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TWO VAGRANTS
Friday, September 28th, 2001 at HUGO'S INN

Butch & Brad played unplugged (and do we mean unplugged - no p.a. just acoustic guitars and the occassional mandolin, harmonica and vocal cords) at Hugo's near Longwood Gardens. In addition to having great food this is a nice room for us where we can play quietly, not take a ton of equipment and see all of your faces. Like being in your living room...or on your porch. We got a chance to play a lot of original music and oddly wound up doing a bunch of songs from Texas. Songs that cemented our musical friendship some 15 years ago before we formed the first incarnation of the Porch Chops. Here's what we played:

Set One: Butch's DON'T KNOW WHEN TO QUIT / IF YOU WERE A BLUEBIRD by the other Butch, no not Butch Patrick from the Munsters, Butch Hancock, the great Texas songwriter / SHE NEVER SPOKE SPANISH TO ME which we learned off of an LP by Texan Joe Ely / Hancock's WISHIN' FOR YOU / Neil Young's I BELIEVE IN YOU (one of the 1st tunes we ever played together) / Brad's IF I COULD ONLY from the Porch Chops' 1st cd / Van Morrison's TUPELO HONEY for Jeff & Kelly / Butch's SEE YA LATER (which we WILL record someday) / Joe Ely's I HAD MY HOPES UP HIGH / and Hancock's DALLAS

Set Two: Butch's BACK TO THE CLOUDS and TO THE TOP / the old bluegrass tune I'M TROUBLED / a blues tune of Brad's from the early Chops days THE QUESTION IS MOOT / Butch's INDIAN SONG / Brad's JUST A MEMORY (another tune that's been collecting dust) / Butch's sing-along WHEN THE FOG COMES ROLLIN' IN / JUMP START (a Brad tune from the "Prototype" cd) / Hank Williams' YOU WIN AGAIN / Brad's MARTHA'S GLEN and Butch's YOUR LOVE (both from "Prototype") / Michelle Shocked's FOGTOWN > Clapton's GET READY / a tear jerker version of Butch's ROSLYN TOWN for his friends in NY / the title song from PROTOTYPE / and an appropriate song for the times, Rodney Crowell's TILL I CAN GAIN CONTROL AGAIN (oh, somewhere in there Butchy played Tim O'Brien's great tune MOUNTAINEER)

Thanks to everyone who came out. It was great to see you all and
hope to see some more of you soon...

Friday, October 12th, 2001

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With Stevie and the Sin City Band playing across town, we invited ex-Chop Twinkter Mossberg back up onto the Porch. Though a father now and no longer sporting pink spikes he still came through with some hideous rock n roll faces and scorchin' riffs. He also brought along a friend of his keyboardist John Southard. In spite of having never heard a note of Porch Chops music John fit right in adding a propulsive energy to a bunch of tunes we pulled out in honor of Mr. Mossberg's appearance. If you missed it, don't worry, we won't let John get very far away. He'll be back. We also had a treat when Red Baron joined us onstage with his trumpet for a killer "Dark Star" medley and a beautiful solo on our debut live performance of "Imagine". We have his number too!

Here's what we played: SET ONE: We opened with an instrumental jam we'll just call SOUTHARD MAN in honor of our guest that had a bit of a Miles Davis JEAN-PIERRE tease tucked into the middle of it / the topical LET'S WORK TOGETHER an old Wilbert Harrison tune that I learned off of a Canned Heat record (also covered by Dylan and Roxy Music) / IF I COULD ONLY from our 1st cd / Dylan's JUST LIKE TOM THUMB'S BLUES. The final line, "I'm goin' back to New York City, I do believe I've had enough" sort of snuck up on us and got a nice roar of applause / Christian sang the Beatles' DON'T PASS ME BY / WHY WASTE TIME the lead tune from our "Lifeboat" cd / Neil Young's brooding ALBUQUERQUE / Peter Himmelman's MISSION OF MY SOUL which we haven't played in a couple of years / The Who's THE KIDS ARE ALRIGHT, a song of hope and fury / and ended the set with the Grateful Dead's WEST L.A. FADEAWAY...SET TWO: Christian sang a couple with Keith playing bass: Dylan's JOKERMAN / and Bruce's ATLANTIC CITY / Next was a long psychedelic jam on the Beatles' RAIN with a bit of Allman Bros.' MOUNTAIN JAM and tucked into the middle / We did Neil Young's HEART OF GOLD by request (almost remembered it all!) / TANGLED UP IN BLUE / THEY LOVE EACH OTHER / SUBTERRANEAN HOMESICK BLUES / and The Who's SQUEEZE BOX rocked out the last part of the set with the dancers crowding the floor. SET THREE was practically one long jam. We opened with Stone Temple Pilot's LADY PICTURE SHOW > Jimi's FOXY LADY > about 20 minutes of back & forth funky jamming on Sly Stone's THANK YOU FALLETIN' ME BE MICE ELF and the Talking Head's ONCE IN A LIFETIME / Once the Red Baron climbed onto the Porch and Stevie Hobson (fresh from his Sin City gig) jumped up to play some trade some guitar riffs with Twinkter we lit into a long and weird and churning DARK STAR which mutated into Sun Ra's SPACE IS THE PLACE before returing for an inside out final STAR verse. We ended the night with IMAGINE. Lots of fun and just what we all needed after such a touch couple of weeks.

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Saturday, Jan. 27th, 2001
Brad performed a rare solo acoustic set opening for our pals the
Leslie Carey Band at Brew Ha Ha in Branmar Plaza

December 29th, 2000
The Porch Chops Annual Holiday Before & After Bash !

November 10th, 2000
Porch Chops @ The East End Cafe 11-10-00
Check Out Some RealAudio:
Mary Jane's Last Dance> Jam...> West LA Fadeaway (download*)
Get Out, Life Boat (download*)
Money Intro> I'm Only Sleeping (download*)
* PC: shift-click, Mac: option-click to download, then open with RealPlayer or just double click on file
Check Out Photos From The Show

Brad/Kurt/El Tempo/Christian/Steve
* also with our buddy Pat Kelly on drums

SET ONE:
1. SILVIO
2. YOU’RE A BIG GIRL NOW
3. DON’T THINK TWICE, IT’S ALRIGHT
4. WALLFLOWER
5. JUST LIKE A WOMAN
6. LONESOME DEATH OF HATTIE CARROLL
7. SEVEN DAYS
set one: 70 min.

SET TWO:
8. SONG TO WOODY (our 1st ever)
9. OPEN THE DOOR, HOMER
10. IDIOT WIND
11. THINGS HAVE CHANGED
12. SIMPLE TWIST OF FATE
13. GOTTA SERVE SOMEBODY
14. SUBTERRANEAN HOMESICK BLUES *
set two: 58 min

SET THREE:
15. FOURTH TIME AROUND (our 1st ever)
16. LOVE MINUS ZERO/NO LIMIT
17. LOVESICK
18. SHELTER FROM THE STORM *
19. BLIND WILLIE McTELL
20. TIME PASSES SLOWLY (tease) >
 21. TANGLED UP IN BLUE
set three: 44 min