Revised the set-list; we're now up to 21 tunes... (22 if you add "Hangin' on the Telephone)... this is the ultimate Johnny Lovecaster set-list. Practice today with Holly and Scott... gonna try to get through the whole set. Good news is we can take our time today. Gonna try and make it to another open mic on Tuesday at the Bang Bang. Saturday the Lovecasters play at Isaac's Graduation Party to a captive and (hopefully) supportive audience of family and friends. Talking to Gary about doing a show with the new reboot of Mannequin at the WebHouse in late July, early August.
Great practice with Holly last night... "There She Goes," If You Come to My House", "And Your Bird Can Sing," and a killer version of "Heart of Tao"; now flowers in my hair
Hero Will Willard dropped in on Lovecasters' World Headquarters on Thursday and installed the ultimate Johnny PedalBoard (tm): 8 effects for various moods/transitionings including approximate skysaw guitars I and II and a patch called "Hickoids", which is exrta crunchy (with golden nuggets). Ready to rock out on this hot little number; it's really going to expand what I was formerly able to do to really exciting new levels of excitements! Horray!
Saturday night get together after the break and things were hopping good; great playing together again. Rather than revisiting the set, we launched into learning 5 new tunes. "All My Life" (one of the earliest Pulsating Love Flower songs and one I haven't done since 1984 I'm fairly sure), The Nerves' "You Keep Me Hangin' on the Telephone" (with awesome punk rawk vocals contributed by Holly and a cool surf guitar break), Sixpence None the Richer "There She Goes Again" (a sweet little tune) and briefly "Free As a Bird" (The Beatles), as well a very convincing Entropics intrumental, "Entropy"! The highlight of the evening however was learning (on the spot!) Adrian Belew's "b" off the "e" album. I'd sent a YouTube clip to Holly because I love Julie Slick's stage presence and Holly responded "Yes, please"... so we got the basic riff going and jammed a good 20 minutes on that one. This tune is a real proggy departure and quite a stomper. I might need to work the Ditto looper back into the rig, since Ade utilizes looping a good deal throughout the piece. Excitements. Had to take a couple of days off from playing after the session, because the middle two fingers of my fretting hand are properly shredded. And that, kids, is how you KNOW it was a good practice!
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