It was a really good time last week @ the SRSS, but there was a certain fuck up I made that i believe should be analyzed and put in print for the world to see. I really shit the bed on the song "Nothing is heard"... one of those ones where some said it will be interesting to hear after... kind of like it would be interesting to watch a hernia surgery... on your own personal abdomen!
Since it was such a failure on my behalf i decided to post it on the Internet:
Classic musician on stage fiasco... I was busy worrying about my guitar picking pattern matching the pocket of the groove... over focusing on it... and then i sang the words at double speed, which opened up a whole series of what we shall call "secondary errors". The good news is that the band was king hell, so, when the leader was self administering the proverbial swirley, we basically sounded OK. So to turn a negative back into a positive, i think we sounded pretty good with me sucking the big one. I don't think i have ever been mistaken as a good singer, but it is very rare for me to get lost in phrasing like that. I'm glad it happened... it's like an attack that penetrated various levels of security from within my "stage mind". The result of course is to go over the things you think you know as an absolute and be aware of various things that can go wrong. One of our strong suits over the years was coming out of a train wreck, or dealing with an improv. I guess that's why the disaster was marginalized... i subliminally improved us into a train wreck and they were like "yea man water off a ducks back".
Should we analyze the version of "On Frozen Pond"? It should be noted that Westworld magazine has on the cover the words "On Frozen Pond" because of course Pond Hockey is making a great cultural come back... apparently. I'm always a few years ahead of the curve:
The interesting part of this one is that after the show certain members of the band asked me what i was thinking during the drum solo when we took a very bizarre turn... they were worried i was annoyed. In my own mind i was thinking "what line am i going to sing when we come out of this and back to the song"... if we come back... i need to make it look natural. For the record i should always go with the Edmonton line... a genesis thing. In my original blog the Super Robertson chronicles that was set inside the Roadbed website i wrote a post about this song, which came to me in a dream in probably summer of 2001. I had gone for one of my patented afternoon naps... one of the ones where you wake up with drool on your face, your arm is asleep and you are wondering what day it is and did you just sleep in for work, but in fact it is just early evening and everything is A OK. I had this dream i was in a classroom and the teacher was playing an auto harp and all the kids were singing "In Edmonton it's the same as it's always been, and i hope the Pond freezes over" and with each recurring turn i moved farther away from the room. I think that's the way it went, you can look it up, if you give a damn about total accuracy... in my mind that's what blogs are for... to capture the reality of the perspective of a moment in time. If you catch me trying to powder coat a post to make myself look good and hide the reality make sure to send an insult my way... perhaps something like "You poorly bearded scene sucking consumer!".
Should we keep analysing? I guess I'm calling the shots and I'm the one who has to wake @ 5:40 am for a savage day of labour, child minding and then the upcoming supper show and piss tank session.
Lets break down One Little Dream:
Total Pro on Willingdon Black for spanking down the guitar parts. I wish i knew and had developed the relationships that i have now way back when when Willingdon Black joined me as the first member of 21 Tandem Repeats, other than myself of course. He took a lot of hard years and showed up the only way he knows how to... correct! The first year of 21 Tandem repeats was basically a duo, we even played on the radio one time as a duo.
There is a certain guitar line i added to this song that I wanted in there that was added it after the recording was done... actually WB played it and of course it then becomes part of his library of song parts on 21tr songs. I do love improv, but part of it is i can't stand to manage people and what they play... but to hear the part i want to hear at the point in the song i want to hear it is a thing of beauty. Never hurts with Shawn Killaly on Drums... Jason Jones, Christopher Johnson and Jan Toren are no slouches either... nice vocal By Jan.
The Voters Choice:
I like this tune... i like it better when Sandra Bouza is singing it with me, but you can't always get what you want EH! I find the song relevant and a smart woman I went to high school with years ago helped me rephrase the opening line while in a facebook chat.
For Wednesday November 30 2011... 21 Tandem Repeats with a full band for a full hour rocks the Super Robertson Supper Show for the last time. Shawn Killaly on drums, Jason Jones on piano, Christopher Johnson on bass, Super R on guitar and Vocals, and Genny Trigo on Vocals... there might be more, you never know what's going to happen when you do a Supper Robertson Supper Show.
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