They Might Be Giants [a special family show]
Royce Hall @ UCLA, Los Angeles, CA [01.28.12]
1) Meet The Elements
2) E Eats Everything
3) No! [Children's National Anthem]
4) Nonagon
5) Boss Of Me
6) I Am A Paleontologist
7) Pirate Girls Nine
8) Dr. Worm
9) Clap Your Hands [They Might Be Giants National Anthem]
10) Particle Man
11) Apartment Four
12) In The Middle, In The Middle, In The Middle [with Robin Goldwasser]
13) Four Of Two
14) Shoehorn With Teeth [with The Avatars Of They]
15) Why Does The Sun Shine?
16) High Five
17) Birdhouse In Your Soul
18) Seven Days Of The Week (I Never Go To Work) [Musician's National Anthem]
Encores
19) Fibber Island
20) Alphabet Of Nations
Jon Kanis [guitar, vocal]
The Ruby Room Midnight Oil, San Diego, CA [01.23.12]
1) Tangled Up In Blue/Bob Dylan
2) Think It Over
3) Where Is Joe Strummer When You Need Him?
4) I’m Eighteen/Alice Cooper
5) Jimmy Burke The Newsboy
6) The Waiting/Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers
7) White Rabbit/Jefferson Airplane
8) It’s Still Rock And Roll To Me/Billy Joel
9) The American Dream/Time To Get It Right
10) My Friend Jack/Brownsville Station
11) Welcome To The Working Week/Elvis Costello
12) We Can Work It Out/The Beatles
13) Lawyers, Guns And Money/Warren Zevon
Listening To Rocks with Viva Apollo & The Real Brew for MLK’s birthday
The Ruby Room, San Diego, CA [01.15.12]
1) 2010
2) Kiss Me Again
3) Quick!
4) I Didn’t Ask For This
5) [The Human] Race [Is A] Riot
6) Below The Fold
7) Where Is Joe Strummer When You Need Him?
8) Doorbell
9) Come Correct
10) Capitalist Plot
11) Think It Over
12) Wail
Jon Kanis [guitar, vocal]
North Park Main Street, Cirello Gallery, San Diego, CA [11.26.11]
1) Arlington
2) Tangled Up In Blue/Bob Dylan
3) Jimmy Burke The Newsboy
4) My Friend Jack/Brownsville Station
5) You Don’t Mess Around With Jim/Jim Croce
6) Things We Said Today/The Beatles
7) Merry-Go-Round
8) Cruel To Be Kind/Nick Lowe
9) House Of The Rising Sun/The Animals
10) Follow Up
11) All I Gotta Do/The Beatles
12) It’s Still Rock And Roll To Me/Billy Joel
13) I’m Eighteen/Alice Cooper
14) Quick!
15) Sweet Home Alabama/Lynyrd Skynyrd
16) We Can Work It Out/The Beatles
17) Captain Fantastic & The Brown Dirt Cowboy/Elton John
18) The Waiting/Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers
19) The Future’s So Bright, I Gotta Wear Shades/Timbuk 3
20) Where Is Joe Strummer When You Need Him?
21) Daydream/The Lovin’ Spoonful
22) White Rabbit/Jefferson Airplane
23) Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer/Gene Autry
24) Like A Rolling Stone/Bob Dylan
25) Double Shot (Of My Baby’s Love)/Swinging Medallions
26) Bye Bye Love/The Everly Brothers
27) Oh Boy!/Buddy Holly
28) Take Me Home, Country Roads/John Denver
29) Captain Fantastic & The Brown Dirt Cowboy/Elton John
30) King Of The Road/Roger Miller
31) Cruel To Be Kind/Nick Lowe
32) You Don’t Know How It Feels/Tom Petty
33) Maggie May/Rod Stewart
34) Lawyers, Guns And Money/Warren Zevon
35) So Sad About Us/The Who
36) Cynthia Mask/Robyn Hitchcock
37) Melissa/The Allman Brothers Band
Jon Kanis • Tucker’s Corner • San Diego, CA • 10.30.11
1) Folsom Prison Blues/Johnny Cash
2) Tangled Up In Blue/Bob Dylan
3) The Waiting/Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers
4) The Future’s So Bright, I Gotta Wear Shades/Timbuk 3
5) Marie’s The Name (His Latest Flame)/Elvis Presley
6) House Of The Rising Sun/The Animals
7) Summertime/George Gershwin
8) Hey Good Lookin’/Hank Williams
9) I’ve Just Seen A Face/The Beatles
10) The Joker/Steve Miller Band
11) Hey Ya!/Outkast
12) You Don’t Know How It Feels/Tom Petty
13) What I Like About You/Cherry, Cherry/The Romantics/Neil Diamond
14) Follow Up/Jon Kanis
15) I Melt With You/Modern English
16) Some Kind Of Wonderful/Grand Funk Railroad
17) Comes A Time/Neil Young
18) Light My Fire/The Doors
19) The Letter/The Box Tops
20) You’ve Got To Hide Your Love Away/The Beatles
21) Stuck In The Middle With You/Stealers Wheel
22) Brown Eyed Girl/Van Morrison
23) Where Is Joe Strummer When You Need Him?/Jon Kanis
24) We Can Work It Out/The Beatles
25) Five O’Clock World/The Vogues
26) Double Shot (Of My Baby’s Love)/The Swingin’ Medallions
Today was an exercise in public performance to capture a video for promotional purposes. It appears to be high time for Jon Kanis to have an acoustic performance reel and today is the day to make it happen.
