After accomplishing less than I probably should have, but more than I would have if I hadn't gone back to work last night, it was time to carry on to Tribeca to see how Gloryhound & the Skyhawks were observing Valentine's Day.

For one thing, by wearing black t-shirts, about which I have no comment. But they did bust out all the Valentine-red guitars they own (well, Evan's Gibson that looks like this one and Adam's Gretsch that looks like this.) Evan also played a new (to me, anyway) black Stratocaster (or at least Strat-type) on a few songs. And judging by the sound of things, the guitars just loved everybody last night.

You'll notice there are a number of missing titles in the set list--that's because I don't know and can't find the title anywhere. There are quite a few new songs making their way into the set these days, and I'm inclined to think they're originals. The band seems to have a pattern lately of playing the newest songs early in the evening and moving them into the second or third set as they start to sound more at home. I don't know if I'm imagining that but it seems to me that's what's happened for the past couple of weeks anyway. There have been quite a few new songs turning up lately, covers as well as originals, which is always great. Among other things, there's no danger of turning into Sha Na Na...

Okay, there's a mental image I probably didn't need this early in the morning. And neither did you. Sorry.

Anyway, really good show. And the cupcakes couldn't be beat, either...

Set List
Set #1

Swingin' (Tom Petty)

"She's not hard to please"

Hey Joe (Hendrix)

"Sure don't feel the same"

Meet Me In the Morning (Dylan; Evan: keys and vocals, Adam: guitar)

Witch Doctor (Adam: guitar and vocals, Evan: keys)

"Never really there"

Bright In the Dark

Break
Set #2

Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues (Bob Dylan; Shaun: keys, Adam: drums)

Out Of Hiding

From A Buick 6 (Bob Dylan)

What's Left

Walk Don't Run (The Ventures)

I'm Losing You (John Lennon)

Where I Lie

Break
Set #3

"You're not lost" (Harper: harmonica, Dave: lap steel)

Helpless (Neil Young, Harper: harmonica, Dave: lap steel)

Maggie's Farm (Dylan)

License To Kill (Dylan)

Before You Fall

Powderfinger (Neil Young, with a keys-heavy introduction that was new to me)

Wasn't Born to Follow (Byrds, Adam: vocals & guitar, Evan: drums)

Rockin' In the Free World (Neil Young, Adam: vocals & guitar, Evan: drums)
I've heard that song performed by these guys once before but it was definitely unexpected. The ending spun out to the point where the logical next step would probably have been smashing things so... probably just as well they stopped where they did. And by then it had to have been after 2:00... so after a short conference they went into:

Dazed and Confused/San Francisco/I Can't Quit You/Whole Lotta Love (Led Zeppelin)

Oh, and one unrelated comment before we leave this post: when I leave Tribeca I generally drive to the end of Granville Street and turn up the hill toward Barrington. And lately I've noticed that when I'm going home at 2:00 (or, in the case of last night... considerably later...) there are all these people coming out of the building directly across from the mouth of Granville. They look like they're emerging from a club, judging by their appearance of... inebriation. And it's a large building, so I suppose there could be all sorts of establishments in there. But the sign over the door they're coming out of advertises two quite prominently: a Catholic bookstore and the passport office.

Which makes me wonder, what do booksellers and civil servants get up to in their off-hours?

Possibly, the same thing as librarians.

As Hercule Poirot used to say, it gave me furiously to think...