Axis Acoustic

Earth Day 2010

2010-05-22T07:25:00.000-07:00

Thanks for listening..

Be well,
A2

Next up...

2010-03-26T17:40:00.001-07:00

Fall 2009 Capsule

2009-09-20T08:24:00.000-07:00

11/20/09-
Rockin' in the Free World, 3am, Fire on the Mtn., The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald, Wild World, Proud Mary, Pinch Me, Neon Moon, Me and Julio... / Drive> FOTD, I Only Want to Be With You> Tangled Up In Blue, Let Me Go, Landslide, Slide, Piano Man / WDOA, Ring of Fire, Danny's Song, Sittin Waiting Wishing, Ball & Chain, A Pirate Looks at Forty, Squeeze Box, The Night They Drove Ol' Dixie Down
11/14/09-
Save Tonight, Cherry Bomb, Meet Virginia, Margaritaville, Pinch Me, If You Could Only See,Kentucky Woman, Flake, Heart of Gold> Time of Your Life, Brian Wilson, Fire on the Mtn., 6th Ave. Heartache, Let Me Go, Ruby, The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald Me and Julio.., / WDOA, Slide, Louis>Sloopy>Lovin', Wild Night, Ring of Fire, Mountain Music, Drive, A Pirate Looks at Forty. Landslide, FOTD, Obla Di, Piano Man/ Time Like These> All Apologies, Sitting Waiting Wishing, Better Man, Neon Moon, Jack & Diane, All Summer Long, Love the One You're With, Brown Eyed Girl
11/13/09-
I Know You Rider> Dead Flowers, Fire on the Mtn., Let Me Go, Neon Moon, Piano Man, Sitting Waiting Wishing, Sugaree, You'll Think of Me, Pinch Me, Landslide, Son of Sailor, Southern Cross, The Wreck of the Edmund Fitgerald, Me and Julio.., Sweet Baby James

10/30/09
Wild Night, Spooky, You & Me, Me & My Uncle> Ring of Fire, Danny's Song, Slide, Landslide, Sitting Waiting Wishing, Let Me Go, Brian Wilson, Piano Man, Better Man, Hide Your Love Away, It Ain't Me Babe> Free Fallin', If I Had A $$$$, Times Like These

10/17/09
Learning to Fly, Thrill Is Gone, Uncle John's Band, Steal My Kisses, Iron Mine Hill Blues, Crash, Folsom Prison Blues / Pinch Me, Private Conversation, Cherry Bomb, Babylon, Don't Ask Me Why, Drive> FOTD / Thunder Road, Let Me Go, Landslide, Piano Man, Kentucky Woman / Alison, Better Man, Times Like These> All Apologies, Southern Cross, Sound of Silence

10/16/09
Drivin' My Life Away> The Last Time, Meet Virginia, Fire on the Mtn., Landslide, Mexicali Blues, Girl I Wanna Lay You Down, Neon Moon, The Boxer, Brian Wilson, Jack and Diane, Mountain Music / Slide, Folsom Prison Blues, Tuesday's Gone, Better Man, Piano Man, Southern Cross / Times Like These> WDOA, Squeeze Box, A Country Boy Can Survive, On the Road Again

10/10/09
Iko Iko, Folsom Prison Blues, Meet Virginia, Cherry Bomb, Flake,If You Could Only See, Where Are You Going?, Wonderful Tonight, Margaritaville, Wild Night / Brian Wilson, Carolina In My Mind, Fire on the Mtn., Drive> FOTD, Plush, Ring Of Fire, Dead Flowers, Your Body Is A Wonderland> Another Brick In The Wall Pt. 2 / Better Man, Sitting Waiting Wishing, Wonderwall, Danny's Song, Let Me Go, Pinch Me, Ball & Chain, You'll Think Of Me, Hey There Delilah / Times Like These> All Apologies, Me and Julio.., All Summer Long, On The Road Again *What I Got

9/26/09

Drivin' My Life Away> All For You, Meet Virginia, Norwegian Wood, The Boxer, I'm On Fire> Upside Down, Watching the Wheels, Folsom Prison Blues, Wild Night / Southern Cross, WOTWTC, Heart of Gold, Pinch Me, Drive, FOTD, Hey There Delilah, You'll Think of Me / Better Man, Sitting Waiting Wishing, Piano Man, Plush, Waiting On A Friend, Let Me Go, Hide Your Love Away, Ruby, Mountain Music, Me and Julio.. / Thrill Is Gone, Pinball Wizard, Neon Moon, Wanted.., Obla Di, On The Road Again

9/25/09-

Drivin' My Life Away> The Last Time, Meet Virginia, Heart of Gold> Fire on the Mtn., Neon Moon, Cherry Bomb, Folsom Prison Blues / Hotel California, The Race Is On, A Pirate Looks @ Forty, Pinch Me, Ruby, Carolina in my Mind, Wild World, Friend of the Devil, Drive, Dead Flowers / Piano Man, Poor Poor Pitiful Me> Ring of Fire, Wanted.., Let Me Go, You'll Think of Me, The Gambler, Mountain Music / Wonderful Tonight, Wild Night, Bad Bad LeRoy Brown, To Make You Feel My Love, Against the Wind, Jack & Diane, On The Road Again

9/19/09-

The Boxer, Our House, Babylon, Meet Virginia, Let Me Go, Wilder Than Her, Pinch Me, Norwegian Wood, Upside Down, You'll Think Of Me, Piano Man, Thrill Is Gone, Hide Your Love Away, Friend of the Devil, A Pirate Looks @ Forty, Heart of Gold> Time of Your Life

9/18/09- Monkey Bash!

Punch Drunk at Gaspar's Grotto (with Chris Ryals on bass guitar)

9/13/09- Swoope Street Kickoff Classic-

Atlantic City, Danny's Song, Mexicali Blues, All for You, Flake, Brian Wilson, Let Me Go, Drive> Ring of Fire, I'm on Fire, Pinch Me, A Pirate Looks @ Forty

8/29/09

2009-08-31T08:10:00.000-07:00

Cherry Bomb, Let Me Go, Fire on the Mtn., Don't Ask Me Why, Angel from Montgomery, Babylon, I'm On Fire, Time of Your Life> Heart of Gold / Southern Cross, Poor Poor Pitiful Me> Ring of Fire, Hide Your Love Away, Pinch Me, You'll Think of Me, Sittin Waiting Wishing, Piano Man / Jack Straw, Waiting On A Friend, The Boxer, Brown Eyed Girl, Our House, Iko Iko / Jack & Diane, The Weight, A Pirate Looks At Forty, Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard, Everybody Hurts, Ain't Even Done With The Night

Walk to Defeat ALS May 2nd, 2009

2009-05-03T07:48:00.000-07:00

Punch Drunk

"Ya might get run over or ya might get shot!"

Eddy shredding...

Among the songs played were: The One I Love, Waiting on the World to Change, Pipeline, American Girl, Meet Virginia, Flake Call Me The Breeze, Runnin Down A Dream, Can't Hardly Wait, Margaritaville, What I Got, Sweet Home Alabama, Sitting Waiting Wishing

