These Ruby's shows took place in a restaurant/bar, uptown, it's a little noisy, but they were fun shows. I can tell a few stories actually about this particular show, but they will have to be verbal! I think Billy Capozzi might have gotten us these shows as we thank him at the end of the show. It was a nice change of pace for us, let's play uptown, see what that's like!
This was actually one of the early tapes I grabbed to digitize....I put it on, heard a lot of audience chatter, I heard hardly any guitars and turned it right off. I just gave it a second try, and I see we get the guitars mix straight. The audience settles down, and it's a good effort! And as the show goes on, it gets better and better. Frank sounds great on this show.
For instance, it's great to hear Frank on "Thundersong". We passed out percussion to the audience for this one, so you get a good stereo effect of the various percussion players scattered around the room, jamming along with us. Great on headphones!
Then we break out "Is It Safe?"....and we can't remember it!!! And yet, it's a beautiful version! By the second chorus, it's sounding great! But obviously it had been a while.
"Wintertime" - Frank again, really nice slide.
Ted's band introductions are hilarious!
Someone joins Hubie in on the "We Both Wobble" choruses, sounds cool! Don't know if it was Lawrence, or people in the audience, but it sounds like an instant doubletrack!
Tragically, we only get the intro of "Bucketful Of Rice"! I was looking forward to that the whole tape, damn! Oh well....we play it again the next Ruby's show, which took place three days later.
Anyways, grab yourself a brew....maybe sit down and eat yourself a meal...and pop this tape on, you'll feel like you're out at Ruby's!
Ruby's, 9/20/92
Ted introduces opening act Llama Judd
I Owe
Someone's In My Head
Caveman ->
Smile
Four Walls
What You Say
Thundersong
Is It Safe?
Wintertime
We Both Wobble
Bucketful Of Rice (All I Wanted) /
Hubert Poole - guitar, vocal, percussion
Ted Schreiber - guitar, vocal, percussion
Michael Goodman - percussion, vocal
Lawrence Krauser - trumpet
Frank Russell - slide guitar
recorded by Chris Ivers
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