Just wasted the night fucking around with a computer

It's fair to say that i don't "get" computers... there always seems to be some asshole obvious step that misses me, so instead of playing a good old violent game of hockey i go into a nice silent rage trying to do something that should take, or i have heard takes, a few minutes and is dead simple.

That's why we natural luddites like guitars. What's in your hands is what it is, sink or swim on the dexterity of your fingers and the sense of your rhythm, and of course the strength of your song. I play an e chord and it makes the sound of an e chord... i punch in stmp.telus.net and i get a fucking god damn window explaining that some asshole server is not responding.

where was i... Oh yea this is the Supper Show Blog... I'm here to yap on with some "smiley faced PR" about how good last week was and that a guy called Phoenix Magnolia is coming down tomorrow to stomp some percussive guitar work. what i do know about last week was that it was about 1:30 AM when i ping ponged up the stairs to my house... let's just say we got on a roll.

here is the show:





























write your own review you cheese eating surrender monkeys

Canada Day

Of course there was a very sparse crowd at the Railway Club for the Canada Day Supper Show... what with all of the other free events outside on a beautiful day... but that didn't stop Cameron Dillworth, Super Robertson, Gido, Simian Special and Shockk from playing some music to the room. It was good times and i found a pill on the stage and tried to get C.S. Rippin to gulp it back but he wanted no part of that for some reason.

On Wednesday July 8 2009 the Super Robertson Supper show will present Genny Trigo doing some Spanish songs and some of the latest 21 tandem Repeats songs sung by Genny Trigo.

July is on us like a badman

Man, Wednesday morning 1:16 AM and the supper show blog has yet to be updated... This is pure commitment folks. Sure it seems like slackassery from one side of the book, or maybe it doesn't for i have never looked at the book from that angle. Why bother, you should only ever look ahead, but as you do of course, carry with you the wisdom of all of your failed ventures.
Well now that we are all on a positive note, i guess we should get down to business so i can begin to properly analyse some Internet pornography... that's a joke you crude bastard readers of the SRSS blog.

The legion of Flying Monkey's Horn Orchestra put on a fine show... I really wish i had taped a version of the "means of production garden son, "He has come to save us all" and the "three part tune in honour of the 2010 Olympic celebrations". The band was top notch, and Fire-Man stayed off the horn for a while, which is always a welcome event. i mean that more as a compliment to his song writing abilities and less as a slight to his atonal wailing. They put on a good show for sure... I was going to film it and like work the camera but then the needed my guitar (and put it to good use) and i was thinking of going to the colbalt later so i wanted to scale down on my possessions for the night.

On Canada Day, or Cannabis day as it has been come to be known, by some.. have you ever met Captain Cannabis? King hell guy i say. Anyway today is Canada day and as far as i know there is a SR Supper Show, and it's going to be Cameron Dilworth and Super Robertson, and a drummer and perhaps a Congo player... I smell a good time show later today... so little time so much to drink.

OK Happy Cannabis day, i mean Canada day.

Hey Rock stands tall and the Legion of flying monkeys Horn Orchestra is on deck

Last weeks SR Supper Show was a dandy for sure, I'd give the Gold Medal to Simian Special who put on one king hell drumming clinic, not that his rhythm partners Vic and Smash were eating parsnips behind the barn if you know what i mean... what the hell does that mean?
Perhaps we all should have formed a band years ago when there was still some time on the clock... none the less i didn't know what i needed to know back then, but that's always the case.

One of the things i do know is to beware of the Legion of Flying Monkeys Horn Orchestra.. it is a CULT headed by an insane maniac that seems to be picking up steam like a snowball going down the south side of a mountain on a hot sunny day in March. I was thinking of coming to the show with something that could make a really bizarre noise and then leap up on stage and do it in the middle of their set... which of course is what they would want, like a fly in the spider web you become one in the belly of the arachnoid.

So tomorrow we have the legion of flying monkeys horn orchestra at the Super Robertson Supper Show.



photo by Peter Lolley

Hey Rock... the legend is strong

Last week at the super Robertson Supper Show we had a doors cover band named "Soul Kitchen"and Super Robertson. They hit the song Peace Frog, which is what i was hoping for and a version of "love me two times" which got me thinking of rhythm ideas with respect to songwriting. There were 2 levels of keyboards with a thin board holding up a massive box of some sort of sound equipment. It was good times for sure. On the SR side, he played a few new numbers and was heckled by an old high school nemesis named Ed Henley... i guess in the grand scheme of things it was SR who was in fact the nemesis as he was reminded about the time he set of firecrackers in Ed's back pocket during a scavenger hunt. i wonder how many people are arrested and or killed at these scavenger hunts... like there is always a stop sign on the list and its worth a lot of points. That could be a real safety issue for any of you worry wart pencil neck's out there in blogland. the whole episode had some of the regular folks wondering how many people from SR's past are out there carrying scars from incessant SR harassment.

Speaking of Nemesis and people to harass, this week at the SR Supper Show we have the Hey Rock, or Ross Vegas aloha sucker show. Last night i get this bizarre email from this dude named "Tim" about some show at the railway.

What i know is that Hey Rock is playing the Super Robertson Supper Show on Wednesday June 17th.

Hey Rock... the legend:

Hey Rock blows into Vancouver and tries to hook up with the music scene. Little does he know that there is no music scene, but it doesn't stop him because he still has hope and a good hip. Hey Rock meets the members of the classic band ROADBED who go on to produce his band's first release. Done of a 4-track the group has a knack for sweet little pop tunes sung with great harmonies... The Roadbed crew dubbed them "Champ and the Harmony Brothers" and prepared for their debut release, but no can do, the band recoiled at the thought of not being taken VERY SERIOUSLY, so they changed their name to Rubicon (n. A limit that when passed or exceeded permits of no return and typically results in irrevocable commitment.)... OK Guy!

In some ways that's what a music scene will do to a band, make them worry about things that are not important. I don't think the Barenaked Ladies ever worried about being taken seriously, but I'm pretty sure all of us fools in scene sucking bands would do anything for success on the level that the Ladies achieved.

Rubicon released a solid sounding CD under the hands of JLS and rode the ROADBED tails for a few years, and then Hey Rock struck off on his own forming a band called Ross Vegas who released a CD titled "Flow". Hey Rock is one hell of a singer and he is moving back to the his home town of Rossland B.C.

I know I'll miss Hey Rock, but those days were done when we all made the fool decision to have kids... so it's really every man for himself, just like it always was and always will be, but when you are young you tend to believe in things that might make sense in a movie.

Have no fear... from what i understand the band Ross Vegas will carry on with a "new" Hey Rock at the helm as a matter of principle, and of course Hey Rock has been immortalized in a few Roadbed songs the most obvious being "Hey Rock took the bait", a song which i might mention has since been covered by another fantastic Vancouver band named Simian Special.

Fucking hell... it feels like i'm writing a damn biography of Hey Rock and i haven't even got to the part where Super Robertson and Shockk spent a few good years of their lives putting Hey Rock on Swirly alert. Of course a Swirly is where you shove a person's head into the toilet and give it a flush... which is actually what the song "Hey Rock took the bait" was all about. Everything back in those days was about luring Hey Rock close to a toilet so we could pounce on his ass and go for a quick swirly, and if he wasn't such a strong person we would have had him. One time his head was inches from that tiolet water and we were on his head like a raccoon on a hound but he found the strength to lurch back at the moment of truth.

If there was only one more time where Hey Rock could wander into a washroom whistling a little tune and thinking about something else... then we could ambush his ass and dunk him for the swirly he deserves... hey wait a minute he will be at the Railway Club tomorrow... Hmmmm.

I miss those days.

June is bike month don't you know.

Last weeks supper show was phenomenal... Jesse Matheson lit a batch of firecrackers and threw them down Cameron Dilworth's pants while a crack band of experts played "white Rabbit". Apparently it was a prepared gag as Cameron has a nickel plated groin guard pre cooled in liquid nitrogen. Unfortunately the fire trucks were called and pandemonium arose on Dunsmuir street, where veteran journalist Carl Fatman was stunned repeatedly with a Gripstone 4000 TM stun gun. Then Matheson set the bar doing 5 handstand push-ups as a challenge to any other lowly supper show hosts.

Tomorrow night we have the Music of The Doors.

Keeping to the spirit of Bike month there was good representation from the cyclist contingent as i counted 45 bike helmets in the joint.

If i had an iphone i could do this from the beach... technically anyway

God damn the weeks just fly by and the Supper Show continues to gain momentum. Oddly enough a few people came to the supper show and ordered the DeRailer... the burger we went on about last week... or i guess the week before... if i were a businessman i would see an opportunity... I don;t have time for opportunity... now what kind of a fool jackass would spout that kind of nonsense.

My good buddy Shawn Killaly the drummer is leaving to go live in Toronto... which will work out well when i play "Not my Dog" on July 28 and "Tranzac" on August 4th as part of the 21TR Tuesday night Toronto tour... but the Supper show has lost a most excellent drummer and person.

Last week Smash , Simian Special, Shawn and S Robertson put on a pretty fair supper show clinic. It was fun and good and as i am currently going over the video footage i can declare it a success.

For the month of June we have:

June 3- Cameron dillworth and Jesse Matheson
June 10- the music of "the Doors"
June17- the Hey Rock "so long sucker" goodbye party
June 24- The Legion of flying Monkies Horn Orchestra

Super Robertson who may make an appearance from time to time will focus on completing the new album in June.

Another week another review... load up the toboggan and lets go for a ride

Last week my good buddy SMASH put together the SRSS... or at least brought out a few band's worth of fine musicians to jam it out. He even had the opening act (a woman named Sandra Bouza) who was set to come and jam with us afterward... on principle a perfect supper show. The only problem was the loud insane feedback that happened during her set... i think it was due to some soundman the night before who didn't know what he or she was doing and so a bunch of settings were tweaked in the wrong direction. That's just my guess... but in 4 years of the supper show that has never happened before... so i would assume that some band that thinks that they are about to make it big and wants to bring their pot smoking, beer swilling buddy with them as a sound man and he gets in there and starts tweaking knobs with no understanding of the consequence of each little tweak.

Actually come to think about it i do remember hearing that sound a long timer ago at the Purple Onion during a Groovie Gals set... and i remember how that happened.

Band becomes over conscious of their sound... asks freshly baked boyfriend to fix a problem with the bass... he goes over and starts tweaking knobs and then you hear that sound that makes everybody in the room uncomfortable... that guy doesn't touch soundboards anymore.

Where was i... Oh Yea Sandra finished her set and then a dozen or so of us took to the stage... we were going to start with an improvisation but i abandoned that plan as i was feeling a little rattled after the sound disaster... it probably took me back to that moment at the Purple Onion. The point was we needed to come out hard, so we did by pulling Simian Special out of the audience and doing a version of Bent... just sit on a groove and feel good for a while. Sim's inspiring vocals soothed us and then it was good times. We actually only played 3 songs but they became what one might describe as a "DOOM JAM" is that right? i have heard the term before (doom jam)... perhaps a doom jam is more minor and gloomy. Perhaps we should ask our good friend, and author of Difficult Music, Mule Hughes to define DOOM JAM.

I Taped the show but unfortunately i had it set up to film Sandra first and then after the feedback fiasco i never "zoomed out" to catch the full stage and all the players... which would have made for better documentation.

you can see Sandra, SR and Maia... also playing are Vic on congas, Smash on Bass, Jeffery on guitar, Blake on drums and Audrey on vocals... so there wasn't quite a dozen... my first ever blogging half truth.

this part of the jam is where we were promoting the Railway Club Kitchen... for some reason.



Next week we have Shawn Killaly in his farewell tour... did you know he his leaving to go and live in Toronto?

May 13th 2009 re-cap

it's funny, here i am trying to think of what happened last week but all i feel is blogophobia... there were some interesting conversations last week after the SR Supper Show, and some of them ended with the idea that what gets written in a blog can affect the overall fundamental belief in the supper show among certain members of the team... or so the theory goes... which is all pure rubbish of course but alas i digress... i always try to get an "alas i regress" into the odd blogaroo, it's a good way to forget that kind of fool gibberish.

We had another full band scenario with King Karl on the skins, Smash Bass on the bass, Mean Maia on the keys and Syllable Sim on vocals. Then Gentle Genny Trigo came up to try to belt out a few numbers over some spanking drums and acoustic guitar while Jumpin' JLS worked the sound board.





for tomorrow (Wedneaday May 20)



We have Sandra Bouza for solo tunes & jamming. Very soulful singer & great freestyler. She's fresh from Toronto and had a band in Scotland.

We have Smash, Super R, Vik, and Maia.

On drums we have Blake Kirkwood of the band Eyeamu.

Last week

Jesse Matheson held the fort last week at the Supper Show... the band Vale was there to play a few numbers and another man and woman team who had superior harmonies. i sat with Nick and Deb and saluted Super Steve at the high point of the night.

Jesse did a great job involving folks and it was a fine show indeed... there was one moment where i was looking up thinking "look at Jesse there trying to keep the show going"... i think he was interviewing somebody after their set live in front of the audience. I knew what he was going through...

Tomorrow we have Genny Trigo and Super Robertson, with an outside chance that Julio Cerama (who delivered a package to me containing a "Crooner's resume") might come down to play some proper conga's. i guess we will see.

OK

Monster Jam

It was Mule Hughes that called it after last weeks show... My work with fate, omens and good sense paid off in spades. I doubt many understand that last statement but it is all true... Not that you can go wrong with the people who came to play... but if i was aware that they would all bet there i perhaps would have lost my mind and tried to do something Grand, and hence foiled what did become grand.

