Velvet

Yep.

We're gonna stuff all of our favourite tunes into a fun set.

I'm really looking forward to opening for Ms. Hux! She's got a nice band going here, if you haven't seen them you should.

I got comp tickets to see what passes for the Beach Boys at the Moncton Casino last year. It was so incredibly lame we left after 5 songs. Even with Brian WIlson, I could not recommend seeing them less.

Was it all the other original members?

TOOL @ Porter Hall woulda been pretty intense I would think.

May I recommend the inclusion of Ray Charles doing Winter Wonderland?

Hope they open for Black Sabbath.

Seriously though, got my fingers crossed that I'll find myself at one of those fifty shows.

Let us know if you hear about it reopening...we got $150 in meat comin'!

Tickets booked - we'll be in Cape Town in early May.

I'm guessing you'll be gone by then huh?

#1 Christmastime Is Here - V. Guaraldi

#2 ?? - Django Reinhardt

#3 Friend Of The Devil - Grateful Dead

#4 or #5 O Tannenbaum - trad.

I sure never knew Paulie or Bibs' last names. Good one.

Awesome having so many friends out last night. Thanks so much for being there!

How is it that I didn't get a chance to talk to many of you?

So it looks like we've become the go-to replacements for Steve Marriner. He goes out on another run early in the new year which is perfect for us - it'll give us a chance to learn a bunch of new material.

We'll be at Irene's:

January 24

January 31

February 7

We got some new stuff together for the last one tonight and we did a practise with Paulie from the Dusty Drifters who will be sitting in for a few.

Doug and I are genuinely excited to play tonight. Looking forward to seeing some of you.

the guitar player is dreamy!

Funny' date=' I would have thought you'd be more into the mandolin player.[/quote']

Do the rambles generally involve onsite camping?

American character actor Harry Morgan, who played Col. Sherman T. Potter in the TV version of MASH, has died at his Los Angeles home.

Morgan died Wednesday morning after having pneumonia, according to his family.

Morgan had a prolific TV and film career, including playing:

Officer Bill Gannon in the 1967 TV version of Dragnet.

A harried husband on the 1960s sitcom Pete and Gladys.

Willie Larkin on The Partridge Family.

Various small roles on Gunsmoke.

However, Morgan considered Col. Potter his best role. It earned him an Emmy in 1980 and he greeted the end of MASH, the long-running series about a Korean War medical unit, with sadness. The Col. Potter character was acerbic, but kind-hearted.

“He was firm. He was a good officer and he had a good sense of humour. I think it’s the best part I ever had,†Morgan said in a 1983 interview as MASH drew to a close.

Morgan played a series of Western bad guys, loyal sidekicks, judges, sheriffs, soldiers, thugs and police chiefs in dozens of films, including High Noon, Torch Song and The Forty-Niners. In How the West Was Won, he played Ulysses S. Grant.

He was also a regular on The Richard Boone Show (1963-64), Kentucky Jones (1964-65), The D.A. (1971-72), The Love Boat (1978-85) and Murder She Wrote (1987). He appeared in the 1990s series such as Grace Under Fire and 3rd Rock from the Sun.

Harry Morgan said Col. Sherman T. Potter of MASH fame was the best role he ever had. Associated PressMorgan was born Harry Bratsburg on April 10, 1915, in Detroit. He entered university intending to be a lawyer, but became interested in theatre while still an undergraduate.

He made his professional acting debut in a summer stock theatre and moved on to Broadway in 1937 in the original production of Golden Boy, playing in a cast that also included Karl Malden and Lee J. Cobb.

Morgan moved to California in 1942, where he took a theatre role before being signed by 20th Century Fox. He originally used the screen name Henry Morgan, but changed Henry to Harry in the 1950s to avoid confusion with the radio and television comedian Henry Morgan.

He attracted attention beginning in 1943 with The Ox-Bow Incident in which he played a drifter caught up in a lynching in a Western town. He also appeared in the 1948 movie version of All My Sons, with Edward G. Robinson and Burt Lancaster, and 1949’s Yellow Sky with Gregory Peck and Anne Baxter.

Morgan’s first wife, Eileen Detchon, died in 1985 after 45 years of marriage.

He is survived by his wife, Barbara Bushman, whom he married in 1986; three sons from his first marriage, Christopher, Charles and Paul; and eight grandchildren. A fourth son, Daniel, died in 1989.

So nice to see some of the crew out last night! Thanks so much for coming.

Next week we're gonna play everything we know and even a few we don't, so the music will go on considerably longer.

And the food at Irene's is quite good too.

There are African penguins?!?

hmmm

Some favourites were:

Neil Young/Bert Jansch @ Massey Hall, 5/10/11

Prince @ Metropolis, 6/25/11

Phish @ Watkins Glen, Canada Day weekend

SSMD @ Elmdale Tavern, 8/24/11

and I'll add Colin Hay as the most surprisingly good act of the year

This will change everything!

Oops, I mean this will change nothing.

So with no announcement yet is it likely there'll be no afterjam tonight?

I think Toronto and Montreal afterjams were announced midafternoon, non?

I heard they started a little earlier than 9pm last night in Montreal. I saw this in a Prince thread on Jambands.ca

Welcome back, sir!

When Dave got word of Ottawa's heady housefire victims he packaged up the entire Dead cd and dvd catalog and sent it to us. The CBC even got wind of it and interviewed Dave and I on the radio.

Um...How is it he throws his guitar in the air at the end and the guitar never comes down again?

Prince is magic.

Dave's Picks huh? That's pretty cool.

I recently saw a deal on one of those Kahoot/Groupon things that was a huge stretch limo for half price, $200 I think.

Interested parties might want to check some of those kind of websites and see if the deal is still up.

FYI:

The Ottawa show has dropped the ticket prices. I just pulled a pair in section 303 @ $25 each. With charges etc. the pair came to $85.

Section 303

Row L

seats 12-13

Qty 2

price $25.50

Bullshit fees $12.35/$3.39

total $82.48

Awesome.

...the lame old man behind me yelling whining and at me to sit down.

My new standard is to scan the immediate area for a security guard, turn around and suggest if the person has a problem with me standing they talk to security about it, and I helpfully point out the security person to them. Unless the person is a biker, in which case I sit down.