Let's just get this out in the open right now: this was the worst band name I ever gigged under. Formed when Kevin Griffin became frustrated with his lack of success as a writer, we played a dozen or so gigs, including benefits, Marin County bars and even a Cal football game.
Kevin is an outstanding rock and blues guitarist and really knows how to front a band. As this group gigged and practiced regularly, we got pretty tight, to the point where the next logical step would have been to add a female vocalist or branch into jazz gigs.
The drummer, pictured here, was Donn Spindt, he of The Rubinoos .
When Kevin's writing and teaching career took off, we just stopped playing. The core of the group continues to play on in Rough Draft.
Our first gig, a street fair in Alameda on Sunday, September 2, 2001. Kevin's daughter Graham is on the mic. Louis B. Jones (guitar) and David Jaffe (violin) sat in.
Here is the emailed set list from that show:
Blue Suede Shoes
Long 2-chord Jam
Don't Be Cruel
Not Fade Away
Friend of the Devil
Fisherman's Blues
You Really Got Me
I Saw Her Standing There
Knock On Wood
[break]
Yellow Submarine (feat. Graham Griffin)
I Don't Want to Take a Nap (feat. Graham Griffin)
Hand Jive
Heard It Through the Grapevine
The Girl From Ipanema (feat. ??)
Black Orpheus (feat. ??)
You've Got to Hide Your Love Away
Fire on the Mountain
Foxy Lady
Publicity shot taken in Kevin's driveway in Albany, CA
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