Two more have been added to the "Ride the Dragon" CD, the first is a dredge from almost ten years ago with "There Will Come a Time" and the second from last New Years Eve with the "Silas TechnoHypnoGroove Christmas Song" which brings the run time to sixty-four minutes.
That run is sufficient for release but "Andromeda Weeps" is pending and the song is a dredge from the past but it's not the same thing except for the chords. This ones goes up to full focus because I won't be satisfied with anything else instead.
The selection criterion is whether it's legacy material as it's not likely people will buy it without extensive ass sucking and Cat thinks it's lazy that I won't do it but it's not a valid way to present music. The past not only did it better but did it right.
When your band is just starting to kick out, even if it's a solo set, you will have a cadre, maybe a small one, of friends who will be happy to hang flyers on lamp posts and whatnot. That's real, that's music.
If you're good and you're lucky it grows maybe a manager gets into it. He or she will help find shills who don't even know you but they will do more flyers. Repeat for possibly a long time. It's a hard game.
The point is there is very little ass suck, even at the beginning, in any standard model of live performance.
Virtual live, ostensibly, changes all that but I don't believe it for a millisecond because musicians feel they have to prostrate themselves to pull gigs. The mistake is the main reason they have to prostrate themselves is for doing the same gigs over and over in quick succession. That doesn't reward fans but rather tests their endurance and what kind of performer will do this.
(Ed: one who will inevitably fail?)
Yep, overexposure is death. Then you're Taylor Swift and people laugh at you.
My position isn't laziness but rather principle and if you don't have principle when you're nothing then it's not likely you will ever have it. I've seen many in virtual who start thinking they're stars but then they forget their loyalty and behave as insensitive pricks. You can't do that as Telia and I had a wild time as rock royalty but there was always loyalty to the venues which grew me. Circe Broom was the first to take a chance on me so forever after I played whenever she asked and never asked her to pay for the show even when I was pulling $5000L for a one-hour gigs and $10,000L on Saturday nights.
People knew the loyalty and they would recognize us (as much as you can recognize a cartoon avatar) as we roamed about. It was kind of cool but also weird when many more people know you than you know them. It was similar with Tech as many people had to know who the big dawgs were and I was one of them. For Tech, I usually didn't meet the users out there whereas with music it happened just wandering around and screwing off somewhere. (For sysfrogs, anyone who isn't a sysfrog is a user)
One of my biggest rules for myself back then was never play repeating gigs and, to a large extent, I didn't. Maybe musicos now look at repeating gigs as job security but, man, that's not fan security because it asks one hell of a lot of fans to come back week after week.
If you must do repeating gigs, check out Voodoo Shilton and check out multiple of his sets, not just one. Notice the dynamics from one set to the next and how he has a penchant for surprises even when his play is assiduously meticulous. In my words, you see as you like but listening to him will give it to you for sure and definitely more than once so you pick up the dynamics of it.
As to meticulous, he will sometimes go for all-out speed on a note way up the neck and you can tell he counts even though it's impossible for the mind to count anything at that speed, I doubt even Mozart could do it ... but ... you know immediately if it comes out wrong and I guarantee he does.
My technique isn't even close to that of Voodoo but I'm still hugely admiring of people who play really well and keep it human, the latter is the hardest, almost regardless of genre although I have one hell of a time getting close to banjos. Others know the need for this dynamic but he may well be the best at it.
German bands will often bring in an accordion and they make it cool. It's all an extension of krautrock which was a rejection of formulaic rock which they saw in American and English rock songs. Krautrock came out as heavily electronic and experimental and in another German musical world putting an accordion into a rock band is a similar rejection of standards. Check them out some time as there's some jammin' stuff.
Germany is a spiritual center for art and it's nothing new as it has been for centuries. It's the same for Liverpool or even Muscle Shoals, if you like, as Liverpool still is a center for endless musical creativity. Muscle Shoals was southern rock with everyone from Allman Brothers on out. Whether you like the genre, it was, maybe still is, one of the prime centers of American music.
