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Jam – 2009-11-03 – Carroll’s

November 4, 2009 · 7 Comments

DCC_4729_edited-1It’s a big election day here in New Jersey so I have the day off  and am enjoying the weather and the opportunity to pre-post the jam.  Rumor has it that Andy is playing with us tonight but we will see what happens when we get there.  This is what I wrote before I left for the city.

When I got there I met Kevin on 55th Street only to find out Andy was not making it.  We had to pull the old-double switch-a-roo which meant me moving to Jerry and Alan Wikler moving to Bob.  It worked well a few weeks ago so there was no reason to believe it wouldn’t be good tonight.  My initial thoughts were validated as we played well early on with they typical Deadstein fade into the weening hours.

We played predominantly Grateful Dead songs as the lineup dictates.  I was trying the find the balance when singing Bob songs while playing Jerry guitar, it sure is a different mindset.  I felt a little better about it tonight than I did in early October.

DCC_4731_edited-1As far as guests, besides the aforementioned Alan. We had Ken the cookie man, as he is getting to be known as, and let us not forget Bongo Scott Bayer.  There was Carol who was there, actively participating on the cell phone.  Rich brought the cookies home but could pawn off the peanut butter or canned something else. Kevin and I got into TabToolKit, an iPhone app I recently discovered that stored and plays guitar tabs.  He saw it and bought it right away.  I assume it will be useful at a jam some day.

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Highlights as I am trying to recall them is that we all survived without needing any time outs.  Actually the Playing jam had some good feel to it.  The Deep Elem Dark Hollow opener gave us time to easily find our place, setting up the rest of the night for some comfortable playing.

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To hear to 20 song evening you can go to the link below or just click on the individual song and give it a listen.

http://www.deadstein.com/audio/11-03-09/

In the world, it was election day a s previously noted and the Republican Party had a nice bounce back against the trouncing they experienced one-year ago.  This bounce back was locally highlighted by the victory by Morris County’s own Chris Cristie winning the New Jersey gubernatorial election.  We also have Scott moving on in the OFW (office furniture world) and finally the Yankees are coming home up 3-2 against the Phillies in the World Series.  Fall is over and so are my nice autumnally colored photos.  You can check them out at the links below:

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Jam – 2009-10-07 – Carroll’s

October 8, 2009 · 8 Comments

IMG_0268It 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.

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