“Thank you for your honesty”

Weekend highlights:

I had to visit a doctor’s office and was pleased to find this poster while waiting.  You can’t really make out the captions under each individual character but I’ll summarize.  We’re all at a high risk for Hepatitis C.  Every.  Last.  One of us.

Now for a few rural men:This fellow plays every Friday at a bar called “Paradise Park Trailer Resort” in downtown Nashville.  The place is designed to look like a trailer park inside, serves PBR pitchers for $6, and has gutted muscle cars to use as giant ash trays.  Really, its quite a gem and this dude is always there to blast through every cover song you’d want to hear in such a venue.  Good times.

I spotted this gentleman in the Country Music Hall of Fame.  He was quite a joke teller and had this beauty to share:  What do you call a bear with no teeth?  A gummi bear.  Awesome.  He also claimed to be the Davidson County Clerk.  I did not believe him.  I also found this at the Country Music HOF:

A Genny Light in Middle Tennesse makes no sense at all.  I don’t even think you can find Genny in a bottle in Fillmore.  I had been feeling a bit homesick so I jumped at the chance do embibe with a taste of WNY.  As the sweet liquid poured over my tongue I remebered why I never drank Genny at home.  Luckily, BLs are BLs are BLs anywhere in this great nation.  I quickly switched to BLs.

Especially during Grammy week.  This place is always popping and has the coolest rock n roll vibe of any place I have ever seen, let alone stayed at.  It is a staple of Slash’s and I think Billy Bob Thorton is an owner.  They have classic rock prints all over the walls but it’s far from the cheese of a Hard Rock.

In the past 12 hours I’ve seen Jeff Tweedy, Billy Joe and Carrie Underwood…as well as countless record execs trying to dress cool.

Pianos in the Villas

I have stayed here a few times and also recorded in the studio in the basement

I was able to head over to the Gramercy Theatre last night to see Daniel Merriweather perform.  I remembered him from the Mark Ronson record and saw him sing with Mark back at his show at the Highline Ballrom (about a year or 2 ago…not sure).

The show was solid and this was the first time I have been back to the theatre since it ceased from being the Blender Theatre (wow, that’s really interesting).  He played a solid set including an interesting cover of the White Stripes “You Don’t know What Love Is (You Just Do As Your Told)” as well as Paul McCartney’s “Maybe I’m Amazed.”

You can see a decent video of the entire performance of his cover of the Smiths song “Stop me if you think you have heard this one before” at the bottom as well as some pix and the setlist.

Setlist:

For Your Money
Chainsaw
Change
You Don’t Know What Love Is (White Stripes Cover) <-I will post my video of this soon
Live By Night
Giving Everything Away
Cigarettes
Getting Out
Impossible
Stop Me/Keep Me Hanging On <-video of this from last night posted at the bottom.
I Think I’m In Love
Maybe I’m Amazed
Red <-Get this song NOW…it’s great and was fantastic live.

Nothing Like A Tall Boy

I also took a bit of video that turned out pretty good.  Here is