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.
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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.
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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!
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