Santa Monica pier

After wading through sloshing rivers of tourists on the pier 9pm-11pm Saturday, we bailed out to enjoy a picnic table at "The Muscle In" with:

Singers:

• Denise
• Diana
• Greg (with iPhone lyrics)

Acoustic guitarist Matthew, who butchered:

• Lay Lady Lay and Knockin' on Heaven's Door, by Bob Dylan
• Over The Hills And Far Away by Led Zeppelin
• Dear Mr Fantasy by Traffic
• The Ring of Fire by Johnny Cash
  
• Eight Days a Week by the Beatles
• Wish You Were Here by Pink Floyd
  
• No Woman No Cry and Redemption Song, by Bob Marley
• It Never Rains in Southern California by Sumner
  
• Hotel Belgian Congo by Reiser (for an adjacent Belgian family)
• and...
  

Strand #6

with Paul Ellis, 8:30am-11:30am, August 25.

Our set included:

• Wishlist by Pearl Jam
• Closer to the Heart by Rush
• ? by Norah Jones
• Hey Joe by Jimi Hendrix:

The mildly mushroom Jam Room

At 4900 Exposition, 2 blocks E. of La Brea

5pm-9pm Sunday August 23 with:

• Quinton the bleating vocalist
• Greg the solo guitarist
• Seth the howling drummer (with iPhone recorder)
  
• Phillip the Professional
  
• Matthew the pentatonic noodler
  

Set included:

• Butchery of "Wish You Were Here"
• E>C>A Space Jam
• The Mushroom Bus
• Little Bo Peep in B and E
• Pentatonic soloing on B and E chords
• Closing with Paul Ellis' chord transposition of One by U2