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They used to be a band called Samsara from the KW area. I've gigged with them but haven't caught more than a tune or two. They're all really good players and sound basically like their recordings - tight.

Hmmmm. No doubt. Mike, I've your Halloween costume here. The OxiClean guy!

Are they going to wear those masks?

I checked out the Friday show. My seats stunk, the sound was horrid... but it was fuckin awesome! Killer show, killer set. I may have a few of the tunes in the wrong place, but here's the setlist from 9/21. Time for Livin Remote Control Shake your Rump Root Down B for my Name Sabrosa Gratitude Time to Get Ill Rhymin' and Stealin' Pass the Mic Super Disco Breakin' Triple Trouble 3 MCs and 1 DJ Shambala Off the Grid Body Movin' No Sleep Til Brooklyn Ch-Check It Out Heart Attack Man Tough Guy Egg Raid on Mojo So What'cha Want Intergalactic Sabotage

M.I.A. Kala

'These Electric Lives' @12:30 ‘Everything All The Time’ @11:30 ‘Fighter Lover’ @10:30 ‘Love Machine’ @9:30. $8.00 These guys are pretty much a new band.... first gig tonight with their new singer. Heavily keyboard based pop. Joseph Shabason: Vox/Keys/Sax, (Jewish Legend) Kieran Adams: Drums/Vox, (Matt Barber, Andrew Rodriguez, Sarah Harmer) Mary Cobham- Vox/Keys/Guitar Jeremy Little: Bass/Keys, (BNB, Andrew Rodriguez, Sean McDonald) Robbie Grunwald: Keys/Accordian (Milky Way, Andrew Rodriguez) Everything All the Time Myspace

I'd love to go, but I've got an early Monday. Damn you Rancho!

Jay Kent is awesome! Genius in fact - one of my absolute favourite musicians out there.

Friday!

Oh shit! I just realized I knew this guy. He played keyboards for Charlie Sexton, and we hung out when I was in Austin in March. Really nice dude, and a great player as well. RIP.

Dude.

Looks like Canada got lucky. NEW YORK (Reuters) - Award-winning American rock duo The White Stripes has cancelled a U.S. tour due to start this week, citing drummer Meg White's "health issues". "Meg White is suffering from acute anxiety and is unable to travel at this time," the duo said in a posting on their Web site. "We hate to let people down and are very sorry." Meg White and guitarist Jack White had lined up a tour to promote their latest album "Icky Thump," their sixth studio release. The two band members that founded The White Stripes in Detroit about 10 years ago had long claimed to be brother and sister, but the Detroit Free Press reported in 2001 that they were once married and divorced in March 2000. Jack White is now married to model Karen Elson, with whom he had a son, Henry, last month. The tour was due to kick off in Albuquerque, New Mexico, on September 13 and wrap in Honolulu on October 10 before moving to Britain. The posting on the Web site said ticket holders could get refunds at the point of purchase.

It's funny... I have a real love/hate relationship with that venue... but the last couple times we've done shows there, our stage energy has just been through the roof. So I'm quite looking forward to this Monday. Hopefully we'll be back your way soon Mike!

What? Monday. Like the subject heading says. Hi Shelby.

Ah geeez... I'm reading my post and I sound bored or something. "Yeah... come out to the show if you don't fall asleep or something I guess..." COME TO THIS GIG!! It's gonna be FUN! We've actually been loving the sound at the Drake lately, and we haven't been playing much - so we're real excited to play this one. ROCK AND ROLL! AWESOME! That's better...

I think we're on @ 11... but I'm not 100%. There's a few other bands too. $5 http://www.thedrakehotel.to/node/3106

Kate Fenner plus Chris Brown and The Citizen's Band (Tony Scherr, Anton Fier and Teddy Kumpel) will host a residency at Toronto's Dakota Tavern on Sept. 6 and 13. Awesome.

I uploaded these for a friend, but figured I'd post them here if anyone is interested. The first one is live in NYC from Nov 18 1981 - their first US tour. http://www.sendspace.com/file/w4p32w And the second is from the Reading Festival, August 30, 1998. http://www.sendspace.com/file/381yuj

I recall being told in grade school a few good ones about Gene Simmons' tongue. 1) that he had three tongues sown together and 2) that he had a cow's tongue instead of his own. I totally believed it.

