Gene Pool Paul Marnell's Basement Room General Motors Institute intern-house, Flint, MI November 27th, 1993
Set I Franklin's Tower-> Sympathy for the Devil Endless Highway (first) Fire on the Mountain -> Possum (first) Minglewood Down Under -> Hard to Handle (rest of set missing)
Set II Drum solo and crowd chant (excerpt) (rest of set missing)
Set III Eyes of the World (train wreck) My Baby Left Me Because I Wouldn't Put My Guitar Down Dead Flowers (first) Deep Elem Blues Some Other Day (Ger Hoffman) Cold Shot (first) (rest of set missing)
Jeff Warner - guitar, vocals Ger Hoffman - Bass, vocals, arrangments Bob Bond - drums, chatter
Taped by Mr. Paul Marnell Himself. One cheap dynamic card mic strung from the ceiling and hung in front of the drums behind the PA. (hence the mix) Not that the PA was so great- it was an 8 track Karoke machine with a built-in 10" speaker, 2 mics, and bad reverb. This was one of it's last gigs. This is also John Choinard's (sp?) first gig as light director. He screwed in a blacklite bulb and flicked it on and off periodically. This actually lead to a regular gig! The majority of folks at this party were upstairs while we played and came down between sets because it was so loud in this 10' x 25' concrete tomb. Paul makes a comment about the police and the noise, but people came down and were surprised to find a live band. A very loud live band. As the night went on, it turned into The Bob Bond Show on Paul's acoustic, then Paul sits in, then we all switch back to electric for a long (most likely sloppy) Dark Star -> something else... By Feburary, Paul joined in as rhythm and vocals and we changed our name from "Jeff & Ger" to "BIG WORDS" (that didn't last) and by March, 1994, we settled on "Gene Pool" and Paul drew the logo.
There you have it- a snapshot of Flint's #1 underground cover band in it's embryonic stage.
Remixed 1995. Properly remixed and edited, pitch corrected, and hiss removed (there are cheap cassette anomolies present) via Cakewalk October,2007.
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Reviewer:Johnny "lights" Chouinard - - April 29, 2008 Subject: vivid and not so vivid Bob's account of Gene Pool shows are so crystal clear that I feel like I am living them for the first time..when in fact I was indeed there...I think. Thanks for the memories Bob. -John Chouinard
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