose was weak. Not smooth and graceful.
• Ted sang the Mama Tried and it was good. The transition into Mexicali was poor, not fatal, but was just delayed by a measure or two, it resulting in the Mexicali being a major struggle throughout the entire song but we managed The Mama/Mex we could and should have done better but we were a bit stale.
• I thought the Scarlet was very good, percussive, solid and with confidence. The jam was played well into an organized dissipation of the theme into a nice jam.
• The Estimated started differently than I expected but it started and worked very well. We played it well,pretty much error free. The final jam was nice that we kept the seven beat throughout but were able to successfully stray from the original groove.
• We had a terrible transition into the Peggy-O which should have been better. Otherwise the Peggy was nicely quiet. All together, the Scarlet, Estimated, Peggy-O was the best played music of the first set.
• Ted sang the Bobby McGee and was very good on it and we played a quality Bobby McGee.
• Ship of Fools has been faltering as of late but this one was pretty good.
• Ted sang the Good Loving and once again we played a quality song behind him.

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Name: larry b
Date: 18 Dec 1996

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Ted's singing was excellent, a whole new deadstein thing for me to play and not sing. I thought the peggy-o was nice & delicate. It's nice to see Crab boy can take criticism and do so moch with it.

Name: KEVIN
Date: 19 Dec 1996

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Yeah, he takes criticism and does so much nothing. Have you heard our B-52's version of "Good Lovin'"? Nice singing Crab Lobster.

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Second Set Comments:

• The Victim was cool, not perfect by any stretch of the imagination. After all, Kevin was in a "two minutes after getting out of Penn Station in the A.M. zone. Larry M. had a funny comment just before we started the Victim where he said "I guess I won't speak to any of you until the end of the Saturday night." This is true and the idea of it was on my mind throughout much of the second set.
• We had a good transition into the Foolish Heart and played it well, we recently played both these songs and it showed.
• We had a poor transition into Miracle but it was okay
• I think the Dew was good, quiet when it had to be, pretty much mistake free, a good climb into the first lead and short but okay second lead.
• The Saturday Night was Saturday Night, and it was time to go

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 Half Time Food & Comments:

We had Flourent which Johnny so capably took care of. It came very quick, so quick we didn't have time to get drinks or desserts. This caused a bit of selfish friction which is a firecracker available to anyone to comment on. I think the food was fair at best, new larger English muffins, slightly soggy fries, non-distinguishable salad and no drinks. The food enjoyment was toned down a bit. Scott was the kind person to get the sodas in the end and had a nice choice with chipwich ice cream sandwiches. Chris Childs with a big three with 30 seconds left. Knicks up by three. Clutch moves by Childs, Johnny and Scott. The half pint of JackDaniels wa not adequate last week, I brought in the whole pint and it was just enough.

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Weather:

Very comfortable to warm for this time of the year. No complaints. Knicks win 99 to 94 over the Jazz and in the words of Marv Albert "The biggest win of the season." Now its time for me to go to sleep.

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