Tag: IA

That Thing Joey Pafumi Does (Paul Nelson Band)

Joey Pafumi, drums, Tom Terry, bass, Rico Amero, vocals, Paul Nelson, guitar, during “Killing Floor -> “Going Down”, 10/31/21, Byron’s Bar, Pomeroy, IA

Paul Nelson Poster
Poster By Mark Gerking







2019 10-04 Ryne Doughty, Linn Grove, IA, Innspiration Winery Set 2 Audio (no set 1 recorded)

Rainy Day Music Raindrop

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Crossing The River
Train To Maine
Summertime
Purple Shoes
Fox And Pheasant
Sweat Lodge
Day Drunk
Grandpa Was A Carpenter
If I Had To
You Are My Sunshine

Weedeater / Weedeater 1995 sealed CD (Iowa)

Weedeater CD
Weedeater CD
Weedeater CD

Here’s what you’ll find about this band anywhere on the Internet, who would I be to alter the text (but I did clean up the typos and misspellings):

A stoner metal band formed in the early 90s in Clear Lake, Iowa consisting of Doug Jones, Jeff Jones and Mark Huddleston. In 1995 they released a self titled album on Pearl Records out of Kansas City. The record was produced by Marvin Jackson, Montel Jones & Weedeater. Assistant Engineering done by Marc Wilson. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License and may also be available under the GNU FDL.

 

 

Kevorkian
Cowboy Bar
Seizure
Killing 4 Jesus
1999
Six Day Crash
Slacker
Going Back
Letter To You
Test Rat

Pearl Records, PEA 1002
Realized $14.99 5/8/19 (Discogs)
Realized $12.99 x 2 4/30/19
Realized $12.99 4/30/19 (returned)
Realized $12.99 3/12/19







John Prine Iris Dement SUX 6/15/11

Tom and I attended John Prine’s performance at The Orpheum, Sioux City, Iowa, last night. Iris Dement shared much of the night, opening with about ten tunes solo on the piano and at various times with Prine, including the encore.

I came away with two immediate thoughts: Prine somehow reminded me of George Gobel, and I really should have caught on by now that Dement is and has been a resident of Iowa for some time now.

I’ve never been to a show at that venue, and maybe it’s customary there, but I thought the crowd was a little tame. Judging by the kind of surprised laughter much of his funny stuff evoked, I’m guessing there were a number of attendees who were not necessarily his “devout”.

That first album was 40 years ago; maybe his “devout” aren’t that mobile anymore (shudder).

I had a wonderful time, it’s a great venue, the sound was adequate (I would have tolerated louder), and all the performers turned in a solid night, albeit without “Illegal Smile”, or something maybe from Common Sense, and without the audience bursting into much sing-along, but I had several transcendental moments, notably during Angel From Montgomery, a song that has always “gotten me”, during which Jason Wilber’s guitar playing was positively sublime, throwing me into a brief Nils Lofgren moment from years ago……

Sioux City (known locally as SUX) is trying to cope with flooding and it’s hard to say for me whether that somehow impacted attendance, but the show wasn’t sold out, and that’s kind of surprising. Prine thanked the audience a couple of times for coming out on a Wednesday night and I wonder if that isn’t a nice way of saying gee, I notice there are rows of empty seats in the back…..

and maybe that has something to do with the part where tickets are sixty dollars. I wouldn’t begrudge the economics of that, but I also wouldn’t have been sitting in the seat if Tom hadn’t bankrolled the operation, so I need to express special appreciation for that.

It was a beautiful night for a drive, even through a couple of wrong Sioux City neighborhoods on the way out, and another successful event for the Rainy Day Music team of the 21st century.







Stick A Pencil In Your Car To Start It

I just happened to have a semi-sobering thought: I’m actually getting old. I can remember starting my car with a pencil.

Sometime about the first of 1971 or so, my parents presented me with a brand new orange Vega hatchback. Wish I still had it today, but those were disposable cars. While I did have it though, I lived in Iowa City, where I was going to college, on East Burlington Street (and later Dubuque Street) where we had to park around the corner on a side street which was completely occupied every night.

My buddies had junk cars and they knew how to make them go no matter what. It doesn’t especially get really cold in Iowa City that much, but sometimes it would long enough to keep a high percentage of those cars from starting because it was too cold.

I wasn’t “good” with cars then, I haven’t been since then and I’m never going to be, but there was one trick that worked surprisingly well with those cars. You took a pencil (kept handy with the car) and jammed it into the carburetor to richen the gas/air mix and that often worked.

I’d have to give it some thought, but it’s probably been three decades or better since I’ve been able to fix anything on any automobile or make it work any differently with anything so profoundly simple as a soft lead number two pencil…….