What a wonderful time Jeri Verdi & Her Heavy Friend's show was at Eddie's 529 Club last night (12/12/08). The night started off with a beautiful Full Moon over head and just got better and better. It was great to see all of you last night. Many familiar faces and friends, some new faces, and even some Jeri & The Jeepsters friends coming out to see The Heavy Friends for their first time! You guys filled Eddie's with a joyful feeling that can clearly be seen on the faces of everybody in the photos below. Truly, what this Season is all about! With the Yule Log burning brightly all night behind us - on the television right behind Philo, The Heavy Friends crackled all night with a dash of holiday songs and a HEAVY dollop of ass-kicking (sometimes both at the same time!). And what a line up we had for you on this night! On Gretsch geeeetar was Dave "Lucky" Richardson (sporting a shirt that said "Lucky" on it, hence the nickname), on bass playing through a 60's vintage Vox Super Beatle amp and vocals and getting airborne at some points was Philo Phuzz (sporting his Bettie Page T-shirt in tribute to the 50's pin-up vixen and her passing on Thursday - glad that there were many Bettie lovers there last night), on drums and vocals was Phil Hicks, and of course on vocals and geeetar was the incredible Jeri Verdi!!! Jeri Verdi started the music off with a solo set with her playing a massive amount of her original songs - many that will be on her next CD and many from her first CD and some covers! Some titles include: "In Memphis", "The Perfect Shade of Green", "Sad Girl", "Never Back There", "Johnnie Walker", "Mainline", "Pearl", "Blue Lady", The Rolling Stones' song "You Got The Silver", Lou Reed's "Satellite of Love", and a very special version of "Blue Christmas" featuring a duet with Jeri and her father Lou Verdi sitting in on vocals! Some of the highlights of Jeri Veri & Her Heavy Friends' sets included: Small Faces twofer of "Itchycoo Park" and "Watcha Gonna Do About It", Hüsker Dü's "Diane", The Beatles "All I Gotta Do", T. Rex's "Children of the Revolution", Iggy Pop twofer of "Candy" and "I Wanna Be Your Dog", Paul Revere & The Raiders' "Hungry", Betty Everett's "You're No Good", Mike Nesmith's "Different Drum", Mott The Hoople's "One of the Boys", the Velvet Underground's "Waiting For My Man", some Rolling Stones' songs including "Sympathy For The Devil", "Gimme Shelter", "The Last Time", CCR's "Born On The Bayou", Chuck Berry's "Run, Rudolph, Run", Otis Redding's "Merry Christmas Baby", and many others! Again, it was a truly wonderful night! Many photos from last night are below, see if you can find yourself in them acting silly with us on our breaks. All photos are also located in our MySpace Photos Section. Check them out there and leave a comment!!! We'd love to hear from you! Photos by Harry Lime.
Okay, so we'll see you at our next shows. These are our last shows for 2008 and beyond!
- THIS Saturday, December 20th!
The 133 Club
133 Club 29 Warren Ave.
East Providence, RI
401-438-1330
JERI & THE JEEPSTERS tearin' it up all night just one minute from Providence in one last show before XMAS!!! FREE SHOW!!! NO COVER!!!
- MARK YOUR CALENDER! NEW YEAR'S EVE!
Wednesday, December 31st!
The 133 Club
133 Club 29 Warren Ave.
East Providence, RI
401-438-1330
JERI & THE JEEPSTERS ringing in the New Year all night just one minute from Providence!!! CHAMPAGNE TOAST AT MIDNIGHT!!!
- Saturday, January 10th, 2009!!!
Eddie's 529 Club
529 Warwick Ave
Warwick, RI
401-941-9423
Jeri Verdi & Her Heavy Friends are back at Eddie's 529 Club playing Rock & Roll originals and covers all night long and tearin' the roof off of the place in our first show of the new year!!! FREE SHOW!!! NO COVER!!!
