Feb 13 re-cap

It was the day Before Valentines.

Remember that line from the ROADBED song "cost plus 10" that went like this "People tell me Super you should sing about love but i don't like love i like food". Apparently some German Band wants to cover that song... which is odd and unrelated except for the fact that the Supper Show has never been known to buck to the commercial season.

best to go with the video. A wonderful band called Carving Hearts opened the show and the small movie i made of their show had 20 seconds of the song Jupiter at the beginning so i will re-try later.

If a picture tells 1000 words then how many words are told by a Video

Chris Kelly opened the show




and then we played (Super R, Alvaro Rojas, Chris Banting and Chris Rippin)

Jan 30 2008

hindsight is 20-20, so the saying goes and i guess on this night if i knew what i know now i would have done things differently. you see i decided not to play so as to give the 2 acts more time, but for some reason no music was played until 7:53... how could this possibly be? completely unacceptable.

I guess it's my fault as i showed up late thinking it was under control. A supper show really needs a draconian taskmaster and that was the lesson for me.

When the music did start, Canada Lynx Records artist Interior Design put on a fine clinic... that's when i realized my other failure i forgot my camera. One of the fine comedies of the supper show is the incredible talent of the core crew and the lack of documentation besides this narrow minded biased blog. Interior design turned heads with some rave beats and i believe he was using a remote control to get some trippy sounds from the guitar... it was at that time that Super Steve walked over and announced "well i sure picked the right night to drop acid". Shockk (who is Interior Design) then went into a more groovie segment that was packed with euphoric swells. He played a short set, knowing there wasn't much time.. the sign of a fine person.

Kirsten Starcher was up next singing and playing solo bass. A great bass player with varied styles and a nice warm voice to carry some well written songs. It's a hard gig playing the latter part of the supper show solo with all the bands coming into the club and dropping shit next to the stage and greeting each other but she did good. She recorded the set with a video camera... she reads blogs and perhaps we can get a small clip.

January 23 re-cap

Genny Trigo put on a full clinic as per usual singing some Chilean numbers and then Super Robertson played drums and battled 3 puppets in a war of rhymes. He schooled them rather severely.

21 tandem Repeats played "Fuse lit bombs" with the puppets joining in on the chorus and went into a "dream sequence" in the middle where a puppet recounted a dream. It was, i believe, a gorilla puppet.

Then they made up a song about beards which really stimulated some of the female member of the audience who later came back to watch the hockey game (which the Canucks won in a shootout) and caress some facial hair.

Jan 16

Dick Cash is a great band and we found that out @ 7:30 when the show started. A nice tight sharp unit that knows that "it's not how loud you play, but how well."

Super Robertson was ill so we had Simian Special singing which worked out well... and on the drums JLS (sound man, bass man, cable builder and drummer).

all in all a good night

what happened last week (Jan 9)

Connor Mcguire opened the show, and did the middle as well, with a fine set of acoustic based folk rock. A generous crowd came to see him and listened to the show, which was nice to see... kind of odd if you know what i mean (People listening in Vancouver). Then around 8:13 21TR was trying to set up in amongst a maze of musicians worrying about themselves dropping gear on the stage and taking it off and trying to figure what the hell is going on. The show after the supper show brought a ton of people ( Winston was the main act) so there was much chaos and little time. Sound checking and confusion faced 21TR for their opening number (Never wanted to be anyone), but then King dinosaur requested On Frozen Pond and a round of bass and drum solos tuned in the folks. Then the lovely Land of Deborah came up to sing "blue skies", and after it was time for Poem Moment... the reading of the poem that the audience wrote... it went very well. And just for laughs since the room was packed we did Mr Greenie with a full set of push-ups and sit-ups... that old bit.

My man Deuce said it was a great show, and he has seen a lot.

January 2 Re-cap

The show started about a minute late as a result that the tables had to be moved to create a more open space to bring in the new year. the obvious choice was to relax with the ancient technique known as "beer yoga". Deep breathing, stretching and heavy swilling is a fine combination on any night and the capacity crowd at the Railway agreed. Willingdon Black, Shockk and Snow Leopard set up a fine spiritual groove while Robertson led the class. you can use breath and beer to cure any stress you have accumulated throughout the day... "Imagine you are a shark swimming in a ocean of beer... your gills filtering the cold carbonated ale"

After that all went well with a band version of the song "Robertson's dream orchard" which actually saw some crowd surfing. Shockk, Black and Rojas put on a fine clinic in their own right holding the fort while a disorganized Robertson tried Reggae, Rap and the art of the sermon for various diversions.

upcoming shows

Jan 02, 2008 Vancouver BC The Railway Club The Super Robertson Supper Show (7:30-8:30PM)
Jan 09, 2008 Vancouver BC The Railway Club The Super Robertson Supper Show (7:30-8:30PM) with guest Connor McGuire
Jan 16, 2008 Vancouver BC The Railway Club The Super Robertson Supper Show (7:30-8:30PM) with Guest Dick Cash
Jan 23, 2008 Vancouver BC The Railway Club The Super Robertson Supper Show (7:30-8:30PM) with Guest Genny Trigo
Jan 30, 2008 Vancouver BC The Railway Club The Super Robertson Supper Show (7:30-8:30PM) with Guest Kirsten Starcher
Feb 06, 2008 Vancouver BC The Railway Club The Super Robertson Supper Show (7:30-8:30PM) with Guest Chris Kelly
Feb 13, 2008 Vancouver BC The Railway Club The Super Robertson Supper Show (7:30-8:30PM) with Guest CARVING HEARTS
Feb 20, 2008 Vancouver BC The Railway Club The Super Robertson Supper Show (7:30-8:30PM) with Guest King Dinosaur

The Last Supper... of 2007

On December 19 2007 we did the last SR supper show of the year. The sound man came late but that allowed John Altamount to race across town at high speed to retrieve a distortion pedal for the show. Super Robertson opened the show dedicating it to his father who was in the house and played a song called "Robertson's dream orchard". Next up was a man named Ken Beattie who put on a soulful clinic with a brief 5 song set. Known to some as Canada's premier independent publicist he went back to his roots as a singer songwriter for this night, and it was indeed a treat. After that 21 tandem Repeats played with their full lineup for the first time in months, and played rather well. Which makes me think about the whole idea of rehearsal... a smart person could tell the difference between people learning songs and rehearsal... they don't have to be the same thing.

During the set Robertson cut some cake and as he was doing it some hammerhead lost his fucking mind and jumped on stage and began uttering gibberish... luckily somebody drew the curtain to stop that nonsense. Complaints... probably should have skipped Mr. Greenie and gone for Dish pig but hey hindsight is always 20/20... and sometimes even better.

The week before a great band played but an atomic bomb went off during their first half of the set blasting all of the tympanic membranes in the house... the tympanic membrane is of course the ear drum. The during the second half a jet engine fell into the club and destroyed more ears...


And the week before that there was no supper show.

the white Prince and the Land of JLS

Some of my ideas are good... others could use some more thought.

Interestingly on the morning of this supper show (november 21 2007), i received what one might call a "setback email" at around 6:15 am... which is unfortunately the time i had to get up to go to work as a pizza, drugstore and school advertisement flyer boy... i mean mailman. Word to the wise would be to always take your time to digest things because what you think might happen may in fact not happen at all.

About an hour before the show i had a good idea of who was going to be there and there was a chance that some of them were going to be on time, but then at home we had a baby malfunction and he twins needed a nap so as CT put one down i held the other while Kaiya entertained. That setback put me a few minutes behind and i thought i would take the bus to the sky-train to save some time. There was a lunatic in the bushes yelling at something and two women talking about why the bus is so late... i began to waffle about trying to walk towards the sky-train but then surly the bus would come right. In the end it was me who was late as i walked into the club to see JLS lounging with everything ready.

The good news was we had 2 ace drummers in the house and 2 sound-men one of them being an expert bass player. All we needed was for someone to think ahead and have a bass guitar... this is where one of my good ideas came through... you see as part of my deal for doing the supper show the club has given me a fair sized titanium locker with a galvanized thompson bank lock that is big enough for a few things like a Bass guitar i call "the white prince". The white prince was my original ROADBED bass that constantly turned heads with it's booming tone and full fret-board. Now all i had to do was put on my white gloves, work the combination, submit to an eye-scan, get the bass to JLS and presto we were ready to rock.

21 tandem Repeats opened the show and with Simian Special on drums we hit some songs from the Supersimian disk "how the tiger got lionized" to get going. We also hit "dishpig" (that saw a total WB guitar clinic), "4 feathers", "sun rises" and then called up Deborah to sing "Blue skies" from our cd "never wanted to be anyone" which went very well if i don't say so myself. Then i left the stage drummers changed (Shawn Killaly for Simian Special) and The Land of Deborah played a wonderful set of original music with shawn, Willingdon Black and JLS. Powered by her strong voice she stayed on guitar and played some LOD hits including one called "Optimistic Death Song" one she wrote for a movie a while back. She plays the Railway on November 29 if you are looking for something to do... nudge nudge. A few audience member came up to me during her set to ask who she is and "is she from here", which i always take as a good sign for various reasons.

At the conclusion of the land of Deborah set we did a version of Mr. Greenie with Shawn Killaly on the drums and JLS leading the band on a song he played once before... which of course is why we had to do it.

November 14th re-cap

Ween played this night in town with their show starting at 8pm... some sceensters were warming up at the Railway. There was also a Canucks game, so i pity any fool that drove downtown on this night. Come to think of it i got a ride down with one of those fools... i even got let off at the front door while Parker went to rustle with the parking dilemma... Never Mind.

Don Alder was up first and he gave a packed house a guitar clinic with some fine warp speed finger-picking. there was also a song called , i believe "the Wall" or "wall" that was written on the great wall of China some time ago. Don also played a harp guitar, which put my faith back in "double guitars" that i lost a long time ago during my time in the band Knockin' dog.


21 Tandem Repeats followed with a fine set that included "Blue skies", "wishing Machine", "Saskatchewan" (nothing to do with football), "bay city Kitty" (with Simian Special on Vox) and a version of the Key of 5 that ended up Robertson preaching about the Devil and the Holy Ghost in the vain of some movie i saw years ago about a preacher who is on the run from the law because he killed somebody with a baseball bat... you probably know the movie... i did a search but you know... i can't spend what time i have left in the day looking for a clip on you tube that i was going to embed.

The Canucks went into a shootout and lost to Edmonton... it was good to watch some hockey with the boys.

bloggerson strikes again... Nov 7 re-cap

I opened the show by playing a few new numbers "Robertson's dream orchard", about a fantasy of mine to move to the country and run an apple orchard, and "the littles", another snapshot of life with a nod to the two newest Robertson's in the spirit of "Blue skies"... a song from the disk "Never Wanted to Be Anyone". That was a bit scary, which i guess proves it was a worthy exercise. When you are finger-picking and you sing the wrong line and you back off there is nothing there. I think i did OK. My hosting was decent as well for like the first time ever... I found 10 weird english laws to read in the transition from me to the next act..

Next up Genny Trigo put on an absolute clinic. So much so that a well known music critic flagged me down with crazy eyes and said "WHO IS THIS... SHE IS AMAZING... WHERE DID YOU FIND HER!!!". I tried to play it cool "She is a scientist i know through my wife... yea we have made some changes" and then i caught myself and shut the fuck up.

Genny plays music like music should be played. Singing in spanish she covered some classic songs of revolution... i couldn't understand what the words meant but it didn't matter.. i was fulfilled.

After Genny's set a packed house had full attention to the stage... as 21tr set up i gave out some Super Robertson Supper Show buttons to those who could answer some Bird Trivia correctly. One of the good things about being me is that i have these bizarre banks of information in my head... I never would have thought when i was in grade school that my obsession with ornithology would come in handy as a 37 year old hosting a free show in a bar in Vancouver (that would be the Railway Club every wednesday from 7:30-8:30).

21 tandem Repeats started out with a mellow version of "Mr. Greenie"... my subtle comedy in that one was the standing wall push-ups... you either get that or you don't. Let's move on.

Fine improv moment was when... in a prelude to "Fragile Day" i explained why Tiny Marsh is called Tiny Marsh in an effort to lure a certain "lyric forgetting delinquent" to the stage and then we made up a song about the marsh hawk and people were digging it.

By around 8:30 we were in the breakdown of the song Wastelands, so i did what any normal person would do and stood on my head, thanked people for coming, barked out the names of those involved and my main man Walkinshaw pulled the curtain. Done.

It was Halloween

Me, being a man with many children, well, i was out trick or treating with my young daughter. And for the record i did not pick my kid up and run her from door to door in an effort to get more candy... my wife was strongly against that and even went so far as to disrupt our training run the day before.

As it turned out 3 year olds want to go home after a few blocks so it turned out i was at home at 7:45... just in time for a mad dash down to the supper show in my best fangs and formal attire. I brought a few of the supper show regulars down with me as my house seemed to be the hotspot. So of course i was delighted to finally be able to go and see a supper show... what a great idea. i got over the mild regret that i didn't change Super Robertson to Spooker Robertson on the chalkboard and walked up into the club... but no music on the way in... how can this be?

Rather a beautiful woman with an erotic puppet dressed as a scientist... i believe she was giving a lecture on the erotic art of puppet-erring. All good in my books... I am a big fan of lectures.

Unfortunately i missed D. Trevlon who had Simian Special (the man) sit in on drums. When it comes to music D Trevlon is a winner... you can never go wrong.

Then it was Simian Special the band, Sim's latest and greatest working project. A fine trio that gets the most out of minimalism powered by Sim's golden voice, melodic bass and the rock steady guitar work of a stella drinking man named Marty. I noticed that the Mule had a Simian Special demo in his mitt.

In the end i left feeling honored that 2 great musical acts came and played a stage that had my name on it.

Speaking of that.. i had this idea. Bring out the old sony reel to reel 4 track to the supper show... record the shows and call it the "I got 4 tracks supper show" 2 mic's on the band 1 on the room and one on a "theme" table... a clapping table

ideas like that always hit a snag once you write them down

the Supper Show

when i was pacing around the room thinking about this post, er i mean blogaroo, i think the first line was "I love the Supper Show...". Now sitting down with a more sane perspective i see that as a harder line to put a finish on.

Kind of like juggling with chain-saws, sooner or later you are going to do yourself in... just don't whatever you do start blogging about it...

I remember Rodney writing some words for a song that never went anywhere. The opening line was "it's like 1000 miles of space, between what i've done and what i meant to do".

A man i talked to tonight... I told him that I might stay home with the kids for a few years until the twins go to school... and he came back with i should go and do an MBA at UBC during that time to keep myself occupied. I was kind of thinking hang with the kids and make some music somehow, but now i see that what i really need is a Masters of Business Administration.

Now just for laughs let's imagine me Super Robertson, sitting in a first year business administration class... savour that thought and think of it on those days when you are down, enjoy. When i do it i only get a few seconds into the dream-sequence because it always starts with a pan shot of the classroom coming in from the right, and as soon as i see myself in the second row i burst out laughing and remember that i am sitting at at a table and the dishwasher is on.

Last week I had sent out an email about the possibility of "audience show and tell", but we managed to miss courting that disaster. Any number of snakes could come out of that bag, but the on i spent the day preparing for was an audience member with a horn. In my head i had some good shit worked out... i was going to keep asking questions about the horn so that the horn couldn't get honked... it was all in fun of course and we were all laughing... gotta stop having these dream sequences... but it's the only way to insulate myself from the incessant insanity.

In any rate Dustin Rilcof played a fine little set amusing Super Steve with his smart song concepts. and Two Sticks Hobbs made his first appearance back at the Supper Show since having one baby to power the 21 tandem repeats through the song MAIDEN and a few others.

Next week is Halloween

the Spooker Robertson Supper Show

To create a "scene" i guess one needs something "sceeneworthy", but mostly one needs to hammer away with various means of propaganda. There was an article in a band related site about how to attract people to your band website... i think there were about 19 easy steps and the jist was to immerse yourself into the world of blogs on your topic and spend your time posting and commenting and engaging... and i stopped watching TV years ago so that i could focus on music.

So

The Supper Show has had some solid shows as of late... Dave Gonko, Alvaro Rojas, Shockk and Jeff Younger put on one heck of a feat doing an all improvised show a few weeks back, and then last week a woman named Genny Trigo sang some South American revolution songs and a room full of Brazilian exchange students joined in, and then Alvaro Rojas and Robertson put on a two man clinic with Rojas providing brilliant solo axemanship during a poem the audience wrote that Robertson performed.. Last night Emily Milliken played some beautiful music with her voice and bass yukelle to open up for 21 Tandem Repeats who turned in a solid set and then we gave away Canada Lynx records and S/N ratio Buttons.

the new poster for the show was designed by the best... Mr Simian Special of S/N ratio

Mule Hughes the hero

Well a fine Supper Show last night down at the Railway.

We Dragons- Mule Hughes, Smash, Willingdon Black and Snow Leopard laid down a fine clinic... Super Steve's head swiveled at one point when Snow Leopard went into a solo. He studied the show hard and declared "Now there is a good drummer".


Sonneteers- Playing their first show ever the band sounded fine after some unfortunate delays due to a bad patch cable. Super Steve gave his blessing again to this act.

21 tandem Repeats- pooched Mule Hughes for drumming at the last possible second and then forced him into a drum solo.

A good night was had by all.


Rumor has it that Interior Design will play next week.

Upcoming

On Wednesday September 12

Simian Special

On Wednesday September 19

Sonneteers

Tiger Prawn

Tiger Prawn rocked the Super Robertson Supper Show a few weeks back

Carl Fatman set to come out of retirement

This report just in...

It appears that distinguished Journalist Carl FATMAN is set to come out of his semi-retirement. Carl Fatman, who was last seen years ago at a Mongoose Show around August 18 2004, believes that a pod-cast could be the format for him. "it's true" said a jovial Carl, "perhaps i was just a bit ahead of my time, in terms of technology and ground breaking pulse following journalism".

"Carl looks good, sounds good and seems to have a new direction" said Robertson, Canada Lynx records CEO... we can only hope that this time his experience with Rock &Roll lifestyle will help him negotiate his way.

Here is Carl Fatman years ago:

touring guest

All around ace Shockk has some friends from southern Ontario on tour and Jen Militia are set to play the supper show.

Also i wanted to make a point about why Super robertson does sit-up's during the song Mr. Greenie. I guess there are 2 reasons... number one would go under the heading of multitasking (performing and doing back exercises), but more importantly it is to emphasize the idea that being "green" (the years buzzword), actually takes work. This idea that humans should have it easy is what is getting us into the mess (along with corrupt world leaders cow-tailing to economic powers).

There is a garbage strike in vancouver so lets try to make less garbage. Don't buy things that have excess waste associated with them.

Buy your meat from a butcher so your waste is paper that can be composted rather than having a styrofoam plate and plastic.

any other ideas?

New 21TR Signing Imminent?

Reports out of Vancouver indicate that 21 Tandem Repeats are on the verge of hiring former Philadelphia Flyer general manager Bob Clarke as a managerial associate.

A source close to 21TR's parent company, International Amusement Corporation, confirmed that an announcement regarding Clarke's hiring would be made in the next few days.

International Amusement CEO John Altamont was apparently considering Mike Keenan for the role of 21TR mentor/disciplinarian, but Keenan's signing with the Calgary Flames last week led to renewed speculation on who Altamont would tap for the position.

Aside from Clarke, Altamont was apparently also considering former New Westminster Bruin coach Ernie 'Punch' McLean for the role. Contacted yesterday, McLean confirmed that he was approached by one of Altamont's associates.

"I think he's trying to get the franchise to the next level," said McLean. "But I'm not sure I want that challenge at my age."

I just want to state for the record that I regret telling Kevin Smith that he is 'easily amused' after he confessed to enjoying a 21tr rendition of the local cult hit Bengal Tiger a few weeks back.

Mr. Smith is one of the most discerning musical minds around. A Gulliver among Lilliputians.

As for Bengal Tiger, at this point it's more like a zoo cat than anything genuinely wild.

The Pictures

Photo's of the Supper Show 2nd Anniversary Show

2nd Anniversary re-cap

Beyond a shadow of a doubt the 3 stars were Willingdon Black, Alvaro Rojas and 2 Sticks Hobbs, everything else was just dressing. Like i mean never mind "Jam band" or "pop group" or any of those fool labels, these guys were sharp, tight and smart pulling out appropriate covers and new grooves in perfect sequence. Considering it was all fly by the seat of your pants much respect must be given. OK.

Super Robertson and Shockk took turns giving out Gold Medals to the worthy. Clearly the highlight was best mustache won by Cory Curtis (who i might add won best beard last year) and his stash named Kevin.

And on the third plane... lets call the band plane 1, Robertson/Shockk plane 2 and then the puppets plane 3. The 2 puppets run by Pockets and Fire-Man added witty dialogue and did some presentations themselves.

All in all it was a fine night... the best yet was what some said, when we get some photographs in we will get them up.

Are you a Winner?

A preview of the Super Robertson Supper Show GOLD Medals made from Reel Gold* to be awarded @ the supper show on Wednesday April 18 2007.


* may only contain paper

VANCOUVER CANUCKS AND THE SUPER ROBERTSON SUPPER SHOW

It should be noted at this time the Super Robertson Supper Show will run into conflict with the Vancouver Canucks playoff hockey in which event Hockey will take president, as it should.

Therefore if it's Wednesday and there is a Vancouver playoff game that will be happening between the hours of 7:30-8:30pm then the Railway Club will be showing the game on the big screen.

There has been talk of some intermission music but we are not sure of this at this time. It could be possible to make sets and then monitor how the Canucks played in the period after that set to see if those songs provided the proper "Omen factors" in an attempt to build a bulletproof set for game 7... but you know sports fans and their looney ideas.

What is a blog? March 28 2007

Ruth Minnikin and Reels came to play the Supper Show on Wednesday March 28th. Only Robertson and Fire-Man were representing from the usual crew... the show was packed and everybody went home a winner... what follows is some jibberish written by Robertson after he got home

I guess the reality is that on the way home i remembered how a certain individual, we shall call "FMan", helped put the drum kit away and in doing so knocked the "deodorizer" off the wall smashing fluid over everything. i have yet to recover from that event. It's always hard to hold down a conversation when you smell like a quebec hospital after a "super-bug" scare!

Then there was the usual post show dismantling

"Robertson Failed aggressively as a host somehow getting everybody on stage for the intro and then going into one of the one of the more difficult songs known. This is a fool's error that won't be forgotten. You see i had it in my head that i was going to play 2-3 songs and they were going to be set numbers, thus closing my mind to the grand possibility of what could be possible, which of course was the nature of the show... But after that unfortunate incident with that band "Dog foothill" i was leaning on not being involved. could have just played "Sun rises" or "on frozen pond" as we had a woman with a golden voice and some great players... but no i had to have my head up my ass.

I did help on one song and i took care of a drunk who wanted to play one song on our guests guitar. An interesting conversation.... he was sarcastically asking me that if i thought he missed the "Market trends", to which i told him that it wasn't about that, he insisted, i refuted, he insisted, i refuted... i told him it was about me telling them they could play and letting them play. I should have given him a fine chokingl

and then..

What about the part where i biked back to the club to clean up the fluid after i got home... this is the kind of sanity I'm running on!

The bast entertainment that S Robertson provided was to Ed, andrew, francis and friend outside the club explaining the walk home and the ride back dealing with thurst issues... perhaps another blogaroo sometine

MotorTravolta

A small tribute to the Motorcycle Man, who rocked a packed Railway last Wednesday.

Str8 Outta Dee-troyt!

Feb 28 rehash

A good version of "Blue skies" was preformed sung by Deborah of the land of deborah, sim special showed and we did a few numbers including the Roadbed classid "Bent". Great crowd, good show, people danced and then some jackass tried to get on the mic and wouldn't give up... He was on Fire-Man's mic making loud annoying sounds, can you believe that shit? As for tension, it was all there. 21 Tandem Repeats when into a fine groove and Robertson literally stood on his head... that jam got honked out.

A few new songs and a few classics. Super Steve was upset Willingdon Black slipped off after the show as he seemed to have a mind to talk hockey.

Feb. 21/06 Recap

Those who have followed British politics over the past few years will be familiar with the term 'Scottish Raj,' which refers to the fact that many leading politicians and public figures in the U.K. these days are from Scotland. I think there may also be something like a 'Burnaby Raj' in the local music scene, or at least in my little circle of it.

The Supper Show's guest last this week was Kirsten Bole, who apparently lives in Burnaby. I've noticed that Supper Show guests are often of the accoustic balladeer variety, which is great…there've been some superb performers. Having said that, my own preferences are generally more electric and rock, so I thought her stuff was a nice shift of gears. A four-song set of genuinely cool songs, played with instrumental panache on bass (no accompaniment, except a rhythm sample on one), and adorned with some very good singing. The songs were atmospheric, even a bit exotic, but still substantial and well-constructed.

What else happened? Sim has returned to the Supper Show lineup over the past few weeks. Perhaps he got wind of the fact that we had been giving a few Supersimian songs a bit of a workout in his absence. Anyway, he was his usual engaging, well-voiced self. His presence tends to push things in a certain direction song-choice wise, and I was happy to head in that direction myself.

21TR started with some spartan groove/Mr. Greenie variation, and I think the only other thing we did, aside from the 45-minute opening/closing theme, was an ill-advised makeshift number about bears delivered over a Motown riff. Oh yeah, there was also 'Wastelands.' Maybe not one of the better versions.

The new Deal

As the ever changing world and supper show evolves here is the new rule. If you want to play the supper show as a guest you must cover the experience for this blog.

"Fucking Rites" as Scotty, a great hockey player, would say.

also i had to lock antlers with the new blogger over this account so if you need the new login info (provided you were given access to the old one) let me know. others can sent there stories in for posting, or better yet post them elsewhere and we shall link. Yes i realize this is insanity, but insanity is the new reality ain't it.

Valentine's Day 2007

A new journalist has emerged... crows to burnaby, which saves us the trouble of trying to hash together something that sounded interesting. Moreover it looks like we have a guest for next weeks show.

After the show many people mentioned that you couldn't see the chocolate come flying off the stage... The idea that it was dangerous, and then I remembered how Mule Hughes moved seats after being struck with a "9th inning world series 3-2 pitch fastball truffle".

Geez I wish I could go to a free show early enough for me to get a nights sleep and see a great insane maniac drummer hijack a show and then be attacked with fine sweets.

February 7 Re-cap

To recapitulate, Super Robertson wore a purple velour evening gown, and made up words to "Pretty Woman" as the band played said song behind him. I tried not to choke on my Boxcar Burger, caught in the act of trying to eat and laugh at the same time. "Is this how I want to go?" I asked myself. "With gunk lodged in my windpipe at the Super Robertson Supper Show?" No—I put the burger down and chose life.

Behind closed curtains, Super changed into garb more suited to the frontman of 21 Tandem Repeats. The curtains opened again, and the Supper Show carried on with a full hour of 21 TR. King Dinosaur brought a hula hoop for everyone to try. All those middle-aged hips could not make the thing go for long. Fireman told a story about a clash of artistic sensibilities and Robertson spoke about his attempts to contact the Canada Post, um, "employee resources" line. [Never blog about work, especially not someone else's work.] Sim Special came up to sing "Bill Von Bacon Tell" and a wee bit on "Failure." "Bengal Tiger" was threatened, but not played, and "Enter Sandman" was touched upon. The Supper Show has stumbled upon the perfect combination of improv comedy and musical showmanship, and it seems like whatever random night I decide to check it out there's damn fine entertainment to be had.

UPDATE

Well Snapshot gave me a disk with thousands of of pictures... Here are a few from some previous supper show's in leiu of a written update.



D TREVLON



CARLY RAY JEPSEN



SHOCKK



SR



ROBYN CARRIGAN




SR AND ALVARO ROJAS




WILLINGDON BLACK



2 STICKS HOBBS



THE LAND OF DEBORAH



Incredibly there were no photographs of Fire-Man on this disk

The next re-cap series Mid Dec-Jan

It was all good times, the band 21 Tandem Repeats just keeps getting better and better, it's really amazing how they have grown even more comfortable on that stage. The shows for the most part were go up and play the music kind of shows... Perhaps the calm before the storm. I hear the band was going over a "drunk" version of "The Sun Rises" the other night.

I would suggest a puppet show to come soon as the push up/sit up thing is getting stale.

I guess the shows have been great... People have been coming the food has been good, and the shows have been musical and entertaining... It's just this nuisance of a blog that is gumming up the works.

That post that was here before that made reference to an Elephant's body part was a joke.

Mid November-Mid December Re-cap

There was a fine post that appeared here for a day but the author fell prey to self censorship lost his mind and deleted it... in the post a Man was driving a country road with a coffee listening to some great music feeling on top of the world and then later he was inching into Vancouver through a Snowstorm cursing his existence... all that was brought around to the relevance of the Supper Show.

Last night a magician went table to table doing tricks as 21 tandem repeats with drummer Sam Cartwright stomped a fine clinic. A beautiful young girl was going to play but she never showed.... and the best comment overheard was "It's all part of becoming an adult... getting your own drug dealer"

The week before the lovely Land Of Deborah sang Blue Skies and played a few of her original tunes, a fine treat indeed. the best overheard comment was from the ever quotable King Dinosaur "Yea the best thing that ever happened at Madison Square Gardens was when the 1st one burnt down".

The week before it was the night of Fire-Man, who's Super robertson Supper Show theme song finally came together with authority... i think there was beer aerobics and the best overheard comment was a man talking to Fire-Man " yea i know when i was younger and doing that sort of thing i always aspired to being an anomaly so keep up the good work"

On Saturday December 16 2006 Canada Lynx Records is celebrating the Release of 21 Tandem Repeats CD "Never Wanted to be Anyone" at the Western Front @ 303 east 8th avenue Vancouver B.C. The show starts @ 8PM and is all ages. Also playing is Interior Design and Dyad.

November 15 re-cap

Well.. Not quite sure who reads this blog, but, if anybody does I'm sure our crew of writers are not to be accused of what WB once termed "smiley -faced PR". That said I would say that Fox Northman who opened the show was one of the best singer songwriter's that I have ever seen... It was a watch in awe moment.

Fox Northman is from a place called... Is it Hay town?... North of Calgary... And he came to Vancouver to get away from distractions and write. A Beardman who has been at the supper show for the past few months sitting quietly at the back. Being a beardman and a supper show regular he almost got called for bass duty one night and then a few weeks ago got assigned to do a set. He delivered. If you missed it then give yourself a punch in the nose now.

Ace bass player Alvaro Rojas was to miss the show because he was set to record with Microscopic... But fate had other ideas. A Storm blew in and power was knocked out so he came. So it was Shockk on drums with the regular 21TR lineup. The crew played a pretty good set although Robertson was a bit distracted by the 2 girls that decided to go top-less. Then there was the version of Hey Rocks's livingroom that had 2 bass solos and I drum solo.. The crowd was overjoyed.

After the show ace guitarist Willingdon Black began a mental chess game with S. Robertson over the upcoming 21 tandem repeats studio session mentioning that certain songs may need more thorough discussion before recording. Robertson recalled a scene from the end of Julius Ceasar's life where he played Brutus... But that's irrelevant ain't it.

November 8 re-cap

It was a strange day... S Robertson was running late and there was no parking and there was a rush set-up and the band was having trouble ordering pitchers of beer (good crowd).

21 tandem repeats, had a good night... everybody made the point of saying it was one of the best shows after the show, and since that doesn't happen every week, i'll believe it. A. Parker even noted that when its' just the regulars up there 21TR just plays the songs but when there is a table of young attractive girls at the front S. Robertson does handstands on the dance floor. He must have been referring to the cobra vs mongoose fight that Robertson (playing the mongoose and the cobra) reenacted during "Poem moment".

My favorite part was the version of On Frozen Pond where the audience did an 8 bar hand clapping solo. Yep that was it... sorry to suzan who got hit with S. Robertson's shoe when it flew off his foot when the mongoose dodged a strike from the cobra.

You should see him imitate a cat playing with a ball of yarn

November 1 Recap

The Sugar Bush launch party was a great success, with a healthy crowd of (mostly) Supper Show newbies witnessing 21 TR at full pelt for half an hour, followed by Jenn Farrell's reading of two selections from The Book. Thanks to Super, WB, Shockk & Alvaro, the Railway, and everyone who came out.

SR crunches abs early in the set.


Kaufman! Brian from Anvil Press introduces his sensational new author.


Jenn reads. Set list: "Ditchpig" and "Only Game in Town."


As promised, cake! Served 50, and that mother was gone within minutes.


New Brunswick's The Divorcees rawked the joint afterwards.

October 18 Recap

This particular Supper Show featured a solid set from 21 TR, with Shockk on drums. S Bloggerson was in fine form, telling stories of his childhood as a street hockey-playin' Leafs fan, firing shots on net hoping that five in a row in the top corner would be the charm to enable his team to reign victorious that night. The band played "On Frozen Pond" and other hit songs.

Coming to the SR Supper Show November 1

The official launch party for Sugar Bush and Other Stories, the debut collection of short stories by Vancouver writer Jenn Farrell (aka fancylady aka Ms. Mule).

The skinny, via Anvil Press: "Sexy, funny, sad, and sweet—Sugar Bush and Other Stories is a frank debut collection of tales about sex, love, and longing. These girls and young women navigate their lives in questionable ways, making some ill-advised choices in their quests for individuality. Whether waiting tables in a factory town, skipping school to make out in the cemetery, or wandering alone on rural side roads, the girls of Sugar Bush share an appetite for destruction and an almost pathological need for acceptance and approval. Part breathless teenaged confessional, part wistful look back, Sugar Bush and Other Stories is a potent cocktail of desires thwarted and fulfilled."

Come by for readings, music and cake.

21 Tandem Repeats-related trivia: the book contains a story called "Dishpig."

October 4th re-cap

Sound-man was late, drummer had headache, Robertson was lackluster but D Trevlon saved the day.

D Trevlon, a sound-man and fine performer got things set up... Robertson ended up on a guitar and doing a version of "What's in the bag?" an old Knockin' Dog number... next thing you know we have no band as a result of the fact that we were going to play SUPERSIMIAN, and we had the weird start... Robertson and Rojas on guitar and drums respectively dogged another tune and then D Trevlon saved the night... at least somebody came to play... (it was a bizarre night with 21 tandem repeats playing the next night, so we altered our course).

So D Trevlon plays a mean guitar and his voice can really fill a room... not bad on the whistling either. he played a set and was encourage to play some more, great stuff.

Then SUPERSIMIAN took the stage and hammered their songs home, by then we were all warmed up and it was time to end the show, but this time we did the intro song at the end and it worked fine.

Remember no supper show on Wednesday October 11... we are good for the rest of the year after that.

sept 27

The Super Robertson Supper Show is cancelled on Wednesday September 27 due to a private party at the club.


Also on October 11... while we are on the subject.

Happy Birthday To Us

Puppets celebrate a pan-galactic birthday at the Super Robertson Supper Show.

Sept 20, No sour limes here

Baboon torture division put on one hell of a funny puppet show... There were aliens and an appearance from Ronald Reagan... And unfortunate visual.

21 tandem Repeats had their first promotional special... Buy the new CD "Never wanted to be anyone" get a slice of Key Lime pie. The deal was that any pie left over was going to be eaten by the Stalwart Willingdon Black, and in the end the ace guitarist went home hungry. This is good news of course, as the CD's were selling like cold pies... Or is it hot cakes!

The set saw some numbers that have been out of rotation for a while, and there was even some improvisation. A few songs were made up on the spot as the puppet booth was being constructed.

It was a good crowd, and good times were had by all.

Sept 13, A Smashing Night

Scene kingpin Smash came out and brought half of Vancouver with him. Most notably Carly Jepsen of Carly Ray Jepsen and Blue Morris... a beautiful young songbird who inspired Super Steve to say, "wow she is really good, and a lot easier to look at than king Dinosaur". She played one song solo and was then joined by Ali Siadat, Smash and Jeff Younger on drums, bass and guitar respectively. A proper clinic was had until somebody called it a Jam. Super Steve was showing signs of stress and said to the guy beside him "it's not a jam it's the Super Robertson Supper Show"... It was about that time Robertson shouted the same easing Steve's worries.

21TR had Shockk as a drummer and played a rocking set. During Bay City Kitty they were joined by a man named Alex on saxophone. Alex hosts a jam at the Anza Club on Thursday night and he is one king hell player.

The new 21 Tandem repeats CD made it's way around the club, and everybody was happy.

September 6 Re-cap: Roadshred

There was a nearly full moon in the sky (called the moon), and I arrived late, almost halfway through the lunatically skewed orchestrations of Robertson and crew. It was Roadbed on stage playing “Bent,” making a fine sound to end what was apparently a five-song set. I thought Super was making up fresh words on the spot, but looking at the lyric sheet right now, I see that it was a verbatim reading of said number.

21 Tandem Repeats (Robertson/Rojas/Hobbs) played next, running through “Dishpig” and “Woodstock.” Rojas—ruling in a full jeansuit—filled in for the missing Mr. Black with a couple bass solos in the WB style.

Interior Design followed, but after one ambient-type selection, Shockk’s old pal/nemesis The Motorcycle Man showed up to put on a one-man thrash/death/grind metal clinic, minus his customary showboating, Vancouver dissing, vinyl tossing, and biker regalia. Such a stripped-down presentation was a bit like seeing KISS without makeup. Nevertheless, the Railway crowd “Licked It Up” with gusto.

aug 23 re-cap

I hear rumors but have nothing concrete on this show except for some spoken word with horn.

it is Aug 30th and the supper show was cancelled tonight for some festival it will also be cancelled Sept. 27th (Danny Michel) and Oct. 11 (film fest private bash).

just so we know what is going on.

SR

aug 16 re-cap

Yo Super

I think we did ya proud tonight, brother. Stump unplugged opened the night - me, cory curtis, kristian naso on trumpet and 2sticks. Loose and funny. Then Rowan Lipkovits played a set of accordian and vocals, with tunes by radiohead, styx (mr. roboto), and brittany spears. also very very good. then it was a bit of a jammaramma with Kristian, shockker on drums, cory on bass, and colin maskall on soprano sax. during their piece I got up and read, in random order, paragraphs from different blogs that I got off your bloggariffic blogsite thisafternoon. good, good times. next week should be equally fun.

saw the poster for the october 5th show. killer lineup. i have a timeslot request - this is 2 days after my birthday so I intend to make it my birthday party/show. can we go on after 21 tandem? i'm guessing there's the opening slot, #2 filled by 21TR, and then 3 + 4 up for grabs. I would like to allow people to drink before the stump takes the stage, but go on early enough for those with real jobs to come out and celebrate, therefore making slot #3 ideal. Possible?

Thanks for entrusting me with your wonderful show. I am honored and mildly aroused.

choke this.

JEff

August 9th re-cap

Aaron Joyce could win a Supper Show gold medal at then next award ceremony for his performance this week. He was sick, but he came anyway and played all night improvising the whole way. That is the kind of spirit we need around here.

First up Sam Cartwright, Alvaro Rojas and Aaron Joyce played some jazz instrumentals and were then joined by S. Robertson the raconteaur. This was all fantastic stuff.

Then 21 tandem Repeats played with Aaron sitting in for Willingdon Black. As the old adage goes "you can never replace a talent like Willingdon Black, but if you have to you need that player to come up big"... I believe it was a certain HNIC commentator that said something like that replacing "Willingdon Black" with "Mats Sundin". Getting off topic. The band played the classic "Chawmin's head", an old Knockin' Dog number as well as some classic 21TR tunes with Alvaro calling out the changes on the fly.

It seemed like Robertson was eager to get on his vacation as he was more distracted than usual.

There was a ceremonial passing of the torch to Jeff Younger, who will host the next 2 supper shows, and as promised Robertson choked Younger in some bizarre ritual.

One day maybe Robertson will get his choking.

August 2 Re-Cap

Kristian Naso, Aaron Joyce, Alvaro Rojas, two Sticks Hobbs, Willingdon Black and Super Robertson played a fine show running through the Super Robertson and friends songbook. There was also that Joni Mitchell song "Woodstock" which goes much better for them than that Gordon Lightfoot song about that shipwreck.

In the middle of wastelands, pockets told a story about how she hates this woman named "Janet" who she works with, and then Fire-Man got up and blew his horn. The show was almost over after that song and the band was able to play the last 2 numbers without Naso who escaped during the weirdness.

A stellar show.

July 26th re-cap

The marathon weekend of site updates continues with last weeks supper show review.

We started out with the Wreck of the Edmuns Fitzgerald led by King Dinosaur... a dog of a song that I will never play again.

King Dinosaur did a noble job but as some mentioned that song is fucked... I don't know what you can do... Kill some verses or speed it up. Kudos to the Rheostatics for their ability to make that song fly.

Next up Weave Cleveland, a master guitar player and a fine singer hit a few covers and an original song.

12 tandem Repeats still reeling from another slaughter at the hands of "the wreck of the E.F" started with much turbo power and perhaps took a few songs to find the groove. Apparently there was a fantastic version of "Saskatchewan" although I am still afraid to check out that tape. Simian Special came out to sing "Bent" as a duet with S. Robertson and then "Maiden" and 21TR had found their legs... Just in time to close the show with "last call".

Oh yea, there was a free emergency poncho giveaway that nobody won so S. Robertson stripped and danced and played with the sexy plastic while singing Mr. Greenie.

July 19 re-cap

The stalwart Willingdon Black missed the show due to an "upper body injury", and Hobbs came late due to a long session in the studio.

That left Super Robertson, Alvaro Rojas and Aaron Joyce to work a bass, guitar, drums, Slide guitar and clarinet.

Fire-Man and Chris Hicks opened the show with the new Super Robertson Supper Show theme song, Rojas joining them on bass and Robertson wisely stayed off the drums. But then it was time to rip it up and rip it up they did with Fire-Man somehow staying on the stage to blow horn for the first number "Tasmania go find another sucker".

Then a Blues number with Robertson screeching his vocals in a drunken like drawl. The drums and the room fell silent and the crew performed a medley from 21 Tandem Repeats "the ocean is life" doing Ode to Hummingbirds, Ode to Sun and Visions of Milan with just bass, slide and vocals. Then they kicked her back up for the song "Mr Greenie" which was around the time the Hobbs came into the room... An overzealous Robertson exclaimed "Hobbs is in the house!" and the crowd cheered. Hobbs then strolled casually back to the bar and ordered a beer.

Well what to you know it was 8:05 time to set up for the sprint.

Out on Dunsmuir street we set up a finish line ribbon waited for a red light... about 15 people lined up and sprinted.
The gold Medal went to Dave Parchomchuk the Silver to S. Robertson and the bronze to Dustin Rilcof. Even a diving Pockets couldn't make up at the finish line. The race generated quite the interest from passers by and there was cheering for the victor.


So back to the club... Robertson sprints up and across the room and dives behind the curtain and almost knocks over Fire-Man who is helping out the jam with some horn. Then pockets and Robertson duel in stories with pockets winning that round pushing Robertson on to the clarinet to double Fire-Man's horn parts.

Then Robertson on bass, Rojas on Guitar, Joyce on slide, Hobbs on drums the band hit three ROADBED numbers Bent, Bengal Tiger (dedicated to the ailing WB) and a special request DEEP FRIED.

As far as an hour of chaos goes that was one of the good ones.

Damn Skippy, If WB is having this much fun it must have been one king hell show.

We could even pretend that the show started with the number Bay City Kitty and carried on from there.

The truth is that there was a rather bad disaster at the start of the show... We can say that Super Robertson was to blame for an unfortunate incident on the drums. It is an arguable point but we can leave it at that, and a lesson has been learned.

Aaron Joyce joined 21TR with a slide guitar and it was a real treat.

Next week we sprint at 8:10 PM sharp

Peter Lolly seems to be challenging SNAPSHOT for Photo supremacy.

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July 5 re-cap

A good time was had by S. Robertson until the next morning when he was suffering from sleep deprivation.

Then you wonder why, has S Robertson just cracked a beer an begun writing in a blog at 10:40PM.

Is it because he feels some duty to the ritual of the show? Or is rather the ritual of the blog? Or is he just a confused simple son of a bitch?

Sim Special came out to sing and we attempted the Wreck of the Edmunds Fitzgerald and a few Supersimian songs.

A guy with curly hair and glasses noted that the last act was superb... Shockk on drums, W.B. on Guitar, SR on Bass, Fire-Man on horn (did i just write that!) all while Pockets and SR exchanged stories about their fathers.

I don't know what the hell I'm doing some days except for Wednesdays I go down to the Railway Club and try to continue the Super Robertson Supper Show for some strange reason or another.

Alvaro Rojas returns to the Supper Show Stage tomorrow night and I might even bring a clarinet

June 28 re-cap

After the show I talked to a woman named Christine, a friend of Alvaro Rojas, who said her favorite part was when Super Robertson ran laps around the room.

I asked her if we were to graph her favorite part on the y axis to the show time on the x axis, then how far would the second peak be from the top peak.

She didn't answer that question due to some reasons we can only speculate on.

Another member of the audience was intrigued by Mr. Willingdon Black and wanted to hear him sing more.

There seemed to be a lot of laughs last night so I guess all went well.

June-21 Re-cap

During the 21TR set 2 Fine performers "Rachel" and "Anne" came up and started dancing... then they started play fighting and ripped each others clothes off.

Other musical entertainment happened but for some reason I can't recall it.

June 14 re-cap

Well I had spent the day walking around the neighborhood with my daughter getting signatures for a petition to try to have some influence on the monstrosity of a building that is set to go in behind my building between my window and the mountains.

CT had taken some letters to city hall earlier in the day and was running late. The Oliers were also fighting for their playoff lives. I was running late and I ran into a joint getting the signatures from one of the more friendly hippie type neighbor's.

Willingdon Black was all set up and ready to go when I burst onto the scene with 10 minutes to go until show time. Now I usually ask WB "how's it going" to which he replies "adequate". I made mention a few days before about his answer to which he replied Perhaps a new question is in order. So I hit him with "So WB you been keeping with the doctrine?", a fancy new way of saying what's up... This confused Black. I had a drum kit to set up, and the game was on...Somebody asked What's happening tonight... Hell I don't know there is still 2 minutes till show time lets not rush into anything. Then Shockk showed up I made a slight joke about being glad he was there to help finish setting up the drums... He said "you are not glad to see me" ( a good leader spends time alienating his crew before a big show)

Turns out Alvaro Rojas brought a band of Mike Magnison on drums and Cory Curtis on bass and him on guitar. I told them to take the stage and went back to watch the last 8 minutes of the Oilers/ Hurricanes game. Then people came back and started harassing me for the show starting 5 minutes late and me being back at the bar not ready to do My regular intro where I speak on the mic... I have a regular intro???... Yes indeed hey there is some music I raced up to the stage asked Alvaro if they had a name or if it mattered... He said I didn't matter so I introduced them as some band from Germany that begins with the letter S and raced back to the game.

They were excellent and provided a great suspense soundtrack for the last 5 minutes of the game which ended in a tie set for overtime... I came back out and for the first time in the day had a moment to stop and enjoy life. The band was kicking it up so I decided it was time for a workout... Time for some aerobics but then the band stopped me like a bad check... Probably a good thing. Alvaro asked for the game score and they played some more.

There is a new character in the novel that is the Supper show... A long haired skinny postal worker who has nothing good to say about any band playing... He walked by and said "what the hell are you listening to this Surf shit for?". Classic!

The boys ended their set an we tried 2.5 minutes of extreme poetry... I had no disguise so I put a sweater over my head.

21 tandem repeats took the stage with Shockk on drums. We took some heckling from the folks at 1124 east 10th ave, which gives me an idea for another show.... We could have a mic in the audience and have heckle night.

Of the songs 21TR played I was Hey Rock's livingroom I didn't bother to sing the end line "never bring things to my attention I apologize" as my story about Bill and Greg took a different turn. After the show I was scolded by some audience members for missing that, which I guess means that people are listening and enjoying which is about the best news of the night.

I tried to explain how I became Super Robertson but the truth is a long and fragmented story that I could only touch upon while Black, Rojas and Shockk held it down.

Edmonton won in overtime while we were playing... I was offered an update during our set, and I tried to take the shockk approach "who cares hockey sucks we have music here"... Pockets said "but it is good news" and that little part of my heart felt some joy.

What happened on June 7

BEER YOGA

that's what happened.

Everybody was nice and loose after that.

Shockk on drums

The may 31 2006 version of the Supper show saw Skockk on Drums.

It always shocks me when somebody says "I didn't know shockk could play drums". Listen to track 1 of last Dance @ the shockcenter, and you will hear that patented Shockk energy from those lightning fast appendages of his.

There was no special guest this week although Fire-Man did over-honk during the drum solo portion of the song "Wastelands".

21 Tandem Repeats brought out some new tunes this week and one of them saw Willingdon Black on lead vocals. I believe the song was called "Heidi Stopover", it was a groovy number with some fine black'n'blues vocal melodies.

The gracious crowd came to listen that night and at times overwhelmed the band with vigorous applause.

A fine show indeed

Earl Parrish

Now that the show is good the blog of the show needs to be destroyed

Well Don Alder is a monster of a Guitar player for sure... That was the main lesson of the show a few weeks back.

It looks like this Bloody blog has gone to the dogs.

Last week City Wide Walkie Talkie slipped out of their rehearsal spot for a very rare appearance playing 3 songs. It was cool shit.

Roger Dean Young helped celebrate Bob Dylan's 65 Birthday by dong a Dylan number backed by the Supper Show All star band.

Black- Who almost missed the show probably wished he did when he saw 2 honking keyboards in his patented stage spot.

Roger Dean Young- Was hoping to remain low key and watch a basketball game and then sing a song but got unfortunately drawn into SR's antics.

Hobbs- Played a stalwart set on Drums.

Rojas- Continued in his quest to lengthen songs and was later met with a Knuckel sanwich.

Robertson- is slowly discovering how to keep the attention of the crowd to the great peril of 21 tandem repeats as a fine song machine.

Fire-Man- Honked the a flat horn and had a few good runs.

Jack freelance- Roasted S Robertson with some fine heckling

May 10th Re-Cap

Cam Dilworth went over to a friends place and lost track of time and forgot to show up for his Supper show appearance. He is really sorry, he practiced and everything, he was all ready, it was going to be great.

A project called Wolf Mountain stomped down some fine noise but perhaps got thrown off a bit when S Robertson, encouraged by JLS the soundman, got on the Mic and delivered a rap about Wolf's howling for their ladies across a canyon. It was around that time that things got weird. The whole thing wound down to nothing and Robertson slipped off the stage and then Wolf Mountain left the stage.

Thank the lord Fire-Man was present with his elaborate Bugle horn. The anxious crowd was immediatly soothed with an A flat jam where Robertson issued and explanation laden apology.

In fact Robertson spent a lot of the evening running his jaw about all his yesterdays.

21 tandem Repeats just keep getting better and better with Alvaro Rojas adding a thicker, fatter and more versatile spine. Not to be outdone Willingdon Black cut into longer solo's fueling speculation that he's looking to push 21 tandem repeats to become "THE ULTIMATE JAM BAND". Robertson denies this saying "Black is no fool, He's a song man and you media jackasses are just showing your ignorance by speculating on issues like these".

Coming May 10th

Cam Dilworth of the Neins circa is coming down to the Supper Show to play a show titled Artist Artisan.

The idea being that the audience will sketch him as he plays.

21 tandem repeats will stomp some tunes down as well.

So be ready to sketch

The Last 2 weeks Supper show

You are probably wondering what happened to this here promising blog that has once again fallen to the wayside.

But no... possibly something so juicy happened that nobody had the balls to report on it.

It's true, our main man Willingdon black stole the show 2 weeks ago that would be Wednesday April 19th. opening the show alone on a unicycle Mr. Black read a hilarious story that could have been fiction but was so strange it must have been real... the crowd was in stitches. Then during the 21 tandem repeats set the band played the Classic WASTELANDS and Willingdon Black put down the guitar jumped behind the curtain and came out in a tree costume... it was then that some foxy lumberjack came up on stage and chopped him down in a scene reminiscent of X rated jello wrestling all the time Alvaro Rojas kept the bass line thumping.

On April 26 2006, Shockk sat in on drums and the Land of Deborah played a set. the big news was the arrival of the Supper show drum kit, which Super Robertson christened with a jam and a piece read by Kevin (smith).

Highlights of the set included the song "Saskatchewan"... look for it on a PODCAST coming soon.

Last weeks Supper show recap

The supper show on April 12th was a fine 21 Tandem Repeats show with Chris from Baboon torture division doing an interesting take on "Sweet Home Alabama".
For the most part the show made a good live recording... ultimately it would make a fine podcast.... things to do!

The band played a varied set focusing on some new tunes and pulling out the classic "Mr. Greenie" from THE OCEAN IS LIFE.

Next week, or at least tomorrow, we will have a set from Baboon Torture Division. The guy is a true maniac who has in past supper show performances... been a flower who plucked himself to death doing "she loves me she loves me not", performed as a mime rock act and threw himself headfirst off the stage, and most recently worked the puppets for the fabulous supper show awards show.

look for another gold medal performance.

The Supper Show likes you! It really likes you!

The Supper Show celebrated its first anniversary last Wednesday night with the inaugural Supper Show awards. Far from being an obsequious display of backslapping and self-puffery, the glittering spectacle honoured those whose presence, participation, and punctuality have made the Supper Show the weekly cultural phenomenon that it is every, er, week.

21 Tandem Repeats warmed up the crowd for about 20 minutes, soothing jittery nerves with numbers such as "Fuse Lit Bombs" and "Melanoma," a relatively new song that bears the unmistakable Velvet Touch of Willingdon Black.

Finally some puppets took the podium and announced the start of the award ceremony. The first award went to Mule Hughes for Best Impersonation of a Puppet. A convergence of cosmic importance occurred when The Mule finally met his puppet double and, being so moved and obviously stricken, warbled a verse of "Working Man" with the house band of Rojas/Hobbs/Black.

The awards continued in a similar vein, with appearances from the Penus Puppet, Baboon Torture Division, Shockk (who accepted awards both for himself and on behalf of Land of Deborah), CT, Andrew Parker (an upset winner for Best Horn Player), Eyes, Snapshot, King Dinosaur, Pockets, Fireman, the Railway waitrixes...basically the pantheon of the Supper Show universe.

Apologies to those who were passed over in this report. They certainly didn't lack for kudos last Wednesday. At the Super Robertson Supper Show, everyone's a winner!

The supper show night before feeling

Somewhat afraid to disturb the flow of fine re-caps posted but disruption is what is needed on some nights.

think of a clear river flowing and then you take a stick and jab at the riverbed and watch the silt cloud up the water and flow downstream. Next thing you know a fish comes in to see what new thing might have been exposed in his world.

I'd say the jabbing was last Wednesday when the goal was to make it through the night without me playing the acoustic guitar meaning that we wouldn't play the stuff we rehearse... It was definitely a stick in the riverbed.

I didn't even have a drummer lined up yet Mule Hughes and Simian were in the house. I could have done a better job of using the talent but I think in some weird way it was some sort of a test for the 21tr crew. A chance to assess our skills and shine light on the strengths and weaknesses.

Wednesday march 22 we go back to the egg, where the biggest risk could be a few new songs that are perhaps under rehearsed... Sounds pretty comfortable.

S Robertson

March 15, 2006 Recap

Well...

Special Ides of March show, featuring the assassination of my ego; after playing almost weekly for a year in this venue with this group, the bar staff still have no idea that I'm in the frigging band.

Just jamming tonight. Not sure if any of it was any good.

Rob 'Mule' Hughes, just back from hanging out with Voivod in Montreal, took a welcome turn on the drums.

Then Super stripped to reveal that he was wearing a bra while the band played Iron Maiden's 'Running Free.'




ACM.

March 8 Recap

Decent enough crowd. The Eric Eyes band started off, and did a creditable job.

21TR were solid. Horn jam was brief but wide ranging; even denizins of that elegant Railway backroom got a blast.

I had the rest of the week off, and was in a bouyant mood. The talk turned to puppet shows. I foolishly guaranteed Pockets that I would deliver a puppet show based on a radio play called 'Practical Alternatives,' penned by Mule Hughes and produced by the elusive JR McClelland.

I featured in it as the Mad Scientist.

Stay tuned.




ACM.

March 1, 2006 Recap

Only the hardcore Supperholics in the crowd tonight. Pity, as Super brought cream horns.

I think it was Pete Townshend who once said, after The Who had delivered a great show to a sparse crowd, "we were playing for the people who weren't there."

This is perhaps a tough but crucial step in the evolution of a band; the ability to legitimately make people feel that they may have missed something worthwhile if they don't show up.

This evening's show was a good one. I thought the band recorded some personal bests with some of the tunes, particularly the newish 'Melasoma.'

There was also a pretty good jam thrown in, featuring a smoking walking bass groove by Alvaro Rojas, with some nifty spoken word stuff by Pockets and a woman whose name I don't know. Hobbs was in top casually-killing mode, and WB had a good time for once in his life, though he was careful not to show it.

Then there was a brief but insane three-man horn jam, led by a dapper Fireman.

The evening ended with a kind of made-up-on-the-spot punk tune. Not sure what that was all about.

Anyway, I liked it.



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FEB. 22nd Recap

Lots of gear on stage tonight. There were a lot of bands on the late bill, and the stage was like a Surrey pawnshop.

As for the show....where's the Mule when you need him? I'm sure he'd be able to give a pithy summary of the evening.

The thing with these kinds of blogs is that you want to be positive, but at some point it comes across as smileyfaced PR. Maybe it was just me, but there was a bit of a Team-Canada-playing-Switzerland-in-Turin vibe in the air.

21TR were drummerless, and though the formula has worked in the past, it seemed a bit laboured tonight. Shockk is pretty much indestructible in any guise, including Interior Design, which he offered up on this occasion. There was a jam at the end with A. Rojas on bass, Shockk on guitar, a Pronger-like WB on 2nd guitar, and Super on drums and vocals.

I've never been completely sold on drummers as vocalists. Ringo Starr would belt out the odd tune in the Beatlemania days, a gimmick that was reprised by Peter Criss and Kiss (although I think he generally stepped out from the kit for his balladeering). Then there was Don Henley, Triumph, and of course the guy from Night Ranger. I think Levon Helm pulled it off okay with the Band.

Of course the greatest vocal performance by a drummer took place a few years back at Cafe Du Soleil, when a black-fingernailed R. Hughes, playing in a trio called 'Restore' with Super and the Shockker, belted out his suburban anthem 'Fort' ("You couldn't find it, asshole, even if you tried!").

We could've used a bit of that tonight.



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Earl Parrish recalls

It's always hard to play a show on the same day that Canada gets eliminated from the men's Olympic hockey tournament. It makes for strange feelings. The lone good thing is that we can no longer say that head coach Pat Quinn is the greatest coach in the world, which is something that has been painfully obvious for about 4 years.

Anyway this is a supper show blog... so let's get on with this dog.

Great crowd tonight

No drummer for 21tr this evening but onstage was enough gear to sink an ocean liner. A few touring bands were in town and so their gear was up on stage lined all around the perimeter. This made a more intimate environment, S Robertson brought the damn drum kit anyway... just in case.

21TR played a fine set that perhaps was a bit too quiet and somber for a large crowd of depressed hockey fans.

Next up was Interior design who also was a bit thrown off by the kayos of the day. Fortunately it is impossible for Interior design to play badly.

To finish off the night S Robertson jumped on the drums with Alvaro on bass and Willingdon Black and Shockk on Dual guitars. The moment was to expand on the concept of Dave P. you can't always be like Dave P. but every once in a while you have got to think like him. The music was fantastic... they were excellent!

One of Dave P.'s Goals is to become the I world record holder for indoor rowing. The concept being that thinking along those lines is possibly a little extreme. It's a noble cause for higher beings which is great, and it's not for everybody, but that doesn't mean you have to sit in front of the TV and eat a box of bugles.

The night ended and we all went home still a little unsure of what the hell happened that day.

Mule-Eye View

I arrived shortly after the Supper Show began last night, and the music I heard drifting down the stairwell of the Railway Club was hi-fi in the extreme. 21 Tandem Repeats' sound has really taken a leap forward now that Alvaro Rojas has joined on bass and eventually, I hope, Chapman Stick. The set featured a new song called “-----oma,” with a cool riff/refrain that definitely got under my skin, and a 21 TR version of Supersimian’s “On Frozen Pond,” a number well suited to the clear, cool weather we’ve been enjoying when we’re not inside following the Olympic exploits of our nation's hockey teams or wincing at the succession of awesome spills on the luge track.

Yes, everything seems to be falling into place for 21 TR, save for a Super-approved nickname for their new recruit. Super solicited suggestions from the audience, but come on—the guy’s name is Alvaro Rojas. How can you possibly spice up, augment, or otherwise improve on that handle, except by pronouncing it with rolled Rs in the manner of Ricardo Montalban? The name outshines even Aljoz Mulej, one of WB’s former alter-egos. Hey Super—leave that name alone!

After 21 TR’s set everyone had to scramble for the last scraps of stage time, resulting in a typical Supper Show grab bag to round off the evening. Speaking of grab bags, someone left a stack of free CDs on the bar, from which I scored a copy of A Certain Trigger by Maximo Park. You can bet I left a satisfied customer.

TRH

Feb. 15/06 Recap

"You do look glum! What you need is a gramme of soma."

Aldous Huxley.

Soma was the imaginary drug in Aldous Huxley's 'Island.' I grew up on Huxley Avenue in Burnaby, except that it was named after the Victorian scientist Thomas Huxley, not the Bloomsbury writer Aldous Huxley. How do I know this? Because it was an English scientist neighbourhood; the next street over was Darwin, and the one after that was Halley.

And this ties into the Supper Show in that the band introduced a new tune tonight. The new song rhymes with 'soma,' but some (ie. one) band members are dissatisfied with the title, and are lobbying to have it changed.

Of course, this can be a tricky issue. I once played in a band (perhaps I still do ) for which I wrote a song called 'Reefer Girl.' The title came from an old pulp novel (one of my favorite sources for song titles), and was a tribute to a couple of people from my past. One of my musical compatriots took exception to the song's content. There was a heated discussion, but in the end I did change it, as I discovered a new pulp title ('Hotrod Sinner') that was more syllablistcally compatible with the riff.

Pause.

Super Robertson returned from California in an energetic mood, engaging the audience on various sundry matters. The set seemed decent from the stage. There was a brief interlude in which a guy named Dave delivered some stylish rapwork. Then another guy named David--better known as the Fire-Man--came up and played some horn. Then 50% of 21TR were summarily dismissed, and replaced with 33.3% of Roadbed, a.k.a. Shockk, who joined Roadbed Mk I for a version of 'Bent.'

Eric Eyes then got up on drums, and was met with an upbeat groove that caused him some angst. Deborah (landofdeborah.com), who appears on Devon Townshend's new album, as well as 21TR's new album, read the night's poem.


"..there is always soma, delicious soma, half a gramme for a half-holiday, a gramme for a week-end, two grammes for a trip to the gorgeous East, three for a dark eternity on the moon..."

And four for a bright eternity at the Supper Show.



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Feb. 8th Recap

No Super Robertson tonight, which meant no 21TR. Super was down in California, apparently negotiating the framework of an upcoming reality TV series.

This left the surly bastard known as Willingdon Black as host.

Things got off to an uneasy start when a young Rasputinesque man came into the Railway and asked one of the barmaids to set up the television beside the stage. Soundman JLS was drawn into the endeavor, which made the building of the pyramids look like a casual task.

With things already running late, Willingdon Black stepped in, asking that no television be watched while the Supper Show proceeded. This was received with polite tension by the bearded man, who indicated that he wanted to watch the Grammy award telecast.

Perhaps it was fortunate that Eric Eyes was not able to procure a drum kit (though he did bring a digeridoo), as it cut down on the amount of sound gear setup, and things finally got underway with a set from King Dinosaur. KD had tickets to a Canucks game, but blew off the first period so he could perform (I imagine he wished he'd skipped the game altogether; the Canucks lost to the lowly Blues). His well-received set concluded with a cartoon-illustrated version of Clapton's 'Railway Song.'

Then came Dustin Rilcoff. His voice was in good form, and he offered up some groovy tunes. Willingdon Black sat in on a couple of them.

Interior Design closed the night, establishing a blend of virtuosity and peacefulness. The perfect culmination of an evening that was not as comfortably low key as it might have been.

Feb. 1st Recap

How about that! It looks like the title of the Jackass Has Haybreath/21TR tune 'Bay City Kitty' has similar origins to the name of Scottish pop outfit the Bay City Rollers. (I think Super suggested as much one time, but I scoffed dubiously).

According to a website called classicbands.com...

"The Bay City Rollers were a Scottish pop/rock band who began to take shape when they were known as The Saxons....
Wanting to change their name to something that sounded more 'American', they decided to stick a pin in a map of the United States to help them choose a new handle. The first attempt landed in Arkansas, but wanting something sexier, the next nearest place that appealed to them was Bay City, Michigan. The suffix 'Rollers' was added and the new name was complete."

Of course, Super Robertson penned the words to Bay City Kitty in honour of a family cat that 'bolted from the car' while the Robertson family was travelling through Michigan.

Anyway, the Jackass version contained a rather nifty bass line from Smash. I noticed that Alvaro Rojas, who once again stopped by for the first half of Supper Show, seems to have picked up on the same groove. Another one for the great minds think alike file.

Pretty decent 21TR set all around.

I seem to recall a poem moment, but I may have been daydreaming. Then Hobbs/Black/Robertson went back up.

Sim joined them for a version of 'Bill Von Bacon Tell' that was Withnailian in its utter dishevelment.

Dustin came up for a much better 'Curtain Draws.'

Then 'Last Call,' and that was it.

Dare I use the word 'consistency?'

Jan.25/06 Recap

"Scots wha hae wi' Wallace bled,
Scots, wham Bruce has aften led,
Welcome to your gory bed
Or to victorie!"

They call it the Supper Robertson Supper Show, yet there was no Haggis at the Railway diner car. One had to settle for ham and salami pizza.

Or, as Burns himself would say:

"The best laid schemes o' Mice an' Men,
Gang aft agley,
An' lea'e us nought but grief and' pain,
For promis'd joy!"

For the second week in a row, 21TR kick off the proceedings. Again a good set, raised a notch when Alvaro Rojas joined the band on stage in the capacity of bass whisperer.

Then a solo accoustic set by Kingsway. Some nice tunes with a cool gritty edge to them. Neat voice...bit of a rasp to it which I liked.

Then came Pockets, ranting against a backdrop of Super on bass, ACM on guitar and Hobbs on drums playing 'Mr. Greenie.' She was joined partway through by her always inventive other half Chris, and the two of them launched into an explosive version of a tune that I believe was called 'Poop.'

And finally, a bit more 21TR (although Alvaro had left, racing crosstown to jam with one of the legendary Naso brothers). They closed with 'Last Call.'

For alchohol.

At the Railway Club.

In our city.

In Canada.



"O Whiskey! soul o' plays an' pranks!
Accept a Bardie's gratefu' thanks!"


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January 18/06 Recap

Getting a little behind on these things. Luckily each Suppershow is burned indelibly in my mind.

In the beginning, there was 21TR. (That reminds me of a song by the Australian hard rock band Heaven, who had a tune that featured the line "In the beginning, there was volume, and the Lord He said 'Go Bang Thy Head!")

Anway, we started the evening with 21TR, who played a decent set. Nicely-paced with some good stuff. Are we wearing out 'Hey Rock's Living Room?' Say something mathematical...say something metaphysical...each week a different 'say something.' It was the Mule who started this whole thing way back in the beginning, was it not? I'll have to start perusing the dictionary.

Then what? Oh yeah, a jam with Hobbs on drums, ACM on bass and Shockk on guitar. A lot of curtain action in this segment, with cameos by Robertson himself, as well as Pockets and Fireman. Needless to say, the jam was in F#.

Then Roadbed. It was the original lineup, featuring Hobbs on drums. Kind of like when Phil Rudd finally got back with AC/DC. 'Gibbering Fool,' 'Bent' and 'Scarbjacket.' I must say, Shockk was in serious tour-de-force mode on this occasion. I think this was the 'burned indelibly in my mind' part of the evening.


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Jan 11th Re-cap

A good crowd this week, seemingly in a 'let's get on with 2006' kind of mood.

First up, Dustin Rilkoff, aka Jack Freelance, with a two-song set. A solid one-two accoustic punch; JF can hold his own with just a guitar on a stage better than most.

Then 21TR, stretching out a bit for a longer set than usual. Brock Pytel joined in on drums this week, and did a great job. The band pulled out some less-travelled material, like 'Last Call' and one of my own favorites, 'Bay City Kitty.' It felt pretty good...I liked the set.

Then a special treat, as my dad once said, before serving me herring for breakfast. But no, this was a real treat, a puppet show from the Baboon Torture Division. If it was breakfast it would be French Toast with your choice of syrup, jam or honey.

And then what? Oh yeah, a poem moment, featuring musical backing from Eric Eyes, Brock, ACM, and a Fireman with a plan (and a new horn, which earned kudos from R. 'Mule' Hughes, who spoke of 'genuinely horn-like sounds,' and made reference to Miles Davis).

On with the year, folks.



W. Black.

January 4th Re-cap

Let's see, things got rolling with 21TR. A mellow set, maybe a bit too laid back, although it picked up a bit as it went. Sim came up for some impromptu SuperSimian, which is always nice. I thought Deborah was going to come up to join us for 'Blue Skies,' but for some reason that didn't happen.

Anyway, Deborah (TheLandofDeborah.com) was up next for a great little set of her own tunes. I like Deborah's voice very much, and she is also able to craft some top notch songs; involved without being esoteric, catchy without being banal.

The next act was a jam consisting of Sim on bass, Shockk and Jeff Younger on duelling guitars (electric vs. accoustic), and Stoke ACM on bass. It seemed to be a little off the rails, until S. Robertson, evidently inspired by New Years Eve at Babalong, got up and performed one of his burlesque routines.

Thanks to all who came out, and try to catch Deborah at one of her shows around town.



W. Black.

Resolutions

I resolve to maintain a balance between something that matters and something that does not.

I resolve to be more aggressive in keeping wooden hand made horns played by insane maniacs away from music exploring a more diverse set of note options.

I resolve to cut free from a drum kit for a while... Or at least have nights that don't always require a drum kit.

I resolve to try to make it fun for all involved.

SR

December 28/06 Recap

There was a bit of a post-Christmas hangover vibe at the Railway this time around. Having said that, it turned out to be a decent-sized crowd; even the middle tables started filling up.

Dustin Rilcoff, aka Jack Freelance, roused himself from his sickbed to start the show off with a well-received two-song set. He was followed by the Shockker, in Interior Design guise.

Let me digress for a moment. I saw a movie over the holidays. It’s called ‘Sideways,’ and it’s about these two guys who go on a week-long road trip through California’s wine country. In one scene, the lead character, a keen wine aficionado, swills down a glass of Pinot Somethingorother.

“Quaffable,” he says “But hardly transcendent.”

Interior design has a CD out, and it’s transcendent. I tell you, this is a suberb record. It’s a Dom Perignon, 1953. This CD has the potential to be a soundtrack to your life for the next few years.

Anyway, back to the Supper Show.

After a four ‘song’ Interior Design set, it was time for 21TR. They (er...we) started with a somewhat perfunctory ‘Failure,’ followed by a similarly serviceable ‘Ditchpig.’ Super Robertson grabbed his bass for ‘Sanctuary,’ which was spiced up by Marjorie Robbins, and the classic ‘Bicycle Story.’ And then Fireman came up for a bit of a horn jam, which he brought to a close with a nifty and frantic flourish.

As Supper Shows go, it was quaffable.

But hardly transcendent.



W. Black.

December 22/06 Christmas Show Recap

No Wednesday Supper Show this week. Instead, a Thursday Christmas feast, featuring Solomon Standing, 21TR, Mongoose, and the Family Stump.

All in all, a four course meal, with the various musicians on hand offering up more chops than a butcher shop.

Le t's switch metaphors...

Like the national hockey team, steeped in depth with four solid lines, each band made an impression on its shift; each turning over to bring a different character and dimension to the game.

The crowd was solid all the way through the night, and sporting as much joie de vivre as the entertainers. It was a classic Railway mix, at times grooving in bunches in front of the stage, at times swelling on their feet to catch the action, and somtimes just sitting back, enjoying the tunes.

On the whole a great night. Thanks to all who came out.

December 14/05 Recap

A decently-sized and amiable crowd, their mood due partly to the holiday season and partly to being extensively plied with cream horns and peanut butter cookies.

The night starts with a SuperSimian duet. A nicely-delivered rendition of ….. (can't remember the song name).

Next up; 21TR. Shockk on drums. A solid enough set, highlighted by a Jack Freelance-fronted 'The Curtain Draws,' and sent off the rails a little by a weightless 'Bengal Tiger' and amphetamine-paced 'Fuse-Lit Bombs.' Frontman Super Robertson also decided to make a song up on the spot, which caused less consternation among his bandmates than usual.

After that, Willingdon Black and the Snake Island Salvage Company. A somewhat new feature to the Supper Show, featuring ACM as Bass Whisperer, with Super Robertson on Drums and the Shockker on guitar. Powered with some superb bass grooves (one of which was an excerpt from Rob 'Mule' Hughes' 'Saturn and the Beautiful White Devil'…we won't play it again without his permission). Jack Freelance offered up some nice rapwork, with Pockets contributing her usual canny insight. Fireman, the local music scene's own Rasputin, approached the stage, horn in hand, but was stopped at the 'door' by bouncer/drummer Robertson. The Fireman was, however, was allowed to deliver a re-cap of his own Flying Monkey's cult gathering, which took place the previous Saturday.

After that, there was an excited murmur in the crowd.

"That looks like Roadbed," said a voice.

"It is Roadbed!" said another.

And indeed it was. Super, Shockker and Sim on stage for a brief set of 'Gibbering Fool' and 'Provincial.'

Super Robertson complained afterwards of bass problems during the set, but it all sounded good out in the crowd. It was speculated by experts that Robertson's Fender Stu Hamm Signature Bass was simply acting up, having been so recently and expertly handled by Willingdon Black. When back in the hands of its owner, the bass rebelled by hurling itself at stationary objects and refusing to play in tune.

Bass Whisperer

I threw down a few lines of "Watchin' You" during the monkey horn jam last Wednesday. No one noticed.


W. Blackout.