the avalon allstars
The Avalon Allstars is an all-star band that performs at the Avalon Ballroom
in San Francisco from time to time. Both Ray White
and Ike Willis sat in or have been part
of this band. With Ray and Ike, the Avalon Allstars have performed some
Zappa compositions.
2004/03/21, the Avalon Allstars were Will Bernard, Bobby Vega, Ray
White, Jimmy Sanchez and Melvin Seals. 2004/04/20, the band consisted of John
Mollo, Melvin Seals, Mark Karan and Bobby Vega, but featured Ray White and Ike
Willis as guests.
An earlier (2003/01/25) incarnation of the Avalon Allstars band could be
considered as the Melvin Seals Band with special guests: Napoleon Murphy Brock,
Ike Willis and Tal Morris.
- 2003/01/25 concert 'Avalon Ballroom', San Francisco, CA, usa
- the band
- Melvin Seals: keys & vocals (Jerry Garcia Band, Melvin Seals
Melting Pot)
- Napoleon Murphy Brock: sax, flute, vocals (Frank Zappa,
Project/Object)
- Ike Willis: guitar, vocals (Frank Zappa, Project/Object)
- Tal Morris: guitar (Big E, Alan Hertz and Friends)
- Dennis Smith: bass (Melvin Seals Band)
- Stephen Hund: drums (Melvin Seals Band)
- Jerry Brown: vocals (Shady Groove) on 'dark star'
- set one
- carpenter, take your clothes off, what's the ugliest part of your
body, summer jam, watermelon in easter hay
- set two
- cosmik debris, dark star, chamelion, advanced romance, that's what
love, hey joe, i'm the slime
- 2004/04/20 concert 'Avalon Ballroom', San Francisco, CA, usa
- the band
- John Mollo drums * Melvin Seals keys, vocal * Mark Karan guitar,
vocal * Bobby Vega bass
- guests
- Phil Lesh bass, vocal (*) * Ray White guitar, vocal (++) * Ike
Willis guitar, vocal (++) * Will Bernard guitar (+) * Alan Hertz
drums (+), and Vega returns to the stage after Lesh splits.
- setlist
- wavy gravy speaks * hey pockey way * that's what love will make
you do * meters tune... * good morning little schoolgirl (*) * easy
wind (*) * sugaree (*) * island in the sun (++) * whippin' post (++)
* bamboozled by love (++) (+) * let me love you baby (++) (+)
