New York - June 23 2006: Day 3 (big party at jon & terrys)
so friday started out on a pretty good note. we didn't have any particular things to do so we were just kinda hangin out, we had a couple of beers to get primed. i was out of smokes so jon drove me to a little store for camels and coors. i got to meet pat there.....talk about a sweetie.
anyway we just kinda hung out and before long it was creeping up on dark. eric aceto who i had seen with his band the night before showed up early for the party with his wife. i asked eric if he played mandolin and he said he could find his way around one ok, so i went and got the one i had given jon 2 years before, we made a pass at getting in tune and got close enough to play a few songs. i asked him what he liked to play and he said he didn't care that i should just pick something....well i know lots and lots of songs, but my mind kinda blanked and i couldn't think of a single thing to play. that's when eric said he liked gram parsons....sweet, that's all i needed was benchmark, we played most of the songs on GUILDED PALACE OF SIN, then some from GP, after that it got easy, i just played the same stuff i play with my band.
it had started to rain a little bit so we moved the whole thing inside. by now there were a fair amount of people there, and we were all having a large time, i wish i could remember everybody's name but the time when my short term memory worked is long past.
terrys son lance had brought an amp and guitar, and eric had a fiddle and jon had a fiddle, so i figured we were as set as we could get, hell i've gone on tours less ready than that. we played a few things that were group friendly, and it was working out pretty well. we let lance take some solos, and he did great after he settled down a bit.
we played probly a 13 song set mostly dylan and stones songs....i did a couple of mine and they went off ok. we took a break and eric said he had to leave as he had an errand early the next day, i asked him to play the wedding party with me and he said he was interested but wasn't sure he was free, i said i'd call him the next day and check.
it must have been right around then that i met terrys friend kari....i just remember thinking "lord lead me not into temptation....i'll find it on my own" man she was tall, that's a tall girl, and she was pretty, and she had some other very obvious assets.
we took a break and had a few beers. julie jordan had prepared all the food and it was fabulous or so i was told....along with not sleeping....when i travel i tend to not eat much. anyway after a time (i'm not sure how long) we started the band back up, and had a few new players. we played some more songs and mike (at least i think his name was mike....i met lots of guys named mike) sang some tunes. mike's a truck driver so we did all the truckers favorites. i have a dim memory of a banjo player, but by then i was as fucked up as a snake in the road, so i'm gonna skip over that part. jack had already racked out for greener pastures, or taller corn if you prefer, so all i could do was raise my glass in his honor (i've found another bro, and he lives in willet ny) i decided i should probly hit the rack, so i took a blue one and faded to black.
anyway we just kinda hung out and before long it was creeping up on dark. eric aceto who i had seen with his band the night before showed up early for the party with his wife. i asked eric if he played mandolin and he said he could find his way around one ok, so i went and got the one i had given jon 2 years before, we made a pass at getting in tune and got close enough to play a few songs. i asked him what he liked to play and he said he didn't care that i should just pick something....well i know lots and lots of songs, but my mind kinda blanked and i couldn't think of a single thing to play. that's when eric said he liked gram parsons....sweet, that's all i needed was benchmark, we played most of the songs on GUILDED PALACE OF SIN, then some from GP, after that it got easy, i just played the same stuff i play with my band.
it had started to rain a little bit so we moved the whole thing inside. by now there were a fair amount of people there, and we were all having a large time, i wish i could remember everybody's name but the time when my short term memory worked is long past.
terrys son lance had brought an amp and guitar, and eric had a fiddle and jon had a fiddle, so i figured we were as set as we could get, hell i've gone on tours less ready than that. we played a few things that were group friendly, and it was working out pretty well. we let lance take some solos, and he did great after he settled down a bit.
we played probly a 13 song set mostly dylan and stones songs....i did a couple of mine and they went off ok. we took a break and eric said he had to leave as he had an errand early the next day, i asked him to play the wedding party with me and he said he was interested but wasn't sure he was free, i said i'd call him the next day and check.
it must have been right around then that i met terrys friend kari....i just remember thinking "lord lead me not into temptation....i'll find it on my own" man she was tall, that's a tall girl, and she was pretty, and she had some other very obvious assets.
we took a break and had a few beers. julie jordan had prepared all the food and it was fabulous or so i was told....along with not sleeping....when i travel i tend to not eat much. anyway after a time (i'm not sure how long) we started the band back up, and had a few new players. we played some more songs and mike (at least i think his name was mike....i met lots of guys named mike) sang some tunes. mike's a truck driver so we did all the truckers favorites. i have a dim memory of a banjo player, but by then i was as fucked up as a snake in the road, so i'm gonna skip over that part. jack had already racked out for greener pastures, or taller corn if you prefer, so all i could do was raise my glass in his honor (i've found another bro, and he lives in willet ny) i decided i should probly hit the rack, so i took a blue one and faded to black.
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