Well, an impromptu gathering of just Jeff and Michael for this particular session. The lovely Miss Beth had embarked on a girls night out in Boston and Madison (after 4 consecutive napless days) had crashed hard at 7:30pm. What's a lonely strummer to do? Well, Foz had just spent a relaxing afternoon with the fam at the beach, hence the kids were sun-drained and sleeping soundly. So, Foz made the 1/2 hour trek up Route 3 and arrived at the Cavern Tavern around 8:30pm or so. As is typical with any Cellar Dweller gathering (regardless of size) we occupied ourselves with a couple of adult beverages and just catching up with one another. This host hangs his head in shame for providing Foz with Coronas sans limes-the horror.
Well, as usual, the catching up portion went a while and we didn't really tune up until 9:30pm or so. Then comes the inevitable,
"What song should we start with?" Which can go anywhere from 2 minutes to the better part of the evening. Seeing that our indecision was flirting with the latter, I just started in on a recent addition to the Cellar Dwellers, Soul Asylum's Runaway Train. A song which (like many of ours) is an easy-peezy as well as being in Jeff's vocal wheelhouse.
We then stumbled a bit through Serenade, by the Steve Miller Band but more than made up for it when we dusted off an oldie but goody in Bad Company's Shooting Star (it had been so long that I had forgotten the name and said, 'it was the tune Seth introduced'). I then switched out my Takamini for the Gibson 12 string accoustic/electric and we launched into old favorite, The Weight, by The Band, (some really nice moments of vocal harmony on this one) and a recent addition to our collection, Neil Young's Powderfinger (which we nailed rather nicely) and then when right into Bob Seger's Hollywood Nights. Jeff kept things going with Ring of Fire by Johnny Cash and introduced a new/old tune to the Dwellers in Lonesome Whistle Blow by Hank Williams Sr. I then took over the lead vocals and tried to step out of my singing comfort zone and struggled a bit with my rendition of Seger's Accompany Me but made up for it by belting out a personal favorite, Marshall Tucker's Can't You See. Back to the bar for a little respite and we headed back to the stage with Jeff at the mic as we ripped through The Animal's House of the Rising Sun. The clock started ticking away rather loudly as we rounded the final turn with Pink Floyd's Mother and Comfortably Numb and we finally called it close to the witching hour with the only closer that we know; Dead Flowers by the Rolling Stones. Great as always to catch-up with Foz. This was one of those nights where for the most part, we played quite well.
The set list from 8/8/09:
- Runaway Train Soul Asylum
- Serenade Steve Miller Band
- Shooting Star Bad Company
- The Weight The Band *
- Powderfinger Neil Young *
- Hollywood Nights Bob Seger *
- Ring of Fire Johnny Cash
- Lonesome Whistle Blow Hank Williams Sr
- Accompany Me Bob Seger **
- Can't You See Marshall Tucker Band **
- The House of the Rising Sun The Animals
- Mother Pink Floyd
- Comfortably Numb Pink Floyd
- Dead Flowers Rolling Stones
** mj on lead vocals-all other songs Foz on lead vocals
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