Sunday, August 19, 2012

Feel Like Going to Chruch: Jesus is on the Mainline

I  posted this a month ago or so, and did not include the video.  So here goes with the video this time. LOL.

This video is one of those rare gems that makes me want to clap my hands, just like my grandmother used to do when she said she was getting happy.






Notes from YouTube:



From "Ry Cooder & The Moula Banda Rhythm Aces: Let's Have A Ball", a
 film by Les Blank taped at The Catalyst, Santa Cruz, CA on March 25'th
1987. Awesome solo's by George Bohannon and Ry using slide on
mandoguitar! (that was a first for me)



Comment from MrBillindallas:

Concert
 was from a two night run - the last of nine total dates on the NorCal
tour. Shot on 16mm film with an audio remote truck in the alley. Movie
was released in Europe but not in the US. Great band, at one of the best
 venues in the 'States, the last two nights of the mini-tour they were
truly on fire. One venue was so small the band filled the stage and the
dance floor.



Setlist for the two nights in Santa Cruz:



3-24-87 Santa Cruz, CA (the Catalyst):



Showtime

Little Sister

Smack Dab In The Middle

Lets Have A Ball

Me and Frank

unknown title [Spanish lyrics]

Hell Have To Go

If Walls Could Talk

Jesus on The Mainline

How Can A Poor Man Stand Such Times & Live?

One Meatball

Atom Bomb

Teeny Weeny Bit of Your Love

Why Dont You Try Me?

Down In The Boondocks

The Things That Make You Rich Make Me Poor

Crazy Bout An Automobile (Every Woman I Know)

encores:

Chain Gang

Down In Hollywood

Goodnight Irene



3-25-87 Santa Cruz, CA (the Catalyst):



Smack Dab In The Middle

Lets Have A Ball

unknown title [Spanish lyrics]

Hell Have To Go

If Walls Could Talk

Jesus On The Mainline

How Can A Poor Man Stand Such Times & Live?

One Meatball

Atom Bomb

Teeny Weeny Bit of Your Love

Down In Mississippi

instrumental

The Things That Make You Rich Make Me Poor

Crazy Bout An Automobile (Every Woman I Know)

Chain Gang

Down In Hollywood

Goodnight Irene



Band:

Ry Cooder: guitar, vox

Jim Keltner: drums

Van Dyke Parks: keys

Jorge Calderon: bass

Flaco Jimenez: accordion

Miguel Cruiz: percussion

Steve Douglas: sax

George Bohannon: trombone



Singers:

Bobby King: tenor

Terry Evans: baritone

Arnold McCuller: tenor

Willie Green Jr: bass





2 comments:

mister anchovy said...

Danger. Earworm Alert...earworm alert....I will not sing Jesus is on the Mainline in my head for the next week I will not sing Jesus is on the Mainline in my head for the next week I will not sing Jesus is on the Mainline in my head for the next week I will not....

fitzgerald said...

Mister Anchovy, if you do sing Jesus is on the Mainline all week long, get a group of your friends together and do it like this >>> http://youtu.be/8D_SRkdLq_4