I've been an in demand, jack of all trades lately. Haven't had much time for all of the naked girls and SGFriends. I'm traveling the spaceways. That's all I really understand at this point. There is this comet heading towards Sun Ra's home planet and I'm on the mothefucker. Put me in storage, I don't give a fuck. Sonny Sharrock is there. So's Coltrane. Eddie Hazel is packing a bong and passing out quaaludes. Yes sir, they have quaaludes in space. SPACE IS THE PLACE!!!!
Anyway, I got to lay down an intro to a rap CD. I have a grudge with mainstream hip-hop and the material in my skit reflects my disdain. Mainstream Hip-Hop is looking for a serious ass-beating. Fuck 'em. Let's get this show on the road. I've got a hockey stick and a switchblade. These studio gangsters had better be ready to kill my ass. None of this "bodyguard cleaning up the doo-doo" either. I'm gunnin' for the jugular and I'm gonna latch on like a zombie pit-bull diggin' for plasma. I hope the rap tracks on the album don't blow or my efforts will be for naught. It's a various artists CD of local Toledo rappers. I'm sure the skit will fly right over their fucking platinum heads. Oh well, Space is still the place.
THE NOISE BAND IS BLOSSOMING LIKE STDs IN A COLLEGE TOWN. We recorded our third CD Tuesday night. I couldn't be more pleased with the results. Bass Clarinet, two saxophones, standard clarinet, percussion/drums, guitar, and ominus bass noodling were all present. The woodwinds were running through a mic that was hooked to some killer effects. I was too caught up in the finished results to have even asked what equipment the guy was using. If you needed a point of reference to the music, I would say Early 70s Sun Ra and Jackie-O Motherfucker. The session was recorded on an 80 minute MiniDisk. I sat and listened to the entire playback even though I had to get up early for work. I feel really proud to have worked with those guys and to have produced something I can sit back and enjoy. That's the only thing I have been looking for in music. Something I can sit at home and enjoy. You're not going to catch me studying music and practicing like a jazz musician. We're not going to start some silly website to pontificate on our brilliance. We're just going to let it happen and check out the results. The possibility of doing a show at a community center was tossed around. Not in the classic BAND/AUDIENCE sense, but that the audience is the band and vice versa. I would like to get posters out promoting it as a free community music project. Just bring an instrument and you're in. This is really as far as I've thought about the whole thing. If it flies, I would like to involve multimedia artists and dancers to the pot. What's going to set it apart from most indie/underground shows and venues is the whole family aspect. It just seems like a cool fest at the underground shows these days. Taking the shows away from the bars will really help deter that. Everyone's participation will be incouraged. No matter the persons skill level, fashion sense, or music knowledge. Again, this is something I'm borrowing from the FREE FOLK communities. The only people that are going to show up are people curious about MUSIC. Not just drinking and seeing who else is as hip as you are. Great ideas...lets see if this fucking barge sails.
soundtrack of the day
MILES DAVIS "On The Corner"
Yeah, it's been a MILES FUNK week.
Anyway, I got to lay down an intro to a rap CD. I have a grudge with mainstream hip-hop and the material in my skit reflects my disdain. Mainstream Hip-Hop is looking for a serious ass-beating. Fuck 'em. Let's get this show on the road. I've got a hockey stick and a switchblade. These studio gangsters had better be ready to kill my ass. None of this "bodyguard cleaning up the doo-doo" either. I'm gunnin' for the jugular and I'm gonna latch on like a zombie pit-bull diggin' for plasma. I hope the rap tracks on the album don't blow or my efforts will be for naught. It's a various artists CD of local Toledo rappers. I'm sure the skit will fly right over their fucking platinum heads. Oh well, Space is still the place.
THE NOISE BAND IS BLOSSOMING LIKE STDs IN A COLLEGE TOWN. We recorded our third CD Tuesday night. I couldn't be more pleased with the results. Bass Clarinet, two saxophones, standard clarinet, percussion/drums, guitar, and ominus bass noodling were all present. The woodwinds were running through a mic that was hooked to some killer effects. I was too caught up in the finished results to have even asked what equipment the guy was using. If you needed a point of reference to the music, I would say Early 70s Sun Ra and Jackie-O Motherfucker. The session was recorded on an 80 minute MiniDisk. I sat and listened to the entire playback even though I had to get up early for work. I feel really proud to have worked with those guys and to have produced something I can sit back and enjoy. That's the only thing I have been looking for in music. Something I can sit at home and enjoy. You're not going to catch me studying music and practicing like a jazz musician. We're not going to start some silly website to pontificate on our brilliance. We're just going to let it happen and check out the results. The possibility of doing a show at a community center was tossed around. Not in the classic BAND/AUDIENCE sense, but that the audience is the band and vice versa. I would like to get posters out promoting it as a free community music project. Just bring an instrument and you're in. This is really as far as I've thought about the whole thing. If it flies, I would like to involve multimedia artists and dancers to the pot. What's going to set it apart from most indie/underground shows and venues is the whole family aspect. It just seems like a cool fest at the underground shows these days. Taking the shows away from the bars will really help deter that. Everyone's participation will be incouraged. No matter the persons skill level, fashion sense, or music knowledge. Again, this is something I'm borrowing from the FREE FOLK communities. The only people that are going to show up are people curious about MUSIC. Not just drinking and seeing who else is as hip as you are. Great ideas...lets see if this fucking barge sails.
soundtrack of the day
MILES DAVIS "On The Corner"
Yeah, it's been a MILES FUNK week.
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My commitment to C & C is simply seeing a few of their movies during a Cinemax C & C Month and deciding they were mostly good. I've smoked pot a handful of times, most recently... hmm, 1997? I've spent more time inebriated from beer last Saturday than I have from pot in my entire life. Like, less than an hour.
Now, doesn't mean I'm against pot. Drugs are a fine hobby, just not a fine life, people need to know the diff.
Same with Cheech Wizard. Might be a very fine mushroom/ phallic cartoon duuuude, I have no idea.
I hesitate to bag on other folks's music. I will say that I have never listened to 311 for fun, but that's just me. Perhaps they save all their gems for B-sides and "deep cuts." As long as I have Leo Sayer and Anita Bridges recordings on file, people will be able to take their reciprocal shots. Taste-bagging is a dangerous game. Only the finnicky survive, and I believe finnickiness is for Morris the Cat; I like to enjoy shitty music once in a while. I chose fun. I want some.... ack-shaaauun, I wanna leee-ee-ive.