| Third Time Thru is a working Rock 'n Roll band made up
of a bunch of folks most of whom haven't given up their day jobs.
This year we temporarily had to close the T.T.T commune, where we practice all
day long, when Merri decided music couldn't be a full time career.
However that didn't last long. Merri is more of a night person and couldn't
handle waking up to work during the daytime. After a few months, she
moved back in to the commune.
You probably know us from other bands we've
been in.
Some of us used to be with Merri and the 4 Skins. 
Most of us were in J.T. Black and Merri's Boyz. We
were once almost known as Yehuda and the Gefilte Fish.
Andy used to play lead guitar for Strollin' While We Can.
Merri, like Madonna, Elvis, Prince, and Melonie, is one of the
few performers who is immediately recognizable by her first name.
In her solo career, playing for the old and young (old age homes
and puppet shows) she was known as ... Merri. Now that she's
joined T.T.T, she's known as the artist formerly known as
... Merri. Robert used to have a lead part with Marcia and Friends
until Marcia and all her friends bailed out. Glenn and Alan banged
keyboards and frets for Rhone and the Poulencs. Andy played
synth for Christine and the Al Kayda Network. Daniel was
bassman for MaJe until the leader decided completely screw the rest of the band
by going back to Berkeley College of Music. Before that Daniel was with MoJo Blues Band
until he found he disliked blues as much as he dislikes country and reggae. That leaves
2 songs that Daniel, Merri and Andy can all agree on. We hope to learn both of those songs soon.
For a short time,
Robert and Andy made up the core of the foursome known as the
Jody Page Trio.
After a year and a half of changing bass players and drummers, we
seemed to have settled down this year. Daniel, while not
exactly thrilled with the music we play, has settled in on bass.
Alan, our experiment with adding a 2nd lead guitarist, also worked out and
he's here to stay. We seemed to have successfully tricked Dave back into the band full time.
2003 Highlights
The most memorable events of 2003 include:
- We learned some country songs for Erica's wedding. One band member didn't care for
that style of music
- Daniel threatened to take Merri outside and beat her up for saying that
he was playing the wrong notes. He wasn't playing the wrong notes. Rather
he was playing something completely tasteless. There's a difference. If
you don't believe me, I'll punch you... even if I am twenty years younger than
you and I'm a guy, and you're a gal. TTT does not discriminate based on age or sex.
- Two days before the biggest gig of the band's career (Erica's wedding) Merri went to
the doctor and found out she had ruptured her vocal chords. We had a few
worried days, but Merri decided to go ahead and do the gig anyway. She pulled
it off. She didn't sound any worse than usual.
- We came out with a complete DVD set documenting the band's history since our first hit in 1993
- Keith put together a crappy first draft of songs we recorded before we kicked him out of
the band. We never expect to hear the final version.
- A squirrel almost drowned at Robert's pool party. Some kids saved it and then jumped in
the pool even though it was only about 50 degrees.
- Glenn sold more equipment than he bought. We think that was to support his horse habit.
- Alan got tourista in Mexico but still made the Sunday practice.
Bass Players:
We've been thru so many bass players that they deserve their own section.
John Wolk, used to play bass with us. Unfortunately he had a lot
of trouble remembering to come to practices. In 2001 a tribe of
pigs flew over his house and stole all his equipment. So we had to
let John go back to selling paint. (The pigs didn't steal the paint...
it figures.)
Ted Buckner
replaced John on Bass. Ted's a real musician who actually has
a gig with another
band.
Unfortunately Ted found he couldn't handle two bands. So he gave up
music entirely.
Then Mark Kramer played with us until he got laid off and had to move out
of town.
Then Paul Graf did a gig with us. He is currently woodshedding.
We were giving Lang (bless his heart) a chance, but he flew the coop at
the first sign of competition.
We played with Bob Blair one time. He sounded pretty good and we
had high hopes. As soon as Bob read this website and found out we wanted him because he works
for Associated Sound Products
and that we wanted to raid his store to create the TTT smoke and light show,
he told us to take a hike.
In our latest act of desperation, we raided the young, multi-talented Daniel
Marks from Maje.
We just hope he doesn't explode or drown in someone else's vomit.
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We like to play together every few weeks. We'd prefer
to play more often, but its too hard to get us all in the same place
at the same time. When we run short of band members, Will (Man)
Williams might promise to come sit in (but he usually doesn't) or
Henry Miller plays drums with us if we get him a chauffeured
limo for the ride home afterwards. We won't play for you
however, unless you're in the family or ...
Our lineup includes 2 or 3 lead singers, a keyboard
player, a bass player, a drummer, 2 lead guitars, 3 or 4 guitars,
4 back up singers, harmonica, and 2 more guys that sing well enough that we're
going to take up a collection and buy them some mics. In addition
we've got a cowbell, a guerro, knockers (2 sets), tambourines, an
egg and a banana! Between Glenn, Andy and Alan we've got the
most amazing collection of electronic equipment you've ever seen in
a band that plays as infrequently as we do.
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band?
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| We play songs from the 60's, 70's, 80's, 90's and the new millennium.
Here's some of the songs we do, tried to do, or thought
about doing. Follow the hypertext links for the lyrics and chords.
Here's the 
stuff we're working on.
These are the songs we learned in 2003
- Where Are You Going
- Only You Know and I Know
- When You Say Nothing at All
- Sweet Emotion
- Amazed
- Tracks of My Tears
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These are the songs we learned in 2002
- Vehicle
- Heard It Through the Grapevine
- Sweet Home Alabama
- Mony Mony
- Tracks of My Tears
- Dixie Chicken
- Mustang Sally
- Happy Together
- Hold the Line
- My Boyfriend's Back
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These are the songs we learned in 2001... somewhat inspired by
the release of the Beatles number 1 hits
- Get Back
- Brown Eyed Girl
- Superman
- Takin' Care of Business
- Mean Mister Mustard
- Polythene Pam
- She Came In Through the Bathroom Window
- Come Together
- The Night Before
- You're Gonna Lose That Girl
- I Can See Clearly Now
- Don't Stand So Close To Me
- Shotgun
- Do You Love Me
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These are the songs we learned in 2000
- Feelin All Right
- Good bye Norma Jean
- And I Love Her
- Harvest Moon
- Teach Your Children
- If You're Not in it for Love
- Statesboro Blues
- Summer of '69
- Larger Than Life
- I Shot the Sheriff
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These are the songs we learned in 1999
- Can't Get Enough of Your Love
- Smooth (Santana)
- I Want it That Way(BackStreet Boys)
- My Girl
- Day Tripper
- Devil With a Blue Dress
- Mellow Yellow
- Marguaritaville
- Wind Beneath My Wings
- From a Distance
- You've Got a Friend
- Sex and Candy
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| These are the songs we learned in 1998
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Here's stuff we've been doing for a while.
- Songs We Do When Keith is Around (and is feeling confident)
- To Find a Friend
- Breakfast at Tiffany's (Deep Blue Something)
- Crocodile Rock (Elton John)
- Your Song
(Its a little bit funny... Elton John)
- Holding On (Steve Winwood)
- I Only Wanna Be With You (Hootie)
- That's Just the Way It Is
(Hornsby)
- Jack and Dianne
- Time
(Hootie)
- Hold My Hand
- Wheel in the Sky
- Don't Stop Believing (Journey)
- Drowning
(Hootie) ... we've done this once. It'll sound good if
we do it two more times.
- Songs we like to do, have done more than three
times, but still don't sound good on a regular basis
- Get Over It
- In The City
- Hotel California
- All She Wants To Do Is Dance
- Don't You Know What the Night Can Do
- Songs we've done on occasion, or with a subset
of the group, or with previous incarnations of the band
- Knights In White Satin
- The Question
- House of the Rising Sun
- Wild Thing
- Daniel
- Dependin' On You
- Songs We Should Be Able to Do but Can't, or
Haven't Tried
- Piece of My Heart
- All I Wanna Do Is Have Some Fun
- Redneck Friend
- Gimme One Reason Why
- Black Friday
- Anything by Loggins and Messina
- Anything by Poco
- Songs We've Done on a Whim, But Never Worked
On
- All You Need Is Love
- Yellow Submarine
- Blue Bayou
- 8 Miles High
- Hey Jude
- Let It Be
- Louie Louie
- Songs Marc or Cheryl asked us to do, but we refused
- Season of the Witch
- Crossfire
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