Thursday December 10, 2009 – Tuning the Air 172
Arrival and setup again went swimmingly fast and without incident. I got a lot of personal practice in, as a result, and as more players joined in we did a fair amount of group warmup as well.
Good house, once more. Very receptive audience. The Hat was remarkable, with a couple of fascinating “coincidences”. The setlist, as recorded by the House Manager and amended slightly in emails from Greg and Joel, was as follows:
Tuning the Air 172
Thursday December 10, 2009
Fremont Abbey Arts Center, Seattle, WA
Fall Season Show #10
Preshow:
Joel Palmer ImprovisationsSet:
Cultivating the Beat – preplannedEncore:
Little Gangsters – from the Hat
Whatever you were going to play, play something else - from the Hat of Mystery
Shostakovich Prelude XXII - from the Hat
Basketball for Nine Guitarists - from the Hat of Mystery
Brasil – from the Hat
Lament – from the Hat
My Precious Dream – from the Hat
Jaxie talked to the audience
Kashmir – preplanned
Tuning the Air - from the Hat of Mystery (scale picked by Taylor, F minor)
Batrachomyomachy – called by Igor*
C major improv called by a cell phone ring in the audience and then by Curt
In My Room - called by Curt*
Long Ago Today - from the Hat (Jaxie chose to trust the Hat)
Bus Artist – called by Jaxie
La Rueda – from the Hat
Thrak – preplanned
Eye of the Needle – preplanned
Twilight – called in the Green Room
*After Batrachomyomachy was called by Igor, we returned to the Hat, and out came, naturally, Batrachomyomachy. An audience member’s cell phone went off, and it was taking some time to find it. I quickly determined the ring tone was in C Major, and called for a C Major Improv. The audience member slipped out to deal with finding and silencing the phone. After C Major, In My Room was just screaming to be played, so I called it. Moving on from there we again consulted the Hat, and sure enough, In My Room was the next to come out. At least that’s how I remember the unfolding of events.
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