Shindig and SRSS review!

There is no way one can have a battle of the bands in our barn and us not represent...I threw in the band SR JONES and got in to CITR SHINDIG. Personally i thought we stomped balls and it appeared the crowd did too as i actually sold some CD's and such. The other bands were great and I'm not here to judge or put down any other band... I'll save my self deprecating comments for myself, and other people who step over the line too many times. Anyhoo it appears we came in 3rd out of 3 bands... not bad seeing that we had dancers and some people wanting us to play until the bar closed, which we could have done, but i thought against it... and it was my first week back as a Mailman. So i was up @ 5:40 am did a route and managed 3 kids and did 2 free shows on this week... and i came in 3rd out of 3. I am a failure and i know it... btw that's a song reference, so I'm not just casually dissing my total lack of success, but rather referring to the etched in stone version.



Ahh fuck it, it don't matter I'm a leaving this town next year as fate should have it. Super R is going to live in Portland Oregon, so you all won't have to put up with my shit anymore.

This is what we did: (all 36 minutes of it)

It should be noted that this particular crew has never played together before...




The great part about Shindig is that you get the wisdom of the music industry "to be" professionals.

Let's for sport, critique the judges comments... why not?

I tended to like the faster songs more. You seem to change styles quite quickly song to song, which might be good for gaining a wider audience, but it confused me a bit. You're all very good at your instruments, as was displayed in possibly a few too many solos for my liking, but I also see that it fits your style of music... but the style could be more consistent.

I guess that was some good advise... play faster songs, and cut down on the diversity so that you can become more of a cookie cutter band, so that you are not confusing people who really aren't sure what it is that they like, and definitely can't make that call on their own and stand behind it. I mean I'm glad you thought we could play, even though perhaps we played too much for your liking even though you thought it fit our style of music, which ultimately confused you.

Hell, I'm glad we made you think, and you seem like a good sport. I'll give you some advise for life... don't worry about things being a way in which they should, because in the end they never are, even if they are disguised to make you think they are. Science is precise and defined, and it needs to be to work, and that's a great thing... In life if you end up looking to hard for your happy place thinking it has to be a certain way you might miss it when it comes and stands in front of you... you might actually like what you think you don't.

Next:

OK Pretty cheesy banter. Why doesn't the girl play something in the band? You guys seem pretty stoked & are super posi vibes, so cool. Just watch tuning between instruments a bit inconsistant. Kitchen party, Great Big Sea, Dave Mathews B.,east coast vibe!

Fuck you... The girl is a singer who sings very well... and I kind of liked her dancing. Thanks for the "posi vibes" bone... does that mean we were positive? Now some advise for you... you should do the world a favour and never be in charge of anything because you are clearly a hammerhead... Could your advise be any less useful? What is east coast vibe? Seriously wondering about that... the quote in the province was were were "North West whimsical sounds indeed"... when did we get to the east coast feel? I'll actually defend the banter... funny cause i was talking to JJ about the fate full awards ceremony the other day, and he said, after i was hammering myself again, that if he could do anything over again it would be to get somebody to MC it that wouldn't be me. What a fucking great idea... that would have solved so many of my problems and allowed the potential of the night to be achieved. Probably people wouldn't tell me that, cause the might think they are saying something negative about me, and that's never good... for the record if there is anybody who can take negative feedback it is me, in a decade when my book comes out i can explain why, but for now i will actually defend myself. SR JONES Facebook alias... i wanted people to tweet and post status updates in between songs... I was fucking serious, and i feel on solid ground to ask that given that i know dam well what the average tweet and facebook update contains... My brother-in-Law used the term "errant puffery", which i took a great liking to... so get this you play a song under the name of a facebook alias to a bunch of people talking and texting and you ask them then to text something silly to the world and you are then "cheesy"... is that an industry "no go term"... perhaps "Pretty ironic banter" could have been a more comedic way to phrase it, or maybe you just needed to write something and you thought some biting negative comment might be a cool way to start followed by a bit of nonsensical gibberish.

Next:


Vocals were a little off at the beginning. Other than that you guys were great! Love the reggeash rhxthms.

OK, thanks for finding the hole in our game.

I realize Shindig comments are what they are... years ago we played shindig and a judge mentioned that SHOCKK should learn to play a stringed instrument. As i said to the crew before we played... we will lose but we won't fail... and Jan, the bass player said "we are going to be the band that has the most fun", and i think we were. It was great playing to a full house of people that had a few pints in them... the good times in music. What people like is what people like and the judges liked one of the other great bands more than us... it's all cool, And i can go to bed early on November 15.

