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It seems some talented writer wrote a feature on the group in this week's View...

http://viewmag.com/viewstory.php?storyid=4079

I agree Ollie, I understand the album the same way.

Dogs are slick, heartless business types; the first part of the tune is written as if its one expert Dog teaching others how to operate:

"Gotta sleep on your toes when you're on the street,

Got to be able to pick out the easy meat with your eyes closed

Then moving in silently downwind and out of site,

You've got to strike when the moment is right without thinking

And after awhile, you can work on points for style

Like the club tie, and the firm handshake

Certain look in the eye and an easy smile

Yeah

And in the end you'll pack up, fly down south, and hide your head in the sand

Just another sad old man

All alone and dying of cancer"

What a mammoth record. Some of Gilmour's finest work, too.

Here he is:

He played with Thin Lizzy for a number of years as well.

I think I saw doyle bramhall here in ottawa actualy, he;s the guy that plays his guitar upside down.

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That'd be him, alright.

His solo records are sweet, I highly recommend them.

Happy Birthday you old so-and-so! I had no idea it was your birthday. I'm a great friend, eh?

"You've got to be crazy"

Get it straight, buddy, that song is called Dogs, from the greatest album Pink Floyd ever released, Animals.

If you've ever seen Roger Waters' "Live In The Flesh" DVD from his 2000 tour, the two lead guitar players are Doyle Bramhall II and Snowy White. Andy Fairwhether Low plays rhythm and also bass when Roger picks up the acoustic.

Right on, Mike Daley.

Yes sir, that was it. The full band is more rock, less pop than that night was. Like I said though, these guys write great songs...and at a breakneck pace too.

I'm playing with a Zep coverband called Red Zeppelin at the moment, but I did play a one-off gig with two guys from Charlemagne where we called ourselves The Surly Young Bucks. Red Zeppelin will be writing over the summer, as will a new roots-rock/country rock band that I'm assembling featuring Matthew Heywood (bass for Red Zeppelin) and a couple of the guys from Charlemagne. I'm also in talks to play bass for a certain local MC...musical things are happening for the Rev, I assure you Lazlo . Come out tonight and check these dudes out, they're good. Go listen to those first two tunes on their MySpace if you're not convinced.

Not my band, but associates of mine to be sure. There's word I might sit in tonight on a cover or two. Looking forward to it!

Taken from here:

The order tonight is Juicebox, i.martron, Charlemagne.

Juicebox is:

Thom Gill, of Birdseyeing It and Flattstreet FAME, plus a ton of other jazz musicians playing mostly uncondomed sexual intercourse from the seventies.

Now THAT sounds cool!

A bit about i.martron, from his website:

Academe

2006-04-15 martron@school. Metastate is an interactive computer system that I have been developing for this past semester. The piece derives musical influence from Iannis Xenakis' Metastaseis which was composed using Xenakis' theory of stochastic music. Stochastic music uses randomly generated elements which are created by strict mathematical processes.

Metastate uses an approximation of the particle swarm algorithm to determine in real time the next state of the system. Swarming mathematics were discovered by studying the behaviour of bird flocks, fish schools and swarming insects. By ascribing a few simple rules to an entity, a bird for example, the higher level structure of a flock seems to emerge. These rules are generally described as:

1) Steer toward the nearest bird

2) Avoid crowding other birds

3) Match speeds with other birds

Following the example of Tim Blackwell and Peter Bentley, I have defined the behaviour of a single note in much the same way. As you may hear in this performance, the tone of my saxophone becomes doubled and seems to swarm around whatever tone I play. If I play high notes, the computer will respond with high notes. If I play a wide range of notes, the computer will also respond in a wide range. Finally, the behaviour of this swarming note is also used to record and play back samples of my saxophone playing. This way, if I return to the same pitch I had been playing when the sample first recorded, it is likely that this sample will play back. Metastate is an experiment in real time indeterminacy.

download the track:

www.imartron.com/main.html

Sounds like it'll be a cool night!

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These discs are virtually indestructible!

HA

Nobody from Flattstreet is in Charlemagne. I don't know who from Flattstreet is in I-Martron or Juice Box, sorry dude.

Holy shit, is this ever good. I expected it to be 90's-era three-chord Neil Young (a la Mirror Ball), something I'd enjoy but isn't particularly accessible. This is awesome though. I wasn't sure how the trumpet would figure in there, but so far it's awesome, the 100 voices are great too. I'm on the third track and it's killer.

Hammer folk

Come check out a great band tomorrow (Friday) night at the Pepper Jack

They're called Charlemagne and they are worthy of particular distinction because I am in the process of producing their first release. They just won the McMaster Battle of the Bands a few weeks ago. They write bloody great songs, and they rock it hard in a Big Star/Thrush Hermit way. I saw them on the bill with Bob Egan (Blue Rodeo) a couple weeks ago at the Corktown, and their show was positively explosive.