Spent two hours performing at Tucker’s Corner in the North Park neighborhood of San Diego. My good buddy Steve Laub (who is an superb videographer) came out to capture me in all my glory. Our friend Dave Foster is editing together 30 second snippets from 10 of the performances into a composite reel to put up on YouTube. I want to get out and see the world and earn my keep by singing for my supper. Coming soon to a living room, barroom, theater, pool side or cafe terrace near you…
Oh! and muchas gracias to Tucker and Paul at the North Park Nursery for their hospitality.
Jon Kanis • The Ruby Room • San Diego, CA • 10.17.11
1) Tangled Up In Blue
2) Jimmy Burke The Newsboy
3) I’m Eighteen
4) Where Is Joe Strummer When You Need Him?
5) White Rabbit
6) Below The Fold
7) The Waiting
8) The Future’s So Bright, I Gotta Wear Shades
9) Quick!
10) Stuck In The Middle With You
11) The Breakup Song (They Don’t Write ‘Em)
12) We Can Work It Out
13) Comes A Time
14) Squeeze Box
15) House Of The Rising Sun
16) Think It Over
17) Hey Good Lookin’
18) Brown Eyed Girl
19) Sympathy For The Devil
20) Mr. Tambourine Man
21) The Letter
22) You’ve Got To Hide Your Love Away/ New Amsterdam
23) Welcome To The Working Week
24) I’ve Just Seen A Face
25) Shape Of Things To Come
26) (I’m Not Your) Steppin’ Stone
27) Five O’Clock World
I received a call from Brittni to perform at this evening’s Midnight Oil show at The Ruby Room 48 hours before the event and when I showed up to play my 10:30 PM set it turned out that the other two acts on the bill (Corey Cottrell and Zack Kingsley according to Facebook) were a complete no-show. I told Paul behind the bar what Peter Buck of R.E.M. used to say back in the ’80s: “It’s amazing how far in this business you can get just by showing up for your appointments.” I guess that’s true of ALL businesses, but particularly the music biz. Musicians are already rightly regarded as a bit on the flaky side; not showing up for a gig kind of seals the deal. Instead of playing one set I was invited by Paul to play “as long as I liked.” Since my motto tends to be Go Big or Go Home I ended up playing two and a half hours…suffice to say that I had a blast. A guy named Bons came in with a small posse around 11:30 to celebrate his birthday and he and his date danced up a storm in front of the bandstand for several numbers. Talked to an extremely interesting computer engineer named Steve throughout the night and had a fantastic conversation with him around politics and religion…two of my favorite subjects. Sometime after midnight a duo of percussion (a guy named Jay) and acoustic guitar (a female whose name I didn’t catch) came in and asked to play when I was finished, so they ended up taking over at 12:40. Good times all around. Still need to replace that 10th panel on A Royal Flush…
Got It Covered • Eleven • San Diego, CA • 09.27.11
Set One
1) He’s A Whore/Cheap Trick
2) Ziggy Stardust/David Bowie
3) No Matter What/Badfinger
4) (I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction/The Rolling Stones
5) Cold Gin [incomplete]/Kiss
6) So You Wanna Be A Rock ‘N’ Star/The Byrds
7) I Can’t Explain/The Who
8) Head First/The Babys
9) The Breakup Song (They Don’t Write ‘Em)/The Greg Kihn Band
10) Shape Of Things To Come/Max Frost & The Troopers
11) Surrender/Cheap Trick
12) Rock And Roll All Nite/Kiss
Set Two
1) Brown Sugar/The Rolling Stones
2) Interstate Love Song/Stone Temple Pilots
3) Cinnamon Girl/Neil Young & Crazy Horse
4) Louie Louie/The Kingsmen
5) Heart Full Of Soul/I Ain’t Got You/The Yardbirds
6) Boys Don’t Cry/The Cure
7) Pretty In Pink/The Psychedelic Furs
8) I’m Eighteen/Alice Cooper
9) Smoke On The Water/Deep Purple
10) Born To Be Wild/Steppenwolf
11) Slow Down/Larry Williams
12) A Hard Day’s Night/The Beatles
13) What I Like About You/The Romantics
14) When You Find Out/The Nerves
15) Goodnight Now/Cheap Trick
Tonight is our 17th gig and perhaps our last show at bar Eleven. A big thanks to Louis for bringing us in for this Tuesday night residency in August and September. Thanks also to Davey Quinn, Justin & Sal. Good times.
