art of the jam

no jamcats this week, because jam-meister lee allen went to the house of blues in dallas to hear the deftones and lucas white went to tarrant county convention center to hear tool. the howling dervishes, who deserve better, played their set of gritty retro garage-punk fury to chuck rose's wife and johnny singularity's g-f while ron "the velvet hammer" geida and john "johnny peckerwood" shook supported the bar and i sat up in the booth with jon teague talking about japrock, the new great tyrant video, etc., before i got to sit in with the dervishes for one song at the end. (see 'em tom'w night, 5.19, at the moon on berry st.) lee sez darrin kobetich will be back at the jam in a coupla wks, and that he might be putting something together with darrin and mike padilla (ex-el salvador birthday bash, back from austin). and i might be doin' some jamming down in chuck rose's bomb shelter the next time terry valderas is back in town.