JBU ROCK: (1993 JULY) SWIVEL CHERRY AT THE ECLIPSE, TULSA

I believe it was Jason who arranged this real live gig which provided me with all sorts of personal firsts...
1. My first chance to play alongside the admired Green Jell-O On Thursday gang (Including Philip George).
2. My first "paying" show.
3. My first show outside of our college town
4. My first painfully humiliating experience as a musician.
Swivel Cherry was a makeshift act consisting of those of us JBU rocker types who happened to remain in the area that summer. So Philip George took Tim Miller's place at the drums, and I got to tag along and inject some early 90s alterna-rock. The name Swivel Cherry was the kooky brainchild of Andrew West Griffin, and means nothing beyond its obvious amalgamation of words. It was re-adopted by The Java Men a couple of years later.
We played two dates about two weeks apart. The first show (available for download below) was, of course, a bit rough, but considering our ragtag approach it went off relatively well. Quite a few JBU folk made the trip to support us, yet there were enough strangers in the audience to make it seem like a "real" show.
The set list was a hodgepodge of covers, Philip George stuff, and Green Jell-O originals. Jason publicly mocked Philip by repeatedly boasting that "our drummer has perfect pitch." Philip responded as if Jason were simply stating an interesting fact. The Eclipse had also earned a paragraph in a recent issue of Details Magazine (comparing it to an opium den of all things), another factoid Weinheimer enjoyed tossing around that evening.

My five song stint was a sack of ups and downs. I remember sensing that a portion of the crowd seemed into it, but after I botched up Nirvana's Lounge Act quite a bit, Weinheimer shamed me in a deviously efficient fashion— he simply repeated my name. Suddenly it was forever tagged onto a freshly crapified cover tune. But I recovered with a rendition of Sonic Youth's 100% during which I used a trick I'd seen them perform on Letterman, I vigorously ran a drumstick up and down the guitar neck to generate some crazy noise during the 'solo.' The moment I stepped off stage a girl walked out from behind the bar, pulled near and asked if I wanted anything. She granted me full access to their liquor cooler and her phrase "You can have anything you want." was noted. But this rock and roll bubble exploded during our following date. I made a conscious effort to forget about whatever patheticness took place, and thankfully it worked, but I know my portion was awful, and the audience agreed. The photos reveal that Prather and LaVoilette showed up, but that and the bitter embarrassment are the only things I remember.
-Kirk

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Songs-
Little Bolt of Lighting (Philip George song)
Chile (Toad the Wet Sprocket cover)
Fadeaway (BoDeans cover)
Everything Inside You
Bloodstream
Animals
Supercrush (Philip George song)
So Lonely (Police cover)
Answer Me
Supercool by Randy Zurcher
Name It Arnold
Rain
King's Men (end cut off)
Oh, The Guilt (Nirvana cover-beginning cut off)
Would? (Alice In Chains cover)
Good Idea (Sugar cover)
Within Your Reach (Replacements cover)
Lounge Act (Nirvana cover)
100% (Sonic Youth cover)
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I Walk Alone/Killing Floor (Los Lobos/Howlin' Wolf cover partial)