It's the same with Tennessee and that spiritual power is why Nashville is there. It couldn't be anywhere else and still be the same.
So that's where it stands at the moment. I will give "Andromeda Weeps" a fair shot and I don't need to shoot the grandiose video I have described previously before I record the song. It won't faze me at all to do that as a follow-up.
The physical ability to do it is highly variable. The dizzy wobbly bizness is exceptional weird and there's no good explanation. This isn't from blowing clouds of reefer because, quite apart from anything else, I don't.
All together now, class: don't smoke any more of it, you won't get any higher.
Experienced stoners know once you get to that buzz plateau, there isn't another one after that and smoking more won't change anything except make your eyes red and your throat hurt. You can induce physical symptoms if you smoke too much ... but you won't like them.
There really is no ganja marathon and I can be looking at the computer screen sometimes when things get weird. Visualize the bottom horizon of the screen as being the horizon indicator in an aircraft. OK, so now it starts pivoting. Ah, here you go: the sack I got somewhere in the month before last is still here. It's just about done but, nah, ain't no marathon.
A regular doc appt was scheduled for six months and most of that has elapsed so an appt is now scheduled for early April. It's the whole deal with fasting, blood work, and and grill my guttywuts for who knows what. Cat is kind of pissed that me corpus breaks but I didn't exactly take good care of it (larfs).
Believe it or not as you will but I'm the Food Nazi and it's me going on about vegetables and what not. Intake is low but I really do try to be as meticulous as possible about whatever does get munched. That's nothing new as I started cooking years and years ago and I've been rejecting crap food for most of that time. Except for smoking, I don't think I really did take such terrible care of myself as my thinking has always been stay active and the regulars have seen photo shoots from anywhere I ever went.
The weird is as creepy as finding a snake in yer bed but it's not terrifying so I guess I figure it doesn't bite (larfs).
Rolling it all together, I don't want to give more than a couple of weeks to getting the recording for "Andromeda Weeps" done and then the lot will go off as "Ride the Dragon" to CD Baby, iTunes and points West. If it rolls without the song then it just wasn't possible to do it and so it goes. It will roll.
That run is sufficient for release but "Andromeda Weeps" is pending and the song is a dredge from the past but it's not the same thing except for the chords. This ones goes up to full focus because I won't be satisfied with anything else instead.
The selection criterion is whether it's legacy material as it's not likely people will buy it without extensive ass sucking and Cat thinks it's lazy that I won't do it but it's not a valid way to present music. The past not only did it better but did it right.
When your band is just starting to kick out, even if it's a solo set, you will have a cadre, maybe a small one, of friends who will be happy to hang flyers on lamp posts and whatnot. That's real, that's music.
If you're good and you're lucky it grows maybe a manager gets into it. He or she will help find shills who don't even know you but they will do more flyers. Repeat for possibly a long time. It's a hard game.
The point is there is very little ass suck, even at the beginning, in any standard model of live performance.
Virtual live, ostensibly, changes all that but I don't believe it for a millisecond because musicians feel they have to prostrate themselves to pull gigs. The mistake is the main reason they have to prostrate themselves is for doing the same gigs over and over in quick succession. That doesn't reward fans but rather tests their endurance and what kind of performer will do this.
(Ed: one who will inevitably fail?)
Yep, overexposure is death. Then you're Taylor Swift and people laugh at you.
My position isn't laziness but rather principle and if you don't have principle when you're nothing then it's not likely you will ever have it. I've seen many in virtual who start thinking they're stars but then they forget their loyalty and behave as insensitive pricks. You can't do that as Telia and I had a wild time as rock royalty but there was always loyalty to the venues which grew me. Circe Broom was the first to take a chance on me so forever after I played whenever she asked and never asked her to pay for the show even when I was pulling $5000L for a one-hour gigs and $10,000L on Saturday nights.
