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Ziggy Jagger

It is better to be the hammer than the anvil - Fortune Cookie at lunch 4/5/07

About Me

See Ziggy Jagger every Sunday night - 10pm - 1:00am (and usually later) at 3D's
Map of Three D's Cafe Inc
86 Strongs Ave
Rutland, VT
(802) 773-0046

Ziggy Jagger is:

OK, this section is getting tougher! Let's see if this describes it well...

The original "Ziggy Jagger" is:

Tom Irish (lead vocals, acoustic and electric guitars, harmonica, maybe even some keyboards)
Will Hagenlocher (drums, lead and background vocals)
Jeff Poremski (bass guitar)

Then came

Jared Johnson (sound/recording engineer, keyboards, bass, guitar, background vocals) who asked if he could play keys after recording us.

And after that his brother

Chris Johnson (bass guitar) was invited to join us allowing Jeff to move to lead guitar.

For the first year of the band, this was the line up, with Ross Vumbacco filling in on drums where Will had a conflict, and people kind of coming and going around the three piece as schedules dictated. Jared can't play when he's touring with The Samples, and Chris was only available for the summer (and is still available on a three day weekend or some special event). Ben Butterworth has filled in on bass since the beginning of the school and Duane Carleton filled in for Jeff for a couple of weeks while he was touring with Jim Gilmour. At our anniversary gig, Jeff announced that he was going to have to limit his involvement along the lines of how Chris does.

In the meantime, Ben is playing bass with us regularly, and we've gone back to three piece. I'm psyched. We're still taking the same approach, and last week Steve Audsley stopped in and played some lead for a few.... Something tells me we'll be getting more notable locals in and just see where it goes. I do know that for this next round, I'm going to try to bring out some new original material. There's usually something different going on at any one of our "shows" whether we're 3, 4, or 5 piece....

As promised too long ago, here's some of the tunes that we recorded LIVE in December... It's raw by design - no punching in after the fact - it is what is :-) We'll have some stuff from the anniversary party up as time permits.

I've got a "Mick schtick" that doesn't get out with Ziggy Jagger too much, though with the addition of Chris, that's changing. My friend Terry (who's not on myspace) shot some DV at The Wobbly Barn Halloween night and put together this little compilation... Here's a taste of what Halloween was like in Killington with Joey Leone's Chop Shop... (The guy in the tights is me!)


My Interests

Aside from music and computers (I build web sites to put food on the table) I like cooking, a good red wine, good conversation and a good laugh, shooting pool, getting out of Dodge now and then... Politics, philosophy, current events - fun to explore those things with people that can make you think... Biking, Racquetball, Frisbee... things like treadmills do nothing for me! Maybe someday I'll get another motorcycle but haven't had one in years - used to love playing in the dirt on two wheels!

I'd like to meet:

Other musicians, friends old and new. On the musican front, I'd like to meet someone that could pull off the whole Keith thing (look, tele, and tunings!).

This whole myspace thing has really evolved. I've met some other musicians, writers, flashes from the past... connected with my daughter and some of our mutual friends... connect with real life friends in ways I haven't outside of myspace, and people I have yet to meet outside of myspace. It's fun. I like meeting interesting people, and most are interesting on some level! :-) And while it would be great to meet folks like Moses, Jesus, and Mohammed, I'm guessing that's not going to happen on myspace. :-)

Music:

Seems it was about '73 that that bands like Pink Floyd, Steely Dan, Yes, Supertramp, and the like made really great albums on analog equipment and then started pumping out more commercialized offerings in the years that followed. Contrast Crime of the Century with Even in the Quietest Moments or Can't Buy a Thrill with Aja (gag). The Brits had a big influence on me... Beatles, Stones, Jeff Beck, Rod Stewart and that lot... I had a lot of early country influences too but it's all starting to sound like twang to me today. When it comes right down to it, I can listen to about anything but opera, and even then I can have an appreciation...


Movies:

About anything really - Dead Ringers was a memorable one because of how Jeremy Irons portrayed these two bent brothers. Strange little flick, haven't seen it in awhile. American Gun because my daughter got a bit part in it (and an interesting movie - James Coburns' last...)

Television:

Tend to watch it late night before bed and flip around between news and sitcoms in syndication (never saw Will & Grace until it hit the late night circuit). Actually, I must admit I watched Rockstar Supernova fairly religiously this season. Love Nip/Tuck and the Dirt that replaced it, and Damages has become my new "must see TV". The FX network is doing some really edgy stuff and I like it!

Books:

Geek stuff like PHP 5, Eric Meyer on CSS, etc... It's about all I have time for these days...

Heroes:

Guitar heroes like Frank Zappa, Jeff Beck, Tommy Bolin... Daughter Devon - what a trouper! My half-sister and her husband saved my can when I was younger...


TUNE'S WE'VE COVERED

House of the Rising Sun - The Animals
People People - Tommy Bolin
Wild Dogs - Tommy Bolin
Diamond Dogs - David Bowie
Golden Years - David Bowie
The Jean Genie - David Bowie
Rebel, Rebel - David Bowie
Space Oddity - David Bowie
Young Americans - David Bowie
Ziggy Stardust - David Bowie
Wasn't Born to Follow - The Byrds
Badge - Cream
People Who Died - The Jim Carroll Band
Sitting in Limbo - Jimmy Cliff
Smoke on the Water - Deep Purple
The Cover of the Rolling Stone - Dr. Hook and the Medicine Show
I Just Want to Make Love to You - Foghat
Signs - The Five Man Electrical Band
Funk #49 - The James Gang
Freeway Jam - Jeff Beck
Celluloid Heroes - The Kinks
Low Budget - The Kinks
Lola - The Kinks
Bron-Y-Ur Stomp - Led Zepplin
Hey Hey What Can I Do - Led Zepplin
That's the Way - Led Zepplin
Your Time is Gonna Come - Led Zepplin
Dixie Chicken - Little Feat
Oh Atlanta - Little Feat
Sailin' Shoes - Little Feat
Willin' - Little Feat
Is This Love? - Bob Marley
Stir it Up - Bob Marley
Waiting in Vain - Bob Marley
American Pie - Don McClean
Jack and Diane - John Cougar Mellencamp
Pink Houses - John Cougar Mellencamp
Faith - George Michael
The Story in Your Eyes - The Moody Blues
Last Train to Clarksville - The Monkees
You Wreck Me - Tom Petty
I Want to be Sedated - The Ramones
Dirty Boulevard - Lou Reed
Night Moves - Bob Seger
Angie - The Rolling Stones
Dead Flowers - The Rolling Stones
Beast of Burden - The Rolling Stones
Brown Sugar - The Rolling Stones
Far Away Eyes - The Rolling Stones
Happy - The Rolling Stones
Jumping Jack Flash - The Rolling Stones
Miss You - The Rolling Stones
Monkey Man - The Rolling Stones
The Last Time - The Rolling Stones
Sad, Sad, Sad - The Rolling Stones
Saint of Me - The Rolling Stones
Satisfaction - The Rolling Stones
Spider and the Fly - The Rolling Stones
Sweet Virginia - The Rolling Stones
Sympathy for the Devil - The Rolling Stones
Wild Horses - The Rolling Stones
You Can't Always Get What You Want - The Rolling Stones
Let Me Up - Kenny Wayne Shepherd
Bad Sneakers - Steely Dan
Bodhisattva - Steely Dan
Brooklyn - Steely Dan
Daddy Don't Live in that New York City - Steely Dan
Dirty Work - Steely Dan
Doctor Wu - Steely Dan
Everyone's Gone to the Movies - Steely Dan
Kid Charlamagne - Steely Dan
Midnight Cruiser - Steely Dan
Pretzel Logic - Steely Dan
Rikki Don't Lose that Number - Steely Dan
Wild World - Cat Stevens
Every Picture Tells the Story - Rod Stewart
Maggie May - Rod Stewart
You Wear it Well - Rod Stewart
People Get Ready - Rod Stewart/Jeff Beck (Curtis Mayfield)
Give a Little Bit - Supertramp
Sister Moonshine - Supertramp
Bang a Gong - T. Rex
End of the Line - The Travelling Wilburys
Heard it in a Love Song - Marshall Tucker
The Wizard - Uriah Heep
Stealin' - Uriah Heep
Comes a Time - Neil Young
Field of Opportunity - Neil Young
Human Highway - Neil Young
Sugar Mountain - Neil Young
Bobby Brown - Frank Zappa
Lawyers, Guns, and Money - Warren Zevon
Werewolves of London - Warren Zevon
La Grange - ZZ Top
The 12 Days of Christmas - Traditional (Ziggy Jagger arrangement)


