On the clip I put up last week you will notice that there was an award for most scintillating woman in the audience... and it was actually a trophy award... CT was nominated, but a woman who wasn't there won, and i somehow managed to keep one of my old trophies around the house for a while longer. There was actually a fair amount of comedy involved in that gag... there probably wasn't the proper set up like there might be if this was a popular show like say "the office" where character developement was taken care of. The problem was that the show was running a little long so i tried to take a break and that turned into a sound set up clown show and about 20 minutes down time at the peak of the evening... next thing you know it was getting late and a lot of people were wanting to play music, others were tired and left, so i never got back to the awards. Am i still going on about this? Fucking rights I am... it burns my ass that in our own barn, the stage we own... our fucking canvass, I let that happen. Totally unacceptable. It's like playing a game of hockey and playing 2 real good periods but then in the third you make an idiot play and cough the puck up in front of your net and it ends up in the mesh... You are not sitting in the dressing room pumping your tires about how good you did in the first two periods.
No matter what you do i find it insufferable to not learn from your mistakes... and sometimes that means going over and over them locating every loose nut, refining the system, seeing where and why you failed. You can also win and fail... you could cough up the puck and have your goalie bail you out but it is your responsibility to understand where you went wrong.
It's a weird gamut: art music and failure... pointing out failure is like shiting your pants in a packed stalled elevator... nobody wants any part of that and perhaps will violently resist it. But it's not shit when you are a scientist.. asking the questions what when wrong? is how you solve the problem. Art and music people sometimes don't see it that way... perhaps too much fragile ego and not enough working man toughness. Thing about the Wright brothers... their first flying machines didn't fly but i bet you they didn't spent their evenings trying to blame the wind for their failure... they probably obsessed over their failure and then got it right... or wright for that matter.
Now that said numerous people told me of what a grand time they had and why they had such a grand time... i see there were numerous successes, real successes... people going home feeling alive and inspired.
Salvador Dali: 'A true artist is not one who is inspired, but one who inspires others.'
That is definitely good because the high praise came from those who were inspired. Good times were had by many and i don't actually believe anybody had a bad time... i trust all those people who were busting my balls for not winning an award were speaking in jest.
But this was to be the July 20 re-cap.. it said so in the title... OK Cam and Jesse kind of mailed it in and there was a table of people that were so loud and boisterous you could barely hear anything. Some dinner guests glared over at the noisy table and i sat there wondering why i bother. I should have just walked over and said "hey do you folks know there is plenty of seating in the back", but i didn't cause i didn't want to be a bother. I just sat there pondering the total disrespect for people making music on a stage that is part of the culture we have in this town. I have been on both sides of the quagmire (the loud guy talking and the quiet guy trying to present a song) and it is equally depressing when i think about it. But as Ruth Minnikin sings "you can't chose your audience"... and then i believe it goes something like you wouldn't want to if you could. For me i have developed a few tricks over the years to engage a tough crowd. Sometimes you play hockey against a team with better players, but if you team works together they can overcome.
And tomorrow we have the last 21 TANDEM REPEATS SRSS until September... come on down and pick up the latest CD and pay what you want for it. Shawn Killaly on drums, Jason Jones on piano, Chirstopher Johnson on bass and guitar and Jan Toren on bass and vocals.
August SRSS listings:
August 3- The Cam and Jesse Super Robertson Supper Show
Cameron Dilworth and Jesse Matheson bring songs mixed with awkward dry wit for an intimate hour of acoustic entertainment.
August 10th- A Spectre Is Haunting Europe, a prog deathrock band from Vancouver, Canada.
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Aug 17- Classical Revolution- Classical Revolution is a global phenomenon, revolutionizing the way live classical music is programmed and heard.
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.
Aug 31- No show
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