What A Way To Spend A Night Part 1- 2018- NY, PA, NC, RI, MA

Here is a song from Jack Grace Band's new unreleased album, What A Way To Spend A Night

Song: Bearded Man

https://soundcloud.com/jackgraceband/bearded-man/s-bFjnj


It's a heavy guitar number, I maneuvered them whilst the Cambridge, England band handled the rhythm section sounds, you can see them in the US in October (see info below)


. Bearded Man was written about 5 years ago. We were doing long 7 plus hour drives every day in Western Canada, back when Carolyn Mark and I would share shows (she refused to sing on the number for reasons that remain a mystery as of this writing) Anyways, after what seemed like a full childhood and 3/4 of the angry teenage years in one drive, we ran into, THE Bearded Man, by the side of the road. He was such the iconic, stereotypical, hero, outlaw, hobo type man with a beard, that the song came about involuntarily. I continued to work on it for years. It took a long time to break it down for me to find it's current mantra of simplicity. The song is rather popular with our Cambridge England audience.

CONFIRMED DATES 2018
 
(there will likely be more shows added)



Oct 4 Sunny’s Brooklyn  NY 9:30
w/ George Rush- upright bass Andy Burns drums
Oct 11 Dogwood Beacon  NY 8pm 
Solo Jack Grace, served up with new songs all about all you and the dreams you keep having.



THEN, our Jack Grace Band, Cambridge, England players come to play in the US of HEY!? Starring: Fabian Bonner on bass and Ian Griffith on drums. Greet the boys and show them how we roll (and rock). They've got a Brexit that needs to be extinguished, we've got a horrific batch of old white men that need to go. Let's all use the power of rock n' roll to heal, fix, avoid, confront and change.



2018 US/UK CO-MISERY Tour
Oct 25 The Rooster’s Wife  Aberdeen NC 7:45
Oct 26 Garryowen Pub  Gettysburg PA 10pm
Oct 27 The Clydesdale  Port Chester NY 9pm
Oct 28 Superfine  Brooklyn. NY Noon to 3pm Brunch!
Oct 29 The Ear Inn  Manhattan, NY : Midnight to 3am


The boys return to England and THEN (it can get confusing here)

I join up with:
The Cambridge MASSACHUSETTS version of Jack Grace Band- Nate Logus Drums, Ken Lafler Bass
Oct 31 Norey’s  Newport RI 8:30
Nov 3 Toad Cambridge MA 10pm



THEN...
Jack Grace performs solo sets in Sayulita, Mexico 
Nov 5 to 14, sporadically at Sunset Turtle Bar (sunset)

 
That's right folks, it's that beautiful and that simple. Come by, handmade margaritas with tears of joy for salt. This is not some tropical set of cover songs; original Jack Grace sets, played sitting at the bar, at the beach, by the sea turtle sanctuary.

Dec 4 Bar Chord (solo) Brooklyn. NY 9pm
 Solo Jack Grace, served up with new songs all about all you and the food you don't want to eat but do anyway.



THEN.
..Steak returns! Jack Grace, Erik Lieblein, Stu Damm, Mike Jay.
 Since 1992 Steak has been serving you music you will hear nowhere else but here. It's well done and extremely rare all at once.



Dec 13 Jack Grace Holiday Extravaganza- Steak and many special guests Hank’s Saloon Brooklyn NY
Hank's is closing their doors at the end of 2018. So this is one of the LAST shows here at good ole 3rd and Atlantic. This location has been a bar for over 100 years.  Brooklyn Vegan article here
They will re-open at the Brooklyn Hill Country location on Adams St. A very different vibe, but it could be real cool.

THEN...
Well, damn, the year is just about over again.
Dec 27 Sunny’s  Brooklyn NY


Dec 28 Bar Chord Brooklyn NY

Dogs never run into debt.
But some run into lakes, oceans and other bodies of water.

Review: Neil Young and Promise Of The Real's Sept 26 2018

     

I saw Neil Young and The Promise of the Real last night at The Capitol Theater in Port Chester.  I have been kinda based around here for a bit. I was in fact, about a mile away when I saw posts on facebook of people saying they were at the Neil Young show. How did I miss this? I have been seeing Neil Young in concert since I was 18. I have probably seen him 25 times or so since...missing an intimate Neil theater experience practically on my stoop was just a pain I could not bear.
       I was in front of The Capitol by 8:30, there were people around with their pointer fingers up, the universal hippie signal for, "I need one bro". I did some texts to people I knew as I stood against the side of the theater listening to the start of the show. Someone opened the side door to empty the garbage. I could have most likely made it in right there, "Old school hmm,  that still works for me", yet at 50...if it was to go sour, it could be rather embarrassing, just then a text came through and I was in.
         I intentionally took no pictures or video, I just wanted to be completely present (remember when someone "bootlegging" was considered some kind of a pirate?).
      Ok, I got emotional when they played, Winterlong. It was such a beautiful rendition and this is a song for the deeper Neil fans to get excited about. One of the best things, The Promise Of The Real has done for Neil is they have convinced him to pick more diverse gems from one of the best songwriting catalogs out there. The songs that stuck out-
Motorcycle Mama from the  Comes A Time album, while not one of Neil's most significant songwriting efforts, is an amusing deep cut.(Words) Between The Lines Of Age, was so incredibly executed it made one who has heard this number numerous times before, re-examine how beautiful the intricate and long phrased guitar lines drag you seamlessly through the incredibly organic time changes.
 Tell Me Why, the opening song on, After The Gold Rush, with the full band was souful and played similar to the harmonized vocal version he briefly performed with CSNY, but with electric guitars. He picked up his white Gretsch guitar for,  Cortez The Killer. Neil did his ethereal lead notes that bring us through the intro when it became obvious that his E, B and G strings had gone pretty well out of tune. He paused, let Lukas Nelson cover the guitar work as he turned and very organically tuned his guitar like any mortal guitar player might. He then dug into that Gretsch and channeled that Buffalo Springfield version of himself. It transported the audience to a mystical place if you allowed him to do so; when Neil's vocal entered he was in that realm. He was neither 72 years old or the 20 something that wrote and recorded the number, he was an ageless soul in an ancient realm. Towards the end of the show he played a song from the  American Stars and Bars album, Roll Another Number, another lighter tune that was just the right stony place in the set. Neil has always liked his marijuana and I enjoyed sharing a bit with a few in the surrounding crowd.  Some of the younger fans were surprised to see a stranger extending his stash to someone they had never met, but to others this was just a tradition amongst concert goers steeped in golden rock concert renaissance practice. I hope we have many more years of Neil Young concerts. I find them necessary on so many levels. Long live our royalty of rock,  Neil Young.