Bowling at Joe's

Third Bowl
Joe's Bar
Boulder Creek CA

FEB 22 2019 (Friday)

Set I

01. Wagland
02. Anyway You Like It
03. Revolution Blues
04. Love Ain't for Keeping
05. Nasty Dogs & Funky KIngs
06. Sweet Delight
07. Middle Man
08. Nights In Hamburg
09. Althea
10. Time > Breathe reprise
11. Dreams (w/ guest drummer)

Set II

01. Hemp for Life
02. Hell & Back
03. Love is Grand
04. Real Woman
05. Heard It On The X
06. Powderfinger
07. tune / banter
08. Going Home *
09. St. James Infirmary *
10. It Is What It Is *
11. banter
12. Sitting On Top of The World
13. At Your Door
14. The Cowboy Song
15. It's Only Rock n Roll
16. Can't Come Down

Bill - Guitars / vox
Jerry - Guitars / vox
Scott - Keys / vox
Sparky - drums
Bobby - Bass

* W/ Erik Rozite, acoustic guitar vox ; Paul Stevens, drums

Third Bowl In the House!

The band plays on....

Remembering Tom Petty...

I think Refugee was the first Tom Petty song I heard. At least the first one I distinctly remember hearing. I was around 15 years old, going to high school in Hawaii. Up until around 13 or so I was mostly an AM radio "top 40" kid. My freshman year however I started getting turned on to what today is considered Classic Rock. But back in the late 70's, even music from the 60's was fairly recent. Sure, I missed Jimi Hendrix and the Beatles and the Doors, but I was discovering Led Zeppelin as well, while they were still a band. The Rolling Stones. And Pink Floyd. Even The Grateful Dead, to a lesser degree, (though by the late 80's I would be a fully immersed Deadhead).

So it's maybe a year or so into my "discovery" of 60's rock, when out from my radio comes something strangely familiar, yet with an angst and an urgency that immediately resonated with me.

It Don't Make no difference to me
Everybody got to fight to be free 
No You Don't Have to Live like a Refugee! 



Over the years I would dig deeper into the Petty catalog and enjoyed many Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers concerts in some some of the Bay Areas most iconic venues - including 9 of the Fillmore shows of the historic 20-show run there in 1997. I saw 3 more there in 1999, including 1 that was later released on DVD. Also pairs of shows at the Greek in Berkeley, both in 2005 and again 2006. I believe that last time I saw them was at Outside Lands in 2008.

I'll miss you, Tom. Rest in Peace.

--Bill

At Your Door (1984) - Origins

There's an interesting story behind the recording of my original demo for At Your Door. In fact, the song dates back to my freshman year in college, and as far as I know, is the first original song that I wrote. Maybe there was something else that came before it, but if so, it wasn't recorded and has long since been forgotten!

But, back to At Your Door. This 'demo' is just me and my acoustic guitar, in my dorm room at college. I had a cassette boom box with external microphone inputs, so I setup a couple of cheap-o mics and set out to record my new song.

Well after just a few seconds on the first attempt, the phone rings and ruins the take! Oh well, try again.

So I stop the tape, and get ready to record the song again. This time my dorm room phone is unplugged! Now, here's where the story gets pretty interesting. Bear with me. So, the 2nd verse goes like this:

I see the train coming down the tracks
I turn around but it don't come back

Well, as I sing that first line, a diesel train horn can be faintly heard in the background, as if on queue. The interesting thing about that, other than the fact that it happened at all (!!) is that it would not have happened that way if my first attempt to record the song hadn't been interrupted by the phone! Now the diesel horn is pretty faint in the background, but it's definitely there.

Check it out:

https://thirdbowl.bandcamp.com/track/at-your-door-1984

Max's new car, "drinking" tea, and standing up!!!

We could not resist getting Max a little BMW today...just like daddy's! when Sandro and I were little I had a similar contraption, and loved it! Max is still a little young for it, but just a few months and he will be ready! ha ha, note that the lights on the thing turn on!

Who's happier, baby, or daddy?

Max loves feeding himself now, and corn cobs are free reign...he also likes cups...drinking from them, and dunking his hands in them too!



Finally, he always liked standing up, but now this has reached a new level, he can hold himself up holding on to things...he is as surprised as we were..and stoked, very stoked!

Home, pernacchiette, and cups

Sardinia - The Italian Family

Well, our trip to Sardinia was swell! Not too much action this time, just a lot of hanging out with family and enjoying the pool and the sea (plus a little washing tub in Max's case). Max loved the water so much that sometimes even complained when we took him out! Of course the warmer the better for him, so the sea was not as exciting.


Max continued to show a lot of interest in bottles and drinks, but also discovered his love for spoons (we took one at every place we went) and - yeah! - bread and suckling pig!