Hot August Night

Set List Reveal

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How do, Faux friends?

The first record album I ever fell in love with was Hot August Night by Neil Diamond. It was recorded on August 24, 1972. I was 3 and a half on that day.

When I was four and a half, I‘d ask my mom to put it on while she worked in the garden or did housework. I’d look at Neil and pretend I was playing along, and she could leave me alone except to come and flip the record every so often. It is etched in my mind (Though the “Porcupine Pie” side gets less play.) for real.

And now, 49 years after that recording and 43 miles south-south-east of the Greek Theater in Los Angeles where it was recorded, I am going to try to make my own Hot August Night happen. (#hotFauxSummer?)

In Irvine, California, the new headquarters of Faux Jean Int’l.

All this to say: I am so very excited to play a show this Saturday, August 14, 2021.

In public.

My first time dangling the ego-slash-muse since March of 2019.

That’s a long time with no stage time for a ham like Faux Jean.

Vulnerable.

My last scheduled show was January of 2020 and that was canceled because it was 25 below for an entire week in Madison, WI. (Brien, correct me if I’m wrong.)

And then the pandemic.

And then the mid-pandemic move to California.

Saturday August 14, 2021 will not be 25 below in Southern California.

It could rain. (Not terribly likely, but, you know…)

There could be a fire or an earthquake. (Locusts?)

But this gig will not be canceled due to extreme cold.

I’m going to try to capture it digitally and share it somehow, but I’m not overthinking it.

You’ll be among the first to know.

Here’s the poster for the gig:

I am an artist in captivity.

I have deputized a few Fake Journeymen to play some of the set with me. Nelly Jean will play beatbox (cajon) for a few selections, and Scruffy Gene Squire will be playing harmonica on them there songs too. (That’s Zach Nelson of the Clef Hangers, a group from UNC, and Kurt Squire, formerly of the Mary Janes from Bloomington Indiana.

I am quite excited.

Here is the set list that got out of control. I’ll probably only play 50 songs, realistically, but this is the vibe we’re working with.

  1. O Listen!

  2. You Are A Machine

  3. My Gift for You

  4. This land is your land (Guthrie)

  5. Corinna Corinna (Trad/Dyan)

  6. Poopy Pants

  7. Leitmotif

  8. My Greatest Sin *

  9. Gotta Get Up (Nilsson)

  10. As Long As We’re Alive

  11. I’ll Waste Away

  12. Set the World On Fire (Ink Spots)

  13. Jaded/Believe

  14. 4 seasons

  15. Act Naturally (Buck)

  16. Bye Bye Love (Everlys)

  17. Nature

  19. Drop D

  20. Powderhorn Park

  21. The Way You Say Goodnight (MAG Fields)

  22. What’s not to love?

  23. Halloween dance

  24. You were the one / Big Believer

  25. Be Free and Do Not Die

  26. I willingly submit to your Tyranny

  27. The Boy from New York City (Ad-libs)*

  28. BumbleBee

  29. Street fighting man (stones)*

  30. It’s a free Country

  31. Go get fixed

  32. Mediocre Gatsby

  34. Laptop excursion (every breath (Police))/30k feet

  36. Couldn’t Believe it’s true (Willie)

  37. When You Were Mine (Prince)

  38. Androgynous (Replacements)

  39. When Will I be Loved (Everlys)

  40. I Want You To Want Me (Cheap Trick)

  41. 59th Street Bridge Song (S&G)

  42. There She Goes (La’s)

  43. What goes on (velvets)

  44. Oh Yoko (Lennon)

  45. Fisherman’s Blues (Waterboys)

  46. Blowin’ in the Wind (Dylan)

  47. Like A Rolling Stone (Dylan)

  49. Jackie O (Coug)

  50. Fake Blood and Sweat 

  51. Dü the Watüsi

  52. KLOTL

  53. Get up

  54. You can sing in your underwear

  55. Let it rain

  56. Summer of hate

  57. Dream about Sharks

  58. O! Canada

  59. She Comes from Money

  60. Everyday / well all right (Holly)

  61. You make lovin fun (MAC)

  62. File it away 

  63. Chartreuse

  64. Her movie

  65. Mrs Jean

  66. Race-baiting jailbait race

  67. Pillow Talk / A hole in my Ozone

  68. Hey!

  69. Winter’s So Long

  70. She’s my Baby

  71. We used to kill the communists

  72. Get With That

  73. The Moon is a Dead Lover

  74. File it Away

  75. Unintouch

  76. Can we stop the war machine

  77. Did she have a dream?

  78. The normal way

  79. Another Day In Paradise

  80. Higher Ground (Wonder)

  81. Satisfaction (stones)

  82. I know it’s over (smiths)

  83. Grapevine (Gaye)

  84. Girl From the North Country (Dylan)

  85. I had an idea and it was all wrong

  86. House on Fire

  87. The Good fight

  88. Long Dissed

  89. C’mon now

  90. Giant Robot

  91. Bane

  92. Martha

  93. Stranger to the Blade

  94. Fatal Bert

  95. Steppin’ Stone (monkees)

  96. Down to the well

  97. Haircut

  98. That don’t mean that I love you

  99. Hey Mom! Wake Up!

  100. 100.Let it rain

  101. 101.Let’s Have some fun!

  102. 102.I think that it’s apparent

  103. 103.If at the time

  104. 104.I’m so mad at myself

  105. 105. Alone (and so)

  106. 106. Pisces

  107. 107.Rene

  108. 108.P.O’d City 

  109. 109. I think about you all of the time

  110. 110. This might sound odd

  111. 111.Love is in the Air

  112. 112.Waiting on the 17

  113. 113.Of the fruit

  114. 114.Sitting in the dark

  115. 115.Various Expectations

  116. 116.Tired of trying blues

  117. 117.Lasto

  118. 118.Lazy

  119. 119.Ballad of the Man Ray Quints

  120. 120.Jean Duluth Jenny

  121. 121.Girlfriend Again

  122. 122.Fast friends

  123. 123.Everybody Dies

  124. 124.Come and Get your 45s

  125. 125.Too Shy to Ask

  126. 126.This is a song

  127. 127.Sophisticated

  128. 128.Thrift

  129. 129.Don’t walk away from love

  130. 130.Drama club

  131. 131.Lachrymal

  132. 132.I’m so mad at myself

  133. 133.Girlfriend Again

  134. Sometimes you change your mind

Alrighty then, you like lists too, eh?

I hope to see you on Saturday, and then maybe again sometime at another public place where I share my art and you participate somehow, possibly by sharing your art or energy. Gosh, maybe people will dance even.

Art is therapy.

Promenade home.

OX&C,

Faux Jean

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