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Saint Monday are playing our first evening-length show the Thursday after Thanksgiving, November 30th, at the Big Rock BBQ in San Rafael!
C’mon out from 5-7pm that night — eat, drink, and be merry like Thanksgiving never ended.
The Big Rock has an amazing selection of craft brews, epic barbecue and Mexican entrees, and a heated beer garden where your kids can run wild while you rock out.
We’ll be playing our signature repertoire of classic ’80-’90s alternative songs, sprinkled in with a few new originals we’ve been working on.
See you there!
I recorded a nice instrumental guitar piece celebrating a special season we have here in the Bay Area called “Fool’s Spring”. It comes after Winter, but it doesn’t necessarily mean the warm weather is here to stay. Nonetheless it’s glorious weather here today, and I hope this melody captures the feeling of it for you.
Join us Saturday afternoon on the Big Rock heated patio for an afternoon of classic alternative sounds and soulful original songs. Saturday, January 20th, 2-4pm …
[G]Sonoma Red and [D]Olema Green
[Am}Have a little way of getting [C] in between
What I felt and what I seen
Feeling so good like I’ve never been
[Em] This sunset [D] just keeps [Am] blooming
[C] Like a rolling ocean [G] wave
[Em]The clouds [D]so all [Am]consuming
[C]That it’s taking [D]me [G]away
The red is in my body
Bringing warmth and a gentle sway
While the green is on my mind
In a most peculiar way
And they dance in me together to light up this sunny day
they lift my weary spirit like a thermal on the Bay
So come dance with me, beloved
Streaking tracers across the floor
Painting bouncing woozy circles
That I’ll see when my eyes are closed
VERSE 1
This love I’m in feels like a parched forest floor
Aching for the rains that haven’t come
An uneasy truce like needles of spruce that pile up into fuel
Fmaj7 – G – Am
Like underbrush in a heat wave, late June {2x}
VERSE 2
Cadd9 – Am7
And a careless word unkind could set the valley floor alight
With the fury of every hurt just covered over without a word
Fmaj7 – G – Am
Is going up like wild fire tonight {2x}
CHORUS
Fire season finally burn this old love away
It’s been ready to go up for far too long
The quiet kindling when there’s nothing left to say
means this love won’t outlive this fire season
Cadd9 – Am7
The Marine layer rolls in just after 3am
A dew falls and the flames just settle down
No more trees block the way of the rising of the day
Fmaj7 – G – Am
And the sunrise slides down the hillside to me
CHORUS
Fire season finally burn this old love away
It’s been ready to go up for far too long
The quiet kindling when there’s nothing left to say
means this love won’t outlive this fire season
INSTRUMENTAL
Cadd9 – Am7 (x3)
Fmaj7 – G – Am (x2)
Dmadd9. — Fmaj7
What love will grow in the ashes of the old?
Dmadd9. –G
What love will grow in the ashes of the old?
Dmadd9. — Fmaj7
Is it dead and gone or will my love soon be reborn?
Dmadd9. — G
What love will grow here?
CHORUS
Fire season finally burn this old love away
It’s been ready to go up for far too long
The quiet kindling when there’s nothing left to say
means this love won’t outlive this fire season
Just after we decided what kinds of artists, songs, and genres we wanted to emulate, I saw this article about “IPA-Core”.
https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/music/a43994095/in-defense-mid-90s-rock/
It might be fitting that Ted, who grew up in the exact time and place for bands like Toad the Wet Sprocket and Counting Crows to be huge influences, would be a lifetime devotee of what they’re now calling Dad Rock or IPA-Core. But Mike was a mere bebbeh in those days, just getting his grown-up teeth when these songs were on the charts. As a Junior Millennial this stuff still resonates to him as well. And now that we play to a mixed crowd at the Big Rock, one of our biggest fan bases is kids under 10 who see us in the beer garden and resonate with the raw emotion of these songs. So call it what you want — we love it and we’ll keep on playing it.
Saint Monday’s blog is now a #Fediverse node! This means that we now have #Mastodon handles for both Mike and Ted:
This is an original song, a work in progress, dedicated to Ted’s eldest son. Mijo Am6. — Am6/C — Fmaj7 – -G — Am6. — …
This is cover of a song by Mike Doughty that Mike and Ted do a lot at open mic. Stay tuned for a version featuring …
The best way to hear Saint Monday’s music is to come on out to The Big Rock Deli in Lucas Valley on a Wednesday night, eat some barbecue, drink some beers, and check out the best open mic in the North Bay. We’re there most weeks.
https://www.facebook.com/WednesdayBigRock
Here are the details for our first evening-length show with original tunes mixed into our usual playlist of covers.
