snarfmaster C Posted May 30, 2004 Report Share Posted May 30, 2004 unaware of words appropriate for the experience. ridiculously beautiful and deep and awesome. it was great to run into so many folks - holy cow some people drove far... worth every meter and then some, as far as i can tell. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bouche Posted May 30, 2004 Report Share Posted May 30, 2004 Too much happened in and around that show for me to fit in to any sort of synopsis. I found the entire excursion to Montreal an incredible experience that only happened because of an event that was unfortunately cancelled AND because The Slip and GTB were playing in the town. So many skanks showed up from all over Ontario that made it feel like one of them reunions at a music festivals...but here, the festivals performers were of two, just the Slip and GTB. Now, if I hadda known Kung was going for Danse Contact, I might have joined the tour and kept him from getting kicked out. ahhhhhh....the danse contact Thanks to everyone at the Econo Lodge for keeping things going, but unfortunately, we missed winning the bluff against the attendant. Shortly before we left, I remember him saying how he would 'have to take action'. Mind you, I also remember him BEGGING for people to leave. Here's a photo of the Kunginator on the traps (at the moment he was being escorted off of the stage), referenced in the post above. I'm pretty sure he didn't strike any of the skins, but his air drum performance was priceless. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Davey Boy 2.0 Posted May 30, 2004 Report Share Posted May 30, 2004 christers ! call me crazy but i thought you had the best drum solo of the entire night :: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bONES Posted May 30, 2004 Report Share Posted May 30, 2004 Post deleted by countrycowboy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paisley Posted May 31, 2004 Report Share Posted May 31, 2004 Post deleted by paisley Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bONES Posted May 31, 2004 Report Share Posted May 31, 2004 hey paisley i decided to delete my last post i'm not here to start trouble i was distracted by it thanks for your view scott Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paisley Posted May 31, 2004 Report Share Posted May 31, 2004 cheers bro, hear where you're coming from but all seemed to go far too well for anything to have been amiss Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jimmy_Milbury_Esq Posted May 31, 2004 Report Share Posted May 31, 2004 But it was gold man. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Booche Posted May 31, 2004 Report Share Posted May 31, 2004 [color:"purple"] Post deleted by Booche Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Esau Posted May 31, 2004 Report Share Posted May 31, 2004 Post deleted by Booche Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Esau Posted May 31, 2004 Report Share Posted May 31, 2004 Getting kicked out of Super Sexe on Saturday afternoon after no sleep for shorting a ripper on an erotique mini bed (no more contact danse apparently). The floor manager comes up to me sitting stage side grabs my frisbee and hat and shows me to the door, I'm schwilling back my beer and he's trying to grab it from me: 'you need money to be here buddy, you didn't tip the bartended and only payed her $8.50'. Yeah but I payed buddy his $5 seating fee cut me some slack brah. Thats funny,we ended up there in 2001 the day after the Slip at Le Swimming,we didn't get booted, but man,it was costing a couple hundred fast.Bucket of beers (6) & a free dance in the back ($25+ I think it was for the deal) was the way to go.I also had to check my hoodie ($2:50 I think) then I was escorted by myself to an appropiate table,after which Showwhore and Button were also escorted to.Each of us payed a seating fee to the goon and being the only three there at noon on a sunday meant every dancer ended up at our table workin us for fives.All the while the big goon eye ballin us intently....Ahhhh,Montreal,wish I coulda made it but I really needed to get back to work more then a show,no matter how devasting its feeling after reading the storys and the setlist.Glad it was a blast,catch ya'll on the next one. :: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kung Posted May 31, 2004 Report Share Posted May 31, 2004 What's with all the post deleting huh? Come on who's going to fill me in? I guess the cowboy was complaining about my air drumming but what did booche delete? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bouche Posted May 31, 2004 Report Share Posted May 31, 2004 Call me crazy, but I have a feeling that a couple of the deletes may have just been faked. [color:"purple"] rest of post deleted by Trey Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bONES Posted May 31, 2004 Report Share Posted May 31, 2004 i wasn't complaining, i was stating that some people who go to shows have NO or little respect in this case i was talking about you kung Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kung Posted May 31, 2004 Report Share Posted May 31, 2004 I believe you said something like this but then pussed out and took it off. how do i put this?! i think it's disrespectful, immature, distracting, uncalled for, egotistical, brainless, self-centred, unwanted and undeserved for kung to go on stage during the GTB performance and sit behind Andrew's drum kit like he did! what an ass you were! i wasn't there to see you on stage! and I doubt the Bus asked you to do that. if i were Andrew i would have had you tossed out. smarten the fuck up sorry to offend anyone else, but who needs that kind of disrespect!? Now I don't know that you were actually there or if you were that you are taking this a bit too seriously. First of all it was a small crowd of intimates and not a really 'serious' show if such a thing is possible. In hindsight I'd never do something like that but at the time, in a polluted headspace, it seemed like a funny thing to do. Based on the shit eating grins on the boys faces, the Bus after all are old friends of mine, I don't think they really cared which is the main issue. It was for a laugh and that's what I think it was taken as. There's an element of egotism if you like but more likely just maniacal action. