Did a last minute pop-up fill-in for the Allison Transmission this morning, so started out with various songs with the Allison name, from E.C.’s classic to a tune we can soon start to play regularly, “Allison’s Starting to Happen.”
There was a long jam from Fela Kuti on account of a revival of the musical “Fela!” Some recent things from Jason Isbell, Jenny Lewis and Teenage Fanclub, and four of the final last songs Dead and Company played in their final concert Sunday in San Francisco.
Then birthdays to note, of non-musicians Lizzie Borden and Max Fleischer, born in 1880 and 1883 respectively, to Sue Thompson (1925) and George Hamilton IV (1937). And we lit up the birthday candles for Brian May of Queen (76), Bernie Leadon (76) and Vikki Carr (83).
Here’s the link to the whole show; the setlist follows: