St Louis report
Dave Tempo
audio taping so a record will exist. I decided this trip I was going to
enjoy the music rather than worry about writing a set list or setting up my
video equipment. Here's what I can recall from Thursday's set list.
Opened with Hello
Supermarket People
Quimby / Panda
Physics
Dee n A / Bear Divide / Desired Effect
Dolphins/1988
Thanksgiving (completely unplugged)
Excerpt from Peaches
Excerpt from Moggio
Also select quotes from a Taylor review in some guitar magazine to the tune
of When I'm Sixty Four.
T-5 set
Amos Moses (Jerry Reed) and was easily my favorite
Snowcow
Blackbird (official demo song of the T-5 & soon to be named "BB1"* )
Inca
*Bryan asks that we all write in to Taylor and tell them we'd like to see /
purchase production versions of the Taylor electric bass prototype and that
we believe the model number should be "BB-1".
All in all a good clinic - there was about 30 people there, a bar right down
the street and it went about 2 hours. Very enjoyable. The room was very
long and narrow with a fairly low ceiling so throwing the strings was a
challenge for Bryan. He did something that has never happened in a clinic
before - nailed someone right in the skull with a set of strings. There was
no serious injury so the show went on. When they came back for the second
set Bryan made a comment that "Those of you who came back get a special
surprise, a brick of gold bouillon!". Immediately the guy who got hit says
"You're not going to throw them are you?" It was the line of the tour
according to the guys. Everyone had a great laugh.
Stayed for the show Friday night at Off Broadway. The bar is located across
the street from the now defunct Lemp Brewery and the oldest building in the
US still standing that brewed beer. I ran into Dan Kinney at the clinic and
he was promoting the show so I offered my services to help him in whatever
capacity he needed in so I could sit in on rehearsal Friday afternoon. The
guys showed up at around 3 and since this was Eric's first chance to play
live with the guys they went thru pretty much the whole show. The sound man
wasn't anywhere to be found so they just went with stage sound, no vocals
and played for 2 1/2 hours. Quite a fantastic experience might I add. Mr.
Slick is obviously a tremendously talented drummer - they dove right in to
Breakfast and where all the crazy-assed 13/4 time changes are were a little
rough at first, but after 10 minutes he had it down. I was amazed at how
well he executed on the material after just listening to various shows and
CD's. Watching someone 19 years old play for the very first time with Mike
and Bryan was a genuine treat. Around 6pm Bryan and Scott took off to get
coffee and Mike started playing Zombie Woof with Eric which was also a great
treat.
The show was not as well attended as I had hoped, but having the Cards
playing Game 2 of the NLCS probably kept some people away. The cover was
$20 which I also think had an effect on attendance, even tho I do think that
twenty bucks to see three bands of this caliber is worth it.
Someone was videoing and Dan Kinney has a soundboard so I hope to have a
copy of this show to trade soon. Here's an incomplete setlist (again,
listening rather than obsessing on details....)
Snowcow
Uglytown
Pencil Music
Scotch
Supermarket People
My Dilemma
1988 / Dolphins Suite
Panda
Pride is a Sin
Cause of Breakfast
Quimby
Inca Roads
First 90 seconds of The Entertainer
Secret Word - "Lemp" - Mike would make a rock gesture and the crowd was
instructed to yell LEMP!
Never seen Mike in trio format and very much enjoyed it. All three
definitely went "balls the the wall" and I was staggered that after having
his first rehearsal with the guys 8 hours earlier Eric NAILED the show.
What really amazed me most is that the kid didn't sweat - every drummer I
know has to change shirts during set breaks - this kid walks off stage after
shredding thru a marathon 2 hour Keneally show bone dry.
All in all a great 48 hours even though I am absolutely shagged. I drove
back from St Louis at 6 am Sat morning (3 1/2 hours) after getting about 3
hours sleep, picked up my family and headed to Omaha (3 hour drive) for a
housewarming party and then drove back to KC this morning in the rain. I'd
do it again in a heartbeat.
tomb...@aol.com
Kinney?
Is he a Forhead, or what?
Tommy Mc