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March 5, 2008

Mark Cutler: The day we opened for Obama

cutler.jpgTales for the grandkids: Over at the blog on his MySpace site, longtime R.I. musician Mark Cutler (Schemers, Raindogs, Dino Club) writes about playing at RIC Sunday with Dino Club bandmates Mike Tanaka and Bob Giusti before Sen. Barack Obama's arrival there for a campaign rally.

State Sen. Josh Miller (Hot Club, Local 121) had called with the gig offer.

Here's a bit of Obama Rally at RIC:

...I couldn't hear my vocals and my guitar seemed like it was coming from the twilight zone but that was ok. I'm glad I remembered the words. After that, I told the crowd that it was really cool to be part of this witnessing of history. They yelled their approval. Next song was 'Fortunate Son'. Honest to God people, we never played it before but it just made too much sense to play it here, so we did. In the key of B and again I remembered most of the words.
Some people born with star spangled eyes
Ooh they wanna send you out to war…..

That line could make you cry couldn't it?

We then played Honky Tonk Blues by Hank Williams just cuz, I love that song. I wasn't sure what to play next so I asked the folks if they wanted to hear a Rolling Stones song and they mostly said yes. Jumpin Jack Flash at a presidential rally. Yes, the times they are a changing...

Thanks to reader Steve Knudde for the pointer.

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