setlist - session 535 - Blue Cafe, Huntington Beach, CA - 4-30-2010

Instagon #535
4-30-2010
Blue Cafe
Huntington Beach, CA

Let me just start this blog off by saying straight up and off the top that INSTAGON LOVES THE BLUE CAFE!  Okay.. now that I have that off of my deamonic chest we can move forward.  This was our 2nd time at the Blue Cafe (1st time was session #500 last spring) and they welcomed us back with open arms.  The staff and crew at the Blue Cafe know how to have fun and we enjoy working with them completely.  This was the 2nd night of the mini-tour, and the first stop in So.Cal.
Back to the home turf and original stomping grounds of the deamon Instagon, Orange County, CA.  We drove the 400 miles south during the day only to in So.Cal in the midst of rush hour traffic on a Friday on the 405 Freeway!  It took nearly an hour to get thru LA and in to the OC.  But once we got there we were happy.. the weather was kind, we were early enough to relax awhile, and so all was good.  We checked into our room at the Ramada across from the venue and got ourselves ready for a night of chaos and deamon rock.  This show was to be the BEAST...the giant insane incarnation of Instagon that the OC knows and loves.

The Garage Jazz Architects started off the night with a great set, followed by a band called Good Citizen from Long Beach. They were put on this show by the Blue Cafe booking staff, and so we did not know them or what to expect...they were amazing and great fun...they closed with a Pogues song and we were all drinking and having a great time.  They were followed by the Gospel Swamp Blues Band..(our friends in HB who had shared the stage with us last year too) who tore up the stage with some hot blues and grooves.  I (Lob) even played a little harmonica with them for the song "Hey You" ..an old blues standard.
Finally it was time for the Instagon BEAST to hit the stage. There were 12 players prepared, but in the end only 11 ended up playing.. and 10 of them at once time!

The invokation was lead in by Charles Ardinger, who was given the theme of
"SURF"
as the topic of the day.. the deamon creeped up behind him and we slowly brought the beast to bay.. and unleased into ORGONE COLLECTOR.. and then onward and Forward...  The players involved with this session included ROBERT FISHER 

& CHRIS McKINNEY from the Gospel Swamp Blues Band,  MARK & CHAD from the Garage Jazz Architects, local OC jazz guitarist SCOTT HUESTIS, long time friend of the deamon , YOD on guitar too.   JACK JOHNSON from the Taint played 2nd drums, and it was his first show since June 2004!   MARTIN ESCALENTE played Sax and it was his first time back since Sept. 2002!,  But the big stats to to JOHN PODDY from the punk band Smogtown..who hasnt played since March 1998 (the Instagon Tool & Appliance Orchestra) .. he joined us on Trumpet.  The show was ROARING.. it was large and chaos filled with creamy good grooves. We closed with a riff by the Damned.  The Blue Cafe still said they loved us and would have us back again.. and damn.. . we LOVE the Blue Cafe!

INSTAGON 535
4 - 30 - 2010
BLUE CAFE, HUNTINGTON BCH, CA

Invokation>
Surfing with Charles,
Orgone Collector,
Cosmic
Deamon's Tube,
Dripfall,
The Little Turtle,
Neat Neat Neat >  (riff by The Damned)
Shut Down (riff by The Germs)O

(set length 62:00)

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photos by Yvette Lucas

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