Tuning with Les Rallizes Denudes...

Imagine...

after listening to Les Rallizes Denudes: "Double Heads"...
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a band comes on the stage...ready to RAWK!!! The guitarist strums a chord, then another chord...the drummer bangs a cymbal...the bass player hits a note then another...there is no vocalist...

they are tuning...

after a minute or two passes by,
it sounds like...
YES YES
they are ready to hit that BIG chord to get everyone m o v i n g
then the guitarist goes back to that original chord...
the drummer hits a tom...
the bass player fiddles with his amp...
they are getting ready to motherfucking ROCK the shit outta this place!!!!!
yeh yeh
i can hear it coming...
what the fuck?!
the guitarist is now fiddling with his amp?!?!
the bass player just walked off stage leaving his bass leaning against the amp...
a thick loud feedback erupts from the amp...
the drummer stands up and starts hitting the wall behind him with his fists
eventually
there is blood streaked against the piss stained wall...
what's that???
a FUCKING screwdriver!!!!
what the fuck is the guitarist up to now????
this is getting fucked...
he's drilling his fucking microphone!!!
now the bass player is back...
the guitarist stops the SHRILL drill
and then stomps on his guitar falling on his ass!!!
now he's crawling off stage...
the drummer stops smashing the wall with his fists
bows to the crowd and walks off...
leaving the bass player alone
standing at the microphone
...the feedback from his amp is slowly fading...
"good night"
the bass player says into the microphone
then walks off the stage...

leaving the crowd of
4
lying in a heap
soul upon soul
ears drained
brains fried
the crowd leave together in silence,
until one says to the other:
"That was fucking awesome!!!"
the other says to the one:
"That was fucked!!!"
The remaining 2 remain silent
digesting
the shards of pain they have experienced
and the anger they participated in...

meanwhile

the 3 bands members sit holding beers
passing joints
from one to the other
they sit
sweaty
bloody
agitated...
exhausted...
then one says to the other:
"We were fucking AWESOME tonight!!!"
the other says to the one:
"My hands are fucked!!!"
the remaining 1 sits silent
digesting
the pain suffered together for...
for...

still trying to figure that motherfucker out...
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Writing a lot, but not on the blog

Well - maybe not a LOT, but certainly more than I have in years. And doing it the old-fashioned way with a pen and a notebook...and less about music and more about...the human (or Harvey?) condition.

Maybe do something like this site? Jeff Bridges official web site. This is a cool, different web site. I like it!
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Summer's Still Here! Edge of the World Music Festival!! Facebook!!!

Edge of the World Music Festival

Summertime has just kept rolling along here on Haida Gwaii. Today's the first day, that is somewhat blah...hence the first post in a while! Hence!!!

Went to Edge of the World Music Festival and had a fun time. Took Charski O'Shea along for the ride. Smaller festivals are amusing, in the sense most people know each other, and you can see everybody checking each other out.
Eyeball
to
Eyeball
looking through their frenenemies
and never quite as ease
as they should be...
still working
still plotting
still planning
on being better than every other asshole around!
Me? I got "friendly", put on the shades and listened to some live music - a rare occurrence here on the islands.

The music?

Well, I guess we all put up with kids' acts cause - well, the kids like 'em and who wants to be a hater when the fucking kids are involved? First up was some acoustic chick, then some world music wannabes, then a jug band playing "Oh, Brother, Where Art Thou" kind of tunes, and it was fine...then your basic white blues bar band, and it was ok...then came Retro Sphere. Man, these guys were great! How to describe their music? Hard, Heavy Metal (even had V-neck guitars and studded spikes on their wrists! classic...) with occasional death metal vocals, yet still pretty hooky...ah, it was great cause they were loud, live and different enough to stand out and get stupid looks from the neo-cons in attendance.

Summary: Good time had by all, Retro Sphere saved the music, and yeh - the food was good too!
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Facebook

I finally understand Facebook! It's for enablers!!!

I mean, if someone posts that they had a fart that morning, people will write back saying what a great farter that person is and come look at my facebook and then you can tell me how amazing I am!!!!

Enablers!!!

each and everyone of YOU!!!!!

So sayeth Harvey Dog...
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