Instagon #521
November 28, 2009
Cozmic Cafe, Placerville, CA
A cold Fall evening in the town of Placerville, in the Tahoe foothills of California. We arrived at Cozmic Cafe really really early as we were asked to do, and arrived to find no one there that had any idea what was happening with the show. There was no door person, nor a person to run the sound. The kind hearted owner, Gayle, informed us that there was a beautiful sound system for our use and that "they" would be happy to help us with sound..but who "they" were was really not mentioned, nor was any real help offered. After a little time going by and frustration starting to set in, we set upon the job ourselves with the help of Chad E. Williams and someone else from the Noisepsalm crew of people we finally got a working sound system and we were ready for launching. it had now been nearly 2 hours since we arrived...and we were hungry. So a quick run to a fast food joint to get some fuel, and then back to the venue to invoke our deamon.
It was a really tough night on stage.. it was hard to hear as they had no real monitors on stage.. and Blake William, although a swell guitar player, is really loud. The set started off with a quick Invokation and dropped into the Red Planet Landing & My Little Red Planet. After a few adjustments to sound, we were off again running through a good selection of older Instagon riffs (Red Planet, Spider, Jazz for Satan, Deamon's Tube), some of the newer riffs (Undoing, Cozmic, Buzzkill), and some great garage jazz covers too (Simpsons, Rock Lobster). This was Skip Moriarty's first time playing with Instagon, and he seemed to really enjoy himself dancing and doing place kicks on the stage while we were rockin'. The audience really had a great time watching him. But the real core of this show was a semi-prepared concept (prepared as in everyone on stage had been forewarned) ..this was Instagon group # 521. ..with that number in mind we set into playing Five To One by the Doors.. with full vocals from Lob ! It was really something different, and very special. It was done for this show only, and will probably not be repeated. We played it upbeat and off key just like you knew we would. {grin}.
INSTAGON #521
November 28, 2009
Cozmic Cafe, Placerville, CA
Invokation >
Red Planet Landing >
My Little Red Planet,
Cozmic,
Simpsons, (TV Theme song)
Spider,
Jazz for Satan,
Five To One*, (song by The Doors, 1st time played)
Buzzkill,
Undoing,
Rock Lobster, (song by B-52's)
Deamon's Tube
(1:15)
521 was:
LOB (lead bass, vocals)
CHAD E. WILLIAMS (guitar)
BLAKE WILLIAM (guitar)
MARK HALVERSON (drums)
MATT LEWIS (keyboards)
SKIP MORIARTY (flute, tamborine)
INSTAGON #521
November 28, 2009
Cozmic Cafe, Placerville, CA
Invokation >
Red Planet Landing >
My Little Red Planet,
Cozmic,
Simpsons, (TV Theme song)
Spider,
Jazz for Satan,
Five To One*, (song by The Doors, 1st time played)
Buzzkill,
Undoing,
Rock Lobster, (song by B-52's)
Deamon's Tube
(1:15)
521 was:
LOB (lead bass, vocals)
CHAD E. WILLIAMS (guitar)
BLAKE WILLIAM (guitar)
MARK HALVERSON (drums)
MATT LEWIS (keyboards)
SKIP MORIARTY (flute, tamborine)
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