5.25.08 Commercial Taphouse mp3s!!!

So here it is.  The complete show in mp3s.  We had a personnel change for this show, as Tom Skjei filled in for Cameron on bass duties.  I used to play with Tom all the time, and it was great to hear him getting back into playing and improvising.  We also resurrected a couple older tunes (Hi There, and Ipanema Weeknight), and we played the original Warren Oates as well.  Good times, good crowd, and of course not a lot of money, but we did manage to drink a lot of beer for free, so hopefully our livers got their money’s worth there.

We’ve also added a couple new shows including our CD Release Party, which will be the first in a series of concerts organized by Reggie Pace and Larri Branch that will take place on their balcony at the corner of Thompson and Grace!  It will be free and all ages, and there will be a lemonade stand, as the crowd gathers on the lawn below to check out some of Richmond’s Finest.  More info on their Facebook Group

5.25.08 Commercial Taphouse, RVA

Set 1

1) Hi There What Good???

2) Through a Glass Darkly

3) Ipanema Weeknight

4) Winterlight

5) GTO

6) Strawberry Letter 23

Set 2

1) Nero

2) The Silence

3) One Armed Swordsman

4) Up and Down

5) Warren Oates (original version)

and Tom’s last name (Skjei) means “Spoon” in Norwegian.  We got confirmation from Paal Nilssen-Love years ago!

MashUpRVA + Silent Music Revival

So back a piece, I mentioned that Glows would be performing on a local web news show called MashupRVA. Well, we did and it went really well! We performed 2 songs: Through a Glass Darkly and The Silence, and did a short interview. Right now everything is hosted on the MashupRVA site, which you can check here:

Glows on MashupRVA

The experience was great. We rolled into the RTD building at around 10am, and met with Karen Newton and Corey Amado, then carted our equipment all the way down to the basement where they had a small studio set up at the end of a newsroom area. Everyone was super nice, and they even had some muffins and drinks laid out for us! We ran through a tune, and figured out a couple technical problems, then played each song twice, and watched them to see which one turned out best. Everything went really well, and I was surprised by the band’s tightness given the early time slot. Everyone played great and got through it. Reggie’s solo on The Silence, and Jason’s on the same tune really stood out. It was great to get the opportunity to document this stuff with video cameras that aren’t mine for once! We knew that the Mashup crew had probably never heard any type of free jazz and improvised music, and it was fun to surprise them with something different. Particularly during our soundcheck, when Scott Clark launched into a loud free jazz explosion that caught everyone off guard. Hopefully we’ll get to work with them again!

One thing you’ll notice about the Mashup link, which is kind of unfortunate, is that it’ss buried in the Richmond Times Dispatch’s InRich.com architecture. While MashupRVA is part of the RTD, it’s definitely it’s own thing and should at least get it’s own web space (aside from it’s re-direct URL). My chief complaint about InRich being that if you want to read a story from the RTD, it’s easier to use google than try to navigate the InRich layout.

And in other news, tomorrow we will be playing as part of the Silent Music Revival at Rumors Boutique at 9pm for FREE!

We will be providing an improvised soundtrack to the Buster Keaton film The Electric House. It will be a lot of fun, especially considering we have never seen the film! It’s a public domain film, and so I had to resist the urge to download it at the great Archive.org, but it will be a lot more fun I think when we don’t know what’s coming next. I will have very little prepared material, but hopefully enough to give the audience something to hold on to. It will be fun because again, this is a situation where the audience for the Silent Music Revival has largely never seen free improvisation in action, and has definitely not seen us before—-Good Times!

First YouTube Link!!!

That’s right, in doing research for what will probably be my next big Glows project, I came across an amazing Curtis Mayfield performance that I had to share! Enjoy!  The lameness of WordPress is forcing me to post a link and not just embed the video.  Oh well, here’s the deal:

Freddie’s Dead Live

The Boot (5.1.08) mp3s + MashupRVA

Hey guys. Took a lot longer to get these up because I did an awesome thing and left my laptop charger at work over the weekend. Here is the entire Boot gig from May 1, 2008. Not too many people there, but it was a lot of fun. More people should go there because it rules all the time. You can look at your watch at any time whenever, and know that at that moment, The Boot is ruling. Reigning even.

5.1.08 The Boot, Norfolk, VA

Set 1

1) I Crudeli

2) Security Lock

3) The Silence

4) Five Deadly Venoms

5) Winterlight

6) One Armed Swordsman

Set 2

1) Nero

2) GTO

3) Turtle

4) Through a Glass Darkly

5) Up and Down

Also, we are taping a segment for MashupRVA’s Sessions. More info on that soon!