Setlist
(thanks to Graham C.):
Fairfax Mama
Too Loose Ta Truck
Take Me Out To Dinner
Swanee River
Sugar Mama
Since I Fell For You>
Proud Mary Jam
Jam>
Next Time You See Me>
Tell Me Mama
Shake It Mama
Slippin' & Slidin'
Standing At My Window>
Goodnight Sweetheart
What'd I Say
Your Cash Ain't Nothin' But Trash>
Three Part Jam
Closing Jam
(Notes
from Jelly) It's basically a series of extended jams with familiar riffs
and lyrics plus improvisation. I don't recognize Phil Lesh's vocals
on it, and I don't think Haggerty sung much if at all.
This tape is often mis-labelled as Fairfax 5/17/75 My copy of 5/19 came
with a small repro of a handbill for the gig, which clearly states the
venue as River City, Fairfax, and the date as Mon. May 17th. A little
digging back by me finds it was indeed a Monday, so 5/19/76 is most
likely accurate. (This handbill/poster is also in the excellent "The
Art Of Rock" book.) Usually descriptions of the stuff played are the
same...
OK, I've
done a listen through to the Touloos tapes, and picked out bits of vocals
(not all the vocal lines though) which may identify stuff, as well as
the odd riff.
It's very jam based; some of them are quite straightforward, some frequently
change tempo and feel, so I haven't tried to log all the "sounds" or
"feels" of them; similarly, I've only logged a couple of the guitar
solos. Hope this helps (and hope it doesn't make it sound too boring!).
Tracks are separated by a blank line, so for example on "tape 1 side
1" below, the first track runs from 00.00 to 07.17, the second from
07.20 to 11.56 etc
Tape 1,
side 1
00.00 Synthy sounding keyboard intro
00.30 Change to electric piano sound, a quickish tempo blues
Vocals: "Oh Fairfax mama,
baby where you been so long?
Oh Fairfax mama, baby where
you been all night
Come home this morning and
your clothes don't fit you right"
etc, continues to end at
07.15
07.17 "Thank you folks"
07.20
Mid-tempo blues piano
08.45 "Oh yes Touloos Ta truck tonight mama" etc; keyboard
changes to organ.
11.04 Another cry of "Too Loose; slightly slower coda? on
piano.
11.56 end "Terry Haggerty on guitar, ladies and gentlemen"
12.13
Organ, mid-tempo blues
15.20 "He was a friend of mine" x 2
"Take me out to dinner take
me to your house" x 2
music turns funkier
19.20 fizzles out
19.25
uptempo organ
20.20 "Way down upon the Blondi (?) river" x 2
22.00 Tasteful guitar solo until 23.00
24.00 "Feel alright I feel alright" x 2 or 3
27.10 end, brief tuning
27.40
"Sugar mama sugar mama where you get your sugar from" x 2
"Must have got it from your
daddy down on the sugar farm"
"Put on your red dress mama"
and as couple more lines from Hi Heel Sneakers
42.45 end
Tape 1
side 2
00.20 jazzy
some vocals about "happy
home"
"Guess I'll never see the
light, get the blues every night
Since I fell for you.
Too bad and too sad that I got mixed up with you.
First you love me then you
snub me,
I get the blues every night."
05.30 music becomes more urgent
07.25 Proud Mary riff to 07.35
09.45 end. "Thank you folks"
10.00
starts on the bass, with some keyboard noodling
12.30 fast repeating bass pattern until
13.15 keyboard then sounds like it's trying to break into "I'm
A Man"
15.30 guitar solo to
16.20
16.30 "next time you see me, things won't be the same" x
2
plus the next couple of lines,
then some more (improvised?) blues lyrics
25.10 ends
25.45
piano starts up with Louie Louie
26.05 vocals to Louie Louie start
28.00 guitar solo, quite Hendrix-y, until about 29.00
34.15 "Shake it mama, shake it all night long" x 3 or 4
35.40 "I've got a girl lives up on the hill" etc
38.40 end
39.00
swift boogie-ish version of Slippin' And-A Slidin'
standardish run through of
Slippin And-A Slidin'
43.50 end
Tape 2
Side 1 only
00.40 Jazzy blues
"Well well well, I was standing
at the window
When I heard my Bugabow (?)"
various other lyrics
08.10 start drum solo
11.50 end drum solo, seems to go into slow coda
13.30 "Well goodnight sweetheart"
16.00 "Hey mama don't you treat me wrong yeah"
16.20 very slow jazzy guitar solo (a bit like George Benson)
19.00 "I'm a thousand miles away and sleeping in the rain"
21.00 end
21.30
Starts with the "What I'd say (the old Ray Charles stomper) riff
couple of lines of from What
I'd say
30.00 couple of lines from "Your cash ain't nothing but
trash"
35.00 fugue-like organ line
40.15 end
40.30
Instrumental jam to 46.30
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More from
Ben Marks:
"I was there, and other than being delighted to hear
Phil's trademark rumble paired with Haggerty's crazy
noodling, a highpoint of the show was the opening act,
who was none other than Father Guido Sarducci (Don
Novello) from Saturday Night Live. He did about a half
hour of standup, and sort of set the tone for an
evening of fun music that didn't take itself too seriously."
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