People knew the loyalty and they would recognize us (as much as you can recognize a cartoon avatar) as we roamed about. It was kind of cool but also weird when many more people know you than you know them. It was similar with Tech as many people had to know who the big dawgs were and I was one of them. For Tech, I usually didn't meet the users out there whereas with music it happened just wandering around and screwing off somewhere. (For sysfrogs, anyone who isn't a sysfrog is a user)
One of my biggest rules for myself back then was never play repeating gigs and, to a large extent, I didn't. Maybe musicos now look at repeating gigs as job security but, man, that's not fan security because it asks one hell of a lot of fans to come back week after week.
If you must do repeating gigs, check out Voodoo Shilton and check out multiple of his sets, not just one. Notice the dynamics from one set to the next and how he has a penchant for surprises even when his play is assiduously meticulous. In my words, you see as you like but listening to him will give it to you for sure and definitely more than once so you pick up the dynamics of it.
As to meticulous, he will sometimes go for all-out speed on a note way up the neck and you can tell he counts even though it's impossible for the mind to count anything at that speed, I doubt even Mozart could do it ... but ... you know immediately if it comes out wrong and I guarantee he does.
My technique isn't even close to that of Voodoo but I'm still hugely admiring of people who play really well and keep it human, the latter is the hardest, almost regardless of genre although I have one hell of a time getting close to banjos. Others know the need for this dynamic but he may well be the best at it.
German bands will often bring in an accordion and they make it cool. It's all an extension of krautrock which was a rejection of formulaic rock which they saw in American and English rock songs. Krautrock came out as heavily electronic and experimental and in another German musical world putting an accordion into a rock band is a similar rejection of standards. Check them out some time as there's some jammin' stuff.
Germany is a spiritual center for art and it's nothing new as it has been for centuries. It's the same for Liverpool or even Muscle Shoals, if you like, as Liverpool still is a center for endless musical creativity. Muscle Shoals was southern rock with everyone from Allman Brothers on out. Whether you like the genre, it was, maybe still is, one of the prime centers of American music.
It's the same with Tennessee and that spiritual power is why Nashville is there. It couldn't be anywhere else and still be the same.
So that's where it stands at the moment. I will give "Andromeda Weeps" a fair shot and I don't need to shoot the grandiose video I have described previously before I record the song. It won't faze me at all to do that as a follow-up.
The physical ability to do it is highly variable. The dizzy wobbly bizness is exceptional weird and there's no good explanation. This isn't from blowing clouds of reefer because, quite apart from anything else, I don't.
All together now, class: don't smoke any more of it, you won't get any higher.
Experienced stoners know once you get to that buzz plateau, there isn't another one after that and smoking more won't change anything except make your eyes red and your throat hurt. You can induce physical symptoms if you smoke too much ... but you won't like them.
There really is no ganja marathon and I can be looking at the computer screen sometimes when things get weird. Visualize the bottom horizon of the screen as being the horizon indicator in an aircraft. OK, so now it starts pivoting. Ah, here you go: the sack I got somewhere in the month before last is still here. It's just about done but, nah, ain't no marathon.
A regular doc appt was scheduled for six months and most of that has elapsed so an appt is now scheduled for early April. It's the whole deal with fasting, blood work, and and grill my guttywuts for who knows what. Cat is kind of pissed that me corpus breaks but I didn't exactly take good care of it (larfs).
Believe it or not as you will but I'm the Food Nazi and it's me going on about vegetables and what not. Intake is low but I really do try to be as meticulous as possible about whatever does get munched. That's nothing new as I started cooking years and years ago and I've been rejecting crap food for most of that time. Except for smoking, I don't think I really did take such terrible care of myself as my thinking has always been stay active and the regulars have seen photo shoots from anywhere I ever went.
The weird is as creepy as finding a snake in yer bed but it's not terrifying so I guess I figure it doesn't bite (larfs).
Rolling it all together, I don't want to give more than a couple of weeks to getting the recording for "Andromeda Weeps" done and then the lot will go off as "Ride the Dragon" to CD Baby, iTunes and points West. If it rolls without the song then it just wasn't possible to do it and so it goes. It will roll.
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