art of the jam
to hell with it, i'm not gonna bother trying to number these things anymore -- more trouble than it's worth.
so dave karnes made it back to "wreck west" for the li'l jam this wk. the drummer's managed to migrate the sunday jazz thang with joey carter 'n' usual suspects to 6th street live (6th and foch, just up the street from the new la familia location), so he decided to come out 'n' slum with the jamcats (who, with the exception of ron geida, met his suggestions that we "just II-V it or I-VI-II-V it" were met with mute cro-mag bemusement; later, the two jazzcats could be overheard plotting in secret while running the chords to steely dan songs). it's always a gas to play with karnage. he and jam-meister lee allen have a special chemistry and even though he claims not to know any of the toons, he managed to nail the forms to jam standards like "war pigs" and "teen town" as well as a coupla jeff beck toons that have recently been added to the canon (which i like to think of as "the fast one" and "the slow one," but whose true titles are "you know what i mean" and "'cause we've ended as lovers"), dragging the rest of the jamcats along behind him. during the, um, lengthy break between sets, he 'n' i recalled scuffling for cigs (he just quit) on tour with nathan brown, and the night the club (i think it was somewhere in south carolina) comped us more beer than we could drink. with sunward losing their keyb player, maybe he'll have more time for jammage (altho he might be more interested in, um, getting paid 'n' shit).
happy to report that the probs i'd been having with the li'l roland amp seem to be in the past and its tone is happenin' once again. ex-yeti axe-slinger eric harris (whom i've given up on trying to get to sit in) was in the house, along with what the jam-meister characterizes as "the merkin-chili's crew," a berfday party, and a few ppl who'd been around earlier to watch adenine from dallas play. adenine features wreck carpenter extraordinaire tim burt's son on drums and they have a heavy-yet-precise sound that one listener likened to early slow roosevelt, altho i'd guess the similarity was unintentional. adenine was unique among metal bands i've heard in the last coupla yrs in that their singer hits actual notes, rather than just growling or belching. always a plus; call me old fashioned.
so dave karnes made it back to "wreck west" for the li'l jam this wk. the drummer's managed to migrate the sunday jazz thang with joey carter 'n' usual suspects to 6th street live (6th and foch, just up the street from the new la familia location), so he decided to come out 'n' slum with the jamcats (who, with the exception of ron geida, met his suggestions that we "just II-V it or I-VI-II-V it" were met with mute cro-mag bemusement; later, the two jazzcats could be overheard plotting in secret while running the chords to steely dan songs). it's always a gas to play with karnage. he and jam-meister lee allen have a special chemistry and even though he claims not to know any of the toons, he managed to nail the forms to jam standards like "war pigs" and "teen town" as well as a coupla jeff beck toons that have recently been added to the canon (which i like to think of as "the fast one" and "the slow one," but whose true titles are "you know what i mean" and "'cause we've ended as lovers"), dragging the rest of the jamcats along behind him. during the, um, lengthy break between sets, he 'n' i recalled scuffling for cigs (he just quit) on tour with nathan brown, and the night the club (i think it was somewhere in south carolina) comped us more beer than we could drink. with sunward losing their keyb player, maybe he'll have more time for jammage (altho he might be more interested in, um, getting paid 'n' shit).
happy to report that the probs i'd been having with the li'l roland amp seem to be in the past and its tone is happenin' once again. ex-yeti axe-slinger eric harris (whom i've given up on trying to get to sit in) was in the house, along with what the jam-meister characterizes as "the merkin-chili's crew," a berfday party, and a few ppl who'd been around earlier to watch adenine from dallas play. adenine features wreck carpenter extraordinaire tim burt's son on drums and they have a heavy-yet-precise sound that one listener likened to early slow roosevelt, altho i'd guess the similarity was unintentional. adenine was unique among metal bands i've heard in the last coupla yrs in that their singer hits actual notes, rather than just growling or belching. always a plus; call me old fashioned.
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