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Location: Jet City | You know Cliff, I just split with a gal named Annette after 3 years... I took the name literally at first.
BTW, Geddy Lee would look horrible singing Xanadu in roller skates and a headband :confused: |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | Geddy Lee has always reminded me of the "Wicked Witch of the West"... kinda creeps me out, my pretty... |
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| Yeah but when you see him live, and he fills the stadium with his incredible bass work, sub bass, keys, and amazing vocals it's only the gay guy's in the crowd who still care about his looks.
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Location: 6 String Ranch | I respect them, Rush, But they just never did it for me. |
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Location: Blue Ridge Mountains | I liked/like them well enough...but the guitar work of REO Speedwagon's Gary Richrath always knocked me out...great band: "You Can Tune A Piano But You Can't Tuna Fish" is my favorite (the "Live" album is great too...) |
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Location: NJ | FridayNight went off pretty well.
Not a huge crowd, but being that FairleighDickinson and Drew Universites are right up the street, it's generally a "CollegeCrowd", and they won't be back for two more weeks, so our Oct. date there'll be better, crowd-wise (actually, I rather enjoyed NOT having to compete with the din of beer-goggled, HormoneHockey in the crowd).
FINALLY got t'use the FreeHand tablet in a working, gig environment. It worked like a Champ!!
Bright, legible, and (if I had STUCK to the pre-conceived "Plan" of STICKING to the SetList, and NOT "jumping about"!) incredibly fast/easy to "navigate".
HighPoints of the Night:
Billy Joel's "Miami2017"
TalkingHead's "Life During WarTime"
Stephen Still's "For What It's Worth"
Door's "RoadHouse Blues" & "L.A. Woman"
Al Stewart's "Don't Forget Me" & "Waiting For Margaux"
Allman's "OneWayOut"
WorldParty's "Is It Like Today"
Nirvana's "All Aplogies"
Lennon's "Watching The Wheels"
PinkFloyd's "Breathe" & "Time"
Beatles' "Things We Said Today"
SteelyDan's "Pretzel Logic"
SRV "Pride&Joy"
Clapton's "Bell Bottom Blues"
GreatFun was had by All. |
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Location: Shotley Bridge, Northern England | Great set Cliff! Must be a 'Baby Boomers' thing... :)
HW |
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Location: NJ | No, . . just a lotta' OldPeople. |
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Location: south east Michigan | Nice set list Cliff.
It's obvious that you don't and won't allow yourself to be lulled into an Eagles, Cat Stevens, Freebird type of clichéd set list.
Brian & I try to keep our song list less familar, although a few "standards" have slipped in.
Next time I get to hear ya play I'd like to request... Bell Bottom Blues & Watchin' the Wheels (because I'd like to play'em myself), and LA Woman (just to see how you pull it off).
Old people, baby boomer.... it's getting to mean the same thing. |
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Location: NJ | Brad; the Cat Stevens/Eagles stuff is usually for when the remainder of the "DinnerCrowd" is still there. There wasn't much of them left by the time we started, so the "mellow" stuff was just the first couple songs . . the rest of the night was uptempo stuff . . |
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Location: Capital District, NY, USA Minor Outlying Islands | Life During War Time ... acoustically ... mmmh ... I can imagine that in a Blue Grass style! Thanks for the idea. |
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Location: Bluffton, SC | Originally posted by Slipkid:
Nice set list Cliff.
It's obvious that you don't and won't allow yourself to be lulled into an Eagles, Cat Stevens, Freebird type of clichéd set list.
Brian & I try to keep our song list less familar, although a few "standards" have slipped in. I remember polling the Board on this same thing a few years ago. I guess as a performing musician you HAVE to play some of the Eagles/Beatles/Cat Stevens/Van Morrison standards (or at least have them in the bag if you need them) but, as a guy who plays on the back deck most of the time, I can pretty much make the set list any way I want it to be and I gravitate to the B sides, the not exactly Top Ten but maybe Top 50 instead stuff. Margaritaville is fun but boring after a while... |
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Location: south east Michigan | I'll vote for "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" as the most over-done Beatles song.
Other than that, for the most part, ya can't have to much Beatles. |
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Location: Bluffton, SC | Love Jake's version of that... |
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Location: south east Michigan | That's different. Take a standard and turn it on it's ear and it's not a standard anymore, |
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Location: Bluffton, SC | Couldn't agree more. And, as much as I love that song, I would also have to agree that WMGGW's is definitely one of the most overplayed Beatles tunes ever. Guess that's just a testament to how great a song it is (...so let's ALL beat it into the ground, right?). |
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