David Lindley

April 13, 2016
Jammin Java
Vienna, VA
USA

Lostbrook 2.0 Volume 149

Source: CA-14(cards)>CA-9200>Sony M10(24/48)
Location: 10' from stage, slightly left of center

Transfer: Sony M10>Micro SDHC>PC>Sound Forge 10>WAV 16/44.1>
Trader's Little Helper>FLAC(level 8)

Taper/Transfer/Notes: Lostbrook
Covers/Review: ethiessen1

Set 1/Disc 1: (49:45)

01 Intro (1:39)
02 Way Out West In Kansas* (8:07)
03 Dave 1 (1:37)
04 This Barstool's Reserved For My Heart# (6:16)
05 Dave 2 (2:23)
06 Do You Want My Job?# (6:07)
07 Dave 3 (6:12)
08 The Cuckoo^ (7:21)
09 Dave 4 (4:14)
10 New Minglewood Blues^ (5:44)

Set 2/Disc 2: (79:00)

11 Dave 5 (5:57)
12 Pretty Polly* (9:47)
13 Dave 6 (9:29)
14 Waimanalo Blues$ (5:36)
15 Mercury Blues# (6:09)
16 Dave 7 (7:57)
17 Meat Grinder Blues$ (15:18)

Encore:

18 Dave 8 (5:20)
19 Cat Food Sandwiches# (13:23)

* bouzouki
# Weissenborn lap steel
^ electric oud
$ Weissenborn baritone lap steel

David Lindley - vocals, Weissenborn lap steel guitars (regular and baritone), bouzouki, electric oud

Mr. Dave's stories:

1 - Working with Doug Haywood
2 - Doug Haywood (cont.)/Live at The Main Point Bootleg/Nuclear Waste
3 - Fukushima/Intro to The Cuckoo/Story of The Electric Oud
4 - Reggae Theories/Oud Tuning Options
5 - Ear Monitors/Playing Banjo in the Closet/Disneyland/Vodka and Fritos
6 - Larry Pogreba - Luthier and Cannon Maker/Bowling Balls and Ted Turner/Intro to Waimanalo Blues/Schwarzenegger Movies/Pissed-off Hawaiians
7 - In the Studio/The Ghost of Lowell George/The Reverse Midas Touch
8 - Backstage Food

Lostbrook notes:

A bit of phasing at times due to waitress traffic but otherwise a clean capture of Mr. Dave's entertaining performance. I enjoyed watching the show in the company of ethiessen1 and 1chucho.
ethiessen1"s review:

Jammin' Java is a smallish deeper than wider venue
at the end of a strip shopping center in Vienna in
the Southwestern DC suburbs. They offer a wide variety
of acts and charge generally low ticket prices.
The stage, bordered by silvery corrugated drainage
pipes stood up on their ends like pillars, is at the back
of the place, with rows of tables wedged in and somehow
ringed with 8 chairs each immediately in front of it, and
open seating behind them.

Tonight, the stage is stark except for a 2 ft wide,
18 inches tall black road case emblazoned with a
Coexist and a Low Tech Rules bumper sticker, 2
microphones on stands, one instrumental and one vocal,
and 4 well worn guitar cases. An empty rack sits
immediately to the left, which is filled with
instruments right before Mr Dave comes out.

Equal parts performer, musical archivist, social
activist, 1960s & 70s historian and comedian, Mr Dave
looks a lot like Ben Franklin in a psychedelic shirt,
jeans and yellowish bowling shoes and reminds one of
Jonathan Winters when he talks. Which he does. A lot.
His introductory song stories are entertaining at worst,
fascinating at best, and usually not too long.

The danger of this came close to happening in the 2nd
set. The momentum the show had was slowed down
considerably by the stories taking a long time between
songs, which, at times, drifted off topic. That day was
Lowell George's birthday, and Mr Dave told a tale of
recording slide guitar parts on a Little Feat album
immediately after his untimely death but then didn't play
anything connected to the story whatsover-a missed
opportunity to do something very memorable, especially
as we were in Lowell's old DC area stomping grounds.

That said, the stories on this night are humorous and
go by fairly quickly, as do the songs. There's a lot of
humor in David, although there's also a very serious
undercurrent of how nukes and pollution are bad for both
we the people and the planet. He twists the old standard
Mercury Blues from being about an automobile to buying
tuna fish in Costco and it having less than desirable
after effects when eaten. Waimanalo Blues decries the
overcommercialization of Hawaii "I had lost the things
that I couldn't lose."

Meatgrinder Blues, Mr Dave and his daughter Roseanne's
song written at first about a man with a reverse-Midas
touch, ends up being a warning about "greasy stuff" such
as radiation danger being glossed over by the government,
and genetic patenting one day requiring parents to pay a
royalty when their kids are born. The song then goes on
how GMO's created fortified yellow colored "PeePee rice"
that is supposed to reduce vitamin A deficiency in children
in poor nations. The premise is that all of these supposed
technological advances are just mankind climbing into what
he refers to as a "self meat grinder," inadvertantly
destroying itself whilst thinking it's improving the world.

The encore, Cat Food Sandwiches, was a request from a couple
who were coming to the show specifically to hear it. The
premise is that the woman (who looked like Jimmy Page) that
made the backstage food at the Health & Wellness Festival in
Sausalito, CA got her tunafish can mixed up with her cat food
can and made a tray of sandwiches, complete with mayonnaise
and green onions, which then sat out in the sun for 45 minutes.
The after effects of the sandwich consumption left Mr Dave
onstage with soiled garments and a queasy feeling-but the show
must go on-and did. From there, a quick story about legendary
bassist Lee Sklar's trip on a culinary tour of China concluded
the evening with the crowd singing along about the "human feets
in a burlap bag." You had to be there...

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