Wednesday, February 19, 2014

Maestro Michi Renoir and Fried Chicken

Yesterday I missed Deceptions Digital (DD) in her bi-weekly performance at Cat's Art MusikCircus as I was out of the house for some more doctoring.  There's nothing any more interesting about my doctoring than your doctoring so there's nothing to say but I was a wee bit disappointed when they weren't serious about being able to put a third eye in the center of my forehead.

Although I did not see DD's performance, there are two things I know about it:

  • She did not do the same show as the last time I saw her
  • She brought her dog to the show

Deceptions Digital makes new music so fast that she will have one or more new tunes with every performance.  Come to hear her in two weeks for some gorilla walk percussion in really extreme compositions.


There's really no solid review of Maestro Michi Renoir's performance either.  He improvises his set from start to finish but that doesn't mean he goes floating around aimlessly.  To fully appreciate his set, it's always best to hear all of it because there's a flow all the way through it.

Michi Renoir is a 'head-down performer' which is to say he is absolutely absorbed in his music.  If the house were burning, he wouldn't notice until the firemen burst into his studio.  We were talking as he played last night about trips and excursions in music and trippin' music is definitely what he plays, Michi will never be down and out with a tune in three minutes.  That just will not ever happen even though at one time he performed publicly with a punk band.  These days he plays what he wants and what he wants is to go traveling ... and the audience goes with him.


Mein Wort für Michi ist noch sagenhaft!

(My word for Michi is still fabulous / amazing!)


Und letzte Nacht Cat hat einen anderen Musiker gefunden.  Er ist auch einen Deutscher aber er ist nicht so gut mit Englisch als Cat.  Sie hilft ihm und das ist sehr süsse.  Vielleicht werden wir ihm bald hören.

(And last night Cat found another musician.  He is also a German but his English is not so good as Cat.  She helps him and it's very sweet.  Perhaps we will hear him soon.)


(Ed:  Hey, hey, hey.  What about the fried chicken?)

Ah yes, the fried chicken.  The schedule was a bit scrambled yesterday so I was looking at the clock on the way back from Doktor Krankenmaus.  I could see Michi's set had started but I was thinking there was still time to be there for at least some of it.  There was no time to stop anywhere to eat so there were only one question to be answered:  how many steps does it take to get to the fridge to get some chicken and then to the computer to see Cat and the show.

The Galactic Peace Tour recommendation on fried chicken is not Kentucky Fried but rather is Church's.  In part this is because I saw a picture of KFC's Colonel Sanders with Alice Cooper and I thought, hmm, these guys have pretty much the same product.

Church's doesn't get gooey in the fridge like KFC and it tastes better before it ever goes into the fridge.  Church's makes the best fried chicken ... unless you go to see The Preacher in Cincinnati as he made the best chicken in the city and perhaps in the whole Universe.  The Preacher's chicken was so hot with spices that your fingers would catch fire from it.

Whether Maestro Michi's music is better with or without fried chicken is a subjective determination so I can only suggest trying it yourself to find out.

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