Found an old set list from ten years ago. Would you have enjoyed the show?

MANNISH BOY

BOOM BOOM BOOM

I NEED YOU TONIGHT

ROCKY MOUNTAIN WAY

SWEET HOME ALABAMA

BLUES SHUFFLE (C)

BROWN EYED BLUES

BLACK MAGIC WOMAN

WHO DO YOU LOVE

HEY HEY MY MY

DAY OF THE EAGLE

MILISSA

RED HOUSE

ROCKIN IN THE FREE WORLD

APACHE

TIGHTROPE

THE WIND CRIES MARY

BLUES SHUFFLE (A)

FOOL FOR YOUR STOCKINGS

LITTLE WING

CHAMPAGNE & REEFER

VOODOO CHILE (SLIGHT RETURN)

:D

Some drunk guy was always good for a twenty! :P

;)

with its not so subtle tribute to George Wallace among other hideousnesses. Rest of it looks great, especially the Neil Young songs ( two of his very best), and definitely inspired choices in doing Wind Cries Mary and Apache ( Jorgen Ingmann-- and according to wikipedia , Ingmann also played on the Champs' hit version of Tequila, never knew that; knew that ether Seals or Crofts, or was it both, were in the Champs) ) Good start to the set too, with Muddy and Hooker....I also used to do Fool For Your Stockings, sung by our alcoholic, Bill O'Reilly fan drummer. ( now a sober O'Reilly fan--apparently sobering up didn't do much for his thinking skills). BTW, I also keep old set lists; reminds me sometimes of songs I'd forgotten about, and occasionally I'll bring em into a new band years later.

Not one of my favorite LS tunes musically either. One of the guitar players dug it though, gotta throw everyone a bone once in a while. :)

We did Jimmy Thackery's version of Apache. Remember one night this dude comes up to me at a break and says "man, you guys even do Surf music!" LOL, I had never even thought of the tune in that light, I just dug the groove and changes.

Black Magic Woman/Gypsy Queen was my favorite to play out of that set though. The drummer and I would really lock, and when we hit the break for GQ everything else just seemed to fade away.

Fool For Your Stockings was one of the few songs I sang. Not too bad a voice, just never got the hang of playing and singing at the same time, so simple bass lines like ZZ Top tunes make it much easier.

I understand about playing and singing simultaneously. I am strictly a singer/wind player, so not an issue, but I literally cannot so much as play a cowbell or maraca and sing. But we're in good company, B.B. King can't do it either. And bass---was just talking about this a couple of days ago, how it would seem like bass would be the hardest thing to play while singing, since you're sort of playing countermelodies all the time, sorta, kinda, I guess...hats off to Sting and Jack Bruce, huh? And also, yeah, I can see Gypsy Queen being a blast on percussion and bass....Do you still gig a lot in the bay area ? I have an old New Mexico friend that has done real well in the bay area. Name is Eric McFadden, a motherfucker on guitar if you've never seen him...I'm also a big fan of one of your local blues guys, Tommy Castro. I used to see him in the Dynatones a lot before he went out on his own, and another local Albuquerque guy, James Wickham played bass with them for a while. I've also seen Tommy's band several times , most recently last winter, and got to meet Keith Crossan the sax player , for the first time ( I'd met Tommy several times, and once had the great privilege of sitting in with him on harp for a few songs). They're coming back here pretty soon, but I have a gig that night. Oh well...:fistbump:

Plays complex bass lines and works the bass pedals while singing. Singing drummers amaze me too.

Not gigging since my kids hit jr high. Once they're both off to college I'll get back into it.

Tommy is the Man! Great stage presence, and a hel of a guitar player too. We covered a few of his tunes in the last band I was with. Straight blues sets then. I'm jealous as hell that you got to sit in with him! :)

Free labor! No more backbreaking load-ins and load-outs! They can hang out at the bar, observing all the drunk people ( you'll never have to worry about convincing em that alcohol just makes people stupid and obnoxious after this) then they start hauling dad's bass rig at 1 or 1:30 and you can have em home by 2,and in bed by 2:30, and still have em get a good 4 hours of sleep before school. Or they can sleep till noon on weekends , just like real musicians ( can't ever train em in this aspect of it too soon). See, wasn't that easy ? Glad to be of assistance...:hi:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweet_Home_Alabama#Controversy

Regardless, it's really really really over played.

but you are right about not playing it. Over played and done to death.

eta a link about Sweer Home and the band...........
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x4722321

and I always thought it was "ooh, ooh ,ooh" , not "boo, boo boo" re: Wallace. That does change the interpretation plenty. On the whole, it still sounds to me like too much of what I've always thought of it being, a racist redneck anthem. If it wasn't supposed to be that, and from what I've been reading this morning, it wasn't, they didn't do a particularly good job of making sure the irony, satire or whatever , was evident. I don't think I'm one of those people that deliberately misinterprets the lyrics of a song in the way, that for example, the right wing misinterpreted Born in the USA, which, whether or not one likes it, is obvious to anyone with even half a functioning brain ( oops, no wonder repubs didn't get it) is NOT a rah rah "we love Ronnie Reagan's vision of America" anthem, but it sure has always sounded to me that Sweet Home was what it sounded like....And yeah, it is horrendously overplayed, but I plead guilty to participating in worse atrocities of "played to death" than that. This Saturday I'll be playing a whole night of stuff like Honky Tonk Women, Mustang Sally, and god help me, Margaritaville.....Fine songs all, and fun maybe the first TWO THOUSAND times I did em. But I'll be paid well and so I crank em out yet one more time. So to wrap this up, I don't have an ego hangup with being convinced I'm wrong about something, whether trivial or profound ; thank god/goddess I'm almost always right ( and yes, that was a joke) and I think that while my interpretation is understandable, it seems very possible I've been wrong. Still hope I never have to play it again, but then again, I dream of a musical life beyond Margaritaville and Mustang Sally too.

Hi sweetie :hug:

I always knew you were a woman of great taste and sophistication, and not just another pretty face! :loveya:

I know it's a classic but I've heard that one butchered so many times at blues jams that even the Hendrix version makes me cringe.

But as certain posters around here would tell you..I have shitty taste in music..:P