May We Check Your Bags Sir? - Wedgewood Inn 10/16-17/11 New Hope, Pennsylvania

The Wedgewood Inn of New Hope, Pennsylvania offers a pleasant and relaxing stayover within walking distance of the many shoppes this town has to offer and completely upturned my expectations of what a Bed & Breakfast is like. I asked our host Caitlin if there was a "curfew" only to receive a chuckle from herself and Jamie, boy was I misinformed. We had a choice between the room we booked which was on the top floor with a refrigerator and microwave or lodging on the second floor without those amenities but with a gas fireplace, the fireplace won out.

THE PROS - Bed & Breakfast in New Hope Pennsylvania, Offered choice of room, Gazebo, Relaxing wooden wind chime in gazebo, complimentary Peanut Butter Cookies, Pleasant staff

THE CONS - Air conditioner placed at bed height instigating blanket usage, Hair & Body Wash by Kimcare, Science magazine in rack is three years old.



the fireplace was a nice touch but did make the room a McDLT as the opposite end housed the air conditioner.



comfy bed with soft sheets and pillowcases.



breakfast was Fruit Salad (Yogurt and Granola optional), Zucchini Omelette, Croissant, Zucchini Bread, Butter, Grape Jam, Coffee and Orange Pineapple Juice.



communal dining area with separate tables allowing some semblance of privacy which I welcomed and opposed what I had heard of B&B's.



Day Of The Triffids.

I must ask them about this sculpture on my next stay.

White Wedding - La Pomme 10/15/11 Manhattan, New York

La Pomme features a very nice room and our clients who threw an 80s anniversary party had a stage built for us while Sean and Ginger provided the sound and lighting. I did not get to to see the crowd during our performance but marveled at some of the 80s fashion sense afterwards as is often the case at these parties. We played a good two sets and due to time constraints were packed up by 11 p.m., Unique to this performance was "Limelight" by Rush which was a special request (see below)





possibly my coolest space yet, I had my own little makeshift drum riser.







After passing White Castle on the way to rehearsal every week it was nice to finally have some pre-rendezvous at the Callbox. Two Jalapeno Double Cheeseburgers, One Double Cheeseburger and a sack of Fries ($7.68). Two Cheeseburgers are plenty the third came home with me.



I forgot the band were dining together and wasted my appetite on the murder burgers. pictured above are BLT Poppers ($6) from the very cool Hog Pit NYC bar located right next to La Pomme, this bar offered a Quart Bottle of Colt 45 for $10.00



Limelight is one of the most difficult songs we have had to learn to date and gave us a run for our money as far as ensemble playing, Dave is reading the sheet music during the 3/4 guitar solo section.

White Wedding - Vintage Bar 10/14/11 White Plains, New York

Beerstaches Rule.



The Vintage Bar was a nice room to play and we had the crowd dancing sporadically throughout the evening. Tonight we implemented our pro-twitter stance which gets a free t-shirt to the first person to tweet us on a Wednesday and comes down to the show. This evening is also when I popped my bass drum head halfway through the first set (of two sets) but left the replacement back in Brooklyn, some painters tape kept the head intact for the second set fortunately.



Our brave singers had to deal with a spiral staircase which led to the changing room.



the changing room in question was located above the stage.



our poster in the front window.



EXHIBIT A - I'm going to write to Mr. Ludwig as I keep losing lugs from the bottom of my rack tom.



the ad for the show from Vintage Bars website.

300TH Posting

Hot Pot

HOGO!!!!

We convened for our pretty much annual Hot Pot feast and I thank Guy for inviting me after my absence for some time.





They say that you can eat all the chinese food you want and will still be hungry a half an hour later. About a half an hour after Hot Pot I stopped for a Sicilian Slice at Vittorio Pizzeria

Red Bank

White Wedding - Allison & Eric's Wedding - 10/8/11 Jumping Brook Golf Course - Neptune, New Jersey

Coming just one week after our last wedding performance it becomes easier to grow accustomed to working in a hall/dining setting with breaks in the set dictated by the festivities as well as the actual festivities, food, drinks, dancing and high spirits apparent at a wedding reception. We all had a Blast doing our jobs and continue to grow through experience.

Songs unique to this performance were two by The Misfits, "Where Eagles Dare" and "Astro Zombies" this is also the show where the bride and groom entered the proceedings to the "Emperor's Theme" from Star Wars which we all found very cool and amusing a few months back when we got the details.





