Toonstock II - UK Jam

[Eddie_Blackadder]

Any more wishlist stuff??

I'll try and download and print off some lyrics on Friday if I get a chance. If not I'll bring along the crap I printed off for the last Toonstock anyhow just in case.

[Cousin Dupree]

Thanks for putting up the map Tom.
If anyone get's lost then just ask for Concord, District 12, like Ron said it is the Pub in the grounds of Washington Football Ground...the floodlights are a BIG giveaway:-)
Anyone who is still a bit worried can e-mail me and i'll give them my Mobile no...any Americans coming over that means Cell Phone #:-)

[Eddie_Blackadder]

Paul - did Ron give you the AC/DC to listen to for the lyrics?? It's on the Powerage album.

[Cousin Dupree]

No Tom he did'nt, i have'nt even heard it yet...you might have to sing that one yourself mate:-)

[ROCKHARD]

Morning Lads . Hey Paul , get my room ready ;-)

[Cousin Dupree]

actually Ali, it's Christine that'll be gettin' the room ready:-)

[Ayns]

Lads,

Howsabout some more ideas for Saturday?

There's only a couple of days to go and I reckon the "wish list" songs above will fill about 45 mins. That only leaves 4+ hours for freeform jazz/blues improvisation. ;-)

My guys are going to string me up by the nadgers ;-)

Tom, are you taking setlist cheat sheets?

[ronworld]

What do You want to do Ayns? We can do some blues again 'Sneakers' and such to fill, in and the oblig 'Cocaine' jam I suppose and I know Paul would like 'Sweet home Alabama' again!
White Stripes 'Seven nation Army??'
If you can think of anything more interesting ,fair doo's

[Cousin Dupree]

Skynyrd, Neil Young.
OOH OOH me and Ron used to do The Black Crowes version of Hard to Handle(i've just dug the single out) i'll relearn that...also we used to do Sharp Dressed Man by Z.Z.Top.

[Ayns]

Ay up,

Sweet Home Alabama's a go-er, and I could probably bluff my way through Rockin in the Free World/ Hurricane .

Ron,

I'm not really bothered about playing that much myself, but I'm worried that our Drummer, Keyboards and Bassist/ Vocalist might find themselves a bit left out, if they're not required for "backing" duties. Sounds like the rest of you lads have got that sorted for certain songs already.

Ahem, I've ( rightly or wrongly) sort of promised my lads that we'd be doing a "mini-set", but that's not really what it's all about. As I've said before, they're ex-club musos of 20+ years standing so they've played almost everything and anything in their repertoire during that time. Anyway, we'll see how it goes.

Sorry to be a PITA but I'm a natural worrier :-(

[Ayns]

Oh, and Ron,

If it was up to me we'd be doing loads of Alt Country and Pink Floyd covers

;-)

[Cousin Dupree]

Hey Ayns, i'm a worrier too and i tend to be a bit indecisive"bloody Cancerian's", are ye up for Hard to Handle? and do you wanna do Several Species of small furry animals gathered together in a Cave and Groovin' with a Pict?:-) i was just kiddin' 'bout the last one

[ROCKHARD]

Hey Ayns you should do the 'mini-set' .

Paul , when did you move to Newcastle ?

[Eddie_Blackadder]

Ayns - you should definitely do the mini set. And don't worry about getting enough numbers each, I'm sure that there'll be enough to go around.

As for the rest of it, I'll bring along the stuff from last time and anything I can find that's requested. whether or not that will be enough remains to be seen. Bottom line is that this is going to be a jam, and as such is bound to be a bit rough and ready. I suspect that like the last couple of times we'll do the things we said (or at least some of them) and then just make it up as we go along - a couple of people will suggest doing something and throw it open for others to join in.

I'm back in the office in Newcastle again tomorrow (Friday), but I think things are going to be a bit busy. I'll do as much as I can though

[Ayns]

Cheers Tom :-)

[Eddie_Blackadder]

Looking forward to getting together tomorrow.

Ayns - I just got back an e-mail I sent you this morning asking about the PA, so I'm going to take mine along just in case unless you give me a bell tomorrow morning and tell me I don't need to.

[Ayns]

Tom,

Works e-mail was down all day yesterday.

Time to 'fess up. I haven't done my homework. :-(

[Ayns]

I've old the lads you're taking a PA Tom.

[Tele-Bob]

Have a great jam guys! I've been lurking around on this thread and I feel almost as excited as you guys. One day I will get over to the UK for a jam. It could happen!

[ronworld]

"Later that sam day....after a five hour jam-a-thon" *
Wahooo! Lots of Tunes Lots of Beer, and nobody died or got elected.
M'Fraid there were three guitarists on the stage at several points, but hey! were a polite bunch...we took turns. Havn't got time to go into it further as were out in Newcastle for a drink. Suffice to say it went well and I for one was like a 'pig in shit' (Pardon my anglo saxon) What a great bunch of guys!


