COVENSTEAD - AL TAVERS - 2000 and beyond ...

Multiple - from across all spectrums/ "styles" of music, including:

Yes / Styx / Queen / Kansas / Emerson, Lake and Palmer / Electric Light Orchestra / Coldplay / Radiohead / Feeder / Boston / Aerosmith / The Cars / Foreigner / Pink Floyd / Supertramp / Supergrass / Spacehog / Dio / Rainbow / Deep Purple / Alice Cooper / Jethro Tull / Three Dog Night / Chicago / Blood, Sweat and Tears /
Rare Earth / War / Stevie Wonder / The Animals / Argent / Ten Years After / David Bowie / T. Rex / Santana / Janis Joplin / The Beatles / The Rolling Stones / Soundgarden / Audioslave / Temple Of The Dog / Pearl Jam / Creed / Nickelback / Foo Fighters / Godsmack / Must / Revis / Shinedown / Switchfoot / Train / Velvet Revolver / Stone Temple Pilots / The Vines / The Killers / Blue Oyster Cult / Meat Loaf / The Eagles / Wings /
Evan and Jaron / Eve6 / Filter / Fuel / Fenix Tx / Bush / Goo Goo Dolls / Def Leppard / Iron Maiden /
Led Zeppelin / Black Sabbath / Ozzy / Judas Priest / Nazareth / Angel / Krokus / Good Charlotte /
Grand Funk (Railroad) / Hoobastank / The Hives / Incubus / Lifehouse / Marvin Gaye / Michael Jackson/
The Jackson Five / Quincy Jones / Trevor Rabin / Jimmy Page / Rick Wakeman / Keith Emerson / Greg Lake /
Jon Anderson / matchbox20 / Scorpions / Moody Blues / Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young / Graham Nash /
Neil Young / Stephen Stills / Tool / Uriah Heep / Nine Inch Nails / The Smashing Pumpkins / The Offspring /
Rush / Aerosmith / Scorpions / Krokus / Nazareth / The Animals / Frigid Pink / Bread /
Jefferson Airplane, Jefferson Starship, Starship / Jimi Hendrix / Elton John / Nilsson (Harry) / James Taylor /
Cat Stevens / Poco / J.D. Souther / England Dan and John Ford Coley / Billy Joel / Billy Squire / Curtis Mayfield / Ray Charles / Robert Johnson / Cream / Eric Clapton / The Yardbirds / The Zombies / The Temptations /
Smokie Robinson and the Miracles / The Spinners / Todd Rundgren / Creedence Clearwater Revival /
Dishwalla / The Flaming Lips / Red Hot Chili Peppers / Tonic

Chopin, Beethoven, Tchaikovsky, Mozart, Bach, Strauss ...

the list is endless, and more likely than not someone's probably been left out,
and someone's probably been listed more than once...

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"Jam 15" (working title) - (Ryan/ Dave/ Donn/ Al)
"Jam 3" (working title) - (Kevin/ Dave/ Donn/ Al)

Most Memorable Moments:
Too early on to really decide yet. These things really seem to come a lot more to memory somehow when they are in the distant past. That's when you remember the funniest things, I think. For now though, one of the funniest things was when Kevin said this to Al:

There was the practice where Kevin just started playing "Love Lies Bleeding" by Elton John - which (pleasantly) surprised the hell out of me. I believe we'd actually started working on it after that (to learn it; to do it). There was the time when I had first met Shaun Hague. He'd lived in the next town over, and had come over here with his Dad, actually - who basically patiently sat there while Shaun and I pretty much "auditioned each other" to see if we'd be interested in playing together. I didn't say much, if anything at the time (to "let on," so to speak), but I was already thinking "this 'kid' is f*cking GREAT." Anyhow, it was AFTER this that Shaun took out his acoustic guitar and started playing Zeppelin's "Rain Song" - so EXACTLY that if I'd closed my eyes I could have sworn that Page were in the room. It was a "memorable moment," alright - and I was VERY psyched as to the directions we might take, should Shaun come onboard.

Guy at the Benjamin's gig who wouldn't leave Al alone - kept asking him for money, kept asking Al and his friend if they go there often - even after they'd already told him a thousand times that it was the first time they had ever been there, asked Al for his phone number, asked if he could take a shower at Al's house, kept asking Al to "take him for a ride" in his car, and finally ended up telling Al that he wanted to sleep with him ...