A great one I heard involved the band Dayglo Abortions. Apparently, one night in a band room...maybe the Embassy in London...they took apart the TV, took a shit inside it, and put it back together. Of course no one could find the stench of it for weeks. People I've told it to have told me they heard about another band at another venue, etc.

from the Canadian Press. (CP) — Celebrated arranger and keyboardist Doug Riley, considered to be a pillar of the Canadian music industry, has died of a sudden heart attack. He was 62. Riley, known as "Doctor Music," died Monday while sitting on a plane that was preparing to leave Calgary, his wife Jan said Tuesday from their home in Little Pond, P.E.I. The legendary performer was returning to the Island after headlining a jazz and blues festival. "It was a massive heart attack and he died instantly," said Jan Riley, adding that she last heard from her husband on Sunday. "He sounded totally fine the last time I talked to him." Riley's best friend, singer David Clayton-Thomas, said the death was a sudden blow to everyone who knew the musician, an accomplished artist whose work included collaborations with Ray Charles, Placido Domingo, Ringo Starr, Gordon Lightfoot, Anne Murray, Sylvia Tyson, Dan Hill and Bob Seger. "Canada just lost a musical giant," Clayton-Thomas said by phone from Montreal, his voice shaking with emotion. "And as a person, anybody who knew Doc knows that he had a heart that was just so big. It's hard to imagine him gone. I can't imagine my life without him." Riley's diverse career began in his teens when he played R&B with the Silhouettes in Toronto, but went on to include keyboard and production work for a who's who in the Canadian music industry and accomplished forays into musical genres including jazz, classical, film scores and ballet. He wrote more than 2,000 jingles, arranged music for several television programs in the late '60s and '70s and appeared as an arranger and second keyboard player on Ray Charles' 1968 LP "Doing His Thing." He found more success with his soulful music ensemble, Doctor Music, and made a name as an accomplished jazz musician. He was awarded the Order of Canada in 2004. Canadian keyboardist Paul Shaffer said Riley was a big influence on his playing, noting he admired him for getting a doctorate in music at the University of Toronto in the '60s. They met in 1968 during auditions for the musical "Hair," when both accompanied would-be performers on piano. "He really was an inspiration for those of us thinking about going into music ourselves," Shaffer said from New York, after taping an episode of the "Late Show with David Letterman," where he serves as music director. "I think that the world of funk and R&B is a poorer place now that we've lost Doug Riley." When Shaffer was honoured with a star on Canada's Walk of Fame in Toronto last year, he asked Riley to be part of an "organ summit" that performed at the festivities. Clayton-Thomas, himself a celebrated jazz musician and former lead singer for Blood, Sweat and Tears, noted that jazz innovator Herbie Hancock was a fan, too. "When Herbie came up for my Hall of Fame induction, first thing he asked: 'You still play with Doug Riley? He's amazing.' " Clayton-Thomas recalled of an encounter earlier this year. "He's a brilliant technician who could play everything from Tchaikovsky to Thelonious Monk and then could get down and rock 'n' roll and play the blues, too. He's irreplaceable. There's only one Doc Riley." A heavy-set man who suffered from diabetes, Riley had long been in frail health, noted Clayton-Thomas, adding that Riley suffered polio as a child. Nevertheless, his sudden passing was unexpected, said Clayton-Thomas, who broke down with emotion several times while recounting his memories. "It's hard to say what he meant to me, my God, he was my closest musical collaborator and my dearest friend and I loved him beyond what I could tell you," said Clayton-Thomas, noting that Riley was on nearly every album he ever recorded. Jan Riley said she and sons Ben, a 31-year-old drummer, and Jesse, a 28-year-old Toronto police officer, would be in Toronto on Wednesday to meet the body and return it to Prince Edward Island. Clayton-Thomas said Riley would be cremated but that funeral arrangements had yet to be set.

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Wow! Thanks Brad... I remember giving this to you a while back... at Babylon I think.... This was recorded from the soundboard by the house tech - he gave it to us right after the show... so I assume he just recorded it straight to CD. We'd just had killer night in Red Deer the night before this one involving lots of Chartreuse - so we played the same set this night. I have the Frankenstein from this show on my iPod - it's a pretty good freakout. St. Andrews Bored Again Yellow Pants cd banter No 7 Stuck Inside Strange Companion Palace Moon Shine On You Crazy Diamond These Days > By The Door Holes Distraction Waiting For The Day In The Belly Frankenstein

Mike Flip is in town for a few hours, so out he comes to Grossmans where I'll join him and Caution Jam for some musical fun! Start around 10ish, play til 2ish.

The rain of course! Having experienced my share of rain in Ontario and the East, I'm lacking that West coast booter I've yet to get. That's right... booter.