Help Help an Evil Cult Leader is Ruling us...

Tonight's headline makes reference to tomorrows act but since distinct SRSS blog protocol requires a review and a few tangents before we get there lets hold the horses.

Always a stickler for insane bad ideas... but you know the more i fray from smiley faced PR piggybacking on the tide of fresh new catchphrases from pop culture the better I feel. AS a matter of fact, I came very close to submitting the latest 21 Tandem Repeats album One Little Dream into the Juno nomination pool. I believe it can stand with anything and hold it's own, but that's my opinion, and i was thinking of testing my opinion and even spending close to One Hundred Dollars to do so. Of course you know you need to pay to win... the industry is a hungry monster that needs blood to declare a victor. But i was even OK with paying... slims down the pool. It came down to the forms and "Band shots" and answers to questions that i don't really know the answer to... career accomplishments, upcoming tours... on my end that translates to a pile of shit or a string of bagels. There was no real form to write "I'm just a guy with three young kids who made this record with the help of a bunch of friends, and all i do is play a regular gig in a club in Vancouver where i try all kinds of different things, some of them work and some of them don't, but slowly I'm getting better at understanding what i need to do and i hope that by the time my girls are teenagers and my wife is in Menopause I'll be able to hit the road with this act".

You see my answers don't jive with industry forms. In retrospect i probably should have sent that note in with a CD, but you know those damn forms... you get that error message that you didn't fill in one of the necessary forms and you can't move on. Paying money for opportunity to shine in an industry spotlight really doesn't sit well with me on a spiritual level... I almost used the word "religious level" but i really have a negative aversion to the word "religious".

What has the Music Industry done for Super Robertson... Nothing
What has Super Robertson done for the Music Industry... Nothing

Nothing lost Nothing gained... i still have my hundred bucks and when the winner wins i won't have the nagging doubt "did anybody actually listen to my record?". And I'm not saying I should win, I'm just saying on artistic, production, and performance merit it is not insane to suggest "One Little Dream" could be in the conversation. Like i said first question- Are you a band or a solo artist?... what is the answer? and if you go band you need to define how many of you there are and list people.

Egad did i actually just go on that tangent? OF COURSE I DID it is right there in some font i can't name off the top of my head.

OK

So Last week it was Tiny Tim Overdrive the Super Robertson Supper Show's favourite all ukulele band. It was TTO's third appearance at the SRSS and this time the bar was flooded with students from the foreign exchange school from across the street. The TTO layed down a fine set:



Unfortunately Joe had a scooter accident and was essentially maimed for the show which cut into my grand idea of having the ukulele orchestra sit in with myself and the coalition of the willing. We did hit the song Bent with 2 ukuleles but then we were on our own... it was myself, Jason Jones and Jan Torren with a drum kit a bass and a piano. I was big on the concepts on this night... it was going to be great to test our metal in all of these situations in where we are in different roles... how will we respond? Well the power went out during "On Frozen Pond" but that didn't slow us down:



I went into a drum solo and tried to do Rick Jeaneratte calling a Steve Dykstra Vs. Bob Nystrom fight, and for some reason name dropped the actor Bill Bixby. I should have said Don Digby to keep the quote accurate. The things one gets wrong in the middle of a drum solo... that will haunt me for some time.

You see i often listen to Rick Jeaneratter "Roll the highlight reel" @ work on the ipod. Rick Jeaneratte calls the Buffalo Sabers games, and let's just say he is one excitable hockey announcer, and for some reason that came to me at the time but i fucked it up.

Hot damn, just spent a lot of time listening to various calls researching the Don Digby call... of course this is a SRSS blog right. It is actually all important, music needs passion and passion can come from all sources. They tell you to write about love the universal passion but since everybody else is doing that... actually love is love, i shouldn't give ground here... if you love something you should write about it, or if you believe in something then you should write about it... I'm talking songs here not blogs filled with errant puffery.

So for tomorrow.. Wednesday November 16 2011 we have the Legion of Flying Monkeys Horn Orchestra:





Apparently the LFM will be a little short staffed on this night, so as leader of the SRSS in general I will be called into duty... i tried to sucker Johnson into bass duty as I'm not sure in my ability to hit the same bass notes as the rest of the band for the set. Ace bass player Chris Hixen is in Las Vegas, and nobody can play bass like him for the LFM... Guy can take a walking bass line with authority and make it work like honey in an ale.