Wednesday, May 03, 2006

The medley can be both a friend or foe. Let me explain. If you've waited to see a band since 1978 and then they just do medleys of all your favorite tunes, that would be a bummer. The veggie medley at participating restaurants is cool, as is doing a medley to kill time when you play Gate B at Tampa Bay Buccaneers games so you can make money to play your own tunes in the UK. (Sorry for the run on, it's autobiographical.) THE Jeff Wood, drummer man, came up with a cool medley idea to kill time: The Kinks. Tonight we'll run thru "All Day and All of the Night", which falls into "You Really Got Me", which leads to "Destroyer" (which is very similar to "All Day"). As medleys go, this one sounds cool. I've always dug The Kinks. Very R-N-R. I hope it works out. As I've gone over it by myself, it seems to work, but you never know. Even if it works at rehearsal, sometimes it still goes over like a turd in a punchbowl in front of a live audience, so you cast it aside. We'll see. Take care. Later, Butch