Here we go again

SR is back so we need to review 3 shows:

August 10th:

"Our first live show in two years went off like slightly damp firecrackers in a rented paper bag, and for a much shorter time than anticipated. The performance itself was great, the venue staff great, the sound was great, fun people came, and there were no electrocutions. However, we had a series of gear failures that prevented us from starting on time.

I am one of these people that does not own his or her own guitar amp. Super Robertson kindly lent me the Fender amp he keeps at the Railway for people like me. I'm guessing it's never used, as one jack proved to be mangled, and the non-mangled jack crackled like hell. So I rented one from our local instrument mecca. It also didn't work, but I didn't find that out until five minutes before showtime.

Lucky for us drummer Ciaran is in a very musical family that has offices stuffed with piano amps all over downtown. His father furnished me with a small Roland amp, and we cut our set by six songs. Some sort of private grip-n-grin function ushered us out at the end.

Nothing caught fire. I think we played quite well. Audience had maybe 30-35 people? Thanks, Super! Thanks, Johnny! Thanks, Jan (that's Ciaran's dad)!"

-Jean H

Hank Languish happened to catch the Classical Revolution show on August 17th:

"I heard the word revolution and i was in the mood for blood so i went down to the Super Robertson Supper Show, but there was no blood at all just some beautiful people riffing on some classical classics. So i put my grenades away and got me a pulled pork with salad and a hophead and settled into a wonderful evening."

And Fire-Man recounts the August 24th show:

A most fun set last night at the Super Robertson Supper Show. My thanks to King Dinosaur who ripped out a killer opening set. For the rest of you who played and sang along, if that was the height of my achievement, I will be content.

At the same time Fire-Man could get shot on stage and as the paramedics wheel him out of the venue he would be saying "still buzzing from that great show"... good to have positive people around.

On that night in Toronto this happened:



There is no SRSS this week as we have the International Pop Overthrow Festival. A festival that amazingly has all of the same headlining bands on all of the same nights as they did last year... great bands for sure, but what do they do look at last years schedule find out who wants to come back and then fill the new spaces from the glut of bands that paid $10 plus the cost of a sonicbids membership to "apply". Ultimately they should all be good nights of entertainment and I'm happy to have the night off, but it bothers me when festivals charge money for people to apply... you are essentially selling an aspiring artist hope so i think there should be at least a bit of hope there. That's what i think anyway . Camille Miller will play on August 31 and she is most excellent and she is new to the festival and Captain A will be there tending the bar and the fine selection of great beers are waiting... I think I'm better at criticising myself.. i have no guilt after it.

August 3 re-cap

I biked down to the SRSS and promptly lost the basket on the front of my bike... I remember taking it off so it wouldn't get stolen but then i lost the bastard... it wasn't until the very next day after i had gone over the failure time and time again even going back to the scene of the crime that i think i figured it out.  After i got off my bike i went to the 7-11 as they have a CIBC bank machine there... i believe i put the basket down beside the machine and left it there.  That would explain why all the people that saw me walk in couldn't understand why i was obsessing about this damn basket... they were sure i left it on the bike because they didn't see me with a basket.  I remember clearly taking the basket off, but then became distracted trying to hide my pin number from the scruffy varmint trying to rest an eyeball on my shoulder.

Knowing the basket was lost raked my concentration and stymied my ability to focus on the show even though i closed the show with a version of "what's in the bag".  Haven't played that song in a long time, but since it was a Cam and Jesse night it appeared like i knew the material well.  Christina Rzepa played some fine cello this night with a particularly scintillating version of the Bob Dylan classic "tangled up in blues".  She was no slouch on "what's in the bag" either and she hung tight on Jessy's song "on a boat" after multiple docking and sailings and a crew of folks working the bailing buckets.

Ahh we like to laugh, yuck it up old sport... Did i mention i was acclaimed poet laureate of China Creek Park South?  So in the fall, If I'm still in this town the SRSS will have some skits and one of the themes i shall explore will be the adventures of SR Jones...  Poet Laureate of China Creek South Park.  For a man who once had a motto, and had he been a man who believed in tattoos, might have had this ingrained on his body... Poetry is a jackass sport, it's a rather stark change.  But not really... positions are all over the maps, but ideals can find a way to string those positions into a working situation.  You are confused right?  That's because politics uses the words "positions" and "ideals" so you have in fact learned that those words are meaningless.  Position in politics means a way to identify with one's base, and ideals means a way to identify with a wider base. Suddenly feeling ill.

