Everyone loves a singalong! We had a monster of a singalong session at the end of that night. It was definitely one for the books. The obvious highlights would have to be the Dobie Gray's "Drift Away" at the end of which, I stopped playing the guitar, and I think every person in the bar was clapping and singing, "gimme the beat boys and free my soul, I wanna get lost in your rock and roll and drift away..." It was awesome.
There was also the classic outfield song "your love" sung very well by my buddy Jensen, after much deliberation. I can usually tell when he says he doesn't want to sing and really means yes, and I was pretty sure that night wasn't one of those times. I was content to let him chill, but Correy wasn't having it! He refused to let it go, and pretty much made Jensen get up and sing, and I'm glad he did! J sounded great as always, although, when I sing it I do a different version, one i arranged a bit differently, and Jensen sang it in the regular key, which I failed to realize until half way through the song that I forgot the original way to play the bridge... sorry J! (we made due and had a good time anyway.) I think my person favorite part of the night was when I had a special guest by the name of Chris Ransom some up and rap! yes, you read right, there was rapping, and some amazing rhyming at that! I played a cover of Smokey Robinson, and went into Curtis Mayfield, left off Sam Cooke for that one, and I played the guitar and beatboxed for Ransom and he KILLED it! It was an interesting dynamic for sure, I don't think most people were expecting to see a big black guy with dreads down past his shoulders get up on stage with me, but they loved it! I don't think I've heard it get that loud ever in there! Ransom is an amazingly talented artist, and i'm really looking forward to working with him some more. There was also a special guest by the name of Bad News Brown... and that man could play the harmonica. I mean play... At the end of Visions, he got up and played the harp like you wouldn't believe. I suppose the fact that he just got off tour with Aerosmith, and has played with Kanye West, and Outkast, and everyone else would mean that he kinda has to be amazing... and he was. That guest wasn't planned, he came with another buddy of ours, T-lo, and T-lo suggested that he jam out with us, and he just came up, watched what i was playing, said, "that's in E, right?" I said yes, and he just went with it. WOW. It was a spectacular night. everything was fun, and just seemed to work out perfectly, my parents were in town this weekend, so they got to see one of the best nights I think we've had there since we started, so i was very thankful for that. Correy always sounds great, but I think he played even better than usual, we all play better for a bigger crowd, so i'm sure that had alot to do with it. Steve... well he was Steve! Killed it like he always does. I could definitely tell he has been playing solo shows, because he filled the void of the band well. the show wasn't lacking anything. It was obviously a little different without the band, but I didnt' feel like it was any less enjoyable, it was just a different show. His band is so good i think it would be easy to rely on them to make the music interesting, but he definitley still had a dynamic performance, and everyone loved it! He also got up and finished the singalong at the end of the night with some classics like Sweet Home Alabama.
I could ramble on forever about that night. It was that fun. Unfortunately it may have to have been good enough to hold us for a while, cause in two weeks, the regularly scheduled next show, i'm going to be out of town, so i'll find out what we are gonna do about the schedule and let eveyone know soon.
wow. that was a long one! sorry for babbling. hope eveyone is well, look forward to playing for all of you soon!
God Bless,
Jason
message de jason concernant la soiree et le jeu de jensen .
Si val ou dalia veulent traduire le passage ou jason parlent de jensen se serait super .
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