A few things

Ok, so a blog must be policed from being some "rant zone" where insane maniacs, such as I, go into swearfests over meaningless things.

Now I believe that meaningless has been re-defined this week.

I guess I should go back a bit, I questioned the relevance of "Myspace friends" a few blogaroo's ago even going so far as to describe my legion of "friends" as Hammerheads... Perhaps you recall. And then at the Supper Show I introduced the idea of a "Willingdon Black" myspace page which provided some amusement for all but one. And then, My main man Ken Killbeat, who is doing a mail-out for our 21 Tandem Repeats CD "Never Wanted to Be Anyone", shot me an email asking me to make 1 or 2 songs on my myspace page available for free download because that is what all the Indie labels are doing... Make a free download and tell the world. Well I got my Karma that night trying to change that (it appeared that the myspace servers were not functioning for the "upload music properly" function... The result being me spending the night on myspace ruining our page with songs that didn't play, working myself into a fine rage.

Back to the meaningless definition. I know a band in Vancouver that has paid some guy in India $100 to get them 10,000 friends. And that is a deal because the going rate is $500. There is a whole economy of people getting other people "friends", which is good to know, because now I know there is no point in the Supper Show People trying to have Willingdon Black's page be the number one page in the world... I mean it would be anyway, being a tribute to the greatest guitar player in the "early evening" Vancouver scene.

This is the same week that Mule Hughes has his image on Myspace for his involvement in DCR.

apparently band websites are a waste of time and money as the myspace page has it all... Music right away, image, bio and show listings, contact... Which is now the band website. Which once again makes me a jackass with hay breath... Just thinking about the money I spend on hosting 21tr.ca and canadalynxrecords.com, and the links sent with a pro press release end up being Myspace pages for the two... Which cost me nothing. I guess that's what you call a left handed compliment to myspace. It IS a VERY important industry tool, if they could just make some browser that didn't show all the "thanks for the Add" and LOL comments I would pay for it.

tonight's second discussion

Mule Hughes from Difficult Music talking about playing in bands

"Every time a thing gets to the point where gigs have to be played and studio time is booked, that's when it all goes pear-shaped and I have to step back. It's self-sabotage, I guess."

The key word being "have"... We have to play a gig or we will... Turn into a pumpkin?, die a lonely life with nobody ever aware of our omnipotent talent? Not progress properly?

It was Christmas Eve at the Cottage Bistro maybe 6 years ago when Shockk and I were doing our then annual Christmas eve show at the Cottage Bistro... Mule and a few of his bandmates were there and the idea for them to play was put to them... There was the usual inward waffling until Mule silenced the crew with a sharp tirade with the words "well if we can't fucking do this then we can't do anything"... They went up and played a wonderful set.

And then studio time gets booked... And then what? The band has to begin to take everything seriously pulling out a giant comb of negativity to rid the material of any kinks that you didn't see when you were playing for fun.

Score another notch on the belt of the mighty Mule.

Imagine a reality show where some slick Hollywood agent blow into town and signs Mule records to a 5 album deal. The theme song would be Restore "you really sold out" and the first episode would be called Mule Makeover... Where the Mule becomes known as the Stallion and is followed by a pack of chatty cathy's from beauty salon to "hip" clothing franchises to lose them only during voice coaching and personal training... Ideas for episode 2?