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On Friday, Sept. 20 we played the East End to a small but exuberant crowd. Another fun show and we were on a roll. Mark "The Red Baron" Macturk sat in again on trumpet on a couple of tunes. A fun night with lots of tunes this version of the Chops has never tried. Check it out, here's what you missed...

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 20 - EAST END CAFÉ - NEWARK, DE. - Brad/El Tempo/Christian/Steve
w/ Red Baron guesting on trumpet *
(composers or sources in parentheses; bolded are songs by written band members)

SET ONE:
The LAST TIME (Jagger/Richards)
WANTED MAN (Dylan)
SILLY OLD FOOL (Brad)
FACTORY GIRL (Jagger/Richards)
NO EXPECTATIONS (Jagger/Richards)
LIFEBOAT (Brad)
TURNING OF THE TIDE (Richard Thompson)
YOU WIN AGAIN (Hank Williams)
TEXAS TOWN (Jim Brighton)
ZIGGY STARDUST (David Bowie) debut
WHY WASTE TIME (Brad)
FUNNY HOW TIME SLIPS AWAY (Willie Nelson)
ONE AFTER 909 (Lennon/McCartney)
WHILE MY GUITAR GENTLY WEEPS (George Harrison)

SET TWO:
EVERY DAY I WRITE THE BOOK (Elvis Costello)
SNAKE CHARMER (Brad)
IDIOT WIND (Dylan)
RAINBOW MAN (Brad)
> FOUR SQUARE (Steve)
LIVING THE BLUES (Dylan)
 IT·S SO HARD (John Lennon)
LOW SPARK OF HIGH HEELED BOYS (intro)(Traffic) *
> BEMSHA SWING (tease) (Thelonious Monk) *
> JEAN-PIERRE (tease) (Miles Davis) *
> LOW SPARK· (riff) (Traffic) *
>  IN MEMORY OF ELIZABETH REED (riff) (Allman Bros. Band)  *
> LOW SPARK... (Traffic) (pt. one) *
> JEAN-PIERRE (Miles Davis)  *
> TEMPO CITY (drum solo) (El Tempo)
> IN MEMORY OF ELIZABETH REED (tease) (Allman Bros. Band) *
> LOW SPARK... (pt. two) (Traffic) *
> LIGHT UP OR LEAVE ME ALONE (Traffic) debut
> I·M SO GLAD (one verse & jam) (Skip James/Cream) debut
. > ROCK ME MY BABY (Buddy Holly)
GET OUT (Steve)
ATLANTIC CITY (Springsteen)
STEADY ROLLIN· MAN' (Robert Johnson)
ROCKY MOUNTAIN WAY (Joe Walsh)
set two: 89 minutes

notes: Despite a low turnout (okay so all you folks better have been at the Stones show!), this show was a blast which a bunch of tunes this edition has never tackled or rarely does. The first set featured a debut of Bowie’s ZIGGY STARDUST (How fun was that? Once Brad doesn’t have to make up the words as he goes this will be way cool). There were a couple of tunes that we have recently added to the book and pulled out again, WHILE MY GUITAR GENTLY WEEPS (which ended the set), YOU WIN AGAIN and Dylan’s WANTED MAN. We opened with the Stones’ LAST TIME which we used to play a lot when Steve first joined the band way back when but hadn’t played in a couple of years. We jammed it out a bit a la the Yardbirds. We also tried a couple of Stones tunes (as Brad mentioned from the stage, "We’re always hard up for a theme for the evening so we’d like to thank the Rolling Stones for coming to town") that the earlier versions of the Chops used to break out on occasion. FACTORY GIRL and NO EXPECTATIONS, the latter of which Butch used to sing as a bluegrass tune in the original Chops. Tonight Stevie sang it and we stuck closer to the recorded bluesy mood. We also brought back TURNING OF THE TIDE, a jaunty little Richard Thompson number that we haven’t done since Keith Moss used to play bass with us (pre-Christian and Steve). TEXAS TOWN, a great tune by our good friend Jimmie B. of Stackabones was pulled out since Pat from BZB was in the crowd. I think we finally have a handle of Willie Nelson’s FUNNY HOW TIME SLIPS AWAY, one of THE greatest songs ever and our best tune of the set!

