Month: October 2014

A couple of shows in Canada on this date: Toronto’s Phoenix in 2006 with Why? and Montreal’s Club Soda the following year with The Horse’s Ha.  Demonstrating the unpredictability that’s been our hallmark for nearly 30 years, not only do we play a Neil Young song during both encores, it’s the same one: “Prisoners of Rock ‘n’ Roll.”  (At least we add a French-language “Et Moi, Et Moi, Et Moi” for the Québécois.)  No Neil Young number at our 2004 swing state show in Kansas City, despite a multitude of his fans on stage: Rick Rizzo, Doug McCombs and David Kilgour (and perhaps Eugene Mirman, though I think he leans more towards Jethro Tull).  But we only missed by a day–“Hey Babe” was part of the previous night’s set in Ames, Iowa.

 

I was in Los Angeles last weekend for the Big Star tribute show at the Wilshire Ebell Theatre and the Cinefamily’s Magnificent Hubleys program, which kept me so busy that when I found out the Aislers Set were doing a show in town, I could get no closer than reminiscing about our date together in Lexington, Kentucky, 11 years ago today.  All tour Joe has ceded the Ace Tone chair on “I Heard You Looking” to Dan Lee, and tonight Dan–and Wyatt Cusick–also tickle the plastics on “Emulsified,” and the whole group adds to the cacophony on “Nuclear War.”  Speaking of Kentucky, on this date in 1991, we play with Anitetam at the Bluebird in Bloomington, Indiana for the second time that year.  I wonder when’s the last time we played ANY club other than Maxwell’s twice in a year?