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?

21 Tandem Repeats version of the song "On Frozen Pond" to win the hundred thousand big ones.

It happens to be track 8 on our New CD titled "No Junk mail Please"



If you want to hear it check this But the ROGER DEAN YOUNG cover song isn't there... CBC radio 3 doesn't do cover songs... a good thing.

to commemorate the return of our new CD we performed 21 Random Poems last week at the supper show... it was actually a pretty good show... there were definitely some dogs in the mix and my unfortunate mumbling disorder.. but the band of Rojas, Macaulay and Banting put on a clinic. In fact i talked to a beautiful French woman after the show who loved it even though she missed the words... there could be something there... alas lets go with this poem and you can find the rest if you have a stomach for Jack assed poetry and some time to kill.



Next week look for Genny Trigo and Baboon Torture Division (July 23) and on the 30th of July it will be the King Dinosaur Supper Show. On August 6 look for the return of Super Robertson at the supper show with special guest lined up Cameron Dillworth

this guy:

this blogaroo is representative of 40 minutes of work... hopefully i can shit it together in 15 and then stretch

I wonder if i spelt stretch right... no red line under it, which means old robertson is a good as gold... why is there a red line under robertson? That is the more pressing question at this juncture... what about "there". Robertsons have their red line when things are left un-capitalized.

OK

Last week's supper show had moments of fine merit

who lost their mind putting together the "bird trivia" clip?



look for B) Zalwonkion.. to end up on a future exam.

On Wednesday July 16 we are going to attempt 21 random poems. Surly it will take 21 disguises and 21 poems and of course 21 musical numbers pulled from the archived minds of the great Willingdon Black, Alvaro Rojas and Chris Banting.

The following week will be July 23 and set to play the Supper Show are Genny Trigo and Baboon Torture Division.

The following week (august30) will hopefully be somebody reading "Songs of the Doomed" by Hunter S Thompson, for an hour... Just have to find the person. Or if somebody wants to do the supper show send me an email

Super Robertson is off for a 2 week stint to play supper shows in the famed cottage country of prosperous Ontario.


Too bad the CD's aren't back from that sloth duplication company who i erroneously gave my business to.

I'll leave you with Hey Rocks Livingroom...




the rest of the show is there with the rest of the lot. If you want some subtle comedy check out the one titled "the devil"... great song sounds good but watch the bass player (Jack Snape... brother of Gordon) just "shit the bed" on that one. At one point he interrupts the singer who is in mid verse and asks if he is sure he is in the right key... you hear the singer say a firm but polite YES " and then continue to sing the song (quite well i might add). The the bass player moves back to what looks like a music stand and freezes... still unable to jump the train he continues for a while and then after a long time he tries to discretely remove his sunglasses and stare down at the music stand.

shit that took like 50 minutes... I am a failure and i know it

July 2 re-cap

.. THE FAMOUS UNCLE STAN...

Trying to remember what happened last week... took a good shot in the head playing hockey tonight... things have gone weird! Oh shit i remember i brought down ice cream cones. DRUMSTICKS! One of the SRSS Gold Medal winners had a birthday, in fact she won the best attendance. Usually i bring cake, but i think July is a good ice cream month.

In fact there are 2 people who frequent the Supper Show who have a birthday this week... perhaps more ice cream. We need a COSTCO run, because that shithole safeway that is on my way to the supper show sucks a large turtle private organ.

OK so it's ice cream... and maybe those fucking CD's will be ready one day. I believe it was June 10 that the latest 21 tandem repeats CD went to press... and we are at July 9, and the company talks about a 15 working day turn around... sounds like a "spin" to me.

and last week we were blessed from a visit from Uncle Stan: and HIS original song "sexy times".



21 tandem Repeats opened with the classic Never Wanted To Be Anyone... notice the fine curtain pull from the stalwart Kevin Smith:

we're number 7!

indeed thee Canada Lynx records youtube channel hit # 7 on the most viewed charts (Canadian Musicians) the other day

A gold medal is always a good thing at the Supper show as you know.

Canada Lynx Records Youtube channel

June 25 re-cap

Gentle Infidels put on a fine CLINIC last week... and the show started on time, which pleased S Robertson very much so as that scrappy hound jackel was was trying to niggle him over that very point. Word has it that Super Steve won't be at the Supper Show this week as he made a point about saying I'll see you in two weeks.

anyhoo the supper show blog presents the Gentle Infidels:




21 tandem Repeats opened the show with ace drummer Chris Banting on guitar for a few instrumental works:



21 Tandem Repeats saw S Robertson on Bass and the concept worked out rather well and believe it or not they got to work a STOKE and a Snake Island Salvage number into the set.