Set Two began with another tune we don’t play too often but should, Elvis Costello’s EVERYDAY I WRITE THE BOOK. Brad’s old tune SNAKE CHARMER from the Chops 1st cd Prototype, has transmogrified into a jammy number over the last few months. Running 7 minutes as opposed to the orig. 3 or so, it allows for some midi stretching by Mr. Hobson. A favorite Dylan tune of the band IDIOT WIND was next and was really good until a bit of a breakdown during the instrumental part. Oh well. RAINBOW MAN > FOUR SQUARE is an original medley that will be on our next cd (coming, I promise) which was followed by Stevie’s new favorite Dylan tune LIVING THE BLUES, only performed once by Bob back in 68 on the Johnny Cash show and released on Self-Portrait. Dylan pulled this one out of mothballs himself on occasion a year or so ago. John Lennon’s blues IT’S SO HARD had been attempted once or twice a year or so ago and then forgotten but Brad won’t let this rockin’ tune die. The Red Baron joined us onstage for this and the big medley that followed. A short LOW SPARK intro found the trumpet playing the LIZ REED riff over Brad’s quotes from Thelonious Monk’s BEMSHA SWING and teasing Miles’ JEAN-PIERRE into a multi-faceted little excursion around the SPARK changes before Brad sang the 1st verse. We oops our way through the changes during the bridge (which we’d finally rearranged, but still haven’t mastered after years of doing it our own way). By the time we got around to the 2nd verse the bridge was done just fine, thank you. Slowly but surely folks! This led into an extended take on Miles Davis’ JEAN-PIERRE with Brad getting his wah dirty and some nice soloing from The Baron and Steve. It picked up speed and launched into a drum solo from El Tempo before Steve started the LIZ REED figure again finally settling into the last verse of LOW SPARK before a funky final jam. This wound down into a big E chord that set up our debut of Traffic’s LIGHT UP OR LEAVE ME ALONE which was a bit tentative and not quite there but which evolved into a huge almost VIOLA jam that Stevie turned into Cream’s I’M SO GLAD. This was a wild card call. We’ve teased it once at Fat Rick’s years ago and have threatened to learn it but have never gotten around to it. This was fat and outside with Brad playing some psychedelic distorted wah under Stevie’s Clapton-esque solo. We jammed it a bit and wound down into the rockabilly rave-up Buddy Holly’s ROCK ME MY BABY. Rockin’. Stevie’s rockin’ tune GET OUT kept things movin’. Christian followed with Springsteen’s song ATLANTIC CITY that we do sort of half like The Band and half like the Boss. For this rarely played tune, Stevie switched to bass for this and Chris strapped on the Strat. Clapton’s STEADY ROLLIN’ MAN was smokin’ maybe the best of the night. We ended by taking a ballsy stab at ROCKY MOUNTAIN WAY pushing our way towards 1:15am. Fun night. Great to have our old buddy Bud Ochs helping us out with roadie duties back from his sojourn in the wasteland

 
WHOA THERE CHESTER...IF YOU WEREN'T THERE SHAME SHAME SHAME
LAST MONTH AT THE EAST END CAFE, MR. GREG OSBY, JAZZ MASTER OF THE UNIVERSE, BRIEFLY LOST CONSCIOUSNESS AND WAS CARRIED UNKNOWINGLY ONTO THE STAGE WHERE HE AWOKE AMIDST OUR UNSIGHTLY PASTY FACED SELVES ONLY TO FIND HIS SAXOPHONE IN HAND AND A GROOVE TUCKED UNDER HIS VERY HIGHLY POLISHED SHOES. BEFORE HE KNEW IT HE'D BEEN ADOPTED BY WOLVES WHO SURROUNDED THE STAGE, HOWLING AND REFUSING TO ALLOW HIM EXIT FOR OVER TWO HOURS. 
 
HE HAD TO BRAVE SOME GUY DOING BACKFLIPS IN THE MOSH PIT INSPIRED BY THE REFLECTION IN THE OZ' LOAFER AND THE CHILL HIPPIE SOUNDS EMANATING FROM AROUND HIM. TWO DAYS LATER MR. OSBY, A POLL-TOPPING, BLUE NOTE RECORDING ARTIST WITH YEARS OF MAJOR INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL, CLUB AND STUDIO WORK BEHIND HIM, AWOKE IN HIS OWN BED AND WONDERED IF IT HAD ALL BEEN A TWISTED SALVADOR DALI CORN MAZE NIGHT SWEAT.
 

BUT AS THE HAZE LIFTED, THINGS SEEMED TO BE BACK TO NORMAL. HE PUT ON A POT OF COFFEE AND WALKED DOWN THE DRIVEWAY TO RETRIEVE HIS SUNDAY PAPER - THERE IN THE ARTS & LEISURE SECTION OF THE NY TIMES, HE WAS CALLED "(ONE) OF THE MOST IMPORTANT JAZZ MUSICIANS OF THE PAST 20 YEARS" IN THE SUNDAY PAPER TWO DAYS LATER - EVERYTHING WAS FINE...UNTIL...OUT OF THE LAUNDRY HAMPER HE SMELLED THE STRANGE SCENT OF PATCHOULI AND CHICKEN FINGERS AND IT ALL STARTED TO COME BACK TO HIM LIKE AN ODDLY FUZZY PINT OF MOO GOO GAI PAN...YES, HE'D PLAYED WITH THE PORCH CHOPS IN FRONT OF TWIRLING, SWIRLING, YELPING, MELTING HORDES (OK, WELL MORE THAN 50 OF Y'ALL)...

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OZ THOUGHT MAYBE THIS WAS JUST A MINI-FLASHBACK FROM HIS RECENT SIT-IN W/ PHIL LESH & FRIENDS IN CAMDEN, SIMILAR FACES, BLUE CLOUD AND FOR SOME UNEXPLAINABLE REASON HE CALLED US AND SAID HE'D LOVE TO STOP BY AND DO IT AGAIN.  WAS IT THE HOWLING HIPPIE CHICKS? THE STAR TREATMENT (HA!)? COULD IT HAVE BEEN WAYNE SOLOING ALONG WITH HIM ON HIS RECORDER FROM SOMEWHERE OUT IN THE ETHER? "WHAT'S WITH THE GUY IN THE F#%!?N' GONUTS SHIRT?"
 
WE DIDN'T BOTHER TO QUESTION HIS TEMPORARY INSANITY, OR MENTION THAT HIM SITTIN' IN WITH US IS SORT OF LIKE DRIVING A FORMULA ONE CAR AT THE GO-KART TRACK, (WHAT WAS IN THAT CRANBERRY SELTZER, SHELBY?) WE JUST LEFT THE SCREEN DOOR ON THE PORCH WIDE OPEN AND SAID, "Y'ALL COME BACK NOW HEYAH"
 
THANKS TO ALL OF YOU THAT CAME OUT FOR SUCH A GREAT RESPONSE. GREG HAD SOME NICE E-MAILS COME HIS WAY AFTER THE GIG TOO.
 
CHECK OUT THE PHOTO AND SETLIST BELOW (if you can't see them or the poster above go to www.porchchops.com)
CHECK OUT OSBY'S NEW CD "INNER CIRCLE" ON BLUE NOTE RECORDS IN STORES NOW
AND HEAD TO www.gregosby.com FOR LOTS OF HIP THANGS AND FREE DOWNLOADS OF KILLER SHOWS,,,
 
HERE'S WHAT YOU MISSED
SPECIAL THANKS TO OUR OLD PALS JOE AMBROSINO, MARK "RED BARON" MACTURK, BUTCH ZITO AND LESLIE CAREY FOR SITTIN' IN WITH US, TO CRAIG THE SOUND MAN FOR THE EVENING AND ALL YOU DANCERS, TAPERS, PHOTOGS AND VIDEOGRAPHERS TOO...
 
 
WHAT WE PLAYED 8/16/02 - GREG OSBY on alto saxophone for SET TWO:

SET ONE:

SET TWO:

1. WHY WASTE TIME (Brad)

13. RAINBOW MAN (Brad)

2. BE FRIENDLY (Stella Hobson)

> 14. FOUR SQUARE (Steve)

3. HENRY (N.R.P.S.)

15. BIG CHIEF (intro) (Wild Tchiapitulas)

4. L.A. (Neil Young) (our first time ever)

> 16. DON’T LET GO (pt. 1) (Jesse Stone)

5. SILLY OLD FOOL (Brad)

> 17. JEAN-PIERRE (tease) (Miles Davis)

6. GLASS ONION (Lennon/McCartney)

> 18. DON’T LET GO (pt. 2) (Jesse Stone)

7. LIFEBOAT (Brad)

19. SNAKE CHARMER (Brad)

8. GET OUT (Steve)

20. DREAMS (Allman Bros.)

9. WICKED MESSENGER (Dylan)

21. CROSSCUT SAW  (R.T. Ford)

10. SHED THIS SKIN (Brad)

22. HERE COMES SUNSHINE (Grateful Dead)

11. WOLFMAN’S BROTHER (Phish)

> 23. MOUNTAIN JAM (tease) (Allman Bros.)

> 12. GOLDEN ROAD (Grateful Dead)

> 24. HERE COMES SUNSHINE (end)  (Grateful Dead)

25. WEST L.A. FADEAWAY (Grateful Dead)

26. IF I COULD ONLY (Brad)

27. the BLACK LIZARD (excerpt) (Japanese soft core porno dialog)

> 28. DARK STAR (pt. 1) (Grateful Dead)

> 29. BEMSHA SWING (tease) (Thelonius Monk)

> 30. The OTHER ONE (jam) (Grateful Dead)

> 31. TOMORROW NEVER KNOWS (Lennon/McCartney)

> 32. DARK STAR (pt. 2) (Grateful Dead)

> 33. NEW SPEEDWAY BOOGIE (Grateful Dead)

34. FOLSOM PRISON BLUES (pt. 1) (Johnny Cash)

> 35. ROCK N ROLL (Led Zeppelin)

> 36. BLACK DOG (Led Zeppelin)

> 37. SHOULD I STAY OR SHOULD I GO (The Clash)

> 38. FOLSOM PRISON BLUES (pt. 2) (Johnny Cash)

39. SWEET EMOTION (intro) (Aerosmith)

> 40. TANGLED UP IN BLUE (Dylan)

ENCORE:

41. AND IT STONED ME  (Van Morrison)

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Friday, May 17th, 2002

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"8TH ANNUAL PORCH CHOPS ZIMMY-A-THON"
EAST END CAFÉ - NEWARK, DE
with special guests BUTCH ZITO and BOBBY BLOOMINGDALE

SET ONE:

SET TWO:

1. LIKE A ROLLING STONE

11. TANGLED UP IN BLUE

2. IF DOG’S RUN FREE

12. SIMPLE TWIST OF FATE

3. MAN IN THE LONG BLACK COAT

13. YOU’RE A BIG GIRL NOW

4. THE WICKED MESSENGER

14. IDIOT WIND

5. THINGS HAVE CHANGED

15. YOU’RE GONNA MAKE ME LONESOME WHEN YOU GO

6. SARA

16. MEET ME IN THE MORNIN’

7. TELL ME THAT IT ISN’T TRUE

17. LILY ROSEMARY & THE JACK OF HEARTS

8. WANTED MAN

18. IF YOU SEE HER SAY HELLO

9. QUEEN JANE APPROXIMATELY

19. SHELTER FROM THE STORM

10. SLOW TRAIN

20. BUCKETS OF RAIN
    

21. WHEN I PAINT MY MASTERPIECE

22. JUST LIKE TOM THUMB’S BLUES

ENCORE:

23. LIVING THE BLUES

24. DON’T THINK TWICE, IT’S ALL RIGHT


notes: 8th Annual Zimmy-A-Thon was a blast though the turn-out was a bit light due to the AllGood festival pulling lots of fans out of Newark. It was a real fun night for us in that we played one entire Bob album in its entirety chosen by the fans via our website and newsletters. BLOOD ON THE TRACKS was 1st choice with DESIRE and BLONDE ON BLONDE second. 10 out of the 24 Dylan tunes we played we had never played before so there was a lot of chart reading going on. Our eyes got a workout. Another cool thing was that Stevie played his old acoustic Martin for most of the evning. Nice to have the rare chance at hearing him "unplugged". We opened with the rarely played classic LIKE A ROLLING STONE with Steve, Brad and Chris all alternating vocals. Next was our first stab at the obscure and jazzy, IF DOGS RUN FREE from the New Morning album. We got some great comments on this one and requests to keep it in the rotation. Another 2 debuts followed with Oh Mercy’s MAN IN THE LONG BLACK COAT and THE WICKED MESSENGER form the John Wesley Harding album. El Tempo’s been trying to get us to learn the latter for a decade THINGS HAVE CHANGED is a fave of Chris & Brad’s and the only Oscar winning tune we do. What followed were 5 debuts in a row starting with the wonderful love song from Desirte, SARA. Sin City bassist Bobby Bloomingdale joined us on the upright for the rest of the set starting with TELL ME THAT IT ISN’T TRUE a tune the Sin City boys havbe been known to cover. Stevie took the vocal reignes for WANTED MAN which was written by Dylan for Johnny Cash. Christian then crooned a Deadish versio of QUEEN JANE and we ended the set with the deep groove of SLOW TRAIN. Set two consisted primarily of the BLOOD ON THE TRACKS songs in order. Original Chopper Butch Zito played mandolin for most of the set (and electric guitar on SIMPLE TWIST while Steve picked at the mandolin) and Bobby played upright on everything except TANGLED and IDIOT WIND. A fun set if a bit searching on the endoings of all the new songs! BUCKETS OF RAIN was probably my favorite and if you weren’t there for the 16 verse LILY, ROSEMARY & THE JACK OF HEARTS, sorry but we will NEVER attempt that one again. After about 10 verses the band had a hard time keeping a stright face, hoping and praying that the next verse would be the last, Whew. That’s a workout. TOM THUMB’S was fun with Butch and Christina action out rock star poses and Four Tops moves in time to the music. Pretty scary. We want to thank Jerry for videotaping the gig for us and Tucker for multi-tracking the entire evening. And a fine job on the sound from our one-armed soundman, Stacy. Heal quickly, buddy.

Friday, April 12th, 2002

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EAST END CAFÉ, MAIN STREET, NEWARK, DE

BRAD, EL TEMPO, KURT, CHRISTIAN & STEVE
w/ MARK (aka RED BARON) MARTURK: TRUMPET;
PETE GERBER: CONGA sittin' in at some point or other

(approximate Composers or sources in parentheses)

SET ONE:

SET TWO

1. RAINBOW MAN (Brad)

1. NATALIE WOULD (Brad)

2. > FOUR SQUARE (Steve)

2. SLOW TRAIN (Dylan)

3. MARTHA’S GLEN (Brad)

3. CROSSROAD BLUES (Robert Johnson)

4. LIFEBOAT (Brad)

4. TWO DAYS FROM TOMORROW (Brad/Christian)

5. WHILE MY GUITAR GENTLY WEEPS (George Harrison)

5. GLASS ONION (Lennon/McCartney)

6. SHED THIS SKIN (Brad)

6. HENRY (John Dawson)

7. BE FRIENDLY   (Stella Hobson - Steve's mom)

7. GET OUT (Steve)

8. DON’T PASS ME BY (Richard Starkey)

8. SNAKE CHARMER (Brad)

9. HERE COMES SUNSHINE (Garcia/Hunter)

9. GOLDEN ROAD… (Grateful Dead)

> 10. MOUNTAIN JAM (Donovan Leitch/Allman Bros.)

