Announcements: Quintet, 11/22/05

My Gig Announcement, as Performed by the 80s Adult/Contemporary Sensation TOTO

I hear Jon Arkin's drums echoing tonight
But you hear only whispers of some drunken bike messengers' conversations
You're coming in twelve-thirty flight
So you have time to catch the BART that guides you towards libations
I stopped an old man along the Bay
Hoping to find some old forgotten words or ancient jazz melodies
He turned to me as if to say: "Hurry boy, beer's waiting there for you"

[Chorus:]
It's gonna take a lot to drag me out to hear you
There's nothing that a hundred e-mails or more could ever do
I bless the drains down on New Montgomery St.
Gonna take some time to count the tips we never had

The wild Evan Francis cries out in the night
As he grows restless longing for some solitary saxophony
I know that he must do what's right
Sure as the House of Shields rises like Olympus above the San Fran-ciski
I seek to cure what's deep inside, frightened of this trumpet player I've become

[Repeat Chorus]

All you wanna do when you wake up in the morning is see my gig
Adam Shulman, Adam Shulman
I never thought that a pianist like you could ever play for me, Adam Shulman

All I wanna do in the middle of the evening is trip over your bass
Fred Randolph, Fred Randolph
I didn't know you were looking for more tips than I could ever give

Not quite a year since it went away, the Ian Carey Quintet
Now they're gone and I have to say…. Da Da, Da Da, Da Daaaaa

[Chorus:]
Meet you at the gig, the Ian Carey Quintet
Meet you at the gig, the Ian Carey Quintet

[Repeat Chorus, fade out]

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WHAT: The Ian Carey Quintet

WHERE: The House of Shields, 39 New Montgomery St., San Francisco

WHEN: Tuesday, November 22, 5:30-8:30pm

WHO: Ian Carey, trumpet, with:
Adam Shulman, Fender Rhodes
Jon Arkin, drums
Evan Francis, saxophone
Fred Randolph, bass

HOW MUCH: Free