Seconded! Great playing (Cruel World is smokin'), and extra bonus points for Willie the Pimp.
They did a nice job archiving that stuff. Thanks for sharing it!
Thanks Joe - Creek were definitely in the Grateful Dead orbit of things, so their shows tend to get taped. I think I saw some shows at archive.org from the early '80s! The craziest thing is that they're
still playing...
I got caught up in that whole thing and ended up listening right through (and downloading it)
Mate you really held your own in there big time considering you and the drummer were effectively ring ins. Awesome stuff.
Mr. Cat - there's two sides to that - one is that, as I mentioned, my band Jiggle the Handle was really modeled on Max Creek (though I didn't realize 'til later), so we actually played a lot of those songs in Jiggle and I was already familiar with them. In fact, two of our drummers, Greg Vasso and Greg DeGuglielmo, were former members of Creek. And on top of that, we had had a side project with members from both bands called - wait for it - Jiggle the Creek! It was me and the Jiggle guitarist and then the keyboardist from Creek, Mark Mercier, and then one or another of the Gregs. So I was familiar with most of the material by the time of the show I posted.
But the crazy thing is, we didn't rehearse at all for these shows! I'm not sure about the drummer - he sounds really good for it being an audition, huh?!! But definitely I never played with the guys in the days or hours leading up to the shows, they just trusted me to get up and play! It was definitely a rush - my musical career was basically over at this point - I had quit Jiggle the previous year and was gearing up to move out to Berkeley, California to go to school to become a Buddhist minister. After the previous show, Scott the guitarist came up to me and said "Wanna join my band?" I had to turn him down, my heart wasn't in music anymore. I didn't really play much after this for 6 or 7 years, though I'm finally back in it!