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Smokedaddies

I caught the Smokedaddies at the Blackthorn Tavern on Irving Street last night. Totally hot show!

More photos here.

Grateful Dead - Frank Zappa - Right On!

Those who know me well and even many of those who know me well enough know that I love the Grateful Dead.

Some interesting thoughts posted on Shaun Mullen's blog today about the Dead and the special place they occupy in the canon of modern American song.

And hey, you just gotta love a blog where the masthead subtitle is a Frank Zappa quote. A really good Frank Zappa quote from 1977.

"The illusion of freedom will continue as long as it's profitable to continue the illusion. At the point where the illusion becomes too expensive to maintain, they will just take down the scenery, they will pull back the curtains, they will move the tables and chairs out of the way, and you will see the brick wall at the back of the theatre."

~ Frank Zappa

Rory's Irish Pub Rocks

Yeah baby! Had a great time playing at Rory's last night. A hundred and a half percent better than Friday's rained-out gig. We are still expanding our repertoire and starting to get tight on a bunch of really cool songs.

So much fun! Of course Jen Gill sat in with us on saome numbers - she's got a great singing voice and can play guitar very well too. Also had another American guy - Johnny Flash - sit in and do a bunch of songs.

The Taxi Guys: Andy, Davis and Me.

Taxi Boys - Repertoire

Some of our band's limited, but rapidly expanding repertoire:

Angel From Montgomery

Ballad of John and Yoko

Beer Song

Bend Down Low

Big River

Blues No More

Blues No More

Bright Side of The Road

Can't Be Satisfied

Classical Gas

Comes A Time

Country Honk / Honky Tonk Woman

Dead Flowers

Dirty Old Town

Endless Blue

Foggy Mountain Breakdown

Folsom Prison Blues

Friend of The Devil

Get Off on You

Hobo Song

Hoochie Coochie Man

I know You Rider

Irish Rover

Last Time

Lawyers Guns and Money

Lay Down Sally

Life of Reily

Magnolia

Man of Constant Sorrow

Mellow Mood

Midnight Special

Mystery Train

No Expectations

Oceansize

Old Folks

On The Trail

One More Cup Of Coffee

Over You

Pair of Brown Eyes

Rainy Day Woman

Roll In My Sweet Baby's

Rolling in My Sweet Baby's Arms

Simple Twist of Fate

So High

Stop That Train

Summertime

Swing Low Sweet Chariot

Tangled Up In Blue

Thai Fever

That Funk Thang

Tonight I'll Be Staying Here With You

Two More Bottles of Wine

Wild Thing

Willie and The Hand Jive

You can’t Always Get What You Want

You Win Again

Lonsome When You're Gone

Gamelan - Music of Java, Indonesia

I've been listening to a lot of Gamelan music lately.

In his book 'music of Java' Jaap Kunst says, "Gamelan is comparable to only two things, moonlight and flowing water. ...mysterious like moonlight and always changing like flowing water ...".