I hate to start off another re-cap with the term "king hell" kicking at me like a fine bass drum tight to the beat, BUT THERE WAS A DANCE FLOOR at last week's SRSS. How about this... since it was basically an 8 piece all girl band (minus male bass player sitting in for absent base player), lets call it a "Queen Hell" show.
Super Steve and King Dinosaur, who you can't see because the Zoom Q3 is poor in low light, give the thumbs up... the place was packed, great energy... as they say in the SRSS business, what's good for the Super Robertson Supper Show is good for the Super. Not only that but Ginger and Moonshine are a class act of quality people through and through.
This song is called Reggae song:
It seems to be a little hot and distorting in places... one thing about the Zoom Q3 (recording device) is that it always finds a new way to fuck you... it might have slipped from auto to hi mic levels, but i do recall checking it... you would think a machine built to record live bands would be built to deal with recording live bands, but all i seem to get is cut outs, distorted levels or very minimal levels... if i could only hot wire the Sony DCR-TRV330 to record to a hard drive.
Isn't it incredible? The longer we are around as humans the shittier stuff we seem to make. How is that possible? One would think we would learn from our mistakes and not make shitty stuff that constantly fails you at it's moment of truth. I guess ideas like this are against the idea of the North American economy... if the stuff wasn't shitty then it might take one out of the consumer market for that product, and that would be un-democratic... oh wait a minute did i just confuse democracy with a wildly inaccurate view of the economy? Hot Damn i don't think that has ever been done before... nope can think of any examples from my trained 5 minute memory of history... so lets move on.
wow... don't need that kind of rage when the job for the night is to give grand kudos to the band Ginger and Moonshine for bringing it to the Super Robertson Supper Show with such grace and elegance. They actually learned a song of mine, which is not a real simple one (believe it or not) and played it with me. Fire-Man, doing his best Werner Herzog impression, attempted to capture the experience... but once again the Zoom Q3 fucked up the levels... perhaps he was too close to the vocal monitor, perhaps the switch was on hi and not auto... perhaps the switch is a cheap piece of shit plastic and doesn't really work... serenity now! On drums is Doug who was touring with Ari Hest (from NYC) and ended up doing drum tech for part of the night... And thanks to Erin Hope-Goldsmith who was on keyboards for making this happen:
How could I as a human be any happier... a group of young up and coming musicians learn a song i wrote and give it there all and have a grand time doing it. Truly blessed for sure... and I'm not even an religious pundit. It was one of those nights when for a moment i actually believed in myself... and then i drank a thousand pints and it all went sideways.
On the positive side it looks like i managed to talk a few of the singers from "Ginger and Moonshine" to come out again this week to the Super Robertson Supper Show King Hell Jam. I don't think i have played much this month but on March 30 i plan to rule the roost with a grand effort from the SR songbook. So far we have Slick on drums, Jason Jones on Piano, bass, Mo, and a coalition of singers + trumpet from "Ginger and Moonshine"... If i were to recommend a SRSS to come to this would be the one... but of course that would be smiley faced PR, and as an anti economy person i can't get behind that, except for the fact that the show is FREE... so it is exempt from economy bull shit... you can see the show without being involved in the economy.... power to you... although you might want to suck back a few cold ones or dine on the fine selection of eats... but that's up to you.
Part of the backing band for this show will be members from the band Igloo who will open the show. This is them earlier in the month on Commercial drive:
be good and act wisely
SR
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