Always great to have Genny Trigo out... Imagine a singer who knows all the words to all the songs, and gets it all right... almost an alien version of the Super Robertson Supper Show... why bother learning something when we can just wing it tends to be the way we roll... given everything I'd say we do OK. For the record, I have no problem with people learning things, I just gave up a long time ago and tried to focus my skills on adapting. Like playing guitar, you see, I could never find a pick when i needed one so i just learned to play without one always so that i wouldn't be inconvenienced by such a silly matter. I like a pick when i play bass however. Suits my bass style and saves a savage beating of the fingertips.
I have 2 videos and one is Genny's whole set, and the other is 21 Tandem Repeats with Genny whole set. The band this night consisted of Shawn Killaly, Willingdon Black, Christopher Johnson and Jan Toren... I guess I was there too... that's right Super R writing this blog right now... but who knows Earl Parrish or Sleuth Reporter Oalk Reece might write the next paragraph.
Genny Trigo:
Hear that fucking compressor on that god damn Zoom Q3... I hear it and my mind snaps into a rage and i think "I have to go back to analogue". Speaking of that i wonder if anybody takes old school 70's recording equipment and makes it stamp out digital... you probably need to hit a tape for real and then transfer, which turns the whole process into a monster job that's not worth doing. On that thought the Zoom Q3 has saved me a tone of time and made it possible for me do do this thing i do, for some reason. 3 More months of Super Robertson Supper Show for this old sport... it's funny all the response is "your going to have to do a supper show in Portland". To which i would have to say, there is really no point in doing something that you have already done. I did it cause i wanted to see what would happen and i got my answer... The big question is... Should i become Portland Al the 2nd? My given middle name is actually Allen, it was my Grandfathers middle name, but he used it as his name because his first name was Watson, and for some reason he didn't like that one... I guess he grew up in the Sherlock Holmes era and having the name Watson could have meant you were some second fiddle, or more likely he just got sick of fucking idiots coming up to him trying to quote Holmes when he was just trying to have a nice peaceful day.
The 21 tandem repeats Juggernaut:
We hit the song "The Voters Choice" off the top without Genny and then spanked down some songs I haven't played for a while. I'm really digging the Voters Choice lately... should probably record it being that it is election season, but as we say in the business "who the hell is going to listen to the shit SR is playing".
We had a good time for sure and i only really remember one time we went off the rails... not bad for a crew that had never played together before as a said unit. King hell props to Christopher J for standing in on piano, man started out on bass, went to guitar, and then stomped down piano... He actually kicked ass on drums one night if i remember correctly... I think it was Me, Him and Wildkat on a rotation of instruments... It's hard to remember what happened this morning... actually you know what happened this morning? i left the house on my bike @ 6:00am biked down the hill from Glen and 10th to Glen and Great Northern way and then realized i forgot my damn ipod and was looking at sorting mail for 2.5 hours listening to the atmosphere of the Post Office, and not A Ghost to Kill Again, or Bob Dylan, or Feist or Jim Guthrie... which is what i happened to listen to after i biked back up the hill to retrieve the said Ipod... of course i was sweating like a bastard at my sortation case, but i was in control of my audio destiny. That's the key folk's... being in control of you audio destiny... that must be how people survive commutes... well people who commute in cars are insane so who knows what they are thinking... do they think "Oh i can have more here and all i have to do is sacrifice a few more of my precious waking hours to get it"... "I'll just get on this highway and inch down a never ending line of vehicles for hours every day so i can have more".
I was actually in a line up coming back from Aldergrove the other day... solid cars from Aldergrove to Vancouver all of them stopping and starting, idling, and every once in a while a chance to accelerate for like 8 seconds, just enough to give a crazed brain hope that there might be motion only to be shut down again and see a shoe by the side of the road, and wishing you were that shoe with your rubbery sole turned upwards on the asphalt and not some fucking id jet idling in a car in a line with 200,000 others... all this energy and nobody going anywhere... nothing like a pack of individuals.
Where was I... i had so many points earlier today as i was skipping through the neighbourhoods getting Mail to the fine folks from the V5T postal code. Ok Fall lineup for SRSS almost complete...
For October 5
I'm rolling the dice on my guest. It's a couple of kids that I met at the Jonathan Richman concert. Can't remember there names but they seemed like the kinda go-getters that are going to make it out. As far as a theme goes....how about Thankful for Thanksgiving an ode to the hedonistic celebration of thanks.
-Jesse
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