Unique shots of Rob in his "Danzig/Misfits" personae since this may be the only time it ever happens.



This and the last photo get published just because I (Drummer of said group) took them while the band was playing ("Dont Stop Believing") and I had a second to step out in front amongst the crowd before my Drum Cue went off. We had passed our curfew so there was no time for Rob to get out of his makeup.

I would like to thank my friend Ham for appreciating The Drumming especially this evening (I am told that his friends were also All About The Drumming) and my personal feeling can only be described as elated when you realize you are elevating someone to have so much fun. I could only feel blushful when being told my playing was "On A Whole Other Level!!!", All modesty aside folks, I can carry a tune to its end and successfully play in an ensemble but the "Other Level" is Well,... for those "Other Level Dudes".

Ham and his buddies really made my night though, Thanks Very Much guys.







Stuffed Chicken (with Gravy), Garden Vegetables and Mashed Potatoes.



FLICKR

White Wedding - Sabrina & Sam's Wedding - 10/1/11 - Rumsford, New Jersey

Nancy couldn't make it to this show but fortunately at the very last minute we got Mike's friend Cora to fill in at this important wedding performance and she did a great job singing and dancing with very high energy. Rob did his usual outstanding emcee delivery introducing the wedding party under an audio bed of "Walking On Sunshine" and the band played a tight evening of music in very cramped circumstances, I could not get much action from my bass drum pedal (much less get out from behind the kit) since I was crammed against the wall but this is just another one of those challenges a gigging musician sometimes has to deal with.

Unique to this performance was renditions of Van Morrison's "Sweet Thing", Men At Work's "Who Can It Be Now" and Loudon Wainwright lll's "Daughter". Unique for White Wedding is that a member of the party requested a song that we NEVER played before and we winged it in a live setting which was not a Pub either (no offense to the pub's), at first I had no idea what song it was mainly because I don't really know the song but everyone else does. We performed Poison's "Every Rose Has Its Thorn" as part of the Metal Block and it sounded just fine too.



Tonight's M.V.P. in my book, Cora for doing an Amazing job and fitting right in.



Like most working bands we continue to build strength to strength, Next thing you know we will be performing songs we never played to live audiences!!! oh wait ,.....



Once again Sean and Ginger provided sound and lighting for us and you can find them at Boardwalk Entertainment



The Kobe Burger - 10 ounces Kobe Beef, Humboldt Fog Cheese, Garlic Butter, Arugula, Red Onion, Tomato & Mayo on King's Hawaiian Bun, Salt Creek Garlic Fries Too.



Cora runs through her songs at the Callbox right before heading to the reception. Notice Dave in the background giving us the "slow down" hand signal, we were speeding on purpose so we could get on the road already.

Milk Crate Of LP's Found

I Found a Milk Crate Full of LP's on Thursday (the other day) right after it rained, fortunately for the record sleeves it didn't rain too much on my block and as I was walking to 18th avenue to meet Jamie I saw a crate of LP's under a discarded microwave oven and actually said out loud "That's Sad". Upon peering a bit closer to its contents I saw one word.

"McCartney"

Well, this looks the crate for me so I diverted my actions for a minute and took the crate home to the warmth of my bedroom and dried a few of the (hardly wet at all) records that were stored on the outside and most facing the elements later that evening.

Inside were Monkees, Neil Diamond, Frank Sinatra, Frankie Valli, Woodstock (one and two) Mitch Miller, Bob Dylan and Beatles solo LPs

(Original Hits, Original Albums)

The Good Yeggs - Painting The Town Yegg

Tonight we did a Good thing as Yegg's and sallied forth to the hinterlands of Park Slope, Brooklyn to offer our wares and leave wake of our sound oscillations as captured via microphone to reproduce via plastic digital disc.

We dropped off our Demo CD at Two Boots Pizza and The Tea Lounge and it was nice to talk and snack (if thats a snack then whats for dinner ?) with my bandmates setting our eyes on booking some gigs for the fall.



Andouille BBQ Burger (with Bacon & Cheddar) (Tom Yegg)



Fried Chicken (with Mashed Taters & Greens) (Joe Yegg)



Chicken Fried Steak (with Greens & Taters Mashed) (Spike Yegg)



The Yeggs Themselves (Well Fed & Boozed Up).
(Left to Right) Tom, Spike, Joe.



Quite Possibly the most uncomfortable chair ever fabricated by humankind was at the bar at the Tea Lounge and there were two of them.