Winter 2009

2009-03-22T13:01:00.000-07:00

"No Excuses"-

A Pirate Looks at Forty, Against the Wind, Ain't Even Done With the Night, Ain't No Reason, All for You , Angel from Montgomery, Another Brick in the Wall Pt. 2, Babylon, Behind Blue Eyes, Bertha, Big Yellow Taxi, The Boxer, Brian Wilson, Can't Hardly Wait, Cherry Bomb, Come Monday, Country Roads, Crash, The Daze, Dead Flowers, Dire Wolf, Don't Ask Me Why, Drive, Driver 8, Eyes of the World, FOTM, Flake, Friend of the Devil, Harvest Moon, Heart of Gold, Hey There Delilah, Hide Your Love, Iko Iko, In Your Eyes, Jack Straw, Kentucky Woman, Learning to Fly Let Me Go, Love Lost, Lucky's Charm, Man on the Moon, Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard, Me & My Uncle, Meet Virginia, Mr. Jones, Obla Di Obla Da, The Old Apartment, Pinball Wizard, Pinch Me, Poor Poor Pitiful Me, Ring of Fire, The River, Ruby, Save Tonight, Sitting Waiting Wishing, 6th Avenue Heartache, Song to Baby, Southern Cross, Steal My Kisses, Sugaree, Sweet Baby James, Tangled Up in Blue, Thunder Road, Under the Milky Way, Upside Down, Waiting on a Friend, Waiting on the World to Change, The Weight, Where Are You Going?, Wild Night, Wild World, The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald, Yellow, Yesterday, Your Body is a Wonderland, You'll Think of Me

Performances by-
Axis Acoustic
The Studio G Combo

Origin...

2009-01-10T10:05:00.000-08:00

Q: What's with the name?

A: Back in the day, some mates and I produced a few mock radio shows (and a blog many years later) entitled the Members of the Rank and File. Brothers Nanook, Ozone, Roame and Axis were the names of our "characters" and they've just kind of stuck through the years.

A round of applause for you!

2008-12-26T13:19:00.000-08:00

Thank you everyone for lending your helping hands in 08!

Throughout the year a portion of the proceeds from my live performances benefit various organizations. Because of your patronage and with the support from my absolute 2 FAVORITE venues to play, Mad Dogs & Englishmen in South Tampa and the Front Porch in Old Seminole Heights, we've been able to do our small part in helping the following organizations this year:

-Women & Infants Hospital
-The Humane Society
-Big Brothers & Big Sisters of Tampa Bay
-Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
-Boys and Girls Clubs of Tampa Bay
-The SPCA of Tampa Bay
-Make a Wish Foundation
-Muscular Dystrophy Association
-The Spring
-The Vincent LeCavalier Foundation
-National Parks and Conservation Association
-The Sierra Club
-WMNF Community Radio
-The Children's Home

Thank you again and please remember to stop in and visit both Mad Dogs & Englishmen (http://www.maddogs.com/) when you're on the south side of town and The Front Porch in Historic Seminole Heights (http://www.frontporchgrill.com/); two first class establishments! Be sure to let them know that you appreciate their helping hands and their support of Live Music in Tampa Bay.

-A2

So long '08...

2008-12-14T07:58:00.000-08:00

12/13/2008

Part 1-
Tangled Up In Blue, Where R U Going, Steal My Kisses, You and Me, Brian Wilson, Norwegian Wood, Babylon Waiting on a Friend, Waiting on the World to Change, Poor Poor Pitiful Me> Ring of Fire, Lucky's Charm>Flake, Angel from Montgomery, Little Drummer Boy, Santa Claus is Coming to Town, Drive

Part 2-
You'll Think of Me, Heart of Gold, Sitting Waiting Wishing, A Pirate Looks at Forty, Hey There Delilah, Let Me Go, Friend of the Devil, Me and Julio... Southern Cross, Ruby, I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For, Wild World, Under the Milky Way, White Christmas, Country Roads

Musically, this has turned out to be quite a year and there's more to come in '09. If you've listened to even a single note in 2008, I couldn't be more grateful and I wish everyone the happiest of holidays!

