Urban Campfire Boogie
Just want to quickly correct an error in the email that went out last night – the June 9th show will be at Ike's Lounge in San Jose, not the Quarter Note! The Quarter Note gig is in July. The Ike's gig is a grand re-opening of the renovated club so should be a lot of fun…see you there!
You say you want to be a rolling stone
Get your sail out in the wind
Get out on the highway and let it roll on
Roll on back to some place you ain't never been
Hi all! Easy Allen here. Thanks for stopping by to bear witness to the birth of Five Easy Pieces. That opening lyric from the Allman Brothers' Back Where it All Begins seems a fitting way to start this blog…being back in a band after a 10-year hiatus, there's a fun sense of being back where it all began when I moved to San Francisco with my first rock band in 1990.
I don't intend to buy a bus, hit the road and grow my hair down to my waist this time, but 16 years later, no grammys in my trophy case (yet) but plenty of stories to tell, I'm …thrilled… (understatement) to start playing out in the clubs again. Five Easy Pieces first got together in October last year, and between working grueling day jobs, having babies, raising kids, being responsible up-standing and occasionally visible husbands and all the other things that go to make up a life, it's a bit of a miracle we were able to pull this band together.
We hope to see some of you at our first gig at The Cats in Los Gatos (hmm…..) on Tuesday, but if you can't make it there, please mark your calendar for Friday, June 9th when we'll be playing the grand re-opening of Ike's Lounge in San Jose.
After six months we're finally down with a few hours worth of material. We're playing about 1/3 originals…some new stuff and some you'll recognize from my last solo project and a few nuggets from The Strangers, including my favorites from MobileHomecomingQueen and a few numbers the Strangers hadn't touched for years when we broke up in '96.
