Sorry I couldn't make it to the gig last night. I had a bit of an injury the day before that's completely crippled me, Pulled hamstring. Stage 2. Comes from not stretching properly before physical exertion. This is why I tell the bands I play for that I need time to stretch and warm up before we play. Some let me, some don't, whatever. I'm hurting real bad, and pretty much just lay around in pain 24/7. Oxycontin's don't work. The Flexeril and Soma's help but not much. I'm pretty much screwed. Booooooooooo. This couldn't of happened at a worse time...
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I guess if creating a dialog amongst the Locals was the aspiration, then this Squid Hat Records showcase thing has done it's job! LOL Loads of people are talking about it, everyone's got an opinion as to who the 6 bands to be chosen are, but the majority of them don't wanna go on record as to which bands they think should play, for fear of offending their 'Friends' for whatever reason. Cowards... hahaha So, with that in mind, I presented some Local people in the know about the music scene here in Las fucking Vegas this question: If a Record Label rep were to ask you to recommend 6 Local bands to consider him to check out to sign to their label, who would you name off? Any genre. The answers were interesting in bands named and bands not named. After reading the answers, and conversing with the individuals who came up with them, I even more so wanted to attach names to lists, but I told them I wouldn't, and if anything, I am a man of my word, so I won't, because being anonymous behind your words on the Internet is the cool thing to do nowadays, and nobody wants to cause Drama or Trouble or Controversy on the Internet, right? Yeah right... hahaha Anyways, here's the lists people turned in. I got some free D.I. tickets for their gig next week @ the LVCS to the first 5 people who can guess who's list is who. Possible suspects include a Writer, a Drug Mule, a Shit Talker, a Bassist, a Judge of Musical Talent, another Bassist and a Curmudgeon. First come, first served gets the tickets - post your guesses in the comments and make sure you leave a way for me to get a hold of you in case your guess is correct. I'll give you a hint - one of the lists is fake... heh heh
OK, well, since I have to go to American Buckshot band practice in like 5 minutes, because of my insecure band mates arriving early, and a bratty, oversexed girl that keeps me up all night (literally and figuratively), I gotta cut this short. Before I go I wanna remind you of this amazeballs gig happening mañana at the Sand Dollar (not the Bikini Bar) for Tony Batz, aka Grandpa Spooky, aka the Prince of pinche Darkness. He's ancient even for a Vampire and tomorrow night is when we're all gathering together to play a gig and hopefully have some cake and ice cream for him but yeah, I doubt it! LOL I'm just hoping the Hawaiian Hot Dog Lady (or, as Rusty refers to her as, his future wife) is there so I can get my grub on after I play my set. And yeah, I know there's something called 'Thrashgiving' going on at the Bunkhouse with D.R.I. headlining, but looking at the bands opening it up, I'm almost willing to bet that not one of them plays real 'Thrash', ala Napalm Death or Cryptic Slaughter or some shit. Matter of fact, there's 2 loser bands playing that gig that shouldn't be allowed to play anywhere, period! ha ha ha Fucking shit talking losers - crawl off to the desert and die like the diseased rats that you are, and quit polluting our Music Scene with your Drama and Bullshit. Fucking tweekers, I swear. I hate them. Anyways, tomorrow night, you can come to a great Local show with some cool bands playing, or you could go stand around outside and wait to see a band who's long past their prime, playing with some bands you shouldn't support in any way, shape or form. The choice is yours. See you at the Sand Dollar. :-) I forget how it started. OK, not really, but the band that brought this particular discussion up is not worth mentioning, but anyways, in passing I mentioned to Jesse & Roxie about this Squid Hat Records Showcase thing, and they reacted with mouths agape and eyes wide open, a look of surprise on their collective faces. For those of you that don't know, this is what I was telling them about. It was posted to the onethirtyeight.org Facebook page on Friday. SQUIDHAT RECORDS SHOWCASE WEEKEND. BANDS WANTED! To celebrate our 1st Birthday, SquidHat records is looking for the next great Vegas band to add to our roster. We'll be hosting a two night showcase show on January 25 and 26, 2013 and submissions are open NOW. We have room for six bands, three each night, and each night will be headlined by a current SquidHat Records artist; The Dirty Panties or The Gashers. How can you get your band on the bill? Simply visit our Facebook page, www.Facebook.com/SquidHatRecords, and post a link to your music along with a note telling us why you’d like to be a part of this historic showcase. This is NOT a hokey “Battle of the Bands”. The SquidHat Records management team will review all submissions and select six bands to perform at the event. If you’re a great band, with great songs, you’ll definitely be considered. We will check out every band that