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bONES Posted May 31, 2004 Report Share Posted May 31, 2004 kung...i was there it was a SERIOUS show for me...the VERY best show i have seen in a long, long time! i'm glad you had fun with your buddies, but believe me you were noticed that night without having to go up on stage! you seem to love attention...here on the board and from what i can tell at shows as well Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kung Posted May 31, 2004 Report Share Posted May 31, 2004 I'm still not quite sure what the point of this exchange is. Is it to establish some sort of code of conduct or is it to shame me into toeing the line? Really though think about it, did I just really irk you and hence you feel the need to put me in my place. I think what you're getting at is sort of valid in a way but insomuch as it involves trying to shame me in a public forum I can't concur. My 'friends' would need to speak to this rather than me but I really don't think that very many if any of the band or audience members made much of that other than to get a chuckle out of it. Look what you might be missing is that I'm a dandy, the dandy represents an important juncture between the spheres of aesthetics and ethics, the dandy known for a sort of pompous flare of dress and action (an aristocracy of the spirit without the resources of a true aristocrat) makes their life into a kind of work of art. Baudelaire is the most famous dandy I suppose, Virginia Woolf was as well I suppose and she said it best: 'all interesting people are egotists which is not necessarily a good thing.' In his role of dandy writer, he was determined to avoid all sentimentality, all facility in writing, all turgid use of common sense. What attracted him, what he insisted on cultivating in himself, was a new form of beauty characterised by the strange, the bizarre, tha abnormal. Dandyism permitted Baudelaire to scoff and blaspheme. The dandy, as he saw it, was a historical phenomenon, the product of a particular kind of age, an age of decadence. Baudelaire understood that the aristocratic society of the ancien regime, with its values of honour, elegance, nobility of attitude and life, was gone forever. It had been replaced by the base world of capitalism and industrial progress, a world in which "Get rich" could be an electoral slogan. The dandy, however, still clings to the now-dead values of the by-gone age. Despairing in the face of naked materialism, he seeks to re-create those values, single-handed, for his own benefit. He does so through style. In contrast to the frugal society in which he finds himself, he indulges in extravagance and conspicuous consumption. He dissociates himself from that society in other respects: through his impractical emphasis upon elegance and the poetry of appearance, through his cult of artificiality, and through his supreme and unshakeable impassivity. Baudelaire's dandy was a kind of ascetic. Totally devoted to the construction of his own self through style, and the worship of that creation, he must never allow emotion, spontaneous or natural and hence vulgar behaviour, to put that creation at risk. The dandy treads a narrow path in search of the sublime. He seeks to create himself through poise, a poise that is permanently at risk because the dandy is in permanent danger of making a fool of himself . In his attempt to be different from the bankers, notaries, and money makers that surround him, the dandy attempts to turn himself into a self-made aristocrat.... if only an aristocrat of style. "Dandyism is not, as is commonly supposed, simply an excessive love of clothes and material elegance. To the perfect dandy such matters are merely symbolic of his own spiritual perfection. To his eyes, valuing as he does distinction above all, perfect dress is founded in absolute simplicity - which in fact is the best way to distinguish yourself ... [Dandyism] is above all the urgent need to make oneself original, within the exterior limits of conventional behavior. It is a kind of cult of the self, which [goes beyond] the quest for happiness through women...which can even survive the loss of...illusions. It is the pleasure of astonishing and the proud satisfaction of never being astonished .... In truth, I am not altogether wrong to consider dandyism a form of religion." Excerpt from 'The Painter of Modern Life' 1863 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bONES Posted May 31, 2004 Report Share Posted May 31, 2004 wtf am i trying to shame you here? no the point (code of conduct?) that would be nice the dandy thing i've got enough dandies in my life...if you only knew the folks i live with!! and i'm just a guy who appreciates great music, respectful people, humility in a person and good art! what makes you and your behavior ART ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
c-towns Posted May 31, 2004 Report Share Posted May 31, 2004 So your basically telling us your a self proclaimed jackass. :: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Esau Posted May 31, 2004 Report Share Posted May 31, 2004 Is this truly what you remember most of that night Scott? I'm surprised this even bothered ya.Obviously it did,but I'm just surprised is all.Nothing,derogatory meant. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bONES Posted May 31, 2004 Report Share Posted May 31, 2004 Greg, this did not ruin my night in the LEAST in fact i didn't think about it again until kung posted here that it was he with the air drumming bit i guess i was surprised to find out it was one of us kind of like the Kevin Breit post when one of us talked too loudly near the mics during the show and the quality of the recording was lost i guess i look to this group of people as real music lovers most of you i have met are respectful people who are there to have fun...well, guess what? me too i don't have anything against Luke...i don't know him! was i impressed by what he did? NO does it matter...hell NO i'm just sharing where i am coming from Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sunshine Posted May 31, 2004 Report Share Posted May 31, 2004 What a great night it was! It was nice to see some faces I hadn't seen in awhile - Paisley (and yes you should come visit Ottawa!), Meggo, Scott, Giggles, Mary The Slip blew me away!!! It was my first show, absolutely, completely sober in every way shape and form...and what a treat it was!!! Thanks to all! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Low Roller Posted May 31, 2004 Report Share Posted May 31, 2004 It was my first show, absolutely, completely sober in every way shape and form...and what a treat it was!!! Congrads Sunshine! It's one thing to do it, but it's a totally different thing to say it so proudly around these parts. :: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AdamH Posted May 31, 2004 Report Share Posted May 31, 2004 I was doing somersaults after the show and yet I only had 3 beers the whole time at the venue. Diagnosis: musical euphoria Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
guigsy Posted May 31, 2004 Report Share Posted May 31, 2004 i was pretty fucked... my mind was a beautiful mess. sunshine, i ran into you up on the balcony, right? i was kind of all over the place.. sorry if i was kinda "out there"... and earthfreak, too bad we missed each other, too.. woulda been good to connect again... another time, another place.. cant wait to see those guys again! (and all you guys, too!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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