gentlemonkey

Good to see some folks from the Nish posting on this board.. Sweet town. I hear they are moving Evolve this summer to another venue, I'm hoping it's still relativley close to Antigonish.. hopefully spend a little time at the dirty o, and visit the wheelhouse for a tasty donair. mmmmmmm.

Has anybody else heard this?! I just got it through mailorder, and it's amazing. Destroys the acoustic one, that I still think is great.

check it out, you will likey.

about as likely too!

I think we'll see them return July 2003, in Ottawa- barrymores. Destiny Unbound opener.

We gotta get on the road.

Greco donairs rule for inducing hard diarrhea.

I would have to throw down a vote for the wheel house in antigonish, and one for Donair King in Fredericton. But i prefer the wheelhouse. the super donair is a fucking national treasure.

If I was in mexico, with whore. the last place i would want be is at a computer.

I'd be ballin, yo. baaaaon chik ba bon ba bon!!

Bus or no bus, happy mcnewyear!!

Hey! nero is playing a mansion party, Dec 27th in Shediac, near Moncton. Instead of 53rd and 3rd which went belly up last week. Same location Grand Theft Bus rocked a few weeks ago. Should be fun..

Don't have too much info at this point, but I think it's going to be a fun time!

Time to drive! Peace.

Didn't you hear?! Bouche left for mexico last night..

good surprises?~

-Oysterhead.

-Trey Band

-MMW playing in Ottawa

-Tenacious D

-the New Deal getting huge in the US

-Babylon getting them and everyone else

-refurbished Whipping Post.. *crazy!

-pooing a golden log on my birthday

Worst bands of the year?

-The guy who sings- moula "all the ladies love you and everybodys your friend..(whatever)."

-pink- BLaaaaaRGH!!

-any Pink Floyd tribute (cept Luther Wright and the Wrongs of course)

-BuBBa Sparxxx

-Creed

-Dinner is Ruined

-Strangefolk.. reluctantly got into them last year, and their lead singer left after the garden of eden show i saw. The new guys suck, and that was proven at their Cabaret show in montreal last Winter. (the Juicy Fruit encore sewed it up 4 me)

-Fred Durst's accoustic side..

thats all i can think of-- happy boxing week!

Hey! Just wanted to give anyone who reads this a big ole Merry Christmas...! HOpe everyone manages to have a chill holiday.. and everyone traveling- be safe.

Best regards, agressive monkey

NO, NO Dinghy!! You got it way wrong.. the best way to spend Christmas eve is at a really quiet office, thinking about all the stuff you've neglected to buy and organize..

Gotta get some shit together.. for the show, and presents that haven't started to be purchased.

gleep. this is going to be busy cocksucker of a weekend.

Hey BB, nice work on Ottawa Jams night #2. Looking forward to Downtime... Tim Toady should be interesting too, heard their demo a few weeks back.

I hear it's a little more trippy then they make it out to be. I was going to see it last week.. but it came out the next day, so instead saw Shallow Hal, pretty funny, Jack Black is hilarious, but its a definite renter.

from rollingstone.com

Phish's McConnell Debuts Band

A little more than a year after Phish officially announced their hiatus, keyboardist, Page McConnell's new band, Vida Blue, will close out the year with two shows, December 30th in Burlington, Vermont, and New Year's Eve in New York.

"This New Year's Eve show came about as kind of a last-minute thing," McConnell explains. "Last year, I didn't have anything to do New Year's and I wanted to have some plans, and the other band members [drummer Russell Batiste and bassist Oteil Burbridge] were available also. New York City is the greatest city in the world, so you might as well play it New Year's Eve."

The debut shows also mark the first time the keyboardist fronts a band both on stage and in the studio. "I like making the decisions," McConnell admits, somewhat sheepishly. "It's very different experience for me just to be the go-to guy. You're between songs and everyone looks at you and goes, 'What do we do next?' I'm really enjoying it, not even just the musical side of leading the band but even just every decision that goes into it, whether it's photography or anything. I'm really enjoying not having to refer to everyone else every time you make a decision."

For the debut shows, McConnell is expecting to play material culled from Vida Blue's upcoming release. The band name, borrowed from a former Oakland A's star pitcher, ("He had a great style of pitching and I always really liked his name a lot") evokes the sound McConnell achieved. "I think the some of the music we're doing harkens back a little bit to the Seventies and has some of the same textures."

The band began recording in a New Orleans studio in September. McConnell says he wasn't exactly sure what the band's sound would be, but was surprised when dance elements turned up in the almost-finished product. He is now finishing writing lyrics for some of the songs and expects to complete work on the record by the end of January. "The songs that have the lyrics on them have a little bit more of a traditional rock sound," he says. "I wouldn't say jazz, but there is that influence. The specific instruments I play -- a Fender Rhodes and Wurlitzer and clavinet -- really evoke that Seventies feel to me. A lot of the instrumentals have a little bit of a techno feel to them. I played some of it for Trey [Anastasio] the other day and he said 'human techno,' which I thought was a nice way to describe a lot of the jamming, because rather than some of the loops and synthesizers there's real musicians playing."

Aside from working on Vida Blue, McConnell has also turned up on recent releases from Gov't Mule (The Deep End, Vol. 1) and Tenacious D's self-titled release. "It's an honor to play with the D," McConnell says.

Phish recently reunited for one night only at their manager's wedding. "It was completely spur of the moment," McConnell says. "I would not have predicted it. [The wedding polka band] asked us if we wanted to play, so we played 'Wolfman's Brother,' 'Boogie on Reggae Woman,' and a request from the bride for, 'Loving Cup.' But just because all four of us are at a wedding doesn't mean we play [laughs."

McConnell is also using the Phish break to gain some perspective on the band. "I've really enjoyed the time off," he says. "The whole Phish thing had been quite a ride and letting that all coalesce in our minds and appreciate what we did and the scale of the things we did and the number of things we did. It's hard to recognize it during the middle of it. But with the door shut it was still the same four guys it was twenty years ago, sitting in a room. So there was a certain continuity that ran through the whole thing that made us feel young and not too big or different. But also, part of what the appeal for Phish was a sense of community. And that we did try to do things our own way and that itself was always probably one of our biggest statements. And that's what we tried to inspire people to do."

I could probably get us there for 400 each, on the travel-slut program in which I am heavily involved.

no time though.

I can't wait to meet this dude.

Couldn't cut it as a blind man stealin..

Good to see the word is spreading..

no that's next door.. hoots and hollers

hey, a bunch of us will be up there having some tasty beers'n'caesars. pablo, rabid, velvet, dinghy?, will be there, among many familiar non-sanctuarians.. We're gonna get a table inside, but tonight is also their famous Xmas Carol, Patio party.. so that could be fun too. Bring a coat and a tuque.. we can pretend we're in a ski lodge.. 10ish at Whispers.. on Richmond Rd. (in between Churchill and kirkwood/ across from Winks, for those who haven't been..)

I'm not one for individual invitations.. everyone is welcome! peace.

Thanks y'all!! I just got surprised by my office with an office-calibre rendition of Happy Birthday.. Bouche.. thanks for the whoor. I can't hear what she is saying though when I try and fondle her..

no audio..

Hoping, praying.. I would love to make a little beard that I could wear around town..

Wow, this is post number 420! It's my birthday! and I'm writing about Trey's pubes! What a glorious day!

You wanna buy trey's pubes?? You're fucked up.

Weird. i replied saying that i was saying yes, as in yess h, that was scathing sarcasm. but the post dissappeared, and i look like i was being an asshole again. Oh well.