Living Room Jams
Don't Believe What You Hear
Iggy's rock-solid bass sets the table for one of the best of the open all-night jams to come out of those late-1980s wonderyears. Jimmy Coup and Rodney Broadbent share the guitars, Al [Fern] Brin supplies the Hammond mastery, and Chetty keeps the whole thing together on a small, primitive kick-snare drum set. All the while, Big Al turns the whole thing into a life lesson that someone - somewhere - had to learn the hard way. This is good stuff.
Long Time Blues
In this cut, Big Al's sax and harp gets all clumsy, frustrated Alpha-dog on classical violinist Peter Daniels' slippery, facile and somewhat spastic feminine counter commentary, depicting the timeless love-clash of the genders. A vintage performance of "Long Time Blues" with all the ups and downs, framed by the fits of anxiety and sheer fucking hatred that no one escapes when finally confronted by something they care enough about to freak out over.
Sometimes good stuff happens at 4 AM. Not often, but sometimes. This is the kind of stuff that used to happen all the time back when Big Al Cancelino's Wonderland Blues Camp was still up and running 24/7.