A Gold Medal for Amanda Jane Lee for telling the world she was playing the Super Robertson Supper Show. I believe there were 36 people enjoying a fine free evening of professional themed music.
Cam and Jesse came correct... suits, songs and graciousness. There was a minor mention of a certain flap of skin contained in the anatomy of a male member, but it was more of an acknowledgement of the burr put under their collective saddle in a certain bog over last months write up.
Amanda Jane Lee and Elda Pinckney came up and laid down fine version of a Be Good Tanyas song called "Littlest Bird". They did an original before that, but i missed capturing it on video because we had a lengthy turn over which is totally the fault of SR. Considering the amount of conversation that went into this show i failed to be on top of this issue. I was sitting beside Christina Rzepa and she had a good suggestion to make out a sheet of points for people who play the SRSS to see so they are able to know what they need to do... simple communication. My only problem with that is that I tend to be a real sucker for the option of the unexpected, but as a pro one should always be able to work the unexpected into structure. Anyhoo to make a long story mid-sized I shut off the camera to help give some suggestions on what to do, and then when they got going somebody else was filming the show and I would have had to walk in front of them to grab my camera, and since the song had started I figured that there was no point walking in front of the one camera that was capturing the whole song.
There was a lot of people eating Supper last week and I met a few new friends, some of them I see now make fine music in their own right. I must say, very pleasing seeing people taking in and getting into a free diner time show.
There I was in the back and the show was closing... I was happy not to play and I was enjoying the show very much so... but then I had an idea, so I presented my idea and it flew past the members of the SRSS April 6 security council and I was granted clearance. I grabbed Christina Rzepa, Amanda Jane Lee and Elda Pinckney and we tried an experimental version of the song Saskatchewan. I chose Saskatchewan because it tells of the journey of 2 people who moved across the country to start fresh because the legend of their collective Jackass was too great to overcome to ever be thought of as a "professional band". The comedy being of course, that they eventually decided they needed double neck guitars and then released the Chicken EP.
The song also has a repeating guitar line that I thought we could just sing instead... we added a few extra notes but that's what happens when you roll on the fly.
On April 13 2011, which happens to be my fathers Birthday, we have the wonderful and talented Jacqui Brown. It appears that she will be much more Jazz orientated than Rock orientated this time around. I'm not sure what i will do as all of my best drummers are unavailable and I was somewhat worried about what might happen with this show given that the Canucks playoffs starts on this night, so i didn't want to involve a whole bunch of people and then have the show pre-empted, by the game...
I do kind of want to read the Children's book "Giraffe's can't Dance", which tells the story of Girard, a clumsy giraffe who goes to the jungle dance party and gets laughed out of the dance circle to wander away sad only to look up at the moon, see it's beauty, and then meet a cricket who counsels him "sometimes when you're different you just need a different beat"... Girard listens to the grass and the trees and starts to "feel it" and starts dancing one king hell dance and then all of the animals walking home from the dance party see him dancing and declare him the greatest! The moral being everybody can dance when they find the music that they love. Sometimes i think it is important to hit unsuspecting SRSS audiences with some fine life lessons found in childrens books like that. The only question is... Should i read it to a stuffed animal?
Canucks vs Hawks... huge game! And a chance for me to film a video for my new single "The Unthinkable Dream".
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