OK,

And then there was the SRSS where i brought down the table hockey game and spanked Ian 10-3, and then Paul spanked Ian 10-6, and then there were a bunch of other games and in the end i lost the championship match to Rilcof 10-8, which was really annoying because i was up 8-7 at one point... i think... that was the score we seemed to agree on when the crowd gathered... you see at that time we were using 2 bottle caps taped together because we lost the black puck on the dark floor and then we found the puck and Rilcof found lady luck... hell i had 2 breakaways when i had 8 but his goalie make some scintillating saves. On the bright side my wife will be glad we got rid of one more SRSS trophy out of the house.

Ian Played




James Toren Johnson played:



And we played the song Internetting on Chatroulette:



The Next Super Robertson Supper Show:


Special guest Genny Trigo,

who will play some Spanish numbers and then Join 21 Tandem Repeats with Shawn Killaly on the drums.



Catch the Super Robertson Supper Show while you can... the end is near!

mixed meduim show last week

It was the Jam band with a DJ on drums that got the crowd @ the Railway club moving... I'll just leave it at that as that is an accurate statement.  Minor problems with hearing things in the monitors, but that's what happens when Johnny Wildkat is not on the case.  Worry about the things you can control and accept the things you cannot... is that called the serenity prayer or something like that.  For a rage hero i am actually a fairly serene fellow.  If i were to throw a minor criticism at our performance it would be that at the start of the show we perhaps failed to fall back to the basics to find the group, mind you there were some king hell technical difficulties, but that was the purpose of the SRSS...  Like Inspector Jack Clouseau being attacked by Kato... always without the possibility of calling off the attack... stay sharp.  In the end we turned it around and had some good times for sure.

DJ Chris Hixon from the Baboon Torture Division and the core of SR JONES, Jan Toren, Christopher Johnston, and Jason Jones keeping it real.  DID i mention SR Jones is playing SHINDIG @ the railway in a few hours... there are 3 kids screaming things behind me and i have to be up @ 5:40 am tomorrow but for good or ill we will stomp some balls tonight... the additions of Tim Watson on drums and Sandra Bouza on vocals is sure to help our cause.

On Frozen Pond... with fixed Winnipeg lyric.




I also love the Will McGuirk line that has become part of the song.  He happens to be a music critic that tared and feathered the music in press, which was a good thing because critisism like that helped "One little dream" become a stronger record...  One of his suggestions was that a certain line be sung in French, and that that should be clearly obvious...  We had actually discussed this, but since the said line was sung by a wonderful woman it was pointed out that any Frenchman worth his salt would rather hear a woman's voice any day of the week... anhyway i like the new line much better.

One Little dream



Shindig tonight in a few hours, a decade after the Motorcycle Man 2001 Shindig run.

For the SRSS on Wednesday September 22 I'm a bringing down a bubble hockey table and we are going to have some matches... you see myself and Rilcof are part owners of a hockey table that we scored years ago on a Mailman pre garage sale bounty haul... and we always wanted a tournament, so lets have the damn tournament.

Music as well, 2 bands, Jeff younger presents later...  OK horses water is over here.

The word on the street in the street and the City.

for security reasons, i can mention not what i am doing now but only confirm that late night hammer time blog postings will have to move into the area where by they can be categorized as early night hammer time blog postings...  I did go down to the Supper Show Last week, as per usual, but i had a late night Hockey game, in which i sucked turtle cocks i might add.  I was on a line with a light weight finesse player, and a heavyweight non finesse player, and i think we thought we were going to light it up, and the defense were changing the way you play defense to try to alter our game to get us scoring but all the scoring happened at the wrong end of the rink... everybody blaming everybody else... a classic collapse. There are lessons in Hockey and Music if one wants to take them...  Anyhoo it was a Cam and Jesse show with guest Chris Kelly... Cam and Jesse played some songs and sort of played some others with breaks and random reflections... Chris Kelly played the  song Kristofferson, which I enjoyed immensely.

I talked to Super Steve before i left for Hockey and he gave me the lowdown on the last SRSS's that i missed.  I guess you have noticed that every fucking thing that i am writing is in italics and is now underlined... This happened when i checked to make sure i spelled the word "Kristofferson" correctly and essentially i have lost fucking control of the text issues in this blog...  i was dealing for a while but the bastard kept doing those squirrely things a computer does until i got to the point and said fuck it because this was seriously hindering my concentration in laying down the facts as i saw them, or in this case how super Steve saw them ...  Its super fucking annoying for sure, but lets just forget about it.

Super Steve thought all 3 nights were excellent except for the fact that he missed one of them, but he was sure it was excellent as well...  He really thought "a spectre is haunting Europe" with Johnny on sound was king hell.  He was also very impressed with King Dinosaur, very much so indeed that he approached KD after the show and asked him if he had been rehearsing... apparently the answer was "I don't rehearse, I perform"... Classic King Dinosaur.

What about classical revolution... Super Steve missed it but he was sure it was good. 

damn straight: (will an embedded video play if for some fucking reason italics is on... lets see



hey it works, and on the blog it doesn't actually look as annoying.. the italics... black on white, as i see it typed on the back side of this web apparatus, is rather disturbing. Not the worst thing that happened to me today... did i mention the route?


No lets not... this is a SRSS blog... where was I...  Last week cam and Jesse, I sucked at hockey, i suck at computers, i have liver spots and rectal dysfunction.

A little levity people... one day you won't have the SRSS and accompanying blog to think what you think about, and as Mike Hawes might say... "yea man, and somewhere in Squamish a Mountain Lion yawns"... 


Speaking of that I would like to see a Mountain Lion... I saw a Canada Lynx, actually 2 x in my life... nothing like wild cats... for the record Mike's Quote was Africa instead of squamish and there was no Mountain... and his quote was almost exactly 10 years ago today, for what it's worth.  It was more said like a scientific fact from the mouth of a literal badman...  the word "badman" i use in the 90's dance hall reggae sense...  "him Kick a 2 chairs real mean like a badman"... probably not following me.


OK  So for tomorrow Wednesday September 14th... 

SR JONES shindig rehearsal...


Jason Jones - piano
Chris Hixon- electronic drums
Christopher Johnson- Guitar
Jann Toren- bass
Allen Robertson- acoustic guitar, vocals
Sandra Bouza- Vocals


That's right.. next Tuesday CITR Shindig comes into our barn and SR JONES is representing at fucking 11:30PM... we will come correct, i expect to fail but i will not be defeated... my Vancouver music scene motto...


I'm looking forward to this show... what could possibly go wrong?


BtW... after the show my man Jeff Younger has this free show, if you perhaps don't want to stay at the railway for free...

WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 14 - THE UNSUPERVISED @ GOLDIE'S PIZZA 605 W. Pender @ Seymour (downstairs room) 2 sets, 9-11pm, no cover.

That's right, no cover, really killer slice, tasty beer, and 2 sets of voracious, pepperoni devouring music by the hungriest crew of modern jazz mayhemsters this side of the other side, where people play polite music and audiences nod off in appreciation.  Goldie's downstairs room is a cool space and we'll be playing some new tunes while gearing up for the implementation and destruction of some new musical gears.  I would suggest you might want to catch the free Super Robertson Supper Show at the Railway 7:30-8:30, then saunter the block up to Goldie's for 9 to make a night of it...  Thincrust!  theunsupervised.ca      

No re-cap to report as there was no show...

That said there were no embarrassing moments at last weeks SRSS, because it didn't happen... nobody went over the line, no insane bad calls were made, no train wrecks, nothing impossible attempted, nobody was dragged out of the audience to sing "98 bottles of beer on the wall", hell i don't even remember what Super Steve looks like it's been so long.


Indeed. The good news is that the Super Robertson Supper Show is gearing up for a strong fall showing.  If you have ideas or want to play get in touch with me... I would like to see some instrumentalists come out play for a bit and then sit in with the SRSS all star band and try to bend some shit.  I would love to see a comedian or a person give a 20 minute lecture on a subject that they find interesting and are very knowledgeable on.  i need singer songwriters like i need a gallstone... but if there were a bunch i wouldn't mind breaking out a fake campfire, make a circle, and share some songs for the night.  I would like an instrumental jazz band to come and kick it... i want to have a bubble hockey tournament (have table) set to fine grooves... there is so much i want to do.  I think beer Yoga needs to come back around Oktoberfest.

so tomorrow:

Hello Friends of the SRSS,

This week Jesse and Cam will be celebrating a small friends Birthday at the Railway.
Our special guests this week will be Chris Kelly, David Suzuki and of course JEANIE the birthday girl.
There will be serious discussions about Vancouver's crabbing scene, a real life alien abduction story and songs about the future.

Jesse and Cam host the Supper Robertson Supper Supper show on the first Wed. of every month. 7:30 to 8:30 @ The Railway Club, the kitchen is open and there is no cover charge.