1998 blog
saturday, november 28th at the kendall cafe
goh did a last minute, late night show at the kendall during the
thanksgiving holiday weekend. for jay, it was hectic, since he
was at his high school reunion earlier in the night... although he
had to literally run to make it, he made it. we had special giveaways
in the spirit of the holiday season... frosty and santa pez! both
frank and liz (our winners) were kind enough to share their winnings
with the rest of us. since we had to pretend to be rock stars and show
up right before going on stage (chris also came late thanks to hurting
his back earlier in the day), we missed pamela sue-mann, barn,
and mind the gap (well we caught a litte bit of them). rumor
has it, we missed a good night of music. we learned that it's a lot more
fun for us, if we show up early and hang out all night, even if we are
playing last and don't need to be there for a sound check.
wednesday, november 25th at the kendall cafe
goh, along with brian, did the entire arlo guthrie song, "alice's
restaraunt" for the late night open micers. in the spirit of doing
covers, and because we were last and the kendall didn't feel like
stopping, we did "stickshifts and safetybelts" (for leanne), and
"little red covette". happy turkey day to everyone!
thursday, october 22nd at mama kin - boston, ma
the evening started out on a positive note when jay got the
opportunity to meet graham parker, who was playing in the room
next door. thanks to graham and friends (jeff black and
radney foster), the place was
packed (it may have hit the maximum capacity... not bad
for a mid-week show). of course, in the first song we broke
a string. that gave us the oportunity to introduce mama kin
to the goh giveaways while we changed it. good thing we brought
gifts for the audience! we had a blast playing for everyone...
we brought extra shakers, but it still wasn't enough for all
in the room. it's a good thing you all shared them as you played
and danced along with us. we were followed by a couple of great
bands (sway and three day threshold) they did a
great job keeping the crowd moving on their feet... we even saw
graham parker dancing to three day threshold in the back of the
room! thanks again for all your support...
we brought a lot of people, so we'll be back in the front room
to entertain you in the future.
sunday, october 18th in harvard square
in preparation of our upcoming mama kin show, we decided to hit
the streets one more time. it was a rare beautiful fall day
with lots of people hanging around from the head of the charles
festivities. we managed to get a few people up on their feet
and dancing... actually quite a few more than we expected.
we didn't even notice the ridiculous displays as our backdrop
in the store windows until we had finished our set. jay set up
in front of a humpty dumpty display while chris ended up
in front of a bunch of dolls. where is a camera when
you want one?
thursday, october 1st at the kendall cafe - cambridge, ma
thanks to small moon run and brook batteau for opening up the
evening and everyone that hung out to hear us play. our winners of the
night reminded us of "the price is right"... for they couldn't control
their excitement. again, every night we play bring us more surprises.
that's why we love to play so much. the crowd also surprised us by
helping us end thumb with a countdown. we liked that and
the new friends we met.
thursday, september 17th at toad - cambridge, ma
thanks to deep water, who was playing that night, we
had a suprise, guest appearance at toad in porter square.
we did gi joe, satellite, and lucky.
it was a good thing we played the night before, for we weren't
expecting to play... in fact, chris didn't bring his shaker.
we ended up using a box of macaroni and cheese in it's place
(yes, we were carrying around mac and cheese... strange but true).
wednesday, september 16th in harvard square
in honor of our near completion of the cd project, we hit the
streets to play for a while. as typical of goh, we got off to
a late start, so we ended up getting a good spot right in front
of the subway stop. the best thing about playing there is the
complete randomness of everything... you never know who's going
to stop by, or whether you'll be loved, hated or ignored. we
tend to talk too much, so we're rarely ignored. it turned into
a lot of fun... we got a note (it felt just like junior high)
from a random new fan (it was note of praise!), we had ross, a fellow
street performer, do a tune with us, we ran into a few people
we knew, and in general had a great time. we played for about
2 hours, then went over to the kendall cafe to spend our earnings. :-)
friday, august 14th at the kendall cafe - cambridge, ma
we celebrated our one year anniverary of playing out! thanks to
everyone for your support, and special thanks to brian for baking
us a cake for the occasion (he even decorated it). it started off
as an atypical evening, since we went on first... we've been getting
used to playing late night. even when we played open mics, which
tend to be somewhat random, we would find ourselves playing late.
so we had one of our best winners... david made sure he shared his
truck driving pez with everyone in the bar. other performers included
twisted roots, solpatch and skinny tee. thanks
again, everyone, for a year's support! here's to many more...
hopkinton jam 1998: july 11th, 1997 hopkinton, ma
another great year for hopkinton jammers! this year we moved it to
the front yard since we had newly planted grass in the back, along
with the newly planted pool to go with it. :) the performers of the
day (in addition to goh) were
kier byrnes,
deep water,
mercy james,
eric o'connor,
rob walker,
willie bernstein,
wendy welsh,
XIE/bedhed
and the all star jam (which included our own little tribute to ozzfest).
they're getting more and more fun each year.