10. A NIGHT IN TUNISIA (tease) (Dizzy Gillespie)

> 11. GOIN’ DOWN THE ROAD FEELIN’ BAD (traditional)

> 11. WOLFMAN’S BROTHER (Phish)

> 12. QUINN THE ESKIMO (Dylan)

13. SHAPES OF THINGS (McCarty/Relf/Samwell-Smith)

14. DREAMS (Allman Bros)

15. MARY JANE’S LAST DANCE (Tom Petty)

16. JESSICA (tease) (Dickey Betts)

> 17. TANGLED UP IN BLUE (pt. 1) (Dylan)

> 18. CHINA CAT SUNFLOWER (tease) (GD)

> 19. TANGLED UP IN BLUE (pt. 2) (Dylan)

> 20. VIOLA LEE BLUES (traditional)

> 21. Theme from THE SOPRANOS

> 22. SUN RA MEDLEY (Sun Ra)

> 23. P-FUNK (JAM) (George Clinton)

> 24. I’M SO GLAD (tease) (Skip James)

> 25. NOT FADE AWAY (Buddy Holly)

Wednesday, April 10th, 2002

BETWEEN BOOKS, HARVEY RD & PHILA. PIKE - CLAYMONT, DE 

"THE MISADVENTURES OF MERCY WALSH: SOMETIMES THE ZEBRA HAS WHITE STRIPES" PRODUCTION 6 - a multi-media event created and written by OWEN JACKSON, JR. (DAMON BETZ) with MIKE BETZ (poetry) and music from TWO VAGRANTS: BUTCH ZITO: MAND/BV, BR: AG/EG/HARP/LV;  sound and fx and KEYS by SALVATORE 

THE MISADVENTURES OF MERCY WALSH

"SOMETIMES THE ZEBRA HAS WHITE STRIPES"

SCENE 1: PROLOGUE

1. I WANNA TO BE SEDATED (Bossa Nova version) (The Ramones)

SCENE 2: TERRA INGOGNITA

2. SLOW TRAIN COMIN’ (debut performance) (Dylan)

SCENE 3: RED MEN

SCENE 4: PROLOGUE B

3. SPACE (Brad & Butch)

> 4. DIVINING ROD (Brad & Butch)

> 5. SPACE (Brad & Butch)

SCENE 5: POISON & KINKS

6. TEXAS TOWN (Jim Brighton)

SCENE 6: LIMERICK

7. SPACE (Brad & Butch)

Friday, March 8th, 2002

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Here's what y'all missed at the last gig 3/8/02 at the GOOSE CREEK GRILL in PAOLI:
Brad, El Tempo, Stevie, Christian and the ever facially contorted Dieter Mossberg sittin' in.

SET ONE:

SET TWO:

SET THREE:

1. The LETTER

12. OPHELIA 

25. WEST L.A. FADEAWAY

2. BLUE SKY

13. YOU WIN AGAIN

26. RAIN (pt. 1)

3. RAINBOW MAN

14. The JOKER

> 27. MOUNTAIN JAM (tease)

> 4. FOUR SQUARE

15. RED HOUSE

> 28. GOIN’ DOWN THE ROAD/YAKETY SAX (quote)/MOUNTAIN JAM (reprise)

5. PLAYBOY

16. LET IT BLEED

> 29. RAIN (pt. 2)

6. JACK-A-ROE

17. WALKIN’ IN THE PARK

30. LITTLE WING

7. SNAKE CHARMER

18. …MASTERPIECE

31. TANGLED UP IN BLUE

8. …NATALIE WOULD

19. COME TOGETHER

  

9. ONE AFTER 909

20. TUPELO HONEY

 

10. THEY LOVE EACH OTHER

21. NEW SPEEDWAY BOOGIE (pt. 1)

 

11. SHE BELONGS TO ME

> 22. HOW MANY MORE TIMES (jam)

 
 

