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Jocelyn2003 wrote:

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Bluesboyatheart wrote:

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So these shows may never be released, but out of curiosity, what were the set lists of these coveted shows?

i can't believe these were 3 years ago already; it also seems like a lifetime ago.

per your request, here are the setlists. they can also be found in the archives of john's myspace blog, which is where i'm getting them:

Eddie's Attic Night One

VICTORIA
LOVE SOON
OUTSIDE IN THE UNDERGROUND
MY STUPID MOUTH
WONDERLAND
CITY LOVE
NOT MYSELF
3x5
LA SONG
CLARITY
COME BACK TO BED
BIGGER THAN MY BODY
TRACING
WHO DID YOU THINK I WAS
GRAVITY

THE HURT
STOP THIS TRAIN
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EDDIE'S ATTIC NIGHT 2

Man on The Side
Lifelines
Neon
Why Georgia
Back to You
83
St. Patrick's Day
Covered in Rain
Something's Missing
New Deep
Hummingbird
Daughters
Who Did You Think I Was
Good Love is On The Way

The Hurt
In Repair

EDDIE'S ATTIC NIGHT 3

Comfortable
Sucker
No Such Thing
Love Song for No One
Quiet
Kid A
Split Screen Sadness
Only Heart
Home Life
Wheel
Another Kind of Green
Gravity
Try

Stop this Train
In Repair
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here are the blogs he wrote, in case anyone's interested/lazy:

12.20.05:
What a night. What a day. If I wasn't in the Christmas spirit, I sure am now. So many dear old friends I haven't seen in the longest time today. I know that last sentence has no predicate, but you know what I mean. What a deep night. I haven't seen Dela in a year. Can you believe that? We ran over the songs at soundcheck today, and I was too worried about remembering all the changes to realize how great it was to be there with him. I made up for it during the show, I can tell you that. I missed seeing him smile back at me. One thing about Dela; when I turn to look at him, he's already looking at me. What a great friend.

Played through some old songs tonight. I don't know of any other way to connect so deeply with your past than to play your very own songs. Maybe looking through a box of photos would compare, assuming you took some pretty fabulous photos, and did so all of the time. It was really profound for me. I think the best moment came during "Who Did You Think I Was" when I realized that the new tunes stem from such a deeper place. I love playing the songs I wrote for the last 7 years, and I really love the place I'm in now. I don't know what else to ask for.

Played two new songs that I didn't think I was going to let out before the CD came out next year, but it occured to me; if you don't play your new stuff at Eddie's Attic, then you can't depend on anyone, anywhere to appreciate it.

Round one is over.

JM

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12.23.05

What an incredible three days of shows. Challenging, enlightening, thrilling, frightening, and most of all, calibrating. I feel so spot-on as to where I am as a musician, there's no telling what I may hear myself sing in '06. It was such a sweet homecoming, to see all the faces of the friends who supported me when I first started out in Atlanta.

I think the only way to put these shows out is in their entirety; that said, I couldn't put another note of music out before I release Continuum. I'm a studio-album making musician with side projects, and not the other way around. You get me?

I hope some of you who weren't aware of Eddie's before might decide to go visit it some night if you happen to be in Atlanta. There are so few rooms like it left in the world, it's almost a national landmark in some ways.

So here we go, into Christmas, into changing out of our street clothes and into the washed-thin hospital gown of identity that is visiting the entire family. We will be repeating to ourselves "I have, in fact, lived my own life between the moments spent at this table." You know, when I first started writing that I was thinking it was a bummer, but now I kind of like the idea. Let's go home and blend in with the scenery.

Speaking of going home - this is all too good a segue - A good friend of mine from my early days in Atlanta sent me a demo I'd recorded at his studio in December of '99. I haven't heard or thought of this song since then, but it's pretty interesting. Before I ever saw a business card from a record label, I wrote this song, supposing that I'd spent 5 years trying to be a successful musician and failed. The song is my coming home and realizing that I had to give the dream up. I remember wanting to call it "Five Long Years", except there's a blues tune, I think by Eddie Fulsom, by that name already. I think I'll call it "Untitled Demo".

Totally new old stock song, as unearthed by Tommy Smeltzer. Hope you enjoy it. My Christmas present to you.

To everyone who considers me a part of their "Music I Like" list, thank you for another wonderful year. This was my year off, by the way! Wait until I really turn it all back on.

And to the many people whose profile pics include them posing with their guitar, you excite me to no end. There is a movement, and it will turn the world of music on its ass and chest and neck in the coming years. Never practice, always play. The best facets of classic American music are going to come back in the form of you all.

And to my gorgeous wife, Denise, who has stood by me this entire time, our beautiful children, Mother Nature Mayer and my little man, Camel Invador Mayer, Daddy loves you.

I always go a paragraph too long. My calling card.

With Love

John
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~jocelyn