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Thanks for the kind words everyone, DMH was very glad to play for you.

I myself smashed two fingernails and my thumbnail on my keys (as per usual) to do my part!

Was very glad to have been able to belt out the couple of request and then to act as a backing band on a few songs as well...we were quite looking forward to that

Congrats!

Ya, Matt blows my mind routinely during practice.

OOooh that's just...insufferable, heh.

Once the Bell guy comes tonight to straighten out my internet (running about at 1/20th the speed for whatever reason) I'll make sure I start streaming any and all things that occur in the jamspace in the basement.

I need to start gettin some new music to play from newer artists.

<-- skank name (Jon)

Chances are I will end up there as I too miss our Saturday night open mic

Me, playin live at home cause i have to work in the morning (overtime, yay)

Just blowin off some steam playin ben folds, neil young and a bunch of stuff.

http://74.104.48.81:80

Do a CTRL+U in mediaplayer or winamp or whatever.

Our clips on www.tadhackish.com

and

Elton John, Live at Fillmore West

and

My computer fan that's about to get stomped on due to a bunged up bearing.

AND

Snowplows on Bronson.

I chuckled the day I found out her father was Ravi Shankar.

Jimmy and I were totally comin out on Saturday with the Hackish drums and keys too

Man. I guess we'd better scope out another venue for a gig.

Jim and I tossed around the idea of streaming our practice sessions online. Any of you hackish fans, check http://www.tadhackish.com for details (and pictures of Hux, of course).

All of my family members named their kids with the same first innitial.

James, Jenny, Jill, Jess, Joe etc...

I'm the only M (mmmmmmmmmmmmmm)

Goodness! I'm not alone:

Jonathan, Jason, Jim, Judy, aunts Jane & Janice, uncle John...grampa...Gerry (close enough).

What's worse...in my home town, there was another family with exactly the same given names as mine. In a town of like, 2000 ppl.

My useless fact (other than that): I've been on Homegrown cafe and JJ Clarke is much bigger than you realize.

Fortunately for us, if they do reunite, Sting can still sing the way he did back in the day.

Something I've noticed is that people will pay for the tickets to a see a lesser version of what once was. You can hear cover bands that sound more like the originals sometimes.

List of more mainstreamy singers that can/sorta can/can't hit the highnotes anymore (but certainly are still worth watching):

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Sting: Saw him last year here in Ottawa (two years ago maybe?), shitty seats, but he was classy as usual. Sang a bunch of old stuff.

Roger Hodgson: Seen a bunch of footage of him (and on Canadian Idol...not that I watched anything but that five minutes). Who'd win in a fight? Roger or Geddy Lee?

Eddie Vedder: Smashing concert in Montreal...sat in the Penalty box area, lots of legroom!

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Burton Cummings: He can hit the notes, but not with the scratchiness of yester-year.

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Elton: (since his surgery in Australia in...199X)

Loved it when I saw him and the original band, but he can't do the falsetto anymore.

AC/DC: Looking forward to their tour if they commit, but Brian tops out now on his power/range.

Our Lady Peace: I hate them and they suck. He's terrible, live.

Any more?

20 minutes nuthin'! It's like 10 mins south of Hunt Club. About 2 mins past Barfhaven.

I'll see you there as usual.

If anyone is interested, there is a P.A., 2 guitars, bongos, various shakers (instruments AND chicks), my Clavia Nord 88 key piano 2 mixers and 3 mics.

It's always a good time without fail, good jams to be had, etc.

Exactly when is T.Rexmas...hehe

I just got back from a walk, and the last song playing in my ridiculous mix was:

"Suck a Cheetah's Dick" by Wesley Willis

How the man had a following, I dunno.

Do you mean the open stage at Irene's? We go from 3:00-7:00. Come on down. I will be there.

Brilliant. I'll walk over around 3

I walked over to the Glebe at lunch today...was gettin pretty crappy. Everyone drive safe!

Speaking of the Glebe, anybody know if the Saturday jams still run?

no Dead cover band

We play a few Dead tunes

SJO sure will be missed there. Those are some hard shoes to fill.

No surprise, but I'm a Gabriel/Collins/Genesis fan.

Turns out, it will be BOTH Peter and Phil for the North American stretch (so sayeth the radio). PG has other commitments that prevent him from joining the Europe stretch. Well worth paying Elton prices for (PG's concert was outstanding when I saw it in Toronto...him alone is > Elton).

Carpet Crawlers for sure then, they redid it as a duet (sorta) for one of the recent greatest hits albums.

Myself

And so can you (streaming live audio):

http://74.104.48.76:8000 (ctrl+u in mediaplayer)

I have Sea Change in my car right now. It's definately one of my favourite albums.

Guero was more traditionally Beck-like, and good, but yes...rainy day Beck is definately Sea Change.

Yessiree, tis Elton (but straight). Once Hux gets me the pics, I'll post a whack on our website as well.

Hackish's bar tab was the scariest thing *I* saw all night!

I was a little miffed by the lockout stuff too, MORE concerned when they were limiting people to the pissers!

I had a blast playin' last night for what people were there. I'm very fortunate to be playin with Tad Hackish...I couldn't ask for a better group of dudes.

We'll be cookin up some originals between now and the next time!

Thanks for everyone who came out. Thanks again to Brad for recording the whole thing. IJ and SJO kicked ass.

cheers!