Listen to some tunes on their MySpace page - the first two, Blueprint and In The Right Light, are tunes I've cut. They are pre-mix.

Those of you familiar with my discriminating tastes know that I would not place my stamp of approval upon just anybody; I certainly would not be producing for them if I didn't think they were awesome. These boys are the real rock and roll shit, without a doubt. Cover is a measly $5, also on the bill are I-MARTRON and JUICE BOX, both of which feature members of Birdseyeing It and Flattstreet. Come on out!

Ha! That totally made me want a new washer and dryer set.

But first you'll have to tell us if the Rice-a-Roni costs nearer to $3.00 than the Hamburger Helper.

HAHA!

I always loved the ridiculous showcase themes...you'd have a lazy-eyed old guy up there being told enthusiastically to bid on a fabulous new espresso machine' date=' a stylish living room set and his-and-her dune buggies. Now THERE'S a show I miss now that I don't have cable.

There was a time when The Price is Right represented staying home sick from school...later in life it meant skipping class...more recently, it symbolized getting up before noon.

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Happy birthday dude!

Thanks Brad! FYI, "Song For My Father" was originally a Horace Silver tune. Holy dubwise, Chameleon Project!

I shake my head sadly at all the detractors.

Dude. Message boards are for public comment. I said it nicely and without malice. I shake my head sadly at those who shake their heads sadly at people who don't agree with them!

I'll probably still be at the fest (now that it appears I can get a ticket in Hamilton - thanks for checking that out, Mark). I understand that the 500 ticket limit must be in place in order to keep the festival legit, and hence the organizers can't work up the kind of revenue to book multiple out-of-town acts.

No tickets in Hamilton, and no tickets at the gate? I don't understand.

Further, is anybody else substantially disappointed that the lineup consists of acts that can be seen at least twice a year in Ontario (except for Freekbass)? No offense at all to the acts on the bill, they're all great, but there's no artist on the bill that's drawing me to the fest because they may not be back up here for a while...I remember being enticed by a bill that included Vorcza, Jacob Fred and Brothers Past in the same weekend last year. Granted, BP didn't make it, but that's a lineup that seemed a little more out-of-the-ordinary.

Aren't The Rising Sons on this bill too? The Spades website says so.

The Rising Sons consists of the three guys in The Spades joined by Travis Good of the Sadies. This project NEVER plays gigs, this is the third of a four-show run with no more shows booked. I have a gig tonight in Toronto or else I'd be there with bells on. Don't miss this show Hamilton!

Er, the city. Rather, the people therein. But Brian, if you're around, you shouldn't miss it either.

I've had a mixed experience seeing them... In 1996 they blew my face off, and in 2000 Billy threw a hissyfit because his monitor wasn't working correctly, and they limped through a shitty set because of it.

A friend of mine saw their last gig ever (up to this point) in a small Chicago club and considers it his favorite show ever.

I was a fan, but also preferred a hairy Billy to a bald one. Lazlo?

But dude...a monitor not working is a serious deficiency. The operation of any modern soundsystem, save the smallest karaoke-bar jobs, depends heavily on working monitors. Have you ever stood on a stage amidst blaring rock and roll and stepped up to the mic, felt your vocal chords working, but heard nothing? It's a pretty brutal feeling.

But yeah, there are ways a performer can take it in stride. Nobody wants to see a hissy fit, especially a bald Billy hissy fit. Remember when they fired Jimmy Chamberlain and hired...Kenny Aronoff?? The guy is an awesome drummer, but I remember him wearing this idiot pair of orange alien-eyed sunglasses for a MuchMusic Intimate & Interactive...just an old guy trying to fit in with (relatively) young rockers.

HA!

Was it this message board that somebody posted about the Tea Party being a Vegas Jim Morrison lookalike playing a song in 76/98 time on a guitar tuned to Q? Shit, I still laugh at that.

[color:purple]Thanks Brad!

Wait a minute...

I'm not big on movies, but I recently saw "Shawn of the Dead" for the first time. I'm sure most of you have seen it and it's old news to you, but I avoided it for a long time because the title gave me the impression that it was another of those teen spoof movies (i.e. Not Another Teen Movie XVII). Anyway it turned out to be quite good, an excellent British tongue-in-cheek jab at zombie movies.

As for bad movies, the ladyfriend and I saw Albert Brooks' "Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World" in the theatres a few months ago. Bloody, stinking awful. Just plain unfunny. So much opportunity for comedy (and I don't mean unfair racial comedy) but he just drops the ball in most cases. Drops it...like it's hot.

So once again that's:

Good: Shawn of the Dead

Bad: Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World