Peace,
-A2

"Let there be songs to fill the air..."
- Robert Hunter

12/12/08

2008-12-13T09:58:00.000-08:00

Drummer Boy harp intro>Where Are You Going> Do You Hear What I Hear, Sitting Waiting Wishing, Friend of the Devil, Brian Wilson, Angel From Montgomery, Steal My Kisses, Hey There Delilah, Waiting On A Friend, Santa Claus Is Coming To Town, Meet Virginia, Iko Iko, Wonderful Tonight (Dan W lead vocals), Let Me Go, Cherry Bomb, Drive, Wild World (2 from Dan) Flake, Ring of Fire

Holiday under the Stars

2008-12-07T12:30:00.000-08:00

Spent Saturday afternoon chilling in the stands with my main man at Raymond James watching some college football after a raucous night gigging with Punch Drunk under the stars in downtown St. Petersburg, FL. This can be a pretty damn good band when it gets cranking (the "Jazz Master" on bass, "Nice Guy Eddy" on lead and of course my boy, "Brother Roame" on drums) and last night was great fun.

We seemed to be in sync as soon as the guitars came out of the cases. It felt as though we had a good groove in during sound check and we pretty pretty much stayed in the zone most of the night. There were very few of those, "uh oh" moments when all of a sudden the music doesn't seem want to flow quite as easily. We weren't even close to being technically perfect mind you but, as the first set moved on we just locked in and it was a nice ride.

I played through the Jazz Master's Marshall last night and I loved the versatility. The clean sound was great for the softer stuff and when it was time to really kick it, this amp had more than enough muscle to get it done. Of course, when our good buddy "Nails" came by and I handed him my guitar, that's when the thing really came to life. For me its such a treat to watch Nails and Nice Guy trade licks that I usually just go grab a cold one, sit off to the side and watch the fireworks as these two pros trade licks.

Anyway, it went a little something like this...

I
One I Love, Rain King, Can't Hardly Wait, Waiting on the World.., Meet Virginia, Margaritaville, Fall Down, Heart of Gold, Runnin' Down A Dream, Flake, Call Me the Breeze, Dead Flowers

II
Old Apartment, Sitting Waiting Wishing, Just Like Heaven, Pipeline, Keep Your Hands to Yourself, Driver 8, You'll Think of Me, Friend of the Devil, The Middle, Rooftop Jam, I Want You to Want Me (J Lords, lead vocals), Honky Tonk Woman (J. Lords, lead vocals), American Girl

III
What I Got, Last Dance for Mary Jane, I'm A Believer, Ball & Chain, Wish You Were Here, "Nice Nails" Jam, Glory Days, Under the Milky Way -Sweet Home Alabama

I'll finish up the year next weekend with two acoustic gigs on Friday and Saturday and that'll be a wrap for '08.

Until next time,

-A

Back to back...

2008-11-16T15:23:00.000-08:00

After a lengthy break in the playing schedule it was nice to get out and do a couple of gigs. Both nights were enjoyable and overall I was pleased with the way things went. Breaking out the new sound system was a highlight. I've been bitching to anyone who would listen about my patchwork setup for the last year so although, not perfect, I have my own rig now to continue to work with and tweak it I shall!

Anyway... the evenings went a little something like this:

Friday 11/14/08

Rodeo Clowns, Save Tonight, Waiting on a Friend, Steal My Kisses, Sugaree, Let Me Go, Cherry Bomb, Drive, You'll Think of Me, Flake, All Apologies Iko Iko, Poor, Poor Pitful Me> Ring of Fire, Tangled Up in Blue

Saturday 11/15/08

Part 1
Learning to Fly, Against the Wind, Save Tonight, A Pirate Looks at Forty, Drive, Sitting Waiting Wishing, Poor, Poor Pitiful Me> Ring of Fire Waiting on A Friend, Hey There Delilah, Brian Wilson, Let Me Go, You'll Think of Me, Flake

Part 2
Southern Cross, Wild World, Cherry Bomb, Iko Iko, Upside Down, Me and Julio, Sweet Baby James Rodeo Clowns, Waiting on the World to Change, Bertha, Hide Your Love Away, All for You, Under the Milky Way, Everybody Hurts

I hope everyone had as much fun as I did. Each night had a completely different and cool vibe that positively affected the music. Good stuff!

