10/28/12 Constellation Books (Costume Party Set) For Halloween, whenever I can, I play an interactive request game with my audience. This was one one such set. I create a list of guests for an imaginary costume party guests, and members of the audience pick out guests, and I play songs that _I_ have picked to go with those guests. It makes for a kind of musical "Trick of Treat" where no one (sometimes not even I) knows what will happen next. At these shows, I also encourage people to come "dressed as your request", which is great fun too. All of the juxtapositions make for really weird and wacky setlists. Needless to say, my Halloween sets are among my favourites. Of note for this one: it being also just before the arrival of Hurricane Sandy, rain, wind and storms did seep into the set in various serendipitous ways. So, this show's setlist will be in slightly modified format. One column shows the Costume Party Guest picked, and the next shows the song I played for it. For folks who came dressed as their requests, I put: (Dressed As). Most of the songs I played on Acoustic 12 String Guitar, except where noted. "Costume" Song ------------------------------------------------ (Dressed As) Michelle Janis Joplin Me And Bobby McGee (Dressed As) Sugaree (Dressed As) The Highwayman Warren Zevon Excitable Boy (on banjo) Blacksmith The Lusty Young Smith Mad Scientist Sweet Transvestite Kermit The Frog Rainbow Connection (on banjo) Martial Artist Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots (pt 1) Mass Murderer The Shankhill Butchers Zombie Zombie Jamboree (on banjo) Mermaid Nasty Nell Flapper Honey Pie Don Quixote Windmills Cyndi Lauper Fearless "Makeout" Couple Corn Rigs Are Bonny (on Banjo) Paris Hilton Hotel California Bob Dylan Stuck Inside Of Mobile With The Memphis Blues Again Romeo & Juliet Romeo & Juliet Alice In Wonderland The Walrus & The Carpenter (original musical setting) Hurricane Bad Moon Rising (on banjo)