Zim City Legion

We travelled to Zim City for what would be our 3rd gig there. It was kind of a good change of pace for us. Looking back at our schedule we had the previous 5 gigs ALL at the Fairmont Legion. In fact we haven't played a metro Twin Cities gig since July 2005 !!!! We are working on fixing this and a lot of people are inquiring about that topic. Since we have played the Zimmerman Legion before we knew what to expect....EZ load in, EZ load out, not too far to travel, probably a low key small local crowd, basically no pressure, "paid practice" kind of a gig. We had hopes some of our own "fans" would make the journey to supplement the crowd but our expectations were low in that regard. We have learned the valuable lesson that if you have expectations of a large gathering and NO ONE SHOWS it can be mentally deflating. We knew we were going to ROCK even if it was just us, empty tables and ashtrays !!! Sometimes you just want to ROCK the friggin' world away and we were all in that kind of a mood. Didn't matter, it was going to happen. Just like a Volcano, we had some pent up energy that just had to BLOW !

The first two months of this year we had been working on several new tunes, wanted to test out the new "groove wheel" and "fog machine". Of course we are not a huge special effects oriented band, but for sure we wanted to have that spacy, psychodelic, lighting effect for at least the one song Robin Trower's "Bridge of Sighs" which Andy totally ROCKS ON !! We started the third set with that one and it was WAY COOL !! (for a hobby band anyway) Of course the next song was "Smoke on the Water" - more fog for that one and we were pretty much done using that toy. As it turned out the 12-15 Lava Lord followers that did show up were treated to a ROCKING EVENING!! We threw down the gauntlets and ROCKED. Our 2nd set alone went an hour and 20 minutes. We were pretty happy about the whole thing and eveyone we talked to seemed to be having fun. Here's how it went down:

1
Red House – Jim Hendrix
Cat Scratch Fever - Ted Nugent
All Along the Watchtower – Bob Dylan (Hendrix version)
Sunshine of Your Love – Cream
White Room – Cream
I’m Eighteen – Alice Cooper
Be My Lover – Alice Cooper
Mary Had a Little Lamb – Stevie Ray Vaughan
Come Together – Beatles
Day Tripper – Beatles
For Your Love – YardBirds
Steppin Stone – Monkees
Summertime Blues – Eddie Cochran (Rush version)
I’m Your Captain – Grand Funk
Pete’s Fuzz – Coon Dawgs

2
Beer Drinkers & Hell Raisers – ZZ Top
Evil Woman – Crow / Black Sabbath
Behind the Wall of Sleep – Smithereens
Spooky – Classics Four
Purple Haze – Jimi Hendrix
Foxy Lady – Jimi Hendrix
Simple Man – Lynyrd Skynyrd
The Ocean – Stairway to Heaven Medley – Led Zeppelin
Whiter Shade of Pale – Procol Harum
All Right Now - Free
Jumpin Jack Flash - Rolling Stones
Paranoid – Black Sabbath
Fairies Wear Boots – Black Sabbath
Stranglehold - Ted Nugent

3
Bridge of Sighs – Robin Trower
Smoke on the Water – Deep Purple
Born to be Wild - Steppenwolf
Career of Evil – Blue Oyster Cult
Stairway to the Stars – Blue Oyster Cult
Hey Joe – Jimi Hendrix
Johnny B Good – Chuck Berry
Road House Blues – Doors
Dragon Attack – Queen
Can’t You See – Marshall Tucker
FreeBird – Lynyrd Skynyrd
"encore" Red House - Jimi Hendrix ....again....by request

We don't really need to do an encore song or even call it an encore song but when your friends are still throwing back the cold ones, standing around with their lighters lit high above their heads, even if it is in jest....kind of hard to say no.....
We still had another 5-6 songs but ran out of time. Got to keep the closing crew happy too!!
Thanks to everyone who stayed to the bitter end....it was a lot of fun !!!