Brouche's first show. I believe Shakori Hills Festival started that day and there were some other Americana acts in the area, so we had a small crowd. That didn't stop the band from playing a great set, even through The Cackler on Oh My Sweet Carolina.
On LMA, going by the shows where the taper listed the band members (I always try to), Chris was there on 2-25-2010 and Bobby was in by 3-31-2010. The shows in between do not list the band members.
5 Guitars launched six years ago. I thought the date was 4/27 but looking back, it was yesterday's date. Thanks for everyone's input.
Great thread hopped. Wonder if there'll be a 9/11 entry. If you'd started it a couple of weeks earlier, we'd have caught me and the Touskies first show on 4/3/09...next year then.
On this day in Yarn history, the finest ever Christopher Street was played at Black eyed Sally's in Hartford, CT. This show also contains the 2nd or 3rd rendering of Dirt Road and it's still my favorite. Slow and slinky with some trippy stuff from Rod. Over the course of time it became shortened and too polished imo.
Been falling down on the job updating this thread. Four years ago today, Yarn played the Double Door Inn in Charlotte, NC. A smoking 2h 48m set after playing three shows at three different venues the day before:
2007, just Blake, Trevor, Ricky B, and Jay F.. Andrew not in band yet I believe. Guitarist on whole sow is Mark Steiner. Im thinking this is pre-Andrew and they were trying out and looking for a lead player and Andrew and Blake found each other, but you got nights like this. But that's speculation. Oh how things come full circle in many ways. Great show with a Family Dog song, and other cool stuff. If This is very much how Yarn sounds now without Andrew, we are all soooooo alirght. Love watching the evolution. Taped and posted by Trevor by the way. Enjoy this gem of a show!
Yarn Live at Savannah's on 2007-06-30 by Yarn
Published June 30, 2007 (check for other copies) Topics Yarn, Savannah's, Albany, NY, SBD
** MY NOTE: I dont know why Oncoming Train went away. I dont believe they have played that in forever. Listen to that tune as it was new when played here. Blake writes such great songs. He obviously is continuing to do so. Its shows like this that make me very optimistic for Yarns' future with the change. **
SET 1 01-Listen Up Sweetheart 02-Can't Slow Down 03-Tennessee 04-No Future Together 05-Dear Mama, I'm Sorry 06-Sorry For Bein' Me 07-Don't Worry 'Bout Me 08-Sorry For Bein' Me (mistake) 09-Woman On The Interstate 10-Miss Ohio* 11-Wishing Well 12-Music's Only Outlaw 13-Let Me In 14-Deal^
SET 2 01-Thrill Is Gone# 02-Bad Man 03-Angel In Woodstock 04-Loser's Lullaby 05-Oh Sweet Nuthin'$ 06-Girl On The Side 07-Cat & Mouse 08-Oncoming Train 09-Don't Break My Heart Again 10-Women, Drugs, & Wine% (Blake & The Family Dog)
* Gillian Welch ^ Grateful Dead # B.B. King $ Velvet Underground % Blake & The Family Dog
Collection YarnMusic Band/Artist Yarn Venue Savannah's Location Albany, NY
Source SBD Lineage SBD > Marantz CD Recorder Taped by Trevor MacArthur Notes
Yarn is: Blake Christiana - Vocals, Guitar Trevor MacArthur - Vocals, Guitar Rick Bugel - Bass Jay Frederick - Drums
SPECIAL GUEST - Mike Steiner - Lead Guitar
Taped By Trevor MacArthur SBD > Marantz CD Recorder
Just saw that hopped. Thats the first known recording of Yarn I believe. Looks like the show posted for today was a show Andrew just wasnt at and they had a lead guitarist fill in. But I really love this show. His songs can hold up with no mando and Rod playing better than this guy. And this is a good example.
** NO Andrew on this on either. Four piece. ++ ** Slow Version of Cant Slow Down!! PLEASE BRING THIS BACK ** Night train in the set ** Sweet Hickory written on spot supposedly
Crowd was light. Owner is a dick. Blake was not very happy with the gig at the outset. I was on the guest list, but I went back an paid double since the crowd was so light. Tennessee was the sound check but the band just kept rollin' after that. 3.5 hours for about twenty folks, half of whom seemed perturbed to have talk over the music in their bar. Andrew was absent. Sound isn't the greatest in this venue, but the band was pretty good in spite of that. Theodore Bundy made an appearance. It was Bastille Day so I wished Bobby "une bonne FĂȘte Nationale!"
With a Dead set. My most viewed Yarn recording on the archive. This was a fun night. I remember hearing a THUD at one point and looked over and badlab's neighbor had passed out standing up and hit the floor face first. Good times.
2010: I went to my first Yarn show that I didn't roll tape for. The Double Door Inn in Charlotte is a tough room for audience mics. I later figured out that on-stage tapes can be great there. I just took it easy and watched the lovely ladies of Amelia's Mechanics open for the guys.
^^^that was a tough attempt at a drive home. Stopped somewhere around DC for a motel surrounded by security bars. Isn't there a "never to be released" recording from this venue?
I coulda made the drive, but Mrs. Brouche couldn't sleep worrying about me falling asleep. Probably a good call. Damn GPS took us back to 95 instead of 81. It's better when the band is on fire and not their van, which IIRC is what happened before the previous Landhaven show.
I was at Ashland and you were clamped to my table top mic stand up front. Was the middle night of a three night run of Fredericksburg, Ashland, and Charlottesville. You and Brouche let me crash in your hotel as I was too tired after commuting to all three shows from Manassas and to work as well. Thanks again!
I was clamped to you at the front table with the CA-14s and ran the AT-853s farther back in the room.
I remember Sue offered up the extra bed in her room and Al was across the hall before she finished the sentence. That little Cuban Lothario has since settled down with one woman. I remember there was a Mellow Mushroom in the first floor of the hotel in C-ville. Convenient for pre-show. Good times.