Current mood:	chipper
Current music:	Emerson, Lake & Palmer, "Still... You Turn Me On"
Entry tags:	i know more people than you do, i'm unreasonably obsessed with music

Do You Want to Play Some Magic on My Guitar
Mid-afternoon upon my return from a pre-trial conference downtown, I saw a message on Facebook inviting me to tonight's Wonderous Stories gig at B.B. King's. Apparently Dave Mason (of Traffic and later Fleetwood Mac) had taken ill, and Wonderous Stories was filling in at the last minute - and for free, which is always a good price. Wonderous Stories is only known to me because they share a keyboardist/vocalist, Mark Bonder, with Stealin' Dan, a Steely Dan tribute band I've seen before (at B.B. King's in fact). They were originally a Yes tribute band, but have expanded their repertoire to include a vast array of classic and progressive rock.

Anyway, I'd been alerted by mhaithaca that zercool and talkingmute12 (whom I had not previously met) were going to be down here for the weekend, so after a few rounds of phone calls with them, and with my friend Eddie (and IMs with Eddie's girlfriend Melissa), everybody showed up, including zercool's and talkingmute12's host Rivkah, and so we were a sixsome in the Big Booth™ at B.B. King's, quaffing legal beverages, eating barbecue, and digging a most surreal and impressive set of rock and roll.

The set list, believe it or not:

• From The Who's "Tommy":
  
  • Overture/It's a Boy
    
  • 1921
    
  • Amazing Journey/Sparks (segue into Underture)
    
  • Pinball Wizard
    
  • See Me, Feel Me/Listening to You
• Elton John, "Funeral for a Friend/Love Lies Bleeding"
  
• From The Beatles' "Magical Mystery Tour":
  
  • Magical Mystery Tour
    
  • The Fool on the Hill
    
  • Flying
    
  • Blue Jay Way
    
  • Your Mother Should Know
    
  • I Am the Walrus
• Genesis, "The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway"
  
• The Allman Brothers Band, "Jessica"
  
• Traffic, "The Low Spark of High-Heeled Boys"
  
• Yes, "Yours Is No Disgrace"
  
• Emerson, Lake & Palmer, "Still... You Turn Me On"
  
• Emerson, Lake & Palmer, "Benny the Bouncer"
  
• Emerson, Lake & Palmer, "Lucky Man"
  
• Procol Harum, "Salty Dog"
  
• The Beatles, "A Day in the Life"