103 posts... or Blogaroo's, if one wants to use the proper terminology

What happened last week... our hero tries to recall shortly before he is to hit the ice for a fine high-paced hockey game. i was thinking about that... i made some pretty good plays last week... perhaps i should promote my rec hockey rather than the musical ventures... it's entertainment right! and it's free... The crowd could drink spiked hot drinks and weigh in on the weather

I'll just leave that.

For the second week in a row a man named Cam came down and laid down a fine clinic. It was Cam Owens and he was telling stories and warning the audience that they might have to listen for some clues in the songs. Excellent stuff!



Then it was 21 Tandem Repeats turn and old SR had his head up his ass calling the wrong configurations. Should have hit Bengal Tiger after Bent, then perhaps Carolina and Scarb Jacket, Mr Greenie, i scratch my head...

live and learn



after the show Super Steve was down right depressed from our general negativity towards what we did... in an effort to cheer up old SR he had this line "And on Wishing Machine you had the crowd singing along with the la la la la's... Well it took them a minute!"

Good times all around

May 14 Re- Cap

Cameron Dilworth put on a full clinic this night. This guy is good. The Show was called The New Music Super Robertson Supper Show and it was called that in jest because a festival called New Music West was starting in Vancouver that night. The festival had to change it's name from Music West, because it was run by a bunch of shifty hacks that knew a few things about soaking indie bands for bogus application fee's all the while pushing the same old same old.

My Old Band ROADBED use to loose 20-30 bones per annum, trying to get heard through that industry outlet. It was always the same bands that got to play. Later, like a few years ago... Shockk, who was with me in Roadbed, and left to play in Mongoose, ended up getting a show there with Mongoose. The only problem was that Mongoose was on tour in another part of the country at the time. Mongoose never applied... they were just a big band in the city who got to the head of the line without even trying. i recall Shockk saying "I have become what i hated". Beware of industry things... they are like a bucket of leaches that latch on to the hopes of music folk and suck them dry.

Probably why New Music Super Robertson is one of the finer festivals in town... no money is exchanged.

Cameron Dilworth



21 Tandem Repeats



and the "Poem Moment"

Uncle STAN... from the Stan Cam May 7, 2008

Not only this, but the legendary MULE HUGHES has written a new song titled "Uncle Stan's Teeth" projected to be released on the compilation "supper show songs"

and from the stan cam...

Is today may 8 or 9th?

i set in on my pathway to sign into blogger and got completely derailed trying to find the meaning of the word "erudite". It seems to be a term used to describe a person as learned or scholarly...

where was i...

too many distractions around here.

now we are clear.. looks like i might have about 15 minutes.
Just lost a few minutes trying to put a link to a news story that has expired on the 24 hours website... apparently you can get it for 10 bones.

First.

On May 7 2008 we were 15 minutes late starting, which is completely fucking unacceptable. i take responsibility for that fiasco.

Uncle Stan came out to do "running puppet commentary", which is apparently a very brave thing to do... Uncle Stan is a pro so no worries. We had a "Stan Cam" running so there will be some good footage shortly.

this is not from the Stan Cam



We did our monthly Blog review the other day and have fined Earl Parrish $400 for his savage attack and unfair blaming of show start delay on a person who shall remain anonymous... for the sheer continuity of the blog. Lets go with this one... Now i can't, as the "Rule of Robertson" states "delete something in the blog" as it is a record of a state of mind, others may disagree. Too bad i wasn't Dick Cheaney.

So if you read this blog lets update the paragraph from the last blogaroo that starts "It's what happened before the show that is interesting to note..." and replace it with this better and more accurate "If Super Robertson ain't going to take the bull by the horns when he is in the ring then he shouldn't be whining about it after he gets gored. And you think that is a gore.. it is an insignificant nick you sissy"

the Main reason the show started late was because that Fucking idgit Fire-Man was causing feedback with his fucking corn fed "monkey with the microphone" bit... then he had the audacity to try to call Deuce up to the front to work the curtain. For fuck sakes you call the guy in the tuxedo up to work the curtain when the guy who was just 20 minutes away from winning "the most reliable curtain pull" is sitting stage left.

April 23 re- cap

Supper Show 3rd year anniversary show photos by Peter lolley is a good way to get an overview of what happened on Wednesday April 23 2008. I would suggest watching it as a slide show. Notice William Lee gets shutout yet again going home without gold... mostly due to the fact that we didn't have time for all the awards like "best slide show presentation"... others who were shutout include Melissa and Bethanie... we didn't have time for the "myspece award" or the "soundman assistant award"... we also missed the "most annoying realtor award".

It's what happened before the show that is interesting to note. There was a guy, a one man band, who needed an hour to set up before HIS big show later on in the night... so it was up to us to make sure to be done by 8:30 PM. Now that's all good and i'm always up for keeping us honest. i heard about this the night before, as this was clearly a big concern. So the dude shows up when we are setting up and spends 20 minutes holding up the sound man to emphasize he needs what he needs and of course to talk gear... the result being that we are late getting started. At 8:30 we stopped and cleared stage with our usual stealth tear down with this dude standing over us to make sure we don't inconvenience him.

Come up for a name for this ignaramus and you could win a Canada Lynx Records shirt.

Here is the show in 10 minute segments (the maximum i can upload)

Part ONE



Part TWO



Part Three



Part Four



Part FIVE

What is a Super Robertson Supper Show anniversary show... photos speak better than words.

Supper Show 2nd year anniversary show photos

there will be no Super Robertson Supper Show on Wednesday April 30.

we will be back in May.


this happened last week



and our guest was Kingsway

Now if i was smart i would have edited the tape so the announcement happened and then the curtain pull happened and then we did the song.

The following was written as the original post... the stuff above was added later.

the good news is i played guitar for the better part of this evening once the children went to sleep. Better than going over the tape and festering in my own disapproval of my actions.

After the show i was standing next to A. Parker when a friend left and said "good show"... i thanked the person and muttered under my breath towards A Parker "but was it", to which he replied "that is for you to think about for the next few days". indeed. You can't become too predictable... like the guys at work knowing that i am about to come across something that will surly stoke my anger so they set up a stack of bins for me to punt at Roy's head. Actually the term should be "place kick" at Roy's head.

The show will go online later this week so the truth will stand... but i would like to take a moment to go over the show's failures.

1) I hate the blues
2) should not have played "Rain"
3) should have played "banting tree"
4) Lincon Park was mentioned
5) i took the touque off for the song "The Duke of Touque"


the successes

1) somewhat recovering from the blues
2) good audience interaction ( Fire-man makes the best audience member)
3) we played pretty good for the most part
4) the audience wrote a song and we performed it from nothing
5) a picture of beer arrived on the stage

April 2 re-hash

well last week i remember being behind the curtain and not really wanting to play so i touched the guitar and there was some feedback so i figured i should play a bit to work out the sound kinks. It was about that time that somebody opened the curtain and the show began. Fair is fair... it was a bit past 7:30. Shortly after that fiasco chris banting and Willingdon black came up and we were then a trio. I pulled the curtain shut again for good measure and i heard some people mutter something about "what kind of clown show is this". Then we cut into "Never wanted to be anyone" and played a good part of the song behind a closed curtain... never a bad idea. Did i mention that WB was on bass. anyhoo the curtain was opened by King Dinosaur and the show began again. Just as the song ended Cory Curtis blew into the club (Cory Has played bass for us before and is one King hell player) as the band was aggressively scanning the bar for our ace on bass Mr. A Rojas i mentioned the Corey was in the club. I think some people could see the wheels turning which created some comedy. A few songs later Rojas was present and on Bass and we rocked the old Knockin' Dog number "Wasteland".


Then before you could say "super robertson has the mad temper of a lunatic" Margaret Taylor was on stage with us.



Some pundits mentioned that the show was like one of those hockey games where the team that got it's balls stomped in the first period comes back in the third to force overtime

March 26 re-cap

Genny Trigo Played solo and with 21 tandem repeats. Due to © issues i cannot post the songs she sings in spanish. You will have to come out and and hear them live next time she plays.

21 Tandem Repeats had a fairly strong show






And Genny came back up



Take note. The Super Robertson Supper Show 3rd year anniversary show will be on April 23.

March 19 re- cap

March 12 Re-Cap

Supper Show aside March 12 2008, will forever go down as the day the wrong thing happened in a cruel and incompetent manner and left an eternal and visual reminder of the ugly stupidness.

About 3 hours before the Supper Show one of my idiot neighbors hired a incompetent, hate-full and utterly stupid crew of greedy hacks to top 3 large cedar trees on our block. Now perhaps i could be considered one of those "Fucking Loon tree-huggers" you hear about from time to time, and if you were stupid and ignorant you could see that as an infringement on your human rights (the right to make $1000 in about an hour climbing up a tree with a chain-saw, or the right to be paranoid about a tree falling on your house and your ability to make your wrong choice in dealing with that fear that oddly enough will increase the likelihood of that tree falling on your house).

lets go to the situation, then to the optimal solutions, then to what happened, and then finally to how a human can no longer exist on his block under the presence of this nasty mammoth beacon of stupidity.

Guy worries about his neighbors trees being blown over on his house in a windstorm. Now this could happen, but I happen to have a certain "thing" about this man vs nature battle in where man beats nature but loses by robbing himself of majestic diversity.

I think he met the swine that did the job and the swine got him paranoid.

