Performances: BrownChicken BrownCow StringBand: “Sexy When She Comes” BrownChicken BrownCow StringBand: “She Comes and She Goes” (with Barry Sless) Boris Garcia: “Shady Grove” Boris Garcia: “Walking Barefoot” Boris Garcia: “Point Of Grace” Boris Garcia: “Song of Love” David Nelson Band: “Lochinvar” BrownChicken BrownCow StringBand: “Twilight Swamp” (with Barry Sless)
This episode explores the convergence of traditional folk, gypsy, bluegrass, and Appalachian country music in a live jam setting. It also provides an example of the influence of ancient Scottish and Celtic folk songs, as reinterpreted by Appalachian country and bluegrass artists, on today’s jam bands.
Welcome to the Flying Other Brothers Music Podcast, hosted by Rockument, a podcast channel produced by Tony Bove, the harmonica player in the Flying Other Brothers.
The following includes a studio recording produced by T Bone Burnett and live gems from past shows featuring G.E. Smith, Country Joe, and Bob Weir.
1. Take a Drive – studio outtake (T. Bove, B. Keely) produced by T Bone Burnett 2. Let’s Get Together (Powers) with G.E. Smith 3. Ohio (Young) with G.E. Smith 4. Sugaree (Garcia, Hunter) with G.E. Smith 5. King Harvest (J.R. Robertson) with G.E. Smith 6. Rockin’ Around the World (McDonald) with Country Joe 7. Playing in the Band-Other Miles Jam (Weir, Hunter, FOBs) with Bob Weir 8. The Main Ten-Uncle John’s Reprise-Playing in the Band Reprise (Hart, Weir, Hunter, Garcia) with Bob Weir
We recorded the first song (with Tony Bove on vocals) at Village Recorders in Santa Monica on Aug. 5-7, 2006, with T Bone Burnett at the controls, in preparation for a studio album that has not yet been released:
Left to right: Bert Keely, T Bone Burnett, Roger McNamee, Tony Bove
Our summer tour of 2006 featured G.E. Smith on lead guitar trading licks with Barry Sless on lead and pedal steel guitar. One stellar night, Aug. 17, 2006, we played Duggan’s Waterfront Pub in Homer, Alaska. With a great crowd and some truly inspiring dancers, we played one of the longest sets ever, more than 3 hours. Tony sang this at the very end, nearly out of breath, the anthem of the Sixties:
2. Let’s Get Together (Powers)
All during our summer tour of 2006, which took us from SoCal to Alaska to NYC and parts inbetween, G.E. Smith would lead us in inspired remakes of the Crosby Stills Nash and Young song “Ohio” (vocal by Tony Bove), the Grateful Dead/Jerry Garcia solo classic “Sugaree” (vocal by G.E. Smith), and the Band classic “King Harvest” (vocal by Roger McNamee, Tony Bove, and G.E. Smith):
3. Ohio (Young) — Juneau, Alaska at Hangar on the Wharf, 8/20/2006 4. Sugaree (Garcia, Hunter) — Juneau, Alaska at Hangar on the Wharf, 8/20/2006 5. King Harvest (J.R. Robertson) — Haines, Alaska at the Tribal House, 8/26/2006
G.E. Smith on the road
BOXER ROCKS on Feb. 25, 2005, was a celebration of Senator Barbara Boxer for her courage at the Condi Rice hearings. This was also the CD Release party for our studio album, San Francisco Sounds. We persuaded a few of our friends to come out and play. It didn’t take much persuading, in actual fact. So lines formed outside Slim’s early on that Friday night, and never really abated. Boz Scaggs joined us along with friends and occasional SuperFOBs G.E. Smith, Country Joe McDonald, David Nelson, T Bone Burnett, and Bob Weir. From that concert, here is Country Joe and the Flying Other Brothers (with G.E. Smith):
6. Rockin’ Around the World (McDonald)
On April 21, 2002, we played a benefit for Camp Winnarainbow and Patch Adams’ GESUNDHEIT Institute (yes, that Patch Adams!) and Wavy Gravy at Bimbo’s in San Francisco. Pete Sears and The Dawn Patrol also appeared, and we provided backing for Bob Weir, with Larry and Corinne Marcus on drums and percussion, and Giles McNamee on rhythm guitar. Bob Weir, of course, sang and played lead guitar. The club was packed to the rafters and we started and ended the Bob Weir set with this impromptu jam that included a Miles Davis riff:
7. Playing in the Band-Other Miles Jam (Weir, Hunter, FOBs) 8. The Main Ten-Uncle John’s Reprise-Playing in the Band Reprise (Hart, Weir, Hunter, Garcia)
All songs published by Fobros Music Publishing (ASCAP) with the following exceptions:
“Ohio” is published by Cotillion Music Inc./Broken Arrow Music (BMI). “Rockin’ Around the World” is published by Country Joe McDonald. “Sugaree”, “Playing in the Band”, “The Main Ten”, and “Uncle John’s Band” are published by Ice Nine Publishing Co. (ASCAP). “King Harvest” is published by Canaan Music (copyright (c) 1970 Canaan Music, Inc.). “Let’s Get Together” is published by Irving Music (BMI).
