Friday Night's Alright For Fucking

Friday Night's Alright For Fucking

I'm still too far gone for a real report, but here's Friday night's set list as best as I can reconstruct it. I'm very proud of this selection of tunes. As I said before, I felt like ME that night, more than I ever have onstage. This is a drug stronger than heroin, people. Maybe even stronger than blowjobs. I've never felt so natural, so in my element, so...I actually felt like an "artist" that night. Hardly the best one you're gonna come in contact with, but I felt it was pure and unencumbered by the bullshit you normally have to do in a "covers" situation, and while audience reaction wasn't overwhelming, I felt accepted and appreciated. I give myself a 97, and I could even dance to it. Wish You Were Here might have been the best vocal performance I've ever delivered. Even that prick Simon would have liked it.


SET ONE

Opening Improv - Cunts On Fire/A Reading From The Book Of Hunter

Splendid Isolation (Warren Zevon)

What's So Funny 'Bout Peace Love & Understanding? (Elvis Costello)

Bang A Gong (T. Rex)

Drive (Incubus)

Searching For A Heart (Warren Zevon)

Ankle Bracelet (Mike Keneally)

Octopus (Syd Barrett)

Diamonds & Dominoes (D. B.)

The Mayor Of Simpleton (XTC)

James K. Polk (They Might Be Giants)

Never Enough (Adrian Belew)

It Won't Hurt (Dwight Yoakam)

Well All Right (Buddy Holly)


SET TWO

Improv - Not Enough Puppies/Ash Baskets, Behind You/Devour (D.B.)

Pigs On The Wing/Pigs (3 Different Ones)/Pigs On The Wing (Pink Floyd)

King Of The Road (Roger Miller) (w/Mark - vocals)

Werewolves Of London (Warren Zevon) (w/Mark - vocals, Steve - piano, Andy - bass, and R.J. - trombone)

What's He Building? (Tom Waits)

Heartattack & Vine (Tom Waits)

The Big Goddamn Neil Young Double-Drop-D Medley - When You Dance I Can Really Love/The Loner/Cinnamon Girl/Mr. Soul (Neil Young)

Karma Police (Radiohead)

SETS THREE & FOUR (My notes are out of order, so I know this will be too, but it's close enough. Set four opened with Requiem... instead of an improv, probably because set 3's improv was such an unfocused pile of shit, the only part of the night that I was truly dissatisfied with)

Improv - Pointless Meandering Bullshit (w/ sample of Bill Hicks' "Time To Evolve") (w/R.J. on flute)

Lawyers, Guns & Money (Warren Zevon)

Something (The Beatles) (w/R.J. on flute)

What's The Ugliest Part Of Your Body?/Zoot Allures (Frank Zappa) (featuring Dougie's suddenly near-useless left-hand index finger on Uncomfortably Numb barre chords)

Another Reading From The Book Of Hunter

Ziggy Stardust (David Bowie)

Rock & Roll Ain't Noise Pollution (AC/DC)

I Talk To The Wind (King Crimson)

Lucky Man (Emerson, Lake & Palmer)

Bridge Of Sighs/Breathe/Wish You Were Here (Robin Trower/Pink Floyd) (w/ R.J. - flute, Adam - guitar)

Sugar Mountain (Neil Young) (w/ R.J. & Adam)

Lay Lady Lay (Bob Dylan) (w/ R.J. & Adam)

Requiem For A Head Laying In A Field In Butler (D.B.)

Scarecrow People (XTC)

The Mayor Of Simpleton (XTC)

James K. Polk (TMBG) (This and Mayor repeated by request of Andy, my fellow geetar-slinging band member)

From The Beginning/Wang Dang Sweet Poontang (Emerson, Lake & Palmer/Ted Nugent) (w/ R.J. & Adam) (featuring a lyric change in Poontang from Ted's "Nadine" to the name of my personal favorite teenage queen)

Get Behind The Mule (Tom Waits) (w/ R.J. & Adam)

Fuckin' Up (Neil Young) (w/ R.J. & Adam)

I Was In The House When The House Burned Down (Warren Zevon) (w/ R.J. & Adam)

The Piano Has Been Drinking (Not Me) (Tom Waits)

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I just left this comment on Lewis Black's myspace page:

Lew, if I had a more interesting and funnier twin brother pop out of my mother's vagina about 20 years ahead of me, it would be you. Everytime I listen to you, I think "That's ME, but the cocksucker beat me to it!" I love you, and few things bring mirth and happiness to my little black heart the way you do. Or maybe it's just the Bacardi. Oh, fuck you anyway, I'm going back to drinking now.

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A myspace message to Stanhope: