Thursday, April 13, 2006

art of the jam 47

kind of an abbreviated sesh this week. we quit by 1am and by 1:30, wreck room wizard o' sound andre edmonson and i were back at mi casa, chowing down on leftover beans, rice, tortillas, and pico de gallo. even joe "drumzilla" cruz found the evening "kinda mellow," in spite of the presence of a small, mostly-female drumzilla cheering section. (whassup wit dat, joe?) this was in contrast to the previous week, when gtrist ron geida reported that jam-meister lee allen was "on fire," especially on gtr, and the velvet jive boyzzz from dallas showed up to play a fishbone set.

jam-meister lee's been busybusy reopening fred's patio and booking fredfest, and he's got his work cut out for him the next three months, what with rock camp taking up residence at the ridglea theater for the summer (an inspahrd pairing, as the parents of most rawkkidzzz here in the 817 are already accustomed to dropping off their spawn at the camp bowie landmark, site of more worthashit all-ages shows than anyplace else that springs to mind). since the jam-meister was resting his voice, voxxx were pretty much limited to p.j. fry's traditional cameo on "bobo" and a spoken word interlude by teatrista claudia acosta.

we'd started out with a larger complement of civilians than we usually get early in the evening. kicked off with a "maggot brain" that i played for funkadelic gtr 'riginator eddie hazel, who woulda been 56 on monday had he not checked out back in '92. there were _instrumental_ versions of "standing on the verge" and "come together" as well as a minor frank zappa blues ("sexual harassment in the workplace") and a little bass 'n' drum jam with me 'n' ron commenting periodically. 'twas relaxed 'n' loose and we got into some of the kind of extempore improv we usedta do more of before a repertoire started to coalesce. a fun set, for me anyway (coming back from a week off to let my hand recover from playing barre chords for five hours rehearsing with stoogeaphilia).

second set i sat out while a cat named jimmy, 'riginally from shreveport, who works at zoo music (yet another one -- john shook was prolly rehearsing his new band with josh clark and andrew skates for their debut at fredfest, while tyrell from addnerim was trying to shake a nasty flu bug in preparation for a weekend gig). took awhile for the jamcats to settle on a toon to essay, but then bro. jimmy to' it up real fine. matt skates showed up for the first time in awhile and played some trip-hoppy groove stuff while lee sang the lyrics to chili peppers' "why don't you love me?"

two weeks from now (that's april 26th -- write it down) will be "lee and carl's one-year jamniversary" (we discussed and decided that the _real_ first one was three weeks before the first one that i saw). the plan is to try and get _every muso who ever played at the jam_ to come out and sit in, so if you're one of those, hope you can make it. i'm told there'll be some other, um, "surprises" as well, altho what that could possibly mean, i can't imagine.

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