The Flying Other Brothers are: Bill Bennett, bass and vocals TBone Tony Bove, harmonica and vocals Bert Keely, guitar, trumpet and vocals Corinne Marcus, percussion — songs 7-8 Larry Marcus, percussion — songs 7-8 Ann McNamee, percussion and vocals Roger McNamee, rhythm guitar and vocals Giles McNamee, guitar — songs 7-8 Jim Sanchez, drums — songs 1-6 Pete Sears, keyboards and vocals Barry Sless, lead and pedal steel guitar — songs 1-6 G.E. Smith, lead guitar and vocals — songs 1-6
Guest stars: Country Joe McDonald, guitar and vocals — song 6 Bob Weir, lead guitar and vocals — songs 7-8
The Flying Other Brothers crew: Howard Danchik, live engineer Stacy Parrish, studio and live recording engineer Pat Morrow, Road Manager Paul Dulany, crew Dawn Holliday, spiritual advisor
The Flying Other Brothers shared the bill with the David Nelson Band and Stir Fried.
Welcome to the Flying Other Brothers Music Podcast, hosted by Rockument, a podcast channel produced by Tony Bove, the harmonica player in the Flying Other Brothers.
What a weekend — long and occasionally strange, at that! We performed at “May Daze” on May 27, 2005 at Matt and Maria Jefferson’s ranch, Strasburg, CO.
The playlist:
Spitfire (Pete Sears)
Falling In Leaves (Ann McNamee, G.E. Smith)
Blip In The Life (Tony Bove, G.E. Smith)
Gwendolyn (Roger McNamee)
Wise Man in the Desert (Bill Bennett)
Spillin’ The Blues (Ann McNamee, Lou Dog)
Goin’ Down The Road Feelin’ Bad (with Bill McKay, organ, vocals)
The Flying Other Brothers are: Roger McNamee, rhythm guitar Ann McNamee, percussion Jim Sanchez, drums Pete Sears, keyboards Barry Sless, lead and pedal steel guitar Bert Keely, guitar and trumpet TBone Tony Bove, harmonica Bill Bennett, bass
In the days before the weekend, we learned a couple of worrisome things: Vince Herman, exuberant front man for the late, lamented Leftover Salmon, had emergency surgery to fuse two vertebrae that were in danger of severing his spinal cord; and Bill Laymon, well-known bassist for the David Nelson Band, found himself in the hospital, baffling doctors with some troubling symptoms.
One result: for the first time in years, Pete Sears took his bass on the road with him. Those who know him as a keyboard player may not recall that Pete held down the low end for Jefferson Starship back in the day, and having played keyboards behind Nelson on many occasions, he was a natural choice to fill in.
So we arrived at May Daze, trailing a cloud of dust as we arrived on Thursday evening for a sound check, only to find that the rigors of building a stage had taken somewhat longer than expected. We went off in search of dinner, at the best BBQ place in Strasburg, CO. OK, the only BBQ place in Strasburg. This may explain why the Nelson crew found us so easily, whereupon followed a finger-lickin’ session of swapping lies, with an undercurrent of real concern for Bill, who was still stuck in San Francisco, awaiting the results from a spinal tap.
Friday night, then, is the show you hear in this podcast — featuring the incomparable Bill McKay from Leftover Salmon on “Goin’ Down the Road Feelin’ Bad” — and after we did our thing, Pete admirably defined the pocket for the Nelson band. Next thing we knew, it was Saturday afternoon, and we got word that Bill Laymon was en route. He seemed a bit weak when he arrived, but his playing that night was as strong as ever. This, by the way, makes David Nelson one of the very few who has played with both the Dead and the near-dead.
Come Sunday, and with it menacing storm clouds and intermittent rain, when who should appear on the scene but Vince Herman, patched together with the usual baling wire and bubble gum, and with the addition of a very rakish neck brace. We prepared a modified set list when Vince allowed as how he might just join us for our set, and so Strasburg’s May Daze was the venue for the unofficial debut of Vince and the Stiffnecks (having decided that the neck brace was not enough like a clerical collar to support a band called Father Vincent and the Altar Boys). We played into the teeth of a driving rain, it must be added, that ultimately caused the cancellation of the festival’s final set by Stir Fried. We note with great pleasure that Mookie Siegel also sat in with the band on the mighty Hammond, as he had on Saturday. Got that? Right. We returned to the Bay Area with our faith in the healing power of music confirmed once more.
Set list, Friday 5/27
Highway 61 Revisited
Spitfire
Falling In Leaves
Blip In The Life
Gwendolyn
While My Guitar Gently Weeps
Wise Man in the Desert
Spillin’ The Blues
Goin’ Down The Road Feelin’ Bad (with Bill McKay, organ, vocals)
Set list, Saturday 5/28 (with Mookie Siegel, organ)
Tell Me It’s Okay
Old Brown Shoe
Clueless
Spillin’ The Blues
W. S. Walcott Medicine Show
Arastradero Road
Stella Blue
Nick of Time > Devil’s Kitchen
Set list, Sunday 5/29 (with Vince Herman, guitar, vocals; and Mookie Siegel, organ)
Highway 61 Revisited
Friend of the Devil
It Takes A Lot To Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry
Euphoria
The Weight
Love Minus Zero
Like A Rolling Stone
Goin’ Down The Road Feelin’ Bad
The Flying Other Brothers crew:
Howard Danchik, live engineer Stacy Parrish, studio and live recording engineer Pat Morrow, Road Manager Paul Dulany, crew Dawn Holliday, spiritual advisor