ORIGINAL TUNES

The Last Chance - Ziggy Jagger
No Revolution - Ziggy Jagger
Song for Gibbon - Ziggy Jagger
From a Ram to Uranus - Ziggy Jagger

Plus whatever I failed to keep track of! :-/

Seems that each evening there's always the spontaneous thing that happens too... Improvised tunes with a title suggested by the bartender, a guest in the house that can belt out Me and Bobby McGee or Long Haired Country Boy... I haven't included those....

My Blog

What happened to this story on CNN?

I'm a web designer. I work at home. I should probably be listening to music while I work, but I'm also a news junkie. I have one of those little tiny TV's that sits atop small studio monitor and runs ...
Posted by Ziggy Jagger on Sat, 29 Sep 2007 06:03:00 PST

Reflections on a year

Well, Ziggy Jagger made it through a year with original members intact. Funny thing is, the afternoon of the night we celebrated that, I was about ready to call it a day myself! Oh, I was just ugly la...
Posted by Ziggy Jagger on Wed, 26 Sep 2007 04:30:00 PST

An invitation

Every day in the news, we see young starlets that everyone seems hugely concerned about. The newscasters all say that they need to hit bottom before they can really be helped but I don't see anyone st...
Posted by Ziggy Jagger on Tue, 25 Sep 2007 05:51:00 PST

My day with myspace

OK, so today I've had roughly 15 friend requests, all from bots, and a message from a bot in the guise of a friend. Basically, every time I've logged into myspace today, I've dealt with cleaning up sh...
Posted by Ziggy Jagger on Thu, 20 Sep 2007 06:37:00 PST

Oooops!

It's been something of a busy week here. One of my clients, The McKernon Group is the contractor doing an Extreme Makeover: Home Edition here in Vermont and I did a little site section in support of t...
Posted by Ziggy Jagger on Sat, 08 Sep 2007 07:52:00 PST

Rambling musical musings....

As I look at the original Ziggy Jagger flyer (our default photo), it's just amazing that in five short weeks we'll have been doing this for a year. I guess I need to change our default photo as it loo...
Posted by Ziggy Jagger on Mon, 27 Aug 2007 11:54:00 PST

The Local Spin/This Week With ZIggy Jagger

I submitted my guest article to The Rutland Herald this morning, a spot I stepped into largely due to my incessant rambling here on myspace! George Nostrand, who regularly pens "The Local Spin" is vac...
Posted by Ziggy Jagger on Wed, 25 Jul 2007 06:57:00 PST

Beer is not my friend :-(

OK, I'm really perplexed...I noticed my friend Chris Pallutto had Beer for a friend and thought to myself, well gee, beer should be my friend too... I've been drinking the stuff since, gee, I heard st...
Posted by Ziggy Jagger on Wed, 18 Jul 2007 08:15:00 PST

The Local Spin

Our friend George Nostrand writes a column called "The Local Spin" in our local paper that points to some of the musical happenings in our area. Now while I know George in a passing sort of way, it's ...
Posted by Ziggy Jagger on Thu, 12 Jul 2007 04:07:00 PST

Myspace gripes

1) Ever tried to contact Tom to make a suggestion? He's never available...2) Blog Navigation: I hate "box canyon syndrome". The code snippet that makes navigating multiple blog pages could just as eas...
Posted by Ziggy Jagger on Wed, 11 Jul 2007 07:31:00 PST