Got It Covered • The Lincoln Room • San Diego, CA • 09.22.11
Set One
1) No Matter What/Badfinger
2) Surrender/Cheap Trick
3) The Breakup Song (They Don’t Write ‘Em)/The Greg Kihn Band
4) Cinnamon Girl/Neil Young & Crazy Horse
5) I’m Eighteen/Alice Cooper
6) Street Fighting Man/The Rolling Stones
7) Head First/The Babys
8) Smoke On The Water/Deep Purple
9) Rock And Roll All Nite/Kiss
Set Two
1) Born To Be Wild/Steppenwolf
2) (I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction/The Rolling Stones
3) I Melt With You/Modern English
4) Pretty In Pink/The Psychedelic Furs
5) Girl Of My Dreams/Bram Tchaikovsky
6) Starry Eyes/The Records
7) A Hard Day’s Night/The Beatles
8) I Can’t Explain/The Who
9) What I Like About You/The Romantics
10) Brown Sugar/The Rolling Stones
11) Slow Down/Larry Williams
12) Goodnight Now/Cheap Trick
A paid audition (you can’t beat that). It is definitely an effort to load-in, find parking and load-out downtown but the cash makes it easier to bear. A good gig and fun to play during Restaurant Week. Thanks to Leti for getting us the gig and to the staff at The Lincoln Room (especially Dave the manager).
Got It Covered • Riviera Club • San Diego, CA • 09.18.11
Set One
1) No Matter What/Badfinger
2) Surrender/Cheap Trick
3) The Breakup Song (They Don’t Write ‘Em)/The Greg Kihn Band
4) Cinnamon Girl/Neil Young & Crazy Horse
5) I’m Eighteen/Alice Cooper
6) Street Fighting Man/The Rolling Stones
7) Head First/The Babys
8) Surrender/Cheap Trick
9) Shape Of Things To Come/Max Frost & The Troopers
10) Girl Of My Dreams/Bram Tchaikovsky
11) Starry Eyes/The Records
12) Smoke On The Water/Deep Purple
13) Brown Sugar/The Rolling Stones
14) Just What I Needed/The Cars [with Adam Gimbel]
15) Slow Down/Larry Williams [with Adam Gimbel]
16) Rock And Roll All Nite/Kiss
Set Two
1) Born To Be Wild/Steppenwolf
2) Ziggy Stardust/David Bowie
3) Pretty In Pink/The Psychedelic Furs
4) Like A Rolling Stone/Bob Dylan
5) So You Wanna Be A Rock ‘N’ Star/The Byrds
6) I Can’t Explain/The Who
7) (I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction/The Rolling Stones
8) Boys Don’t Cry/The Cure
9) When You Find Out/The Nerves
10) So Sad About Us/The Who
11) Southern Girls/Cheap Trick
12) What I Like About You/The Romantics [with Adam Gimbel]
13) I’ll Cry Instead/The Beatles [with Adam Gimbel]
14) A Hard Day’s Night/The Beatles
15) Goodnight Now/Cheap Trick
On September 17th Adam Gimbel turned a big forty and he had parties all weekend long and asked GIC to play at his Sunday party at the Riviera Club. Two very fun sets for no money, but the food wasn’t bad and the staff at the Riviera are awesome. It was fun. Time to get some REAL PAYING GIGS with this group. We are ready to be getting paid. Looking forward to playing The Lincoln Room this Thursday for $$$. Oh, yes.
Got It Covered is Kevin Donaker-Ring [lead guitar, vocals], Jon Kanis [bass, vocals], Victor Penalosa [drums, vocals], Orrick Smith [guitar, keyboards, vocals].
Got It Covered • Eleven • San Diego, CA • 09.17.11
1) No Matter What/Badfinger
2) Surrender/Cheap Trick
3) The Breakup Song (They Don’t Write ‘Em)/The Greg Kihn Band
4) Cinnamon Girl/Neil Young & Crazy Horse
5) I’m Eighteen/Alice Cooper
6) Street Fighting Man/The Rolling Stones
7) Head First/The Babys
8) Shape Of Things To Come/Max Frost & The Troopers
9) Girl Of My Dreams/Bram Tchaikovsky
10) Starry Eyes/The Records
11) Smoke On The Water/Deep Purple
12) Brown Sugar/The Rolling Stones
13) Rock And Roll All Nite/Kiss
14) Goodnight Now/Cheap Trick
We were supposed to play for three hours but we got cut to one as there was another band (Schitzophonics) also double booked to perform. It all worked out okay as the Schitzophonics played a lively and entertaining set and we enjoyed a pretty reasonable crowd with some of our favorite hipsters in attendance. Davey ran great sound and Miles was great behind the bar and GIC played another tight set. The band is sounding great. Very cool.
Got It Covered is Kevin Donaker-Ring [lead guitar, vocals], Jon Kanis [bass, vocals], Victor Penalosa [drums, vocals], Orrick Smith [guitar, keyboards, vocals].
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