> 23. The OTHER ONE (tease)

 
                        

> 24. NEW SPEEDWAY BOOGIE (pt. 2)

 

Set One: 60 minutes

Set Two: 70 minutes

Set Three: 48 minutes

A fun night at a new place. Thanks to the folks who came here from DE and places outbound. Hope you had as much fun as we did. Nice to have Dieter Mossberg back in the fold for the evening playing some bass and guitar and even singing the Stones LET IT BLEED. We had another special guest who had never played with us before (no rehearsal, all ears!) J.B., a Double Dose alumni who kicked butt on keyboards with us all night long. We’ll try to get him back whenever we can. Faves from the set: a nice SHE BELONGS TO ME that really grew up before our eyes. The OPHELIA, Hank Williams' YOU WIN AGAIN, JOKER openers in set two featured some great key work from J.B.; Brad put down his guitar for RED HOUSE and just blew the harp. This tune featured killer solos from Steve, JB, Brad and Dieter. Stevie wails on Muddy Waters’ WALKIN’ IN THE PARK followed by a tasty MASTERPIECE w/ Dieter switching to bass and Christian to guitar for the rest of the set. A rare but sloppy COME TOGETHER. After TUPELO HONEY we launched into NEW SPEEDWAY which really went huge and wild in the jam with Dieter pumping out the bassline for Zeppelin’s HOW MANY MORE TIMES. We all jumped in and played through it a couple of times. Way fun. This segued into a jam that felt like The OTHER ONE before getting giant and then dropping back down into the NEW SPEEDWAY ending. Set three started with a pumped if a bit jagged WEST L.A. which was extra long with double solos all around while Brad changed a string midway through. The Beatles RAIN was next with backwards guitar from Brad, glimmering waterfall guitar from Steve and thunderburst bass from Dieter. The jam was spacey into a bit of a MTN JAM and then into a quick GDTRFB groove and riffs into which Stevie placed a nice quote of the head from Boots Randolph’s YAKETY SAX! LITTLE WING was nice and spaced with TANGLED ending things on a pumped up note. Sloppy fun with a new audience and configuration.

Friday, February 15th, 2002
(The post Valentine's Day Love Fest!)

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Apex Watson did a killer opening set and brought in some nice people. We played one long 2.5 hour set. Lots of fun if not the tightest set ever. The two long medleys were especially charged, w/ a rare version of HAND JIVE pulled from the extra large chapeau and a new spontaneous jam we’ll call FUZZY SLIPPERS out of an inside out JEAN-PIERRE (tease) soon followed by a nice percussion discussion between El Tempo and Kurt while we all laid out. The Monk/Marley thang was mercilessly brief into the remainder of DON’T LET GO. Stevie, fresh from an earlier couple of sets at the Blue Crab with the Sin City Band was warmed up and burnin’ all night. Christian debuted the SOPRANOS THEME out of NEW SPEEDWAY. The Red Baron added some funky trumpet to it also (27-31) . Not much original music this time but we’ll make up for it here next month when we play a full night.
If you weren't there, we missed ya. If you were, come on back. Here's the scoop...

