Something strange happened right... The Super Robertson Supper Show blog was not updated for 2 weeks. 243 weeks in a row and then all of the sudden strike one and strike 2... Why did this happen? What went wrong? Have the rails come off the wagon? What is Super Steve to do on those long Wednesday mornings?
No No.. It's just that i was in Barbados and for security measures i felt it was not prudent to mention the fact that i was leaving the Country as that would put my personal property in Vancouver as risk of easy burglary. It was an easy common sense call that unraveled when the guest the first week failed to show up... how do you fail to show up for a gig? I don't know but then remember i am the guy with the 243 week streak... lets just say it's not that we are on a different page, we are in a different book.
The last time i was at a SRSS i believe it was Shawn Killaly, C.S Rippin, Super Robertson, Genny Trigo, Simian Special and Fire-Man on stage ending a show with a ruckus version of 98 bottles of beer on the wall. It was a strange show with another strong lesson for our fearless leader... Odd too because i touched on that lesson in the show before but it was from the other side of the problem. I believe at that time i put it like "nobody knew what was going to happen so that was perfect" because people would then react. Well for this show i had a stage piano and C.S. Rippin and Genny and a Mic so i got behind the idea of doing the damn record. Just like last month i was going to get a tattoo that read "why ruin a perfectly good album with a live show". And then there was the issue that an artistic director for a large summer festival came to the show and identified himself as such shortly before we played saying that he was there to check us out. Of course we were a group of people who had never actually played together before and i had my mind wrapped around trying to do songs we didn't really know. We were actually in a perfect position to wing down a number of easy 3 chord songs but i failed to see that right off the top. After some time i clued into the situation but not before i led us into a few train wrecks. Afterwords i tried to point out to the artistic director how well we recovered form the multiple train wrecks and how we learned so much from the journey....
I brought a guitar down to Barbados and did a version of the Knockin' Dog song "Chicken" for some locals and they had a real knee slapping laugh and then we drank a lot of Banks beer. In the second week i met a kitchen worker who told me he could sing to any groove so we had a pretty good kitchen jam... Otherwise i just plucked patterns while children slept and scientists discussed. A little summer in winter never hurt anybody... also while i was away i got an email form Jesse Gander with the final mix of the song "Nothing was heard", and news that the latest 21 Tandem Repeats album has been mastered. All i have to do is figure out a way to release an album on no money and we are all set... i think it's been done before.
On February 9, 2011 we have the legion of Flying Monkeys Horn orchestra playing the SRSS and to my knowledge there are 3 different facebook gig reminders with double digit confirmed attendance so for sure i feel good.
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