Ry Cooder - Jesus On The Mainline

From "Ry Cooder & The Moula Banda Rhythm Aces: Let's Have A Ball", a film by Les Blank taped at The Catalyst, Santa Cruz, CA on March 25'th 1987. Awesome solo's by George Bohannon and Ry using slide on mandoguitar! (that was a first for me)

Comment from MrBillindallas:
Concert was from a two night run - the last of nine total dates on the NorCal tour. Shot on 16mm film with an audio remote truck in the alley. Movie was released in Europe but not in the US. Great band, at one of the best venues in the 'States, the last two nights of the mini-tour they were truly on fire. One venue was so small the band filled the stage and the dance floor.

Setlist for the two nights in Santa Cruz:

3-24-87 Santa Cruz, CA (the Catalyst):

Showtime
Little Sister
Smack Dab In The Middle
Lets Have A Ball
Me and Frank
unknown title [Spanish lyrics]
Hell Have To Go
If Walls Could Talk
Jesus on The Mainline
How Can A Poor Man Stand Such Times & Live?
One Meatball
Atom Bomb
Teeny Weeny Bit of Your Love
Why Dont You Try Me?
Down In The Boondocks
The Things That Make You Rich Make Me Poor
Crazy Bout An Automobile (Every Woman I Know)
encores:
Chain Gang
Down In Hollywood
Goodnight Irene

3-25-87 Santa Cruz, CA (the Catalyst):

Smack Dab In The Middle
Lets Have A Ball
unknown title [Spanish lyrics]
Hell Have To Go
If Walls Could Talk
Jesus On The Mainline
How Can A Poor Man Stand Such Times & Live?
One Meatball
Atom Bomb
Teeny Weeny Bit of Your Love
Down In Mississippi
instrumental
The Things That Make You Rich Make Me Poor
Crazy Bout An Automobile (Every Woman I Know)
Chain Gang
Down In Hollywood
Goodnight Irene

Band:
Ry Cooder: guitar, vox
Jim Keltner: drums
Van Dyke Parks: keys
Jorge Calderon: bass
Flaco Jimenez: accordion
Miguel Cruiz: percussion
Steve Douglas: sax
George Bohannon: trombone

Singers:
Bobby King: tenor
Terry Evans: baritone
Arnold McCuller: tenor
Willie Green Jr: bass

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Ry
• Cooder
• Moula
• Banda
• George
• Bohannon
• Jim
• Keltner
• Van
• Dyke
• Parks
• Mandoguitar
• Slide
• Trombone

[danmiller66]

Does anybody out there know anything about that short neck 12 string that Ry is playing? I've never seen one like that.

[mbroders]

@danmiller66 Comment from WesleyvanH: "That Vox Mandoguitar Ry's playing is a octave twelfe. A hybrid with a short-scale 12-string guitar neck and a small solid electric guitar body. It's usually tuned one octave higher than a standard guitar with the pairs of strings tuned in unison rather than in octaves as is the case of standard 12-string guitars. This puts the instrument in the same range as a mandolin."

[cbluesdog]

@mbroders I think that the 12-string mandogit is tuned to open A. Typically, these short neck guitars are tuned to G or A (not a whole octave). My experience has been that getting the intonation right on small guitars is very difficult. Only Ry Cooder could play this thing and make it look effortless.

[rothcam2]

I would sure like to be able to have a dvd of this. Anybody in the world got such a thing?

[HopeWithPandora]

@bratfett ... what ya doin' here bRUDEr ??; D

[lightlyone]

Grrrreat music! Ry Cooder is made of music!

[swiggy58a]

AMAZING! Thanks much for this ! I've had the studio version from the Jazz album since the late 70s or so. Had never heard it live though. Simply wonderful Music!

[jrobjer]

Hi, Ed...Are you familiar with the work of Ry Cooder--who some consider the best slide guitarist ever. I'm sorry I discovered a guy like this so late...Actually, first heard him live at the Big Apple to the Big Easy concert at Madison Square Garden after Hurricane Katrina.

[norm4260]

When the USA sent the Voyager spacecraft out into the solar system, with a cargo of recordings of human intelligence, Sagan was asked if they should include some Ry Cooder. He said "no, no, no! We don't want to show off - just put in some Beethoven

[TheFranjy]

THE MAN!!!!

[lkn4spaces]

Absolutely beautiful - thanks for sharing!

[SBWfilms]

@blackbeard1991 take a look at the bar..what does it look like to you..

[blackbeard1991]

13 dislikes?????? sad sad sad, no soul, no heart, no brain. this is as good as it gets.