163. AIN'T THAT A SHAME (A. Domino, D. Bartholomew) - Played this out once.
164. FIRE (Jimi Hendrix) - Doing Hendrix is always weird. More than any other artist he calls for either slavish imitation or total deconstruction. We've tried this one a couple of times.
165. FIRE (Bruce Springsteen) - I think this was Eric's idea and we did it right up until he left the band. Kind of a blah song but Cathi sang it very well.
166. JAILBREAK (Phil Lynott) - We played this out once. Great song, just not us.
167. PEACE, LOVE AND UNDERSTANDING (Nick Lowe) - One of a small handful of songs that must be played in the key they were written in. We jacked up the key for Cathi's voice and it just didn't work. Ron's other band (The Catatonix) still do it.
168. I GOT YOU (I FEEL GOOD) (James Brown) - Played once at Spirits. Ron's other band still does it.
169. WELL RESPECTED MAN ( Ray Davies) - At rehearsal we all agreed that it would be very clever to play this song as a polka. It took playing it in front of an audience twice to fully realize just how clever it wasn't.
170. HARD DAY'S NIGHT (Lennon, McCartney) - Chicago Static Cling burned this one up as an all-out, minute-&-a-half, Ramones-style punker.
171. PEOPLE GET READY (Curtis Mayfield) - I think we only played this out twice but one of those was a very memorable performance at my niece's wedding with Glenn Phillips on lead guitar.
172. SECRET AGENT MAN (P.F. Sloan, S. Barri) - We did this for about five years as an instrumental, then about five years with vocals, then it was gone.
173. RAMBLIN' ROSE (Wilkin, Burch) - Loud and wild, MC5-style, resolves into...
174. HEART FULL OF SOUL (G. Gouldman) - To this Yardbirds tune we added a long instrumental break that had changes similar to Ten Years After's "I'd Love to Change the World".
175. SECOND THAT EMOTION (Robinson, Cleveland) - This Smokey Robinson song was Eric's idea, I think a lot because he liked Jerry Garcia's version. Eric sang it and we haven't done it since he left the band.
176. L'IL RED ROOSTER (Willie Dixon) - Played this out once at Spirits - my only live performance on slide guitar (with this band).
177. MY GENERATION (Pete Townshend) - A great show ender with the yelling and the jumping and so much noise!
178. HEY JOE (C. Powers) - I remember opening with this song the first time we played The Rail.
179. WE GOTTA GET OUTTA THIS PLACE (Weill, Mann) - Another Animals tune but our arrangement more closely resembled Omar Dykes'.
180. BADGE (Eric Clapton, George Harrison) - I loved to play this song. Mike Doyle helped me figure out the George Harrison guitar part.
181. SUNSHINE OF YOUR LOVE (Jack Bruce, Peter Brown, Eric Clapton) - The Cream chestnut - but did you know that Bruce first wrote the riff for Jimi Hendrix to use?
182. FOXY LADY (Hendrix) - This one came off okay...sometimes.
183. I'M DOWN (Lennon, McCartney) - I remeber a particularly hot version of this Beatles shouter one night at The Ukranian National Club.
184. PLAY WITH FIRE (Jagger, Richards) - McAvoy came up with the idea of speeding this up and putting the bass line and feel of "Break On Through" under it.
185. YOUNGBLOOD (Lieber, Stoller, Pomus) - I'm embarrassed to admit that my first memory of this great Coasters tune was Sha Na Na playing it on some variety show. I loved it then and love it still.