Last night the Left Hook played a return engagement at Fisherman\u2019s Net in Pelham. It was a really excellent show, good crowd, and the sound keeps getting better and better. This was also Gus\u2019s return to gigging out after he broke his arm. He\u2019s been getting stronger every week at rehearsal, but the show is three full hour long sets. And to make matters worse he missed the last practice before the show cuz he was sick with food poisoning. Bad gyro, poor guy. Ah well he rose to the occasion.<\/p>\n
We added six new songs to the set: Fire by Jimi Hendrix with Gary on lead vocal, Right Place Wrong Time by Doctor John (whose lyric is the origin of the phrase Brain Salad Surgery, BTW), Higher and Higher by Jackie Wilson, Drive My Car from The Beatles, Rock\u2019n\u2019Roll Stew by Traffic, and Kid Charlemagne by Steely Dan with me singing lead vocals. All of them are winners and keepers. We got a few compliments specifically on the Dan number, which is good because we had been doing Pretzel Logic earlier, but decided to drop it cuz we thought it wasn\u2019t going over well. Now we know for sure we can really kick a Steely Dan song. Bodhisattva here we come!<\/p>\n
The second set in particular seemed on fire from start to finish. A good roster of songs, well performed, good energy flow, crowd engaged singing and clapping along, even getting up to dance. I think my singing was really on last night too. The first set was good overall too, but had a few minor clams as were still getting warmed up. The third set is better than it\u2019s been, mostly strong, but that\u2019s where we put the tunes that aren\u2019t as well rehearsed or we\u2019re considering dropping. Last night we made it most of the way thru okay. In the Midnight Hour and Mustang Sally were a bit rough; we hadn\u2019t rehearsed them since the last show. Guess they\u2019re first on the list this week.<\/p>\n
Audio and video coming soon. Meanwhile be sure to come out and see us at the River Roadhouse in Hastings next Saturday. Sure to be better still!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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