The master List

I make mix CDs of various bands/artists to take in the car ... mostly so I can leave my originals at home ... but also so I can avoid those songs that I don't want to hear ... here's what is in my disc folder to date

The Alarm
The Atomic Fireballs
Barenaked Ladies
Bauhaus
Be Bop Deluxe
Beat Farmers
Big Country
Black 47
Brother Trucker
Greg Brown
Buzzcocks
The Call
The Chameleons
The Church Vol 1
The Church Vol 2
The Coasters
Counting Crows
The Cramps
Eleventh Dream Day
The Embarrassment
Nick Drake
Fishbone
Generation X
Genesis Live (a bootleg show with a couple of tracks from the original live album ... all with Pete of course)
Robyn Hitchcock
The Reverend Horton Heat
The Joe Jackson Band
The Jam
Spike Jones
Joy Division
Paul K
Tonio K
Sam Kinison
Lyle Lovett
Bob Marley (2 CDs on one)
Bob Marley - Talkin Blues
James McMurtry
Me First And The Gimme Gimmes
Midnight Oil
Mott The Hoople
Passion Fodder
The Psychedelic Furs
Stan Ridgway
The Rolling Stones - Let It Bleed
Sector 27
The Sensational Alex Harvey Band
The Silencers
Simon & Garfunkel
Sparks
The Squirrels
Stairways To Heaven
The Stranglers
The Streetwalkers
The Sun & The Moon (complete)
Talk Talk
Richard Thompson
Richard Thompson - You Me Us burned onto 1 disc
Richard Thompson - The Live EP (various stuff from the net)
Timbuk 3
The Toasters
Ultravox
Tom Waits
Walk Away Renee - 17 versions
War Live (burned onto one disc)
Lucinda WIlliams
Weird Al - Polkas Plus
Weird Al - the nearly complete mp3 collection
The Young Fresh Fellows

I will be working on a Tom Robinson Band CD as soon as I can get to my friend Brad's house ... and a Morphine disc as well ...

And people say that I am obsessive about music ... bah ... I am FAR beyond obsessive ...

Eric's show log

I suppose I have to write something about my sunday night sets ... I go to an open mike every sunday night to work out new stuff ... refine old stuff ... and to sometimes play stuff that I dont really know ...

I was sick sunday but I went anyway ... my bronchitis was pretty bad ... and I had an upset stomach ... plus the guy before me didnt show so Pete told me to get up there ... with no warm up ...

I started by asking for requests ... most of the folks there know me now so they know my stuff .. someone asked me for Beethoven's 9th ... I came back with "I'm in the wrong tuning .. sorry" (not as funny as the guy who yelled "you're an animal" to which I snapped back "we're all animals dude")

A couple of the regulars asked for Crank Generation ... a REAL hard song to do without warming up ... the vocal is no problem ... but it is hard to play that fervently first song out ... but I did a good job ... and it quieted down the room ... it tends to do that ... being the rude slice of life that it is ... it went better than it has in ages ... I'll comment on spaces in songs and such in a moment ...

I asked for the next request and someone yelled "RAMONES" ... I asked them if they were being wise-asses or if they had seen me before but they didnt reply ... no fun ... no one wants to play with me ... I do Rockaway Beach as a sort of slow blues/country shuffle ... and got a great response ...

Low Self Esteem was third ... and I ended with Product Might Be Hot complete with new McDonalds verse ...

I'm finding new spaces in songs all the time ... it's been fun to find myself relaxed enough to stop a song for punctuation ... Low Self Esteem in particular had tons of room for the jokes between verses ...

Overall it was one of the most relaxed sets I have ever played ...