The Troubador
West Hollywood
CD-R from silver
01 Walk In My Shadow (Free)
02 Bottle Of Red Wine (Eric Clapton/Bobby Whitlock)
03 Tin Soldier (Steve Mariott)
04 Take The Highway (The Marshall Tucker Band) (with Gary Louris)
05 Deal (The Grateful Dead)
06 Love Me Till The Sun Shines (The Kinks)
07 Long Time Gone (Crosby, Stills & Nash) (with David Crosby)
08 Jemima Surrender (The Band)
09 One Way Out (Elmore James)
10 Presence Of The Lord (w/fade) (Eric Clapton)
This was an impromptu show featuring the following artists:
# Chris Robinson (The Black Crowes)
# Marc Ford (The Black Crowes)
# Jimmy Ashhurst (The JuJu Hounds)
# Eric Bobo (Cypress Hill)
# Andy Sturmer (Jellyfish)
The second part of interview with Jimmy 'Two Fingers' Ashhurst from izzyontour.com:
Q: In February 1994, together with Marc Ford, Chris Robinson, Craig Ross, Roger Manning and Any Sturmer, you participated in a jam session of a project called Sweet Pickle Salad. The question is, why wasn't it ever released and who came up with the idea of the project?
J.A. There were actually two similar shows right around the same time. The second one, Foamfoot (Crows From the Closet) was maybe a year after Sweet Pickle Salad and featured a couple of different guys but the core group remained basically the same: Chris, Marc, me, Andy Sturmer. They were both Chris' idea since he was living on the west coast at the time and for the first time he was apart from his brother Rich. I think he was mostly bored and felt like doing something with the friends he was spending most of his time with. He had rented a beautiful home in Laurel Canyon and there was a lot of jamming going on up there day and night, so we just learned a bunch of our favorite songs and he decided that we should play a couple of shows. The first one, Sweet Pickle Salad, was recorded kinda half- assed so Chris wanted to make sure the second one was recorded properly. We ended up using Graham Nash's mobile recording rig. The coolest part was at soundcheck when a short, rather rotund man walked in the door of the Troubadour with a guitar case and said "I hear there's a jam goin on tonight - mind if I sit in??" It was David Crosby. We ended up doing "Long Time Gone" with him that night. It was one of those nights I was so happy to know was being caught on tape and it's a pity both shows weren't recorded. Those were two of the most memorable evenings ever for me...we were all playing our best at the time.
[Jimmy realized he was talking about Big Toe show and he sent a correction]
J.A. Around that time there were several jams with Chris, Marc, and Andy - Chris was for the first time in his career living far from his brother and I think he was interested in seeing what he was capable of doing without Rich. The live shows we did, Foamfoot and Big Toe, were more for fun and we did covers of other people's songs. With Sweet Pickle Salad he had some songs he'd written on his own that he wanted to record, and we happened to be the people he was spending most of his time with anyway, so he booked some studio time and we recorded four or five songs of his songs and it was a blast! We all had a great time playing that stuff and the performances by everyone were pretty amazing - especially considering how fucked up we all were at the time.
I don't think any of us ever even considered the possibility of it ever being released... the Black Crowes were (and are) one of our generation's best and most significant bands, and nobody involved would have wanted to be a part of anything that would have upset the sometimes delicate relationship between those two brothers. It's a pretty cool thing to have been a part of it though. - [interview with Jimmy 'Two Fingers' Ashhurst, [February 13, 2008]
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