Ok so i go to see ZOE Trio play at the Libra room on friday night, only they are not playing, but some blues band is playing so i head down to the Railway to catch some music and it turns out "the deep dark Woods" are playing, who are quite the band... and i run into a few people one of them being Ken Killbeat who introduces me to a CBC producer who just happened to be talking about the Super Robertson Supper Show on account that she took a phone call from somebody who saw the Radio Play last week and was raving about how good this new "Diner Theater" was... Now i agree completely and then start to panic about the next Super Robertson Supper Show... it HAS to be good... not just because somebody might come to check it out, but more for me... I have to answer the bell.

So i'm taking in the music and i happen to meet this guy Karl Jonasson who just moved from Saskatchewan like 4 days ago and he is a drummer... then the old Super Robertson Supper Show long ball scenario starts spinning in the brain. I say, i guess i should get a bass player... he said "yea you should"... so i found a bass player that came with a keyboard player (Smash and Maia) and emails started to happen... and then on Monday Shawn Killaly made contact saying he was ready to rock... and Shawn being a King Hell drummer really got things going. i couldn't possibly not have Shawn come because i met a guy in a bar who said he was going to come and play and had yet to contact me... even though i was sure he could play and was coming.

We decided on a few numbers and were going to do some improv, so come Wednesday we had 2 drummers, 2 bass players, 1 keyboard player, 3 singers and a guitar player. the only problem was that the snare and tom were not in the kick drum where i last left them but rather locked in a small room at the back of the bar... that put me in a bit of a bad mood... there was a brief moment of hope that i might find my stool and my stick bag but that didn't happen.

it looked like we weren't going to find the snare and tom but yet people were going to make it work... for a minute we had 2 drummers playing half a kit... that the kind of spirit we had going on. i didn't tape the show because, as i said before i needed it to be a good show... that's the pro OMEN reading i was talking about before... luckily Smash taped it... i thought he might but i didn't mention it as that would have cursed the event.

Smash brought a stand up bass and an electric bass and Alvaro Rojas showed up so we had pro double bass. And then of course Simian Special was there to sing.



and then Karl on drums



Next week we have Jesse Matheson and Cameron Dilworth... in what they call a diner show.

The stage was set like that for the Radio Play called The Thirsty Detectives in 5¢ a Dance... I was Joined by a lovely Cellist named Christina Rzepa, we did a few numbers and then the radio play happened... and then we played "Sun Rises" with a guy named Arie on keyboards.

The Radio Play was excellent... i recorded it but there was talk of © among the crew as they collected the scripts... so i would keep an ear to the ground for The Thirsty Detectives and don't miss the next one.

For the next Supper Show which would be Wednesday April 29 it looks like we have drums, bass, keyboards, a few songs, a puppet show and a lecture on "success by simplification".

I am not a weirdo...
this is an entertainment and supper option...

OK

And then there are all of those other nasty blogs out there that look like the front yard of an abandon house... but this here blog has a supper show that it must answer to.

Ok what is the routine... review last weeks show and promote that show that is now like 22 hours away.

Longtime bredrin of the Canada Lynx camp King Dinosaur came to play a show to commemorate the release of his latest CD "King of the Kootenay". He brought 11 and some folk went home empty handed. Myself i had received a copy of King Dinosaur "Kings Classic", which happens to be a one off with original hand drawn art that contains the first half of both King Dinosaur's CD's.

King Dinosaur doesn't trouble with originals and is more of a translator of classic music... stuff like Casey Jones, Ramble on Rose, The night they drove old Dixie down, Wisky in the jar... I recall one bystander at a King Dinosaur show, i think it was Vancouver, Plaza of Nations 96' declared it an old school open handed five finger musical spanking... I think it was 96'... yea... he might have played Nelson in 98' and i think he was in Mission in 99', but i know i wasn't.

King Dino had a small technical difficulty during his version of "Hurricane" (Bob Dylan version of course) but it didn't slow the thunder and it was fixed by the time the cops went up to the hospital room to talk to the man through his one dying eye.

It's always a treat when King Dinosaur comes to play. My kids turned on the video camera and ran the battery out right before the show but the papparatzi was definately in the house so it shouldn't be too long before the world is abuzz in twits and tweets.

Simian Special happened to be there so he and i did our best completely unrehearsed immitation of Simon and Garfunkle playing SUPERSIMIAN, Roadbed and 21 tandem Repeats numbers.

But get this... On April 22 2009 we have a Radio Play production called "The Thirsty Detectives" in 5¢ a Dance. My man Craig Bougie sent me a 17 page script and it's pretty funny and good and there is a cellist and a violin player ready to add the suspense music. i declare you might be a fool to miss this... OK i said it



interesting that my computer takes chiral images???

April the 15th

On April the 15th we have the pleasure to bring you the King Dinosaur CD Release show... word has it that he will be giving away CD's to those who can answer correctly the Kootenay trivia part of the evening.

Other than that, our favourite puppet Uncle Stan may drop in for a visit, and Super Robertson will have to bring to the table some form of entertainment.

Last week Emily Milliken and Super Robertson manned the SRSS and things went very well... next week we have some folks who proposed to me to do a Radio Drama live... bring it on...

And the SR Easter Show went very well, and i didn't even take a bath on the deal... amazing sets by Emily Milliken, Cameron Dilworth, Caleb Stull, Jesse Matheson, Ruth Minnikin and Genny Trigo. Big thanks to Turbo, Michelle and Mule Hughes as well for their fine contributions that made the night work.

OK here we go again... Simple old Supper Show tomorrow.

son of a gun

My Grandfather, Watson Allen Robertson, had 2 other sayings for these occasions... One of them was "holey kitty" and the other was "Christmas Cake"... i have my own that my five year old daughter reminds me not to use...

what is the occasion? it is quarter to 11 on a Tuesday night and the supper show blog is a week stale... and then there is that other thing... that concert i am putting on on Thursday night at La Casa Del Artista (150 east 3rd ave Vancouver B.C.). All of the sudden the supper show becomes irrelevant.... "all of the sudden" who writes my stuff... as Flinstone would say "that's a hot one Barney". Speaking of the Flinstones i watched the first ever episode on the internet the other day "the Flinstone flyer" and the opening theme was a different one.

What happened last week at the supper show i know you are all dying to know... i think i got like 60 emails today inquiring. It weas the Cameron Dilworth and Jesse Matheson supper show and it was April fools day so Jesse put fake vomit on Cam's guitar and Shawn who was playing drums was nailing a whoopie cushion into a drum mike causing the soundman and guitar player to search in vain for a bad cable... Gut buster.

Caleb Stull played, Land of Deborah Played and there were 2 other guests who i am afraid to name for fear of getting names wrong... i was busy busting the balls of the Railway staff over a poster for a show at the Railway called "the spirit of the Railway Club" that has everybody and his brother on the bill except one person.. some jackass who has been putting on a free show there for the past 4 years every week... oh well you know how it goes...

Of course there is a supper show tomorrow, but i would rather you come out to The Super Robertson Easter Show to help minimize my financial loss in trying to put on a show... At least i get to use the Krusty the Clown line "whoooo boy i really took a bath on that one". Have no fear i'm laughing, but i might point out that it is your only chance to catch a jewel of a songwriter and singer, Ruth Minnikin who is touring the country having just released "depend on this"... she is from Halifax.

happy Easter... it is now Garden planting season, do yourself a favour and pant some carrots.

March 25th re-Cap

I was asked to add some percussion for one of Genny's songs so before the show i went into SR's private percussion stash and noticed the my stick bag was now gone... holy shit i was even in a good mood for a moment. perhaps some bastard needed some sticks to go with his stool.... luckily for all involved Jeff Hawker posted a blog on his take of the supper show so we will be spared any more of my negative gibberish at this time.

The Blog it titled "Free beer and stolen wood"... he had a conversation with our man Fire-Man Jeff Hawker's supper show blog... I was going to just copy and paste the bastard here but i know that Mr. fucking blog edict himself "Mule Hughes" will read this blog and I'm trying to stay out of the doghouse with regard to proper blog form.







Next week is April Fools Day so i expect an number of good pranks from our friends Jesse and Cam tomorrow. I guess the Super Robertson Supper Show is now 4 years old I'll give out some trophies at the Super Robertson Easter show which happens on Thursday April 9 at La Casa Del Artista located at 150 east 3rd avenue.

Emily Milliken and Super Robertson manned the Supper show last week an played some music to a boisterous crowd. We played a few songs we wrote together this year and a few that we know otherwise.






Jeff Hawker will join Genny trigo and Super Robertson for the supper show on March 25... which is coming up in a few hours.

Girlfriends and Boyfriends played the Super Robertson Supper Show last week and brought half of Vancouver with them... it was more of a show for them than a supper show but everybody was having a good time so i laid low and listened to a fine set of indie tunes. Did i mention they did Joy Division's Shadowplay? Any band doing Joy Division can play with me any day. The band seemed confused over the format which is odd because a few of the members have actually played the supper show before, but then i guess that if you read the SRSS blog then you might think SR has his head up his ass anyhoo... and what is a good band without a few patented mix ups

To close the night was a project presented as "Smashing SR" that SmassBass caught with a digital recording device.



The next show which would be tomorrow will have the lovely and talented Emily Milliken and perhaps some other surprises.

the good news is that i taped the show last week and i have the video up already, so if you are a Bloggerson, as am I, then you are in good shape for a monday night. Oddly enough i was just tinting my fingers together in celebration of how i could possibly be so on the ball when my wife raced up from bed and reminded me what we forgot to do.

You see tomorrow is my daughters 5th Birthday and her first tooth came out today so we set her up for thee old "tooth ferry deal"... but then mom and dad got into the Ceasers and almost forgot... which would have been a bad start for a little girl who is aware, nervous and excited about her big day tomorrow. It's OK dear, the tooth ferry probably had some important things to do on the internet... maybe tomorrow? No worries it's all sorted now and i can go back to my fuzzy little bubble.

Last week was a pure clinic at the Supper Show Cam and Jesse had their natural chemistry:



it's a good combo.

One of the great things about the supper show is it's ability to evolve and i think a great mutation has happened this year with the introduction of the Dilworth/Matheson and guest routine. They call their guests out of the audience who leap up and quickly play a song... sometimes they question the guest as in the case of Gido:



I Myself go the call:



And then there is a guy named Caleb Stull who i would like to define as KING HELL. it's always good to have the bar raised every once in a while... do yourself a favour and check this out:



Caleb is in the band "Parlour steps" so they would be worth checking out for sure.


Cam and Jesse did this song i believe is called Poop machine which i have heard a few times now that i have been to a few Dilworth and Matheson supper shows...



Next week we have special guestsGirlfriends and Boyfriends

And Super Robertson's latest offerings

Another full house at the Supper Show last week (Feb 25 2009), which was good but then a late band , late sound man, Drum stool gone, drummer concerned about the drum kit quality, Fire-Man explaining things too people... so i had to go have a few words with Super Steve... Super Steve, i think, could sense my anxiety over the latest facts my brain was forced to process. The lesson of course is all is well... except of course for the fact that SOME SWINE BASTARD STOLE MY FUCKING DRUM STOOL. it was, i'm sure, one of thee old patented misplacement misunderstanding things where somebody gets an extra drum stool that magically made it out into the club... very annoying indeed.

Anyhoo where was i... well i guess the whole blogaroo is fucked now that i am in the mindset of chewing on the fact that the drum kit has taken a further hit... if you play drums you know that sitting on a chair is officially bullshit.

OK this happened:



Reminds me of live 21TR in the year 2007 for some reason.

Camp Campfire routines never fail however:


And after that we had an insanely strange and elongated turnover but luckily we are professionals:



By the time Andorra played it was so packed i had to move the recording device by the side of the stage. Andorra is a bright new band on the Vancouver scene that mentioned during their set that they are looking for a drummer... i think Adam said "if you play drums and you like whats going on come and talk to us"



So in recap... MY FUCKING DRUM STOOL IS GONE... does anything else matter.

Next week Cameilon Danworth and Jose Maffelson run the supper show if you know what i mean

I have a damaged hand and a lot of things to do this week... so let's get through this dog.

Last week (February 18) there were 3 performers... first off was a man named Adam from the Bob Dylan Society... Super Steve thought it was great and King Dinosaur noted that it was early Bob Dylan. You can never really go wrong with a Bob Dylan song and Adam did the songs justice... Then up came Robert Thomas Murphy and Adam moved to a supporting role with an electric guitar. Robert Thomas Murphy played some original songs that used Dylan'esque chord patterns with more modern rock vocals... it was all good. Last up was our hero S Robertson who once again was treated to a surprisingly attentive audience. The plan was to play with passion... whatever the hell that means... i guess what i found out that it means that a lot of people read the SRSS blog, as people kept referring to the words they read in the blog. How did old SR do? that's a good question and since i opted not to tape the show we will never truly know, which i wished after wards that i did tape the show, but if i had a recorder going... it would it have changed the balance of the universe enough. I remember being a kid playing hockey by myself in the driveway before a Toronto Maple Leaf playoff game... i would make up these scenarios whereby if i could perform a task at a certain lever for a prolonged period of time then the Leafs would win the game... one of those superstitious things... another example would be a few years ago when the Canucks were in the playoffs and i was doing my mail route and i came across a group of native people having a celebration under a giant tree and as i walked by we smiled at each other and they asked me if i wanted to hug the tree... SR's is always game for a little tree hugging so i gave the tree a hug... and the Canucks won that key game. now what do you think i did on the next game day... of course i had to hug the tree.

I don't think we will ever know how old SR did as he was among a room full of friends, and they always say nice things. There were a few folks rooting for a return of 21 tandem repeats... i guess it's good to be missed.

Next week we have Andorra and The Legion of Flying Monkeys Horn Orchestra and old SR trying to make it all work.