friday, june 19th at the kendall cafe - cambridge, ma
it was great to be back at the kendall on a friday night, sharing the
stage with brian seymore, rama winslow and
winterboy. it was strange for us to play for only 45 minutes
after getting used to such long sets during our may residency. we
re-learned how to compress our show. we were psyched to see
everyone hang out until closing time with us. the thing of the night
was to peel off the stickers from the goh shakers and wear the fish
on the front of your shirt (at least with the women in the audience).
we liked that. :-) coincidentally,
our shirt design is quite similar. perhaps we should get them printed
soon, for fashion now demands it! due to a thorn getting stuck in
chris' head (a story for another time), he was bald for this show... not
that his hair was very long to begin with. thanks to everybody for
shaking, singing and dancing along with us... we played
stickshifts and safety belts,
valentine's day,
thumb,
lucky,
waiting room,
gone,
ac/country/dc,
chopping block,
g i joe,
imaginary love affair,
coffee cup, and
it's finally over.
sunday, may 31st at the kendall cafe - cambridge, ma
the last night of our residency at the kendall cafe. we were glad you
all came out to share it with us. wasn't willie bernstein great?
it had been a few months since we got to see them play... and now they
have a CD out. they're kicking our butts in that department. we play for
an hour and a half and it seemed like a short set (at least after the
previous week). but we all had to work the next morning. we would like to
thank kristin, brian and steven for showing up at all 5 shows! what a great
month...
sunday, may 24th at the kendall cafe - cambridge, ma
so this was our marathon night. 26 songs in 3 hours.
highlights included guest performances by jay's brother brian (alice's
restaraunt.. yes all 20 minutes of it) and eric marcos (for the
weekly tom petty jam.. we even learned some petty songs to play with him).
goh played for 3 hours, then eric comes up on stage and gets a bra thrown
up on the first song! no fair. wendy welsh opened up the night, followed
by eric o'connor (who also stepped in to play drums in the late night
session). it was a mini hop jam reunion to share the stage with those guys.
being in the middle of a long, holiday weekend we were expecting a small turnout.
thanks to all the friends and fans that came by and surprised us. when we finally
powered down the pa, we all ended up sitting around with the guitars as we packed
up the gear (kind of like a campfire without the campfire). that was a lot of fun.
we especially liked leanne and nat's versions of merrie amsterburg songs...
thanks for sharing them with us.
sunday, may 17th at the kendall cafe - cambridge, ma
we closed the place! not bad for a sunday night. eric marcos started
off the night, then goh played, then deep water, and then eric again
with some help from all of us. he kept on doing "one more song"...
all tom petty songs (of course). i'm not sure we intended to
do so, but we ended up with a tribute to tom (and a "let's see if we can
stump eric" contest). eric o'connor even sat in on drums for a while
(a habbit he picked up while in LA). that's what rock and roll is all
about, isn't it? as far as our set went, we did things slightly
different this time around. we had tom (of deep water fame) join us on
banjo. what a fun instrument. it was great to see so many people there
once again... some familiar faces, and again some new ones. we
played
stickshifts and safety belts,
chopping block,
it's finally over,
thumb,
imaginary love affair,
lucky,
ac/country/dc,
i don't know,
mr. wrong,
gi joe,
gone,
foggy mountain breakdown,
salty dog
and rocky top.
monday, may 11th at the cantab - cambridge, ma
it had been quite a while since we stopped by to visit geoff
and the folks over at the cantab, so we took the excuse to see
some friends play as a reason to get over there. eric and wendy,
both gearing up for their show with us later in the month, met up
with us and we all got the chance to play some songs. as usual
at the cantab, we were almost last, but we had fun. we did it's
finally over and gone and then decided that it would be
best if we started getting sleep... for we were a mess after all that
playing (and having to work every morning).
sunday, may 10th at the kendall cafe - cambridge, ma
happy mothers day everyone! chris', kris' and jay's mom all showed up
(along with our dads, but they don't get any special attention until
next month). we had so much fun. it was great to see a full house
on a sunday night. our favorite giveaway of the evening had to be the
crazy straw glasses... and jane stole the show by drinking her beer with
them. perhaps we'll start a new trend in fashion. a couple people asked
us where to pick them up after the show. three day threshold kept
the crowd going after we stopped, of course they always do. it was good
to play with them once again... this was the first time we got to see
the full band play at the kendall. we hope to do it again sometime.
sunday, may 10th at MIT - cambridge, ma
have you ever seen a keg of jolt before? we did. all the sugar and twice
the caffeine. more impressive than the fact that they simply had the keg
was that they made it themselves from 20 oz. bottles (a whole shopping cart
full of them). between that and the
cake we ate, we were wired. by the end of the show, we were playing songs nearly
twice as fast. fortunately, they were all listening equally as fast and
it all worked out fine. we played 22 songs in 2 sets for them (or perhaps with
them, since they were shaking along). pete played one heck of a tambourine solo, and
treated us quite well (by brining us jolt on demand). we totally forgot to bring
a drum rug and duct tape (what kind of band doesn't bring duct tape with them?) so
chris was chasing his hit-hat around all afternoon.
