@ 7:30 go to your computer and watch this...
tht can be the Supper Show for this week
it's our man Dave Hind with one of his percussive contraptions.
I remember the old days when i started playing music... Dave had a studio outside of london, i think it was an old gas station and we would go out there for Jams... It was usually cold as hell but there was a heater and lots of things to make rhythm on. And there would always be a very long version of the song "Wicked Style". A song where the pocket has been lost it was this hypnotic rhythm on a finger hammering d chord except the d was played 1 fret up... and then it resolved to an e major. I have the feeling it might have been one of those ideas that was never really that good in the first place... great for rhythm grooves and easy to solo over. It was one we always hit at those jams... i remember one time there was this weird bearded guy who was always on acid and we hit that song and he was dancing away in a trance and when it was over he said "that was wicked man, you guys should be playing the Embassy"... the Embassy of course was the shithole dive bar/ hotel/ music venue at the time. Now that i think about it i don't think it was the embassy... it's hard to remember anything anymore... I think the embassy is the actual good venue...
The place the bearded guy on acid said we should have been playing would have been about the same as where we were playing except we wouldn't be able to drink our own spirits rather pay for them at a bar... there of course would have been other side affects as well... = more acid eating beard men.
Tuesday, December 23, 2008
Tuesday, December 16, 2008
December 10 re-cap
well i didn't film the show and that made for a better week... Step one in making the supper show more manageable. I am a good employee... i stay on task, for good or ill.
So i guess i can now write anything, no longer bound by the truth... a first for me as a blogger. somebody is shaking their head out there... i can feel it.
It was a good show, there were no drums until i pulled Mule Hughes out of the crowd to play on the last 2 songs. It gave him a good chance to scope out our backs so he could find out where to put the knife... (small inside joke).
The supper show works well with a more toned down (not full band) feel. it gives people the opportunity to talk over the music rather than having to shout over it.
Next week (December 17) is the last supper show of the year, and on January 7 2009 i have managed to talk Cameron Dilworth and Jesse Matheson into doing the supper show... so you could say that the supper show just got stronger... they are going to do 1 Wednesday per month.
The plot thickens and the days go on, and The Super Robertson Supper Show will re-invent itself again.
Have a good Holidays and remember to enjoy all the good people out there.
So i guess i can now write anything, no longer bound by the truth... a first for me as a blogger. somebody is shaking their head out there... i can feel it.
It was a good show, there were no drums until i pulled Mule Hughes out of the crowd to play on the last 2 songs. It gave him a good chance to scope out our backs so he could find out where to put the knife... (small inside joke).
The supper show works well with a more toned down (not full band) feel. it gives people the opportunity to talk over the music rather than having to shout over it.
Next week (December 17) is the last supper show of the year, and on January 7 2009 i have managed to talk Cameron Dilworth and Jesse Matheson into doing the supper show... so you could say that the supper show just got stronger... they are going to do 1 Wednesday per month.
The plot thickens and the days go on, and The Super Robertson Supper Show will re-invent itself again.
Have a good Holidays and remember to enjoy all the good people out there.
Tuesday, December 09, 2008
The supper show
Last week was fun... we broke it up a bit... you see ace guitarist Willingdon Black was out of town so ace guitarist Snow Leopard brought down a guitar and Stupid Robertson went to Bass. It was fun, did i mention that the ever amusing and stellarly skilled Shawn Killaly was on the drums.
It got me thinking about our little tour a few weeks back, and more precisely the makeup of the band for the tour. It was essentially SR and 3 excellent guitar players with one of the excellent guitar players playing excellent drums (Shockk), and Alvaro (Snow Leopard) on bass (as per usual in 21TR) and WB on guitar.
So the supper show is closing out this year and is almost 4 years old now... anybody want to take the reins? i think i am kind of burning out on the old super show...
Just thinking... is the super robertson supper show worth anything to anybody? I say that in a very real way and i say it to a person like myself who does see a value in having a house gig in a good house with good sound and a good location with good food and all... are you somebody or do you know somebody who would like this opportunity, see it as an opportunity and treat it with professionalism and respect to the sound equipment. Perhaps we could go rotating weeks which would cut the load in half and bring greater variety to the show.
I'll keep doing it for now but you know, we will see.
so last week we did a fine number called "Jeff Younger drops a bar of soap and then eyeballs Raoule"
enjoy:
It got me thinking about our little tour a few weeks back, and more precisely the makeup of the band for the tour. It was essentially SR and 3 excellent guitar players with one of the excellent guitar players playing excellent drums (Shockk), and Alvaro (Snow Leopard) on bass (as per usual in 21TR) and WB on guitar.
So the supper show is closing out this year and is almost 4 years old now... anybody want to take the reins? i think i am kind of burning out on the old super show...
Just thinking... is the super robertson supper show worth anything to anybody? I say that in a very real way and i say it to a person like myself who does see a value in having a house gig in a good house with good sound and a good location with good food and all... are you somebody or do you know somebody who would like this opportunity, see it as an opportunity and treat it with professionalism and respect to the sound equipment. Perhaps we could go rotating weeks which would cut the load in half and bring greater variety to the show.
I'll keep doing it for now but you know, we will see.
so last week we did a fine number called "Jeff Younger drops a bar of soap and then eyeballs Raoule"
enjoy:
Tuesday, December 02, 2008
Nov 26 re-cap
Well 21 tandem repeats are back from their coastal tour minus guitar player Willingdon Black who is in Hawaii looking into a hotel gig for the band.
Brock Pytel came back to the supper show after a long absence... he played some tunes to an very chatty crowd
Brock then moved onto the drums and we were joined by our good friend Simian Special
Finding our groove we hit an old Knockin' dog number called The Drumheller Boogie where Willingdon Black's presence was felt when Alvaro played a variation of his "dish pig" riff
and then we closed the show with the key of 5, a song from out latest CD "no junk mail please"
Brock Pytel came back to the supper show after a long absence... he played some tunes to an very chatty crowd
Brock then moved onto the drums and we were joined by our good friend Simian Special
Finding our groove we hit an old Knockin' dog number called The Drumheller Boogie where Willingdon Black's presence was felt when Alvaro played a variation of his "dish pig" riff
and then we closed the show with the key of 5, a song from out latest CD "no junk mail please"
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