Good Without One
liberal ranting and raving, but sensitive explorations of the current American malaise
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Good Without One Good Without One
we decided we'd gone long enough being good without a band song
The Price of Gasoline The Price of Gasoline
Remember the Exxon Valdez? Enjoy driving amidst all those gas guzzling SUV's? Finally, a song for you!
Above the Law (Signing Statements) (Live at Savoy) Above the Law (Signing Statements) (Live at Savoy)
Same old same old from the imperial W
Conventional Wisdom (Live at Savoy) Conventional Wisdom (Live at Savoy)
A rockin' look at the 2000 selection; an improved version of the original from Joe Solo.
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Good Without One was a drummerless and mercifully leaderless rock trio performing off the track and often humorous, often political originals and originally arranged covers. The players are George Potor, guitar and vocals, Joe DeCristopher, guitar and vocals, and Rick Totten, bass and vocals. These folks have played together in different contexts for decades, but only as this particular trio from 2003 - 2008. While the level of musicianship is high, their disdain for the trappings of rock stardom is legendary. Two of the members even remained seated throughout performances, despite no obvious physical impairments. Their drummerless approach was a novel but occasionally successful scam to get electric instruments into acoustic venues.Band/artist history
Well it all started in the late '20's in a small rural town just inside the Arkansas line...and it ended, not with a bang, but a whimper.Have you performed in front of an audience?Not anymore. We played mostly at coffeehouse venues here in the Susquehanna Valley, various left-wing benefits and once in a multi-act show of slinger songwriters. We enjoyed live gigs over by 11:00 PM and treasured those rare gigs where somebody gave us some money ...or a tee-shirt....or free coffee.
Your musical influences
Bob Prine, Dylan Thompson, Third World (from the left), the not-so-liberal media.What equipment do you use?
Whatever happens to be working that day.Anything else?
We are just thrilled with the forward thinking, fiscally innovative, freedom loving, peace making, environmentally aware and compassionate leadership in Washington, and we tearfully approach the ending reign of George II, which ends in January 2009; it's been a heck of run.
Lewisburg, , PA
USA
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god's drainpipe was a fun ditty. peter paul (sans mary) meets dire straights? nice playin, fellas.
--stockwrock
HI Guys,
Just dropped by to take a breather.. and relax... Great music! Enjoyed it to the max. What a group of excellent talented souls.. Wishing each of you the best of everything you do.. I'll be back from time to time.. Until then my SC Friends... Take Care..
Can any of you explain the use of subjunctive in colloquial English? KJ's mom, formerly an English teacher, cajoled her to rename her song, "I Wish It Were Me." Similarly, as i review the GWO song titles, shouldn't the title more properly read, "I Wish It Were Baseball"? Please respond, I find this exceedingly troubling.
In answer to Yellowstone, our little cartoony embellishment, who bears the name Honky, is a creation of LJ Kopf, author of Edge comics which may be seen in Funny Times and other mags from time to time. LJ was the resident photographer and graphic artist for fred, a band from a past life of one of our guitar players. LJ also is responsible for most of the nonphotograpic images that accompany songs on this site and the joe solo site, and for the photography and images on the "ffred" site.
I would like to join the chorus of pleas for drums and percussion on Good Without One recordings. Most of this stuff would be wonderful road trip music if only there was some pounding percussion. In my opinion, it would also free up Mr. Totten on bass. It must be hellish for him to have to hold anchor to the sorts of rhythmic scatterings Potor seems to carry into his songwriting.
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