Several Puns Not Intended
Recently, someone asked me, "So how's life treatin' ya?", to which I replied, "Great, as long as I stay out of its way". Life is rolling steadily forward, and I'm rolling with it. So far, so good...
The band played this past Saturday to a bit more than our usual handful at Gizzi's. They were most appreciative and we played pretty well. I know I felt very relaxed, as did Casey, and it seemed to come through in our performances. I find that most of the pressure I feel in these situations (really, in most situations) is self-generated. No one I play in front of tells me I need to do better or be better. I just hear it in my head. I guess when I can get out of my own way, life is smoother still.
We've (borderLine) been invited to play at a 4th of July picnic at Lake Ida Park in Delray. More on that (hey, who you callin' "moron"?) when I get the details. I believe it's a sober picnic sponsored (no pun intended) by Delray's Central House, a 12-Step clubhouse. This means there will be no alcohol or other drugs... with the notable exception of more tobacco than both the Carolinas produce in a year. Ah well, I s'pose if you're gonna give up an addiction or three, give up the ones that are killing you the quickest, no?
Oh, we'll be at Gizzi's again this Sat., 6/9. Come one, come all. I leave for Yosemite the next day, so all you groupies might as well stay home. Big Daddy's gonna need his beauty sleep that night...
Song O' The Morn update:
5/30 - Driver 8 - R.E.M.
5/31/07 - Fall On Me - R.E.M.
After Mike and Kristie reminded me of what a great band they are, I broke out Eponymous (sadly, the only R.E.M. album I own, but a good 'un) and put it in the car. You just gotta love those Peter Buck hooks! Simple, but immediately recognizable and memorable. I don't have any particular emotional attachment to R.E.M., but I do recall thinking that the MTV Unplugged version of Fall On Me was one of the most beautiful things I'd ever heard way back when. I think I have a VHS copy of it buried somewhere, but I'm not up for the archaeological dig it would require to find it right now. If anyone knows where I can find this or see it, please lemme know. I tried youtube, but no dice.
6/1/07 - I'm Only Sleeping - Les Beatles
I've always loved this song. The backing harmonies are especially beautiful, and the backward guitar intrigued me as a kid. In fact, as I think back, Yesterday and Today was the 1st Beatles album I actually bought by myself. I must've been around 12, and I think it may have cost me $4.00. All my other Beatles albums had been given to me by my mom's friends. Man, I can remember it, no pun intended, like it was yesterday. Riffling through the album racks, finally pulling this one up and checking to see if there was a Butcher Cover hiding beneath. Well, there wasn't, but there was the album inside and I played it about a thousand times over. I swear I can smell that record store as I write this. That, or I really need to wash my socks.
6/2/07 - Who Will Save Your Soul - Jewel
Say what you will about her, but Jewel is one of maybe three singers I've heard in my life whose voice has given me chills. Two are women I know personally, Holly Wilkie (a friend from high school with a voice as clear as glass. During rehearsal for a school performance, she sang "Ave Maria" and very nearly made me cry...) and Marnie Wagner (a friend I met in Florida and have in my life to this day. When we met, she told me, "Oh, I play guitar and sing" and I thought, "Yeah, ok, whatever". Later at her apartment she sang a song she'd written - Purple Sky? - and for the second time in my life, chills).
6/3/07 - I'm Ready - borderLine
Yup, I woke up hearing Casey sing this Wille Dixon song in my head. It was brought to the band by our former harp player, Robert. I'd never heard it before, but it's now in our set and Casey handles it very well. Just another I-IV-V blues, but it fills the time.
6/4/07 - Solid As A Rock - Ashford and Simpson
I told'ja this stuff was random... My mom and stepfather listened to lots of R&B (before those initials stood for what they stand for today: Really & Bad) during my teen years, Ashford and Simpson among the bunch. I never saw A&S perform, but Mom & Steve took me to see some great concerts over those years: Tina Turner, Stevie Wonder, Chicago (not R&B per se, but they did have a kick-ass horn section)...
One of my Song O' The Morn bands is coming to town. The Black Crowes will by at the Mizner Park Amphitheater on 8/25 (the day after my b'day). I've seen 'em before, most memorably at the now-defunct Sunrise Musical Theater, and would see 'em again. At this point, I'm on the fence about going. If anybody feels like making a b'day gift of a ticket, by all means do so!
The band played this past Saturday to a bit more than our usual handful at Gizzi's. They were most appreciative and we played pretty well. I know I felt very relaxed, as did Casey, and it seemed to come through in our performances. I find that most of the pressure I feel in these situations (really, in most situations) is self-generated. No one I play in front of tells me I need to do better or be better. I just hear it in my head. I guess when I can get out of my own way, life is smoother still.
We've (borderLine) been invited to play at a 4th of July picnic at Lake Ida Park in Delray. More on that (hey, who you callin' "moron"?) when I get the details. I believe it's a sober picnic sponsored (no pun intended) by Delray's Central House, a 12-Step clubhouse. This means there will be no alcohol or other drugs... with the notable exception of more tobacco than both the Carolinas produce in a year. Ah well, I s'pose if you're gonna give up an addiction or three, give up the ones that are killing you the quickest, no?
Oh, we'll be at Gizzi's again this Sat., 6/9. Come one, come all. I leave for Yosemite the next day, so all you groupies might as well stay home. Big Daddy's gonna need his beauty sleep that night...
Song O' The Morn update:
5/30 - Driver 8 - R.E.M.
5/31/07 - Fall On Me - R.E.M.
After Mike and Kristie reminded me of what a great band they are, I broke out Eponymous (sadly, the only R.E.M. album I own, but a good 'un) and put it in the car. You just gotta love those Peter Buck hooks! Simple, but immediately recognizable and memorable. I don't have any particular emotional attachment to R.E.M., but I do recall thinking that the MTV Unplugged version of Fall On Me was one of the most beautiful things I'd ever heard way back when. I think I have a VHS copy of it buried somewhere, but I'm not up for the archaeological dig it would require to find it right now. If anyone knows where I can find this or see it, please lemme know. I tried youtube, but no dice.
6/1/07 - I'm Only Sleeping - Les Beatles
I've always loved this song. The backing harmonies are especially beautiful, and the backward guitar intrigued me as a kid. In fact, as I think back, Yesterday and Today was the 1st Beatles album I actually bought by myself. I must've been around 12, and I think it may have cost me $4.00. All my other Beatles albums had been given to me by my mom's friends. Man, I can remember it, no pun intended, like it was yesterday. Riffling through the album racks, finally pulling this one up and checking to see if there was a Butcher Cover hiding beneath. Well, there wasn't, but there was the album inside and I played it about a thousand times over. I swear I can smell that record store as I write this. That, or I really need to wash my socks.
6/2/07 - Who Will Save Your Soul - Jewel
Say what you will about her, but Jewel is one of maybe three singers I've heard in my life whose voice has given me chills. Two are women I know personally, Holly Wilkie (a friend from high school with a voice as clear as glass. During rehearsal for a school performance, she sang "Ave Maria" and very nearly made me cry...) and Marnie Wagner (a friend I met in Florida and have in my life to this day. When we met, she told me, "Oh, I play guitar and sing" and I thought, "Yeah, ok, whatever". Later at her apartment she sang a song she'd written - Purple Sky? - and for the second time in my life, chills).
6/3/07 - I'm Ready - borderLine
Yup, I woke up hearing Casey sing this Wille Dixon song in my head. It was brought to the band by our former harp player, Robert. I'd never heard it before, but it's now in our set and Casey handles it very well. Just another I-IV-V blues, but it fills the time.
6/4/07 - Solid As A Rock - Ashford and Simpson
I told'ja this stuff was random... My mom and stepfather listened to lots of R&B (before those initials stood for what they stand for today: Really & Bad) during my teen years, Ashford and Simpson among the bunch. I never saw A&S perform, but Mom & Steve took me to see some great concerts over those years: Tina Turner, Stevie Wonder, Chicago (not R&B per se, but they did have a kick-ass horn section)...
One of my Song O' The Morn bands is coming to town. The Black Crowes will by at the Mizner Park Amphitheater on 8/25 (the day after my b'day). I've seen 'em before, most memorably at the now-defunct Sunrise Musical Theater, and would see 'em again. At this point, I'm on the fence about going. If anybody feels like making a b'day gift of a ticket, by all means do so!
posted by Keith at 10:53 PM
7 Comments:
Didn't realize you were going back to Yosemite. Or maybe you told me and I forgot. Either way, have a great time.
So just now you're discovering that R.E.M. are pretty cool? Have you heard about this new guy the kids are listening to, Mozart?
Jewel sucks, the nadir of Joni Mitchell's influence because she convinced thousands of young girls that they could simply set their diaries to music. But without Joni's innate brilliance it all sounds pathetic. You Were Meant For Me is a portrait of a very disturbed individual in denial. The missing last verse describes her going to the guy's apartment and lopping off his dick with a Bowie knife. I should do my own blog post about this.
Solid As A Rock reminds you just how far Ashford & Simpson had fallen. They wrote so many beautiful songs for Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell and Solid is just a piece of crap.
I prob'ly didn't mention my trip to you. Sorry, I'll try to remember to submit my itinerary for approval next time.
Mozart? Isn't he the guy who, uh... oh, shut the fuck up.
I was referring to Jewel's voice, not necessarily the content of her songs. But thanks for your opinions. I'll look forward to your bloggery!
I agree about A&S. 'Tis a shame.
speaking of sober...
I've got a killer hang-over.
after your performance...could you head on over and kindly kill me?
Welcome, Suki!
Sorry, can't oblige on the killing thing. I'm kind of a bleeding-heart liberal, hippie, tree-huggin', pacifist kind of guy. Sad, I know. Plus, I'd prob'ly be too tired post-gig.
Embrace the hangover. Revel in it. Baaaaaaaaathe in it. Let it keep dissuade you from picking up that alcohammer the next time for another go 'round...
My usual reply to how is life treating me, "beating me with a stick".
However,to quote Norm Peterson from "Cheers":
"Like a baby treats a diaper."
Although his greatest work:
"It's a dog eat dog world, and I'm wearing Milk Bone underwear."
Yowch! to all three... unless you like that sorta thing.
I bathed in it, alright.
had half a dozen people over tonight knocking 'em back.
I'm abstained. refrained. from anything pertaining to teh alka-licky.
I did have a piece of pepperoni pizza, though.
*sobs*
I killed a pig.
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