These two gigs, at two of our favorite venues (The Nightingale Bar and The Right Track Inn) , show how much progress we'd made in 1992. We only repeat three songs over the course of the two nights. And you can really hear the difference between the two clubs, and how differently we'd play at them. Strap yourselves in, friends and munchkins, this is primo Life Out Of Balance!
Louis joins us on trumpet and this show becomes very much an ongoing duet between the two horn players, with only sporadic keyboards, making this a very unusual and distinctive show. The two L's sound like they are having a great time together, both of them contributing some of their best-ever work with LOOB on this tape. They're even great between songs, softly keeping an undercurrent of music going while the other guys tune, fix something, or figure out what to play next....whatever it is that keeps us from starting the next song for a possible record one minute and forty five seconds!
We're playing super-duper fast on the "oldies" ("Wobble", "Warm Outside"), but it's all of us, not just me! We had played two days earlier at The Lion's Den (another great show) so we were definitely "warmed up".
Obviously we had been doing some rehearsing and got "Soon Come" - a song we had begun in Mystery Fez but which we had to wait until we got the Red House up and running to put on the finishing touches. Both sides of the tape start with strong versions of "Soon Come" - it's definitely the song-of-the-moment for us.
I had forgotten about "Bottle In The Ocean", sounds great, this was one of my better songs in LOOB. Like "Caveman", the lyrics to this song were finished about a year later. I did this song with another band, but it never sounded as good as it did with LOOB.
One thing that's always funny to me is the little intro line Ted and I sing at the beginning of "Someone's In My Head". We sing "...and now we'll sing a sad, love tale". First off, the song is not a sad love tale, it's a happy one! But the thing that makes me laugh is that usually when we'd do a harmony, Ted would take the high part and I the one underneath Hubie. For some reason, in "Someone's In My Head", I'm the one who sings the high part - a high harmony on an already high melody! - and I could just barely hit that note! Especially sitting down, while drumming! I think I almost make it on this one. Incidentally, this is a very fun and distinctive "Someone's In My Head" with Hubie and me, or Hubie and Lawrence (I can't tell) barking and whooping.
We have a great crowd on this tape! People in attendance, judging from the sound of their voices, and comments we make, include Dave Engelhardt, probably Joe Norton, Sylvia and Lisa, and of course, Ward (who, for the record, requests "Bucketful Of Rice")! This is one of the best versions of "Bucketful Of Rice" I've heard so far. Thanks, Ward, for requesting it! "Some Other", of all songs, gets requested as well for an encore and we turn in one of its all-time versions no question about it. Go Steve! Maybe this song ain't so bad after all! A really pretty way to end a great set.
You'll be smiling your way through this one. It is a super-confident, super-relaxed, super-fun show!
But.....it's nothing compared to the next show, the one that's on the flip side of this tape....to be continued!!!
Nightingale Bar, 11/7/92
Soon Come
It's Warm Outside
We Both Wobble
Bottle In The Ocean
Someone's In My Head
Bucketful Of Rice (All I Wanted)
Some Other
Hubert Poole - guitar, vocal, percussion
Ted Schreiber - bass, vocal, percussion
Lawrence Krauser - electric piano, synth, trumpet
Michael Goodman - drums, vocal
Steven Goodman - percussion, accordion
Special Guest Star: Louis DeVirgilio - trumpet
Ward Regan: Founding father, management, and announcements!
recorded by Chris "The Great" Ivers
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