25 random facts about the Super Robertson supper show

1) Monday April 1st 2005 was the first show
2)It was originally called the Super Robertson King Show
3)Last week the most beautiful Jacqui Brown played a scintillating set to a packed house to open the show.
4)Last week Simian Special put on a clinic following Jacqui Brown and did a cover of ROADBED'S Hey Rock took the Bait

5) Every April there is an awards ceremony where the regulars receive GOLD MEDALS for their prowess.
6) Many people get "nick named" if they come out to the show.. Like Super Steve and the latest Gino... who's last name is Mallen, but was mistaken as Malkin.
7) The most coveted awards the SRSS award show are "Best hockey mind" and "best facial hair"
8) Most common sound man over the years would be JLS
9) S Robertson has exposed himself 2x during the show's tenure... the firs time being a Burlesque parody and the 2nd time a joke gone wrong.
10) Next week... or tomorrow the guests will be from Main Belt Entertainment... Bob Dylan Society and Robert Thomas Murphy
11) Super Robertson will play tomorrow with a focus on Passion... playing with passion.
12) the show is free
13) Despite the fact that the local media is constantly complaining about the lack of venues, nobody has seemed to notice the fact that the supper show is a classic case of smart recycling... use what is there but at a different time.
14) From time to time the supper show has a segment called "poem moment" where the audience writes a poem (a few lines each) and the performers perform the poem.
15) S Robertson once did a puppet show using exact dialogue from a conversation he had with the bank manager in an episode that defines "mind numbing stupidity"
16) There is a SRSS live album coming out for good or ill.
17) Simian Special played drums on the best version of Hey Rock's living room
18) One time we had a sprint out on the street outside the railway club and Dave Parchumchuck won.
19) There has been a few aerobics classes
20) One time i led a routine called Beer Yoga
21) Some crazy dude honked a horn that wasn't in key with anything on a regular basis for 2 years every time there was a whiff of improvisation.
22) Carl Fatman has never been to the SRSS
23) On Feb 25 we have a band Andorra and The Legion of Flying Monkeys Horn Orchestra
24) a guy can drink a lot of beers writing a supper show blog
25) I wrote a song about the supper show the other day

Hi Ho to all of those out there in Blogland... may i suggest you now do something productive like go for a walk. I am home alone with the kids and i have watched all of the hockey highlites (only 2 games today). Where was i?

Did i mention that the class "A" Hammerhead Cam Dilworth kept referring to the show and myself as "Robinson" and not "Robertson" for like the 18th million time... you would think that all of the posters on the club wall that announce "The Super Robertson Supper Show" might help, but it's probably like that gig we did in Nanaimo back in November and we had that huge Banner behind us that said "21 Tandem Repeats" and of course some dude comes up after the show to tell us we were really good and "What was the name of our band" and so WB tells him "21 Tandem Repeats" and he says "OH like the Banner that was behind you when you were playing"... "Yea like that". Kind of funny when ever i write his name in the blog i become paranoid.. "are there 2 l's or just one" and i look it up. But then again one of the members of the Super Robertson Supper show Facebook group came to the show and his last name is Mallin and i came up to him and barked "Malkin what's going on!"... i corrected myself looked up on stage and was called "Robinson" again.

It was of course the 2nd episode of the Cameron Dilworth and Jesse Matheson Supper show... 2 great guys with excellent talent who are learning the supper show ropes doing one show per month. They brought out C.S. Rippin, Jeremy Todd, Super robinson... i mean Robertson and Caleb Stull to play some songs and they had a neat twist on the guest vibe. They just stayed up on stage drinking while the guest played a song... Cam just took off his guitar and passed it to the guest. This can actually be better than trying to orchestrate a massive curtain pull and lineup change that the supper show has seen in the past. It created a nice open feeling of people sharing songs. After the show the leaders were suffering from post Supper show Stress disorder where they thought that the failed to put on a good show. For the record it was a fine show totally worth the price of admission. I just know the feeling.

Next week on February 11 we have Simian Special and Jacqui Brown.

Dustun Rilcof, Ben Mahony and S Robertson

On this night a lot of the "regulars" who frequent the Supper Show were absent, but two large conglomerants of forein exchange students completed january for a string of "sold out" shows.

First up Dustin Rilcof showed his sensitive side, and played some songs that bordered on... love songs. the Canucks were up 2-1 at this time. Rilcof's set demonstraited some excelent finger picking and some fine melodies... but like the exchange students i missed a lot of the words. It was a great set and i'll give him 4 stars.

Next up was Ben Mahony, a man who has lived all over this fine Country and played a geographical set with songs written in all different provinces at various times in his life. He seemed like a king hell fellow and he brought some guy he met at an open stage in Toronto a month back. His songs had good energy and drove like an old school Buick down a mountain road... which reminded me about this time i hitchhiked back from 100 mile house.

Last up with the rapid turnover was our hero, the Kingpin of the Supper Show... Super Robertson. The crowd was incredibly good to him... people listened to the songs applauded and then sat in silence for the next song... this definatly caught SR off guard but like a veteran soilder he adapded. He played a fine version of the littles which earned him a few CD sales. Go tiger go!

After the show we got to catch the patented Vancouver Canuck collapse as they turned a 3-1 lead into a 5-3 loss. You could tell that Super Steve had seen this type of thing happen before and smartly made a quick exit after the 2nd period.

On Wednesday February 4 2009 we have the 2nd edition of the Jesse Matheson and Cameron Dilworth Supper Show... and they have invited S Robertson, CS Rippin, and a few others to come and play a song. Lets fire it up boys.

Sleuth reporter Olak Reece reports on the Jan 21 supper show

Once again a full house came out to celebrate Vancouver's only weekly free show from 7:30-8:30 on Wednesdays... couldn't find any others.

Opening up the show was Chris Kelly kingpin of the band Pender, that was formerly known as That Kelly Boy, and may again take that name. Chris has a nice rich voice and can sure write a mean song and was sounding just fine playing 5 numbers.

Next up was the wonderful Land of Deborah who played some original tunes and a Poison cover. Soundman JLS was working the board as boss Nick... and husband of LOD looked on.

To finish up the night the supper show's hero Super Robertson kicked into a few tunes explaining that they were mostly about himself except one that was about his father's long lost bee hive and then it was the tune "Fuse lit bombs" to end the night... a hit from 21 Tandem Repeats Never Wanted to be Anyone.

Next week January 28 we have Ben Mahony from the Yukon and a few regulars from the V5T postal code Dustin Rilcof, and Super R.

January 14: Sim Special Supper Show

Cub reporter Mule Hughes forgot his camera but weighs in nevertheless:
With an ailing Super Robertson tending to his ailing family this week, it was left to Max "Sim Special" Arnason to run the Supper Show. And the thing ran like a top, with a healthy crowd of attentive punters, drinks in hand, bums in seats, filling the half of the Railway Club that matters.

Bryce Drohan was up first, singing a set of serious songs in a big Cornell/Vedder/Lanegan-calibre voice. I gathered that these were acoustic arrangements of songs usually performed by his band—no matter, they sounded pretty full-on to me.

Then it was time to put on your black leather for the power-goth big-beat stylings of Simian Special. This set marked the debut of new guitarist Yakir Biton, who's definitely a keeper. He had a really good sense of when and what to play. The hits, they were plentiful: "Freaky Release," "Solid Hole" (raging!), a U2 or maybe a Coldplay cover (I don't know from popular music anymore), and a concluding dip into the communal song well for "Hey Rock Took the Bait." Despite being justifiably cautious about their volume ('tis bad form to rock too loudly at the Supper Show), they played a belting set, with Sim wailing away like Ian Gillan at times. If that sorta thing doesn't pull your pork, then you are dead to me.

January 7th re-cap

Cameron Dilworth and Jesse Matheson put on a major clinic last week. Standing up on stage together armed with guitars they played songs and sung together. They were funny, smart and quick and they are both excellent singers... perhaps they had a few to many songs about "Super Robertson", but i can let that slide. I was wishing i filmed the show but i just don't have time to deal with that right now.

It was a good time... we made Mule a cake and we ate it all... but then the Canucks lost, and i had to watch it by myself as Super Steve was absent.

Next week (January 14) we will have Simian Special.

2009

OK,

Clearly there is some confusion about the state of the Super Robertson Supper Show... most likely due to our Hero's poor communication skills and general bad attitude. Well I'm kind of in a good mood now, how could you not be after the Canadian Junior team stomped the balls of the Swedish national Junior hockey team.

The supper show goes on and starting this week (Wednesday January 7) we have the team of Cameron Dilworth and Jese Matheson as the bill. As it sits now these guys will play one supper show per month... perhaps the first one (wednesday in the month). This will give the audience more variety and will set a challenge to S. Robertson to Be BETTER!

Beyond that it is also unlikely that 21 tandem Repeats, as the core 3 guys and a rotating drummer, will remain as a constant in the show. Now there is no ill will here or anything like that, rather an opportunity for us to take a breath, refocus and come back with a new set list and energy... It is quite possible that 21TR may have some new singers when the new program is launched.

Now i would expect that the "new 21TR" songs will be worked into many upcoming super robertson supper shows... actually i will demand that from myself.

so we are going to open up the supper show and get some other fine talented folks out there on Vancouver's premier small venue stage... on wednesday January 28 we have a fine man named Ben Mahony from the Yukon coming down to play.

We even started a facebook page for the supper show to go with the myspace super robertson supper show page, and then there is this damn blog... and i am essentially a computer incompetent.


Which reminds me... i learned about Flash memory lately and apparently you can get a video camera with Flash memory that will save hours of time... because with tape you have to load it into the computer in real time. i can no longer possibly film the show and upload it during the week as i run a household taking care of 3 kids while trying to manage a "web presence", a band that for some reason can't seem to get gigs... which kind of raises another question... why are we never... never mind.

Anyhoo, happy new Year to all and i have many other ideas to keep the Super Robertson Supper Show fresh, but hey right now they are just ideas and anybody can have those... the time is now for action.


SR

on wednesday December 24

@ 7:30 go to your computer and watch this...

tht can be the Supper Show for this week



it's our man Dave Hind with one of his percussive contraptions.

I remember the old days when i started playing music... Dave had a studio outside of london, i think it was an old gas station and we would go out there for Jams... It was usually cold as hell but there was a heater and lots of things to make rhythm on. And there would always be a very long version of the song "Wicked Style". A song where the pocket has been lost it was this hypnotic rhythm on a finger hammering d chord except the d was played 1 fret up... and then it resolved to an e major. I have the feeling it might have been one of those ideas that was never really that good in the first place... great for rhythm grooves and easy to solo over. It was one we always hit at those jams... i remember one time there was this weird bearded guy who was always on acid and we hit that song and he was dancing away in a trance and when it was over he said "that was wicked man, you guys should be playing the Embassy"... the Embassy of course was the shithole dive bar/ hotel/ music venue at the time. Now that i think about it i don't think it was the embassy... it's hard to remember anything anymore... I think the embassy is the actual good venue...

The place the bearded guy on acid said we should have been playing would have been about the same as where we were playing except we wouldn't be able to drink our own spirits rather pay for them at a bar... there of course would have been other side affects as well... = more acid eating beard men.

December 10 re-cap

well i didn't film the show and that made for a better week... Step one in making the supper show more manageable. I am a good employee... i stay on task, for good or ill.

So i guess i can now write anything, no longer bound by the truth... a first for me as a blogger. somebody is shaking their head out there... i can feel it.

It was a good show, there were no drums until i pulled Mule Hughes out of the crowd to play on the last 2 songs. It gave him a good chance to scope out our backs so he could find out where to put the knife... (small inside joke).

The supper show works well with a more toned down (not full band) feel. it gives people the opportunity to talk over the music rather than having to shout over it.

Next week (December 17) is the last supper show of the year, and on January 7 2009 i have managed to talk Cameron Dilworth and Jesse Matheson into doing the supper show... so you could say that the supper show just got stronger... they are going to do 1 Wednesday per month.

The plot thickens and the days go on, and The Super Robertson Supper Show will re-invent itself again.

Have a good Holidays and remember to enjoy all the good people out there.

The supper show

Last week was fun... we broke it up a bit... you see ace guitarist Willingdon Black was out of town so ace guitarist Snow Leopard brought down a guitar and Stupid Robertson went to Bass. It was fun, did i mention that the ever amusing and stellarly skilled Shawn Killaly was on the drums.

It got me thinking about our little tour a few weeks back, and more precisely the makeup of the band for the tour. It was essentially SR and 3 excellent guitar players with one of the excellent guitar players playing excellent drums (Shockk), and Alvaro (Snow Leopard) on bass (as per usual in 21TR) and WB on guitar.

So the supper show is closing out this year and is almost 4 years old now... anybody want to take the reins? i think i am kind of burning out on the old super show...

Just thinking... is the super robertson supper show worth anything to anybody? I say that in a very real way and i say it to a person like myself who does see a value in having a house gig in a good house with good sound and a good location with good food and all... are you somebody or do you know somebody who would like this opportunity, see it as an opportunity and treat it with professionalism and respect to the sound equipment. Perhaps we could go rotating weeks which would cut the load in half and bring greater variety to the show.

I'll keep doing it for now but you know, we will see.

so last week we did a fine number called "Jeff Younger drops a bar of soap and then eyeballs Raoule"

enjoy:

Nov 26 re-cap

Well 21 tandem repeats are back from their coastal tour minus guitar player Willingdon Black who is in Hawaii looking into a hotel gig for the band.

Brock Pytel came back to the supper show after a long absence... he played some tunes to an very chatty crowd



Brock then moved onto the drums and we were joined by our good friend Simian Special



Finding our groove we hit an old Knockin' dog number called The Drumheller Boogie where Willingdon Black's presence was felt when Alvaro played a variation of his "dish pig" riff



and then we closed the show with the key of 5, a song from out latest CD "no junk mail please"

Nov 20 @ the Railway Club

Nov 20- Railway Club 10:00 PM
Nov 21- The Dancing Bean (Chemainus B.C) 8:00 PM
Nov 22- The Cambie (Nanaimo) 10:00 PM
Nov 23- Logan's (Victoria) 4:00 PM

now i know how we did last week

I watched the tape... and made it into mini song movies.

it was in fact the rhythm section that put on the clinic last week after all. it left me wondering about the idea of just replacing SR with a goat, a bucket of oats and a tarp (for the goat shit). Just let the goat eat the oats and call it a show.

Of course I'm joking... the SPCA would be all over that with some animal cruelty bit. if i were a goat, and i am from time to time, i would prefer a bar and a bucket of oats to a cold wet barn. How could i truly know what it is like to be a goat... as in the hoofed ungulate.

where was i... Oh yea the rhythm section stomped some balls.

Shawn Killaly on drums

I wonder how we did last week.

I haven't look at the footage yet which is an odd perspective in writing a little blogaroo, which of course is why it is an approach worth taking.... For the science of it all. Did you see this science experiment, these things are important for the grand "lessons"... which i had just typed "lesions". Almost another freebee there Mule, who for that matter was at the show eating a nice supper and thinking all of those Mule thoughts during the show.

It was a good night to pull drum duty as there was a fine kit on the stage for us to use and perhaps that contributed TO THE FUCKING RHYTHM SECTION MUTINY that occurred on the stage that night. Luckily the super robertson supper show is a place where one can get away with a rhythm section mutiny... from time to time.
where was i, the sound was good.. there was a SKA version of Bengal Tiger that i wish i could have back... i think there might be a fade out in the "official" online version.

Missed a chance to do "transmission"... not sure what i even want to do anymore.



damn the babies are up.

Nov 5 re-cap

Our guest last week was Clare Love, she was great and i made movies of her set and sent them to her. I figure that since she has her own video upload page then i don't have to worry about being responsible for the © issues... of course i always ask for permission. But i do want to do the right thing for everybody... you come and play the supper show you don't get paid in money... you are treated like a human and if you want you get some video of your set... for good or ill. Anyhoo, if she puts it up i'll post the fucker.

we did this... now there is a nice new red curtain @ the Railway club so i started thinking in terms of bright lights. Turn all the lights up i told the sound man at the start of the show, which went over like a lead balloon with the band, so the lights got turned down again.

October 28 re-Cap

We had a camera malfunction and the bulk of the show didn't get taped. This made for a nice easy week and i could focus on important things like American politics. On a night like this wouldn't it be great to hear a post from the late great Hunter S. Thompson? Oh well, at least those corrupt swine took a mean spanking... Ted Stevens and Alaska senator who was just charged with 7 felonies still has a chance to win... WTF?

Anyhoo Emily and I played a song we wrote last week and Shawn Killaly spanked some mean drums that worked out so well that we did a version of Bengal Tiger that was approved by Mr. WB... and Super Steve missed it.

Tomorrow our guest will be Clare Love, who last played the supper show the night the Detroit Red Wings beat the Pittsburg Penguins to win the Stanley Cup.

You can hear Emily Milliken fight the chatter playing a song her friend hank wrote here:


Oh yea you should digg this:
digg it man

i tend to be hard on myself

the supper show videos are better than this

last week and this week

Our special guest will be the lovely and talented Emily Milliken, who sings and plays the bass ukulele. She came by the house last night and we wrote a song so we will give that a go as well.

Last week our guest was veteran singer Jacqui Brown who is fresh back in town from a stint in L.A. She played some tunes, 21TR played some tunes and then we all got up together and pulled something out of nothing.




now we definitely have to get the light on the beautiful woman when we do these things

October 15 re-cap

Vale, making their second appearance at the supper show put on a fine clinic. This is a band that the supper show people seem to really like... look for some gold medals to come Vale's way next April if you know what i mean... and if you don't (know what i mean) you should really get your head out of your ass.

Now where was I... Oh yea i was going to insult the readers, i guess i did that.

Next week, or more appropriately tomorrow, we have a special Guest by the name of Jacqui Brown. She is a beautiful woman with a wonderful voice and she will be performing solo. For our part, our man Simian Special will be on drums... is it time for POEM MOMENT?



Notice i got the fucking date wrong? I said it was the 14th... which happened to be election day... was i just hoping for a re-vote?

October 8 re-cap

DCR was in town from Edmonton, but for some reason didn't play. It was OK because Klagg came back from the dead to reminded Vancouver what good songwriting is. It was a great show and a good lesson on the power of those songs. For me "Toyah" and "Skytrain surfin'" have been going through the head all week.

Super Robertson opened the show with a few numbers, and then a Beggars/21 Tandem Repeats hybrid finished the show with versions of "frusterated man", from the Roadbed Represented CD, "Wishing machine" a 21TR classic and a work in progress titled "Nothing was heard".

last week re-cap

The best part about last week was that i showed some films... (episodes of the Carl Fatman show) so i didn't film the set which meant that this past week i was spared the inane task of making internet movies of the songs and posting them for viewing for a few dozen people.

Which of course begs the question of WHY do i do it? I should probably let somebody like SMASH answer that question because he is more likely to come up with a righteous uplifting answer that would leave one with an overwhelming sense of patriotism towards one's music scene, perhaps even going so far as to use the phrase "National Treasure" in a summary statement that might make one feel foolish for even asking the question in the first place.

never let the truth get in the way of a good story
- J. Frank Dobie

It was a weird night to show movies as a whole floor from a female college residence came to the show to celebrate a birthday party... apparently they had heard a 21 tandem repeats song on the radio and heard about the show so they thought they would come down town early and warm up for the evening... But it was just me in a suit and a projector showing short TV like episodes of a show i made that are full of constant shameless self promotion.

Imagine a pack of young excited music hungry folks confused while Carl Fatman interviews Shockk on the merits of the band ROADBED.

I did play "what's in the bag", "the man" and "Robertson's dream orchard"

Next week (October 8) a rare and special treat Klagg... who have no NMC page that i can find???

September 24 2008 re-cap

I remember thinking about this post on the weekend shortly after swimming in the frigid ocean on Saturday morning... it was looking to be a dog of a blogaroo with me going on some self pitying tangent about how i felt bad last week. Let's fuck that shit because one of the things i felt bad about was being ill prepared for a wedding on the weekend... but i made up for it by getting totally smashed at the open bar.

Now where was i.

My man Shawn Killaly came out last week and put on a percussion clinic:



I never even got to share wisdom with super steve, and i missed the great action from the bands after the supper show which i believe my man Alvaro Rojas was playing in two of them... and i missed it because i was unprepared as usual.



Having internet browser problems as i write this blogaroo all the videos are here http://www.youtube.com/user/CanadaLynxRecords

another one for Super Steve

Super Steve likes the backwards Blog:

2:30 AM SR gets home
2:00 am SR and Simian Special part ways on Broadway outside Gigi's Pizza
1:50 am Sim refuses to let SR buy the Pizza
1:30 am Sim whips out a copy of "Simian Special- The cougar stands it's ground" and gives it to the waitress but not before pointing out a photograph in the liner notes taken at Gigi's.
sometime earlier Sim and Super start hitting a perfectly done pepperoni and mushroom pizza and suck back a couple of Canadian beers.

even before that- we exit the Anza Club after going to a show that was apparently titled "Dick Stump"... a dual CD release party for the bands the whiskey dicks and the Family Stump.

during the show- i make like Super Steve and hurl insults at the band and at one point (unlike Super steve) play the doctor in a song called "Have you seen my taint".

10:15 Simian Special and SR leave the Railway Club and Hail a cab across town to the Anza Club.

8:31 Pm bass player Alvaro Rojas goes over the state of his musical career noting that he just did a show with a Gay puppet

8:25 PM uncle Stan the puppet, official comes out of the closet and admits that yes he IS a Gay Puppet

8:15 pM The lovely and talented Land Of Deborah comes on stage to sing Blue skies with 21 Tandem Repeats

8:00 pm we do a song called the "Shockey Stan" which is essentially a "doom jam" version of an incompleted song called the shockey shock.


7:50 pm Uncle Stan answers the questions for the song Hey Rock's living room

7:45 pm Nick tries a new DI

7:37 pm we play the song jupiter

7:32 pm we open the show with "Never wanted to be anyone"

7:28 Pm still no Super Steve... the band gets together and decides to carry on none the less (the vote is not unanimous)

OK... just for reference we have the Curtain pull to beat for the gold medal... in the Men's tandem pull 2008

this is a curtain pull that could easily be beat... you can see the pullers getting in frame and there is a slight mix-up on when the curtain pull is to start. this team really made up for it with an excellent "curtain seal" however. Now i don't want to come down too hard on a fine curtain pull but i think when we see the Russian, Chinese and King Dinosaur teams, with their technical perfection we might see the scores up a bit.

Genny Trigo put on 7 song clinic



21 tandem repeats it Mr. Greenie



Uncle Stan had some ideas:



Everybody got in on "Fuse lit bombs":



and we finished with "Wishing machine":

What happened last week

Super Robertson, Alvaro Rojas and Simian Special represented for the full show... well most of it and if i could find out how to spell the drummer who finished the show's last name i would tell you. given that i have lost a half an hour already i am going to give the fuck up for now. Shit now a baby is crying...

We did a version of Samson and Delilah:



as a result of this process i caught a mean version from some guy named Charlie Parr



Check out the song 1922...

Back to the supper show:

We made up a song for Michelle Pollard that went off the rails lyrically when the fictitious side burned man and the fictitious moustache man turned out to be a couple of homo's and then the ad lib author rescinded that realizing that that is not "appropriate" kind of material and re-labeled them bi-sexual. Let's not post a link to that one.

working on this one... it would apply to... say if there were a group of humans that new better but it wasn't to their immediate economic advantage to listen:



and a finished number that needs to meet a capo:



Oh yea we spanked a mean WASTELAND... and old Knockin' Dog number written by the Rev D Badcock.

well well

I was culling videos the other day and came across this one.



not too bad. i remember doing that one as i had talked to Smash a few days before and through our conversation i was reminded to push the grand slam elements of the supper show (it's free, good eats at reasonable prices, it's free, good beer, it's free... you know)

No Supper Show Last week

got the family dinner wrapped up and looked at the clock and thought wow... if there was a Supper Show i would have to run out the door now. i then though "How do i do it?"... and then i took the fists to myself for uttering such self pitying drivel. I think i caught myself with a good shot in the bugle and perhaps broke a bone in my nose.. or at least cracked it. The twins saw me hammering myself in the head and joined in with much excitement.

Never take the opportunities you have for granted... sure you are going to blow a few of them but that is life. Chin up old Robertson and no more of this off topic wallowing... next time it will be the groin.

Fire-Man gets balded

And Super Steve thought the last blog post (or Blogaroo) was downright mean.

I nailed him with a little ether and we balded him and it's all good.



don't worry Fire-Man and i are all good. It is only hair people... and he got a free ether buzz.

it was a great show

and there is no show on Wed Aug 27 so have a good one

Check this

So on Wednesday August 20th we are going to have this happen:



Many ill Habits..which, after we have indulged our selves in them, become incorrigible. - Steele, 1710

He needs to be punished for the first 20 seconds of that dog. The tune is good but could you be any more annoying?

I have had it with that guy... If he shows and trys to fuck with me tomorrow I am gong to CHANGE HIM!

I guess i need to dig up some of the old footage to make my case on why i have spent my lifetimes worth of tolerance for him. No more Mr. nice guy... i need to react.

Last week this was our crew doing Mr. Greenie. The Poem Olympics are online if you feel you need them.

Where were we

Wouldn't it be neat if the blog post worked backwards... I still have a few beers in the fridge so let's give it a try.

I stumble into my house at around midnight, check that all the doors are locked and go to sleep.

I Fix the back of the Matrix... that is a co-op car signed out by a good friend to ferry myself and a few others to the beach.

we drive back from 3rd beach with myself riding shotgun making wildly inappropriate navigational decisions.

confusion everywhere

The impromptu "legion of flying monkies horn orchestra" rehearsal session comes to an end when a rebellion breaks out among certain individuals.

Fire-Man seizes the jam and begins what appears to be a sudden rehearsal for a show on August 20th to raise money to save hippo's... if you can believe that.

Chris Banting and SR start strumming guitars

Jason shows up with treats that include chocolate

Smart people brought beer... we begin hitting the supply

the crew tries to warm up

Everybody is naked in the cool Pacific Ocean

Chris Banting and Cam Dilworth rush into the ocean... all follow with Robertson bringing up the rear talking about cool water and oily deisel.

all have arrived

our smart navigation puts us on 3rd beach first.

we leave the club and find our car... i immediately take apart the back of the car to look for the thing that will cover the trunk so that one could leave something valuable in the trunk and it wouldn't bee seen

we finish the picture

we clear the gear

the show is over... on principle we did OK

21 Tandem Repeats plays a set without our 2 ace guitar and bass players... Super Robertson and Chris Banting are joined by Daniel Vallee and the three suffer a bunch of bad song calls by the idiot Super Robertson and manage to play a decent set... at one point Fire-Man leads the crowd in a version of Dish Pig... this goes well and Fire-Man begins to leave orbit.

Cameron Dilworth plays a set with SR and Chris Banting joining on a few select songs... S Robertson misses the first song as Kevin Smith explains again why he thought it was a good idea to turn Robertson's back yard into a "biodegradable" sludgy wasteland.

During the set up we notice that somebody has smashed our drum kit.

I arrive at the club

Is it time to bring back the sprint?