| GBS at the Troc Philly 2004 |
| Run Runaway came next, an audience pleaser for sure. Spinne was thrilled to hear it again. It�s been a long while for her. Love the whistle Sean does and Bob changed the fiddle part again. * Sigh* As soon as I get something he changes it. Oh well, variety is the spice of life, so they say. Everything Shines was a treat. Chris Trapper came out, and Alan introduced him, �Chris Trapper, ladies and gentlemen, looking very sexy� Sean looks over with a glint in his eye, �Chris, are you familiar with sandblasting?� Alan picks it right up and counters with �So Chris, if I asked you to go to the back of the club for chicken�� Alan surrendered his mic, sharing Murray�s, and Chris seemed to enjoy our singing with him. Karen said he looked a little lost without his guitar to hang on to. At the end of the song Alan asked him to stay up on stage and do the next one. |
| �Two years ago, Chris came up to NFLD and found himself strangely liberated. It inspired him to write this song with us for the last album,� stated Alan. �It was his idea and all Sean and I did was �plink, plink� (they pluck a couple chords on the guitar) and now we take 75% of the profits from it! (Chris nods solemnly) We are going to play it like we first heard it, sitting in Sean�s living room in St. John�s.� Very nice acoustic version of Sea of No Cares. I really enjoyed the low-keyness of it. And we sang, we sang. |
| A song about �a Canadian hero, a hockey player� was announced - Helmethead!!!!. Alan had us practice and we yelled with such vehemence the first time, he stepped back a bit from the mic and exclaimed, �Jesus, Mary and St. Joseph! You�ve got it!� What a totally fun song! And Bob sounded much better (can that be imagined?) than on the CD. For the second verse (Chantal was from Moncton) he got a look of panic on his face like he was going to forget the words and looked furtively over at Alan for reassurance, I think. Now why you would look to Alan to help you remember the words, I don�t know. Alan is the master of flubbed lyrics. But Bob prevailed and the line apparently entered his head in time. He gave a small smile of relief and Alan cracked up. Bob really enjoys singing this one and his facial expressions are priceless. Forget anyone else on the stage. Was there anyone else on the stage? He can sing all the songs he wants any time as far as I�m concerned. But you didn�t expect me to say anything different, did you? This song will go down in GBS history, trust me. It was so well-received by the audience, it got the longest cheer at the end of all the songs except General Taylor. Every hockey arena in North America should pick this one up. |
| I'm A Rover - A �song for the ladies� came next. �Beware ye fair maidens of the greater Philadelphia area. There are rovers among us and we have tomorrow off.� Once again Bob has changed the part he plays just a bit. One more thing for me to learn. This song holds a special place in my heart because they sing it with such glee and it was the first GBS song I could play at Bobspeed on the fiddle. Gee, you really started to get the idea they were going to enjoy this day off! Alan stepped thru the imaginary door as S�an adlibbed a bit �We shared a long night�s sandblasting.� |
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