The Medusa Fora

11:30 pm my time here in california : ive just now returned from seeing james---what can i say?--he's great but you guys already know that! and he did have his accordion, by the way.it was a good show james--hope many more to come.....and your spanish singing was lovely too. buenas noches senor james

carmen wrote:11:30 pm my time here in california : ive just now returned from seeing james---what can i say?--he's great but you guys already know that! and he did have his accordion, by the way.it was a good show james--hope many more to come.....and your spanish singing was lovely too. buenas noches senor james

I'm full of the jealous.

So with accordian, guitar, and Spanish - would we call it banda?

Joking aside - one of the things that I really like about the Low & Sweet Orchestra is the Spanish/Mexican/South-Western flavor to the music. I really liked that sound.

I miss the Low & Sweet Orchestra.

... and let's not forget keiran on the stroh, which looked like a cross between a violin and a victrola... but sounded beautiful.

well done boys.

setlist anyone?

well, i know they played 'a duck walked into a bar' from the low and sweet orchestra album. the set closer was 'bang bang (my baby shot me down)' a cover of the tune recently made popular in kill bill. i didn't catch any of the other titles.

thanks

well lets see what i remember--started off with drunken boat (james you remembered 99% --good job!-lots of words--long song).also dog walked into bar room, one he said was about "irish relatives and himself" and the spanish one i think is called paraiso solamente--(correct me james). i dont know the names of the others--but one thing for sure--YOU GUYS SHOULD HAVE PLAYED LONGER!!!!! but i know you only had that time slot. and thanks for bringing along the accordion

dzm: IM TRYING TO IMAGINE JAMES WITH COWBOY HAT

duck???????--ISNT IT DOG?????

whoops... thick english accents do weird things to my ears. yes, i believe it is dog... but just picture a duck instead - kinda funny.

rockers1977 wrote:... but just picture a duck instead - kinda funny.

Drunken Boat (99% of the words I remembered as Carmen notes).
The Rock on Which my Hopes May Perish (the song about my relationships with Irish Writers and the title some of you may be familiar with from a song of Shane's, from one of his solo records, but the phrase coming from Terry Woods initially: one of those things he says from time to time - like 'Mother pack me bags, I'm off to foreign parts' and so on, very characteristically Terry)
The Strand (sad waltz about loss and seafaring, seagulls and a hat)
The Dog Came in the Bar Room (Low and Sweet Orchestra)
Sausage Moon (the Spanish one with Ay Ay Ay Ay, mi paraiso nada mas for the chorus)
Madrid (or the Captain Swings from the Trees) - another long one about seafaring and revenge.
Bang Bang (I chose to do this one because it's just so eastern european and nothing to do with Kill Bill at all. I'd actually forgotten it was in the film.)

Carmen, are you just invisible at these things? Cause I never see you at all.

I played on later with Dead Rock West, who I can't believe don't have a hundred or more coming to each gig they do, because they're dead good.

Jeff! Duck? Accent? What accent?

JamesFearnley wrote:Jeff! Duck? Accent? What accent?

I see no accent at all.

James: well then you obviously dont see me drool ( which is a good thing)--but really--as your devoted fan i am always up front--what? you dont notice the one mexican girl fan????just when i was beginning to feel like a stalker ...............