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?

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: