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Does anybody at all appreciate irony. I'm 'taking this guy seriously' precisely because he's lampooning supposedly sacred cows no one ever dares to topple, Tiger Woods can be majorly annoying in his own way, ever heard him talk? He should stick to bouncing balls off his clubs and stop doing stilted Amex infomercials. Mike Moore can equally be just as annoying.
And I'm just perplexed what a 'left-wing fascist hood-wearing Republican' is- how can you be both left and right at the same time I'm perplexed.
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Jukejoint and Fat Cats (if that counts), Guerilla Funk Monster from Calgary's not really a jamband but interesting, Friends of Hefner and Guesthouse for sure, Passenger also.
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Bouche is right about transposing four notes down but that always confuses me when the guitar player is in say C then you have to go down B A G F and play the harp in F. That said most people start on a C harp because it has a comfortable range of sound that sounds kind of bluesy if you like. Higher harps can be hard for beginners because you feel like one of the Harp's that Popper keeps holstered away and pulls out like once a show and plus you're no fucking Popper. The 234 spots played in a cross harp style (blowing and creating two tones out of the draw notes on each hole) on a C harp can enable you to cheat majorly and sound like some sort of pro and you're playing a total of like 9 notes. You can't fool actual musicians with this kind of shit though. Also Lee Oscar are really good harps especially the Pro Harp which might have been what Jaimoe is talking about but they also have a weird transposition to the keys so you actually need to learn proper blues scales to actually play all the notes in ascending order. So go with a run of the mill $20-30 harp but none of the weird key, transposed scale stuff- it's actually really frustrating if you're trying to learn.
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It may be a tad Christian or whatever but it's really well considered. People make huge sacrifices to stay on tour and it does become a narcissistic self-gratifying existence. The bulk of these people also cannot relate to you what it is they've gleaned from all of this experience, it's a difficult thing to translate back to your life- few are successful. Here's a question someone asked Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche after a talk in Boulder, Colorado 1971.
Q: Would you talk some more about the mechanics of this force of despair? I can understand why despair might occur, but why does bliss occur?
A: It is possible in the beginning to force oneself into the experience of bliss. It is a kind of self-hypnosis, in that we refuse to see the background of what we are. We focus only upon the immediate experience of bliss. We ignore the entire basic ground, where we really are at, so to speak, and we work ourselves up to an experience of tremendous joy. The trouble is, this kind of experience is based purely upon watching oneself. It is a completely dualistic approach. We would like to experience something, and by working very hard we do actually achieve it. However, once we come down from our 'high', once we realize that we are still here, like a black rock standing in the middle of an ocean of waves, then depression sets in. We would like to get drunk, intoxicated, absorbed into the entire universe, but somehow it doesn't happen. We are still here, which is always the first thing to bring us down. Later all the other games of self-deception, of trying to feed oneself further, begin because one is trying to protect oneself completely. It is the 'watcher' principle.
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Nobody's mentioned how fucking classic that Chuck Norris shit was. When Gobi had the short term blank out I just lost it, so were they. Plus Mike and Fish are looking like real fatties.
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How many times have you just puffed a whack of jays or bowls whatever and your landlord knocks on the door a minute later. Was listening to an '89 Axis> ACDC and now she's in the kitchen talking to my girlfriend about the heat. My heart went into my throat. I guess I shouldn't bother worrying it's not that big a deal but that shit just pisses me off when they show up unannounced.
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I'm shitting my pants
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Tipper and Al do count themselves as Deadheads. Ratdog played the Vice Presidential Inaugural Ball. There's even a Gore connection to the rift between the Dead members in the last couple of years. His buddy, major fundraiser, this venture capital guy who plays in some sort of Dead cover band with David Gans types in San Fran was behind this deal to somehow digitize the vault or something. Everyone was for it except Phil (they saw it as a major groundbreaking opportunity) and in turn Hunter, he was the one who came out with the whole story after chatter on one of the Dead boards. Phil felt the band had never needed outside investment and that if anything this could jeopardize people with longstanding jobs in the organization. Phil had posted as Reddy Kilowatt, his alter ego, then Hunter tried to clarify something to the effect of there are those who would like to paper the walls of the vault with advertising...
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Sorry to let anyone down whose expecting some sort of sodomy laced String Cheese fantasy (oh it's in there too don't you worry). This is actually not so much an apology but a rationale to give some insight into the madness which is Northern Heads.
