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the 411 on JPS

this past saturday night i played a show with john p. strohm at the bottletree, with two great opening bands. we were a bit under rehearsed as usual, and halfway thru the set, my kick pedal took a shit, which apparently was my fault, even though the pedal isn't mine... but over all, the sound was strong, my playing (as a drummer) was pretty solid considering i had only played drums twice last week, and zero since the first of august.

the backing band in my opinion (and in the opinion of many folks at the show) is john's best at the moment. john strohm uses different backing bands based on gig location , scheduling, etc. this time around, it was the same backing band that played last year in atlanta, and at the various bottletree shows in town this year:

john / vox-guitar, bo butler, vox acoustic, clint wells-electric, shae rives-bass, and myself. i played a show with john at the 40watt in athens that included jody nelson and greg slamen of through the sparks.


for anyone interested or curious... here's some clips of john through the decades. the first is with blake babies in 1989, the second is john playing with the lemonheads on the john stewart show in '94 and the last is him, basically now... as an entertainment/transactional attorney. this week wraps up my 1st year playing with john, and i reckon i'll play another gig with him in about 5 months or so. this week i'll be playing two shows with the spots and one with through the sparks. these are the two bands i've played with most often in 2007.







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