September 21 2006 Jam

Where’s Doc’o?? Still in Chico, having one heck of a good garage sale… and Alcan bound!

This mid-Fall jam started out with core jammers, Jam Master Hammer, Pat Rat, Paul Schlomer, and Gary Price launching into a Priney trio of tunes. Cuba and I joined in on the last two songs with conga and harmony. A duo of Buffett songs and the jam was off and running.

John A. joined us for “Worried Man,” “City of New Orleans” and “Greenback Dollar”…John even added his own verse on the fly… and surprised us all. Matt attempted to play the tune, “Viagra in the Waters,” but alas he played his G-String too “hard” and it broke… a fitting start to this long and hard story tune… Set two ended on that note.

And second time is a charm, Kathy Claiborne, the K of the group called MAK, and I launched into “Viagra in the waters” a second time… “Save your sons, shield your daughters, there’s Viagra in the waters.”

Ah, it wasn’t too hard that time…

Big welcome goes out to Animal aka Mike E., our guest host jammer. The band launched into “The Weight” and our guest jammer played “St. James Infirmary” and a couple of key of A tunes and “What’s Going On.”

Animal was joined by Special Ed, new jammer Marvin on drums and the core band. And we had dancers… hatman Steve, and his partner were dancers extraordinaire. Animal played an oily tune called “Back on the Rig Again” and Jam Master Hammer ended the set with “Tupelo Honey.”

Set three brought the percussionists upfront and center with Cuba on maracas, Angie on congas, Michelle on tambourine, joined by Paul on harp. Dane joined the band on bass, Tom Lambert on organ, Moe on keyboards, Gary on drums, Animal on guitar.

Pat Rat moved in on harp and Matt moved to flute as our own Miss Rachel Rae stepped to the stage, singing, “I Wanta A-scat Blues,” “Stormy Monday,” “What’s Up” and “Bobbie McGee.”

Sweet, sweet music t-bone shuffled across the stage. A little “Steamroller Blues” featured Jam Master Hammer’s baritone voice as well as multiple licks for all the lick players. Very nice licks, guys! Special Ed stepped center stage and sang, “Flip, Flap and Fly.”

Jammers ended the night with “Knock, Knock, Knocking on Heaven’s Door.”

Great crowd, great jammers. Look forward to seeing y’all next time!