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I'm presuming everyone has some sense that the Zone is likely owned by bikers in the 'organized' sense....
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Christmas Must Be Tonight - Robbie Robertson as sung by Rick Danko
All Time Classic Christmas Song.
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1) See more shows (at whatever cost to your life, family, friends, loved ones)
2) Take more drugs
3) See 1 and 2
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I'll take what I dish in this case with one major fucking proviso. The bands need people like myself, they need to know that there are people in the audience who aren't going to say 8 million variations on 'it's all good braaaaah'. Does anybody really take the time to track what these bands are doing, what they're singing about (or not), what directions there moving in. Does any American ever even see the names of these bands written in print. Besides the fact that no one pays me to do this and I rarely ask for comped tickets. I'm not a fucking journalist, I'm not a professional, and like all the musicians I don't ask (or have to) for permission before I create something (or urinate in peoples ears as it were). And so what if there are a whack of slick ass looking websites out there jambands, jamhub, jamaholic, jamalamadingdong, jamorama, jammeupthehoop.... It all comes to naught if there isn't a story to tell. Content is king you know. So whose going to tell the story?
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Since I took home the tool of the week award a few weeks back one of you has got to step up to the plate this week. I nominate Shapiro for using the expression 'oh boy' or Dr. H for worrying about the perceived public backlash to my little comedy piece. What the fuck are we all doing with our lives people? I'm flattered that you all wasted your time to check out this lark but you're all off your fucking rocker. It just goes to show that if this is a representative sampling of our audience that there is no way I can be too cynical, you all just keep raising the bar on me.
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Hate to be the bearer of bad news but there has been some serious shit going down on the nero bus. Check out the piece I'm working on:
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That's really fucked they're playin Eddie. We were listening to that at my place when they were here last, how it's like a dirge for a buddy who died, I'm not sure if on that particular occasion if I was insulting them into playing it. I was actually going to write a story recently wherein they played if only to try and force them to cover it (and not covers shared with Phish).
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Yeah they're good not great but decent. Not a bad hotel, also did some drugs
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see you there
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Derek Arrowsmith
Upstream Entertainment
Vancouver, Canada
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I've tried to bite my tongue but those bands Shain mentioned aren't even on the same page as The Slip. I could go into some detail why but won't, the piece on Jamhub says a fair deal. Anyways it's completely apples and oranges. None of those bands would ever get signed by a label like Ryko, get invited to play a bash at Trey's house etc. The reason they get this exposure is that they're 'musician's musicians' as the Punk pointed out. As David Hume said 'truth is debatable not taste' so not much more can be said. I just could not disagree more vehemontly. And why stop their, why not add Jiggle The Handle and Max Creek to your list. Or every other putzy little jamband from the Northeast.
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Just put up a major diatribe that should be entitled 'Why The Slip Are The Greatest Fucking Band On The Planet' on jamhub.ca. I'm actually quite proud of this piece and it should go aways to explaining my particularly harsh brand of criticism.
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The Slip is playing Montreal on Saturday the 23rd as hopefully many know. They really want to do it up for this show and are making a call out for help with getting the word out. They've sent me some four song CD samplers they want out in some hip places to let the music do the talking. Obviously just getting the word out to our community will do the trick. If anyone wants me to throw some samplers at them to put out drop me an email at luke@northernheads.com. Otherwise I'm just going to pass on the emails of some relevant scenesters and let momentum take root. I really hope everyone who can make it out will, it's the last date of their tour and is sure to be magical.
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I really don't think the Stick is an implanted memory although since I posted I've read a couple of reviews but neither mentioned this. One did mention an underground parking lot scene we were hitherto unaware of. Although somehow on our trip back to the motel with some american kids who'd been driving us we'd found nitrous and had literally all the available space in the car full of balloons. Driving down the highway after that show huffing balloons really was a fine fine moment.
But I'm almost a hundred percent certain, because our group was talking about how weird that skinny stick bass he was playing was. It could have been for the Guyute (2nd ever, turns out 10.31.95 was the next one so I saw the 3rd as well both of which were reworked) but I definitely associate the long Bowie segment of that show with him on the stick bass in my mind.
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Don't sweat it, I occasionally get emails from teeny boppers desperately seeking this and that:
"hi I don't really know what you r website is about, I found it on a search. but I have a question if it is about what i was hoping to find. I'm looking for the songs from the TV show which is now cancelled called "Higher Ground." it stars Hayden Christensen and I love the music one it. if you have any information please email me back"