we got lots of great ideas about different things to do with the fish... perhaps
an invention will show up at one of our future shows. you just never know. it was
supposed to be an outdoor barbecue, but instead we had our 50th day of rain in a
row and did it inside. it was a lot of fun regardless of the rain. hopefully we'll
make another appearance there in the not-so-distant future.
sunday, may 3rd at the kendall cafe - cambridge, ma
the first night of our residency at the kendall! muchos thank you's
go out to mercy james for helping kicking it off for us (and
for all of you). those of you that missed the show didn't get to see
steve's fish mobile return from retirement. hopefully he'll have it
parked in front of the kendall each and every sunday night. we all did
a mad libs together (chris wanted to make sure we had a refresher course
on grammer). more than half the room (including prize winners geoff,
emily and kathy) had all lived in florida at one point in the past.
isn't that strange? the weirdest part was that we figured it out during
the show. emily, hopefully we'll see you when we travel down there...
it's always nice to have a new friend... and we will make it down there
eventually, even if we have to drive our big wheels down there. we did a
set consisting of
stickshifts and safety belts,
chopping block,
it's finally over,
a reminder,
gone,
coffee cup,
thumb,
imaginary love affair,
gi joe,
ac/country/dc,
valentine's day,
mr. wrong, and
lucky.
friday, april 17th at the kendall cafe - cambridge, ma
a big thank you goes out to all that stopped by the kendall
to see us play... you guys and gals were awesome! in fact, you performed
more than we did... we were simply the conductors of the shaker
orchestra. thanks greg and meghan for the chevy mailibu. congratulations
to all the winners from the goh prize vault! what a crazy night, you
wouldn't let us stop playing, we had a tambourine girl, you were
wearing fish! special thanks to the kendal cafe (once again) and
merrie amsterburg,
everything else and roger manning for sharing the stage with us. we ended
up playing
ac/country/dc,
it's finally over,
sleepless,
he dances...,
gone,
thumb,
g i joe,
chopping block,
lucky,
imaginary love affair,
stickshifts,
i don't know, and
cracker.
thursday, march 26th at the kendall cafe - cambridge, ma
goh played along with special guests gone boys
and columbia recording artist bic runga to celebrate chris'
birthday. we had cake, we played cake, we had our new bubble
gun, our newly upholstered green felt guitar, had a wandering
microphone and gave out a slinky junior and a kermit pez dispenser.
thanks for the little plastic monster leanne! (a birthday gift for chris).
we played.
imaginary love affair,
gi joe,
thumb,
it's finally over,
chopping block,
i don't know,
coffee cup,
stickshifts,
gone,
lucky,
and mr. wrong.
friday, march 13th at the northeast brewery - allston, ma
goh and mercy james did guest sets when host band, deep
water, took breaks. we recommend the bostonian blonde (ale, that
is). we played imaginary love affair, gi joe, and
lucky.
saturday, february 28th at mocha java - dedham, ma
goh did a free show for a couple of hours for friends and strangers
that were in the dedham area. it started out pretty good until we realized
we didn't have an extension chord to power our equipment... good thing
colin happened to live in the neighborhood. then we broke strings, picks, and
guitars... but somehow pulled it off and played just about every song we knew
and a few extras.
kendall cafe: friday the 13th (of february) cambridge, ma
goh played at midnight (when friday the 13th meets valentine's day)
along with grace, mark kraus
and kipper tin.
we played
mr. wrong,
chopping block,
gi joe,
ac/country/dc,
sleepless,
coffee cup,
i don't know,
valentine's day,
stickshifts and safety belts,
imaginary love affair,
lucky and
i skipped that class.
kendall cafe: february 4th cambridge, ma
happy anniversary eric! two years of open mics... he's built a great weekly event
for us bostonians. we even had eric give away an official goh scraper in anticipation
of the upcoming snow storm...
we played stickshifts and safteybelts and imaginary love affair.
kendall cafe: january 14th cambridge, ma
we were there along with the feature
another girl who played
a great show. it's worth mentioning that their drummer, who has the best name in rock
drumming, made great faces during their show.
we played gi joe (in moon time) and chopping block. it was great to finally
see our friend winterboy play.
jay was lucky enough to be properly trained on the metric system and win a fabulous
book on the metric system from our favorite host, eric marcos.
kendall cafe: january 10th, 1998 cambridge, ma
happy new year! a big thank you goes out to all who supported us by coming out and
seeing us play at the kendall cafe. thanks for being rowdy on request and
helping out on percussion. together we all folked that place.
we hope you had as much fun as we did. congratulations to noreen
for being the grand prize winner of a six inch gumby... we trust you'll provide
him with a happy home.
other performers included leon rich, divorce of lady x (a.k.a. patty
giurleo), and
denise hradecky.
we played
mr. wrong,
gi joe,
chopping block,
it's finally over,
lucky,
a reminder,
stickshifts,
ac/country/dc,
i skipped that class,
coffee cup,
imaginary love affair and
he dances.
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