He told me about it before it was going to happen as we got talking about trees, i told CT who went into scientist mode and figured out the best solution... But his guy was giving him a deal (insert long swearing frenzy here).

CT makes good decisions.

When she was pregnant with the twins they tried to book her for a C section saying there was no way... that is just not done anymore... the usual bullshit. She had to fight like a tiger and in the end there was only 2 doctors in B.C. who would even attempt a natural birth. One was on the Island and one was here in Vancouver and the deal was that she had to be induced while that doctor was on call because if she went into labor and another doctor was on call it would be an automatic C section... no questions asked none answered. All went well of course except for the illegal epidural that was forcefully administered after reassurances that they would not force that... which i should mention almost screwed thing up.

After the birth the 11 member birth team thanked CT for allowing them to witness something that is never allowed to be done.
They play the fear card "oh you wouldn't want something to happen to the baby would you... we had better split you gut open in a hospital that has proven high concentrations of "C difficule" and other "super-bugs"

Is this still the Super Robertson Supper Show Blog?

somewhere along the line there are good decisions and there are bad decisions and there are the people who have to live with those decisions, and those who will remember and recall all things said and done ... like that pudgy hate faced asshole who saw me come out of my house and immediately put his hand up and shouted "we are not going to hurt the tree, just taking a bit off the top"

The solution of course would be to really assess the problem (will tree fall on house) and either take it down an replace it with an appropriate tree or brace it, or do what they call a "spiral cut" where you thin the tree from within it so that more wind can pass through it. the thing not to do is to top it. Search tree topping on the internet if you give a shit and you will perhaps see why this represents the death of all hope on the block where i have chosen to raise my family. where i use to see 5 majestic tree tops i now see 2 and 3 brutally savaged trees that are still big enough to wreck a house.

So that's way i was a bit weird at the Supper Show that evening... my brain just kept going over the failure again and again and again... well if i ever need to be reminded of the fucking stupidity i can just look out my window.

Juniper Watters opened the show... she was great



this is a nice piece that our new drummer Chris Banting came up with... I have titled it Banting Tree.



There was also a spelling b (sorry to Pete who would have much rather sat in his chair an enjoyed other's pain... and shame on Mule for not challenging)... speaking of that i came inches from calling Mule up on stage to ask the questions in "Hey Rock's living room".. but i had no confidance due to the tree fiacso... i guess while we are on it i should say Kudos to WB for taking the reins and nailing Heidi Stopover and bringing the group back together in a time of crisis.






More to come

again

no supper show on March 5 due to 6 bands playing the club this night.

Last weeks show was a good one... the great failure being not having the camera zoomed in on Uncle Stan the puppet

The weekly post

Sometimes i laugh at myself and other times i just shake my head. I remember when my dad told somebody that i was "different"... he was right, but alas if we going to do something let's do it.

For good or ill i have begun taping the shows with a device that makes it somewhat easy to document. The main crushing honest observation would be that my singing sucks one pretty large tortise cock. it is a correctable problem that will need me to remember some basic fundamental things, like to be ready to sing. The minute i forget that i am a singer (something that oddly happens all the time) i am doomed. perhaps i just need a new genra rather than being a singer/songwriter i could be billed as a Goat imitator/songwriter... i could rule that market... if i cared about markets other than the idea that Market trends encourage "heard like stupidity", which happens to be a pet Peeve of mine.

Oh i should mention that the Supper Show will be cancelled on Wednesday March 5 as there are 6 bands playing the club as part of the Main bill. I'll take the break, perhaps a vocal lesson that night.

Ok

finally got that Carving hearts video fixed... this happens on Wed Feb 13




Now King Dinosaur played last week... A great show with giveaways, trivia, and the usual King Dinosaur wit, playing a traditional, a kinks song, a Dylan tune, a Rolling Stones number i think there was another and a medley thrown in at the end.
I wish i had taped "Samson and delila" as i believe it is a traditional song which would allow me to post it without fear of breaking the law... i know it did get recorded so i will work on that. There was a lunar eclipse that night Feb 20 so i made a small movie with credits, the lunar eclipse, some clips of King Dinosaur banter and then the Rolling Stones song with a fade into the crowd, but then i got all paranoid about the © issues i edited the song out but i did it from within quicktime and now it's all out of sinc



I really hate myself when i cause problems like that... don't worry the twins are fine.

Of our set i would say the Robertson's dream orchard had the best vocals... which gives you an idea of how bad the others were




we ended the show with failure.. we need more curtain pulls.




If you were at the show last week and you happened to be paying attention to what i said was going to happen this week then it is time for you to forget what you heard, and feel confidant that we will have music and a puppet guest, and perhaps a few guest singers (one for sure)... remember the show is free and it starts at 7:30PM

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.