122. 8 MILES HIGH (McGuinn, Clark, Crosby) - We run these two songs together (along with parts of Hendrix's "3rd Stone from the Sun", Pink Floyd's "Interstellar Overdrive", a free-form jam and sometimes Sun Ra's "Space is the Place") in an exceedingly psychedelic medley. Playing this medley gets me very excited.
123. STAYIN' ALIVE IN 2005 (Draheim) - Russ Tarby, formerly of The Syracuse New Times and later (now) writing for The Eagle Newspapers, came up with this title and asked Static Cling to write a song around it. I wrote and recorded the song and plan to put it on our website and my (projected) solo album. Thanks to Dave Ansuini on bass (Ron was working on his own solo project at the time), John Reilley on sax and backing vocals, Chuck Randall who mixed, produced, engineered and Bob and Cathi.
124. KNOCKIN' ON HEAVEN'S DOOR (Dylan) - People always slow-dance to this song about death.
125. CORTEZ THE KILLER (Neil Young) - A great song to have guests play on. It's long, open and just 3 chords. And it's also about death.
126. ROCKIN' IN THE FREE WORLD (Neil Young) - We changed this around by adding some harmonies, really emphasizing some dynamic changes and adding a dramatic pause during which Bob may (or may not) share with an audience his own unique perspective on life as we know it.
127. I THREW IT ALL AWAY (Dylan) - We threw away Dylan's music and replaced it with some slow-burn soul (like side 4 of James Brown's "Live at the Apollo Vol. II). We transition into this song from "Midnight Hour".
128. RIVER DEEP MOUNTAIN HIGH (Spector, Berry, Greenwich) - This comes in off of a jam (that usually comes off of "Brown-Eyed Girl"). This is another opportunity for Cathi to show off her chops.
129. GLORIA (Van Morrison) - We try to spice up this bar-band staple with an improvised spoken part in the middle. Sometimes it's been too spicey for some people.
130. I CAN'T EXPLAIN (Pete Townshend) - I used to think that we sometimes let this song get too loud, wild and out-of-control until I recently saw some early footage of The Who tearing it apart.
131. WALK DON'T RUN (J. Smith)...and...
132. PIPELINE (Spickard, Carman) - We do these two surf instrumentals in a medley with an original called...
133. BED OF NAILS (Draheim) - One thing I enjoy most about performing this song is that during the guitar break I get to bend over backwards in what I believe is Classic Guitar / Rock Star Pose # 7.
134. COLUMBUS STOCKADE BLUES (traditional) - A lot of folks have done this song. I got it off a Sleepy LaBeef record.
135. POWDERFINGER (Neil Young) - A great song. We're somewhere between Neil and The Beat Farmers on this.
136. I'M A MAN (E. McDaniel) - In a lot of people's opinion - including maybe mine - this might be our best cover. We mixed together Bo Diddley's original, The Yardbirds' cover, Muddy Waters' "Mannish Boy", a little bit of The Blues Project's "Black Night", some Jim Morrison-ish histrionics and put our own spin on all of it. We ended up with something that in the words of WEOS-FM DJ, Raven, "...rocks harder than a professional wrestler for governor."
137. IT'S A MAN'S WORLD (James Brown, Betty Newsome) - Started with Concrete Blonde's arrangement and added our own bridge.
138. WHAT'S GOING ON (A. Cleveland, M. Gaye, R. Benson) - It took us a while to convince ourselves that we could pull this Marvin Gaye song off. Hearing Los Lobos do it helped.
139. FEELIN' ALRIGHT (Dave Mason) - Another song perfectly suited to Cathi's voice and style. It leads into a nice low-key jam that turns into "Good Lovin".