ONE SET: 2.5 HOURS LONG!
1. INTRO/SPACE (Porch Chops)
> 2. JESSICA (tease) (Allman Bros)
> 3. SWEET EMOTION (tease) (Aerosmith)
> 4. TANGLED UP IN BLUE (Dylan)
5. WALKIN ‘ BLUES (Robert Johnson)
6. WEST L.A. FADEAWAY (GD)
7. SNAKE CHARMER (Brad)
8. TAXMAN (pt. 1) (Beatles)
> 9. P-FUNK JAMS (P-Funk)
> 10. TAXMAN (pt.2) (Beatles)
11. STEADY ROLLIN’ MAN (Robert Johnson)
12. LIVING THE BLUES (Dylan)
13. MARY JANE’S LAST DANCE (Tom Petty)
14. TWO DAYS FROM TOMORROW (w/ new bridge) (Brad/Christian)
15. PROMISED LAND (Chuck Berry)
16. GOLDEN ROAD… (GD)
17. GET OUT (Stevie)
18. WILLIE & THE HAND JIVE (Johnny Otis)
> 19. BIG CHIEF (INTRO) (Wild Tchiapitoulas)
> 20. DON’T LET GO (pt. 1) (Jesse Stone)
> 21. JEAN-PIERRE (tease) (Miles Davis)
> 22. FUZZY SLIPPERS JAM (Porch Chops)
> 23. BEMSHA SWING (tease) (Thelonious Monk)
> 24. GERPARDI JAM (Gershman/Chiappardi)
> 25. MEDLEY: BEMSHA SWING (Monk) /LIVELY UP YOURSELF (Bob Marley)
> 26. DON’T LET GO (pt. 2) (Jesse Stone)
Band intros
27. NEW SPEEDWAY BOOGIE (GD)
> 28. THEME FROM THE SOPRANOS
> 29. THANK YOU FALLETIN’ ME BE MICE ELF AGAIN (Sly Stone)
> 30. P-FUNK JAM (riff) (P-Funk)
> 31. THEME FROM THE SOPRANOS (reprise)
ENCORE:
32. RIPPLE (GD)

Friday, January 18th, 2002

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January 18th, our first gig of 2002...
A lengthy George Harrison tribute at the start of set 2 w/ original Chop Tom Melvin adding some funky guitar riffs on TAXMAN. We pulled a few tunes out of our wigs for the first time too: Robert Johnson's STEADY ROLLIN' MAN that we copped from an Eric Clapton record, the Allman Brothers' DREAMS, the '66 Grateful Dead tune GOLDEN ROAD, and two of the George tunes. Quite fun. The other original PORCH CHOP, Zutch Bito also sat in for a good chunk of the second set on mandolin. We even let him sing one. (Okay, we were drunk). We even got the RED BARON up for some trumpet improv in set two. A great dancin' crowd once again. But don't be afraid to dance early... no one will steal your food (unless the drummer's on break). Craig did a great job with the sound, thanks pal.

If you weren't there, we missed ya. If you were, come on back. Here's the scoop...

SOUNDCHECK:

SET TWO:

1. BAKERSFIELD BOUND (Chris Hillman)

15. TAXMAN (G. Harrison)

2. PLAYBOY (Chris Hillman)

16. HAWAII 5-0 (intro) (Ventures)

SET ONE:

> 17. DON’T BOTHER ME (G. Harrison)

3. RAINBOW MAN (Brad)

18. WHILE MY GUITAR GENTLY WEEPS (G. Harrison)

> 4. FOUR SQUARE (Steve)

19. DARK HORSE (George Harrison)

5. DON’T BE DENIED (Neil Young)

20. GET OUT (Steve)

6. THINGS HAVE CHANGED (Dylan)   

21. STUCK IN THE MIDDLE (Stealer's Wheel)

7. JUMP START (Brad)

22. DREAMS (Allman Bros)

8. SNAKE CHARMER (Brad)

23. WEST L.A. FADEAWAY (GD)

9. YOU’RE A BIG GIRL NOW (Dylan)

24. GET READY (pt. 1) (Clapton)

10. …NATALIE WOULD (Brad)

> 25. JEAN-PIERRE  (Miles Davis)

11. HERE COMES SUNSHINE (GD)

> 26. GET READY (reprise) (Clapton)

> 12. MOUNTAIN JAM (Allman Bros)

27. GOLDEN ROAD… (GD)

> 13. HERE COMES SUNSHINE (reprise) (GD)

28. WHEN THE FOG COMES ROLLIN’ IN (Butch Zito)

14. QUINN THE ESKIMO (Dylan)   

29. STEADY ROLLIN’ MAN  (Rbt. Johnson)

30. THEY LOVE EACH OTHER (GD)

31. PROMISED LAND (Chuck Berry)

32. TANGLED UP IN BLUE (Dylan)

ENCORE:

33. RIPPLE (GD)

34. VIOLA LEE BLUES (GD)