Special thanks to Ashley our music program director and Barista-in-Chief for being so continually awesome, to Darcy for also being there on Saturday, and also to Gabriel Moushabeck, the Sofa's impressario who continually pursues the special mission of running conscious and community-centered local business. And speaking of which, additional thanks to Turn it Up! CD's and More for donating a $25 gift certificate, to Downtown Sounds for contributing a $25 gift certificate for musical equipment, to Booklink Booksellers (the Yellow Sofa's favorite independent Northampton Bookseller) for donating a great Dylan photography book, and to recording master Jim Matus at Old Schoolhouse Recording Studio for his generous donation of the grand prize 3 hours of recording time (to the equally lucky and deserving Christopher Griffin!)
Newcomers Denny Wolfe, Tom Neal (on Ukelele), Jake Bernaz, Chris Shanahan, and many familiar Yellow Sofa potatoes like Fongster 100, Chris Griffin, Cristopher Goudreau, Jeremy Anderson, and David Waldfogel, did Dylan's material proud, although Bob would have said, "Just because you like my songs doesn't mean I owe you anything, man."
Maybe he's got his own point, but a lot of us owe a debt to Dylan for being a 300-year genius in a one-year culture, making it possible for us to think of music and our times in ways much more rich than a lot of us would have ever considered on our own--but now can. Just to keep this from getting too effusive, there was a really creepy but brilliant fictional characature of Dylan at age 70 in Miami Beach with a bunch of guys by the pool made by the baby boomer show-business id/kitch artist Drew Friedman (a personal favorite of mine, but then I also like to heat unbearable hot peppers and used to eat lemons when I was a kid) that we considered, but rejected using for the poster for this event.
If you performed and would like a lasting memory of your performance, filmmaker Curtis Simpson captured it on high quality digital, and can get you a copy of your performance for a reasonable fee. You can get ore details by contacting him directly at:
CRSMediaTech@gmail.com Facebook.com/CRSMediaTech
I (Michael) am playing here at the Sofa on July 16th without the Silvertone Horns. I'm two-timing them (while they travel to the Cape and the Colorado mountains and such with my other band, Michael Silverstone and the Foregone Conclusions. I want to take a page from our friend Christa Joy's book. Like her I want to invite musical friends from the Sofa to share the night so the concept is this, let me know if you're willing to play a cover song we both think is great, you can also do one of your own on your own or with my help if you want. Let me know by emailing at yellowsofa@gmail.com
For those of you that would have actually come out just for a Mr. Silverstone and the Silvertone Horns concert (and doG love you for that) you might enjoy peeking at my blog:
Songwriting and Stuff Like That: Ongoing documentation of an artist's various unauthorized do-it-himself pop music-making explorations, in the era of the collapse of musical imperialsism.
http://songwritingandstufflikethat.blogspot.com/2011/07/aint-summer-great.html
Tonight's End of the Night Jam is another Three Chord Special, a sweet and cool classic blues structured song by Tracy Chapman called: Give Me Just One Good Reason
Doesn't that sound delicious? Don't forget how great she is, in case you ever do for a second.We need someone to sing verses tonight. Study up, and I'll try and have some lyrics sheets.
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