To me the phrase Poetry is a jackass sport was a nod to all those fools that made me sit in hot rooms listening to flowery language that had no point but endless imagery, and none of it being funny, so i thought i hated poetry, but i don't...  i actually like it... i would gladly listen to a good poet for hours giggling and chucking to myself at the metaphors presented.  hell if i went out to see local live music and i walked into a room full of people shouting at each other while some racket was screatching away on stage i might take up the opinion that i didn't like music either... Perspective is everything.

SRSS Listings

August 10th-  A Spectre Is Haunting Europe, a prog deathrock band from Vancouver, Canada.
http://www.aspectreishauntingeurope.com/

Aug 17- Classical Revolution- Classical Revolution is a global phenomenon, revolutionizing the way live classical music is programmed and heard. http://www.classical revolution


Aug 24th- King Dinosaur and the Legion of Flying Monkeys Horn Orchestra...  King Dinosaur doing Dylan, Simon and Garfunkel, the Kinks and others followed by the Supreme Janitor leading an elderberry Horn Orchestra.

July 27 2011 re-cap

OK, nothing negative to say about this show... as Super Steve said later in the evening when everything became blurry "I know I have said it before but one of the best Super Robertson Supper Shows ever".

On Super Steve's request... in which he was forced to make, he requested the song "wishing machine" a song at one time i thought i would never play again.  With Shawn on drums the problems I once had are no longer, so I feel no pain anymore.




It wasn't bad for sure, minimal errors, great spirit, communal involvement, ball stomping band (Jason Jones, Shawn Killaly, Christopher Johnson and Jan Toren), fair turnout...  even the legendary Jack Keating was impressed with the show with emphasis on the band's final number called "Square boy".



I had promised on facebook earlier to try to find something negative about the show to keep the streak alive, but in the end, here we are shooting blanks.  What is it about a blog that focuses on the negative... a sure loser in today's market.  But remember today's market is tomorrows failure,  a boat with a million leaches suffers too much drag to sail properly, a facebook promise is like a brown wad of toilet paper, logging into myspace is like crushing a testicle with a 3000lb press.

Have faith in yourself and continue even though their not with you.
    - Super R

In the end most people talked through the whole show, but this time we were blasting loud to overpower the bastards... that's how you do in in Vancouver... if you can't get them with words, groove and melody then melt their fucking faces with volume.

Check out this version of the song Bent... singing is Chris Rzepa, and Earl Peach... Chris plays cello in the band The Gentle Infidels, and Earl Peach is connected to me through many people and community projects.  Most noteworthy is that Earl is a member of the same community garden that a certain man gardener belongs to, and both suffered tragic loss at the hands of incompetent city workers.





Hot damn i love when people can just step in and make some music together... fucking accessibility... music shouldn't be built up it should be ground down... was it perfect?... it becomes a debate... i was originally going to say "no it was not perfect"... but considering everything in music now a days is auto-tuned to perfection, i think i need to make a stand.  For 7 people who had never played music together before doing an unrehearsed original song, sure I'll go perfect... fit the needs and all had fun.

And since our man Simian Special was @ the Pow Wow getting in touch with the grand spirit i decided to do a Supersimian classic titled "Bob Style" from the Supersimian CD "How the Tiger Got Lionized"



On August 3 2011, it's the Cam and Jesse Super Robertson Supper Show

Hello beloved fans,

The theme this Wednesday August 3rd for The Jesse and Cam Super Robertson Supper Show is...

 ANIMALS, us and them.
Our guests this Wednesday are...
The lovely and talented Christina Ludwika Rzepa of the Gentle Infidels   
http://www.myspace.com/gentleinfidels

Singer song writer, voice actor and all around outstanding individual John Clayborne Lind

The Super Robertson Supper show is every Wednesday 7:30 to 8:30 @ The Railway Club, no cover.
The Jesse and Cam show is the first Wed. of every month, 

 Thanks very much, hope to see there.

Jesse and Cam

Before I go I would like to re-enforce the dilemma that happens when the voters elect fools due to apathy and a misunderstanding of money related matters. In a certain town in this great country a couple of brothers who "run the town"... lets call them the "hammerhead brothers" admitted to not knowing who one of Canada's most prominent authors was in a dubious attempt to belittle that said author for their support of public libraries and literacy, and then went on to say that if that author wants a voice then they should run for election...

THE VOTERS CHOICE

The voters choice doesn't coincide
electing business is always suicide
Status Quo knows
sad suckers stand in sympathy

it's kind of like we all just losing our minds
not like serendipity came calling

i'm like you and your like me

can we live together

Dolpy Walters fell down to the ground
Got an email from the head of the company
said sorry Dolpy we have to set you free
Bygones be bygones be

it's kind of like we all just losing our minds
not like serendipity came calling
i'm like you and your like me

can we live together

Zyiop P. he tried to plant a seed
said you already have all you ever need
pass a law you can pollute for free
Pass a law you cannot use your seed