Friday the 13th: Billy Batts Does It Again

Not much to report here.  I almost brought out the upright again, but went with the fretless.  Mark had another show to do, so he had a sub.  I thought it would have been Jason, who I sat with at Jazz Fest watching Bill Frisell.  Turned out to be Steven Walker, another GSU grad.  We played a bunch of standards, along with Unchain My Heart and a couple of other vocal tunes.  Nothing re-Mark-able!  Steven is a great player.  He recognized me, but we couldn't figure it out.  Then he remembered - he was in Albuquerque on the same event, playing percussion with DJ Jeff Burninsky and House Live (basically pre-recorded jazzy vamps as triggered by a DJ along with a live sax player and percussionists).  He saw me with Platinum, as we played after they did at the "casino party" out there.  Good memory there Steve-O!  We had guest vocals on our last song, as we went from Tutu into I Shot the Sheriff.  People who I thought weren't digging it gave us a standing ovation - well, maybe they were already standing up and getting ready to leave anyways.  It was better than it was supposed to be, I can vouch for that

Steven Walker on the drums