* We could have played longer !

[Tele-Bob]

100

yeehaw!

[Cousin Dupree]

Hey Dude's, it was a Cracking gig with a great night out in Newcastle to boot.
Anyone that can put up with my(so called) singing is o.k in my book:-)

[Eddie_Blackadder]

Great jam guys - a real pleasure as always to meet up with you all and to jam with a great bunch of musicians.

Ron - don't forget to give me a bell about picking up your CD player

Joel and John - I realised on the way back from dropping Joel at his car that I had forgotten the promised bacon sarnies... sorry lads.

Dayo (if you read this) we know you were there in spirit. Hope your gig went well last night.

Tele-Bob - we'll look forward to seeing you at one of our gigs sometime. It would be good to get an idea of how/what we do differently (apart from a general lack of C&W tunes in most of our jams - yesterdays was an exception though).

[ronworld]

Tom..It may be friday before I pick up the Cd player. We forgot about Sophie's dance class on Tuesday.
I really enjoyed belting out Steve Earls 'Home to Houston' Lots of Tele-Twang thar! and Johnnie b good.

[Cousin Dupree]

Well lad's, that was fun.
Our Glorious Leader Ali has just hit the A1M Southbound about 1/4 an hour ago.
Ach, all good things must end..... but fear not, there will be other jams!!!!!!

[Tele-Bob]

OK, what about the girls? Any lewd tales of "drunkensess and cruelty"? Come now. Get on with it man!

[Cousin Dupree]

Alas Bob, all the hot chicks buggered off when they saw us:-) there will be photos available later on from Ronworld and Eddie Blackadder a.k.a Tom and Ron.

We took three of the out of towners into Newcastle on the night to sample our Famous Trillians Rock Bar, that's where all the Hot Chicks were...i think Rockhard, JoelM and Dr Fene are still recovering:-)

[Tele-Bob]

With any luck, the Sharon Stone impersonator will be in attendance at the Upstate NY Jam in two weeks. Last time, she divulged all her secrets to Offshore Angler as he attempted to play on with sweat dripping down his brow. When she got up on stage and did her drunken Sea Hag version of Me And Bobbie Magee, we all decided that, sometimes they're just too drunk to even take advantage of. Not sport in that actually. Right. Off ya go lass!

I will have camera at the ready this time however and hope to capture the secrets as they are revealed. Jolly good time.

[Dr Fene]

EXTRA EXTRA READ ALL ABOUT IT TOONSTOCK PICCIES PUBLISHED!


http://www.lilypix.com/photos/showpi...38077&uuid=959

[Dr Fene]

Can I just say a big thanks for the warm welcome and hospitality from the North-Eastern TFF's. I had a great time, and even managed to decipher some of the lingo!

THANKS!!!

[Cousin Dupree]

Glad you got back home o.k Dr, yeah it were a reet grand day.

[ronworld]

I will try to find time this week to post some pictures on my webshots pages.
There seems to be a lot of pictures of me putting my fingerprints all over Joel's 335 arharrr! There are 60 on me camera I'll sot out the best ones and post 'em
BTW thats me playing bass and Cousin Dupree playing an A4 sheet of paper, Douggie our Jam drummer Eddie and someone els hiding behind a speaker cab!

[Ayns]

Hey guys,

I just got home!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :-)

[Ayns]

Ok I admit it...................I'm drunk.

But, can I just say I really enjoyed the Jam, and so did the rest of my lads.

Apologies if we hogged the stage a bit, I'm not sure the lads really understood the concept.

Sorry I missed you last night, long story, but I ended up drinking whiskey 'til 4.00 a.m. at my mate Mac's house.

[Dr Fene]

Watch it Ayns that rock and roll lifestyle will turn you into a Fizzical Wreck!

[ROCKHARD]

Was alreet wern it lads .

I don't think I'd go to Trillians that often though ;-)

[Cousin Dupree]

Aye Trillians sorts the men out from the boys:-) especially when Big Gordon's doing the d.j'ing

[ronworld]

I've started putting photos on me webshots site. Only 4 for now. I forgot the name of Ayns's band! But if you lot supply all the names I can sort them onto the photos! Mind...I'm having a little fun with them..............
http://community.webshots.com/album/224541073JOZjHx

[Dr Fene]

Watch it Ayns that rock and roll lifestyle will turn you into a Fizzical Wreck!

Ron there is a clue to the name of Ayns band in the above.

[Eddie_Blackadder]

Toonstock2 photos


Here you go lads... enjoy


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