Until next time,

-A

A night on the south side...

2008-10-10T22:04:00.000-07:00

10/01/08

Tangled Up In Blue, Against the Wind, Babylon, Cherry Bomb, Love Lost, Drive, FOTD, Sitting Waiting Wishing, Ring of Fire, The Weight

Rodeo Clowns, Wild World, A Pirate Looks at Forty, Let Me Go, Wonderwall

Fall/Winter 2008: "Change Gonna Come"

2008-09-22T08:37:00.002-07:00

A Pirate Looks @ Forty, American Girl, Babylon, Bertha, Big Yellow Taxi, Brian Wilson, Brown Eyed Girl, Call Me The Breeze, Can't Hardly Wait, Country Roads, Crash, Dead Flowers, Desperado, Drive, Driver 8, Fire and Rain, Flake, Free Fallin, Friend of the Devil, Honky Tonk Woman, I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For, I Want You To Want Me, I'm A Believer, The Ideal, If I Had a $$$, If You Could Only See, Iko Iko, In Your Eyes, Just Like Heaven, The Gambler, Heart of Gold, Hey There Delilah, Keep Your Hands to Yourself, Kentucky Woman, Last Dance for Mary Jane, Lawyers Guns & Money, Learning to Fly, Let It Be, Let Me Go, Love Minus Zero No Limit, Lucky's Charm, Man on the Moon, Margaritaville, Me and Julio..., Meet Virginia, The Middle, Moon Shadow, Norwegian Wood, Old Apt., Pipeline, Poor Poor Pitiful Me, Rain King, Ring of Fire, Ruby, Save Tonight, Sitting Waiting Wishing, 6th Ave. Heartache, Son of a Sailor, Southern Cross, Steal My Kisses, Sweet Baby James, Sweet Home.., Thunder Road, Upside Down, Uncle John's Band, Tequila Sunrise, Time of Your Life, Thrill is Gone, Waiting on a Friend, Waiting on the World To Change, Under the Milky Way, Yellow, Yer So Bad, You and Me, What I Got, Where Are You Going?, Wild Night, Wild World, Wonderwall, The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald

*original music

Fall/Winter 2008- Punch Drunk and Axis solo Acoustic

Spring/ Summer 2008

2008-09-22T08:35:00.000-07:00

Taking to the streets-

A Pirate Looks @ Forty, American Girl, Angel of Harlem, Authority Song, Babylon, Bertha, Big Yellow Taxi, Blowin' in the Wind, Brian Wilson, Brown Eyed Girl, Call Me The Breeze, Can't Hardly Wait, Champagne Supernova, Cherry Cherry, Closer to Free, Collide, Country Roads, Crash, Dead Flowers, Desperado, Drive, Driver 8, Fire and Rain, Flake, Free Fallin, Friend of the Devil, I'm A Believer, The Ideal, If I Had a $$$, If You Could Only See, Iko Iko, In Your Eyes, Just Like Heaven, The Gambler, Ghost, Heart of Gold, Hey There Delilah, Keep Your Hands To Yourself, Kentucky Woman, Last Dace for Mary Jane, Lawyers Guns & Money, Learning to Fly, Let It Be, Let Me Go, Love Minus Zero No Limit, Lucky's Charm, Man on the Moon, Margaritaville, Me and Julio..., Meet Virginia, The Middle, Moon Shadow, No Woman No Cry, Norwegian Wood, Old Apt., One, Pipeline, Poor Poor Pitiful Me, Rain King, Ring of Fire, Rockin' in the Free World, Ruby, Save Tonight, Simple Man, Sitting Waiting Wishing, Should I Stay??, Sixteen Days, 6th Ave. Heartache, Somehow Someday, Song to Baby, Son of a Sailor, Southern Cross, State Your Business, Steal My Kisses, Sweet Baby James, Sweet Caroline, Sweet Home.., Upside Down, Tequila Sunrise, Time of Your Life, The Thrill Is Gone, Waiting on a Friend, Waiting on the World To Change, Under the Milky Way, Yellow, You and Me, What I Got, Where Are You Going?, Wild Night, Wild World, Wonderwall, The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald

*original

Spring/ Summer 2008- Punch Drunk and Axis solo Acoustic

Fall 2007/ Winter 2008

2008-09-22T08:25:00.000-07:00

And You Know Who You Are-

A Pirate Looks @ Forty, Alison, Angel of Harlem, Babylon, Bertha, Big Yellow Taxi, Brian Wilson, Brown Eyed Girl, China Doll, Country Roads, Crash, Dead Flowers, Drive, Flake, Free Fallin, Friend of the Devil, The Gambler, Ghost, Heart of Gold, I'm A Believer, The Ideal, If I Had a $$$, If You Could Only See, In Your Eyes, Kentucky Woman, Last Dance for Mary Jane, Lawyers Guns & Money, Learning To Fly, Lucky's Charm, Margaritaville, Me and Julio..., Meet Virginia, The Middle, No Woman No Cry, Norwegian Wood, Obla Di, Obla Da, Old Apt., Poor Poor Pitiful Me, Rain King, Ring of Fire, Ruby, Save Tonight, Sitting Waiting Wishing, Should I Stay??, Sixteen Days, 6th Ave. Heartache, Son of a Sailor, Southern Cross, Steal My Kisses, Sound of Silence, Sweet Baby James, Tequila Sunrise, Time of Your Life, The Thrill Is Gone, Under the Milky Way, Yellow, What I Got, Where Are You Going?, Wild Night, Wonderwall, You'll Think of Me

*original music

Fall 2007/Winter 2008- all appearances solo acoustic.

Spring/ Summer 2007

2008-09-22T08:21:00.001-07:00

Ride the Fear-

A Pirate Looks @ Forty, American Girl, Angel of Harlem, Authority Song, Babylon, Bertha, Big Yellow Taxi, Brian Wilson, Brown Eyed Girl, Call Me the Breeze, Can't Hardly Wait, Champagne Supernova, Country Roads, Crash, The Daze of our Lives, Dead Flowers, Drive, Driver 8, Fall Down, Flake, Free Fallin, Friend of the Devil, I Want You To Want Me, I'm A Believer, The Ideal, If I Had a $$$, If You Could Only See, In Your Eyes, Island In the Sun, Just Like Heaven, The Gambler, Ghost, Heart of Gold, Keep Your Hands to Yourself, Kentucky Woman, Last Dance for Mary Jane, Lawyers Guns & Money, Lucky's Charm, Margaritaville, Me and Julio..., Meet Virginia, The Middle. My Best Friend's Girl, My Dear, No Woman No Cry, Norwegian Wood, Old Apt., Pipeline, Poor Poor Pitiful Me, Rain King, Ring of Fire, Ruby, Save Tonight, Simple Man, Sitting Waiting Wishing, Should I Stay??, Sixteen Days, 6th Ave. Heartache, Son of a Sailor, Southern Cross, State Your Business, Steal My Kisses, Sweet Baby James, Sweet Caroline, Sweet Home.., Upside Down, Tequila Sunrise, Time of Your Life, The Thrill Is Gone, Under the Milky Way, Yellow, What I Got, Where Are You Going?, Wild Night, Wonderwall

*original music

Spring/Summer 2007 performances- Axis solo Acoustic, Punch Drunk and The Studio G Band

Special thanks to our friends Mark Warren (Vodkanauts.com) & Mr. Brad Lowe for guesting with Punch Drunk in'07! And to the 5th member of Punch Drunk, Mr. Johhny Lords for running sound & lighting for PD and Studio G Band shows.