Set list at Dry Dock open mic
July 31, 2026
Disaster! My pickups failed. And then my backup guitar also failed, so I was reduced to the sheer indignity of borrowing a right-handed guitar and playing my chords upside-down. This is a skill I've not used in decades, probably since Montana.
I don't think it was a classic performance -- I was (I think understandably) tense and focussed on getting my fingers into unfamiliar shapes more than delivering powerful vocals.
In the end I played:
And second time around:
- No Underwear
- Dublin Blues -- here's Guy Clark doing it
I wouldn't normally play No Underwear -- it's silly and juvenile, so I don't see why not -- but there had been an Incident of one of the younger singers naively investigating a stranger's kilt and I felt like it was important to reinforce the lesson.