And at the end of the show after we played the Roadbed classic BENT we started into Mr. Greenie and Shockk jumped up on guitar thinking we were about to play "surrounded by patch cables"... a neat fusion indeed, and always nice to play with Shockk in any capacity.

Tuesday night update (June 24 2008)

Well i just got an email... and it was MINE the one that talked about the show tomorrow... you know the "Entertainment and Supper Option". We are looking to move toward cell phone user group alerts for the hottest new concerts... but that will be next year.

Ye old Robertson special... send out the email with a link to the site and then quickly shit together a blogaroo. This old blog that hasn't heard from any of the other delinquent posters that have the passwords and all.

the email is this:

On Wednesday June 25th

Special Guests... The Gentle Infidels
http://www.myspace.com/gentleinfidels

and 21 Tandem Repeats will debut some new sounds and instrument configurations.
http://radio3.cbc.ca/bands/21-Tandem-Repeats


And perhaps a few quick notes on wheelbarrow's... or a poem moment, if there is time.

The Super Robertson Supper Show
Every wednesday night from 7:30-8:30PM
No cover, kitchen is open
@ the Railway Club 579 Dunsmuir Street
http://srsuppershow.blogspot.com/


Ah yes i can feel the server being flooded as we continue.


OK, Last week Vale put on a fine clinic... at 7:30 i was ready to start the show... just couldn't find the stage lights... and then the sound man JL Delinquent flew in the door and threw mic's on the lads... good thing i didn't start the show without a vocal mic. The drums and Amp could have worked in the room without mic's, but it was far superior to have them. JLD is a fine sound man with a master ear and a quick paw... a veritable lynx among mortals.

Vale



And the lovely Genny Trigo sang for 21TR with the pro bass work of Cory Curtis




The end



I know you are all thinking.... how can i get on the email list?

dare to dream

June 11 re-cap

Jake DeNiro and Moustache Man took up the call of the Supper Show and knocked one out of the park last week. In terms of true art and culture, their show captured and presented an element of the Super Robertson Supper Show using a minimalist electronic remix and award winning photography.

It was what I would call KING HELL.



So 21 Tandem Repeats had to play Bengal Tiger



all for free baby

Later i headed down to Fake Jazz to catch Baboon Torture Division... i even ended up mosh dancing. I did cost me 3 bucks though, but well worth it.

June 4 re-cap

Before i start i should note that our guest next week (June 11)... i guess which is actually this week has a press release:

"Come and listen to remixes of your favorite 21 Tandem Repeats tracks all jumbled up by Jake DeNiro and his suite of looping software, MIDI controllers and an amazing light table. Visuals provided by MoustacheMan. Yesssss."

What happened on June 4... besides the Detroit Red Wings winning the Stanley Cup. i missed that as i was watching a lovely an intimate performance of a songbird named Clare Love. She opted out of being filmed so i can say if you weren't there then you missed a fantastic free show.

imagine this on stage



21 Tandem Repeats had their ace drummer Chris Banting back... i thought we played great

Hey Rock took the Bait

Well Super Steve was overjoyed to finally meet Hey Rock in person, and hear what a fine singer he is.

Didn't even get to hang with Hey Rock much... didn't even attempt a swirley. A Swirley is when you shove somebodys head in a tiolet and flush. Shockk and i use to play that game with Hey Rock for years. We came pretty close one day... i would say his head was about 2 inches from the water when he summoned a "hail mary" energy surge and broke loose back away from the tiolet and through the shower doors.


Ahh the good old days when boys would be boys and men would be men, and it can get harder to describe when you don't really have it... like another broken soul who never made it to the end of the Road. Bed time in the city of fallen heroes!

OK what is that from?

First right answer gets a Canada Lynx prize pack.

So Hey Rock and his band Ross Vegas came out and stomped down a set. He had a Killer guitar player named Alec Macaulay, or something like that i think... The bass was operated by Smash and for a moment it looked like we could be in for a STOKE medley... oddly enough we did touch on an In 3's medley to close the supper show.

Smash and I got to hang out for a bit later on in the night and i almost got the feeling we might have a winner for the "best comment from the supper show 2008-2009" Gold Medal... but there are still a lot of Supper Shows left so let's not get too hasty. I always tend to view life from a different perspective that sees more opportunity after talking to Smash, so cheers to that.

well lets cut the chat and get to the STREAMING DIGITAL VIDEO!!!!!



Now Smash left his bass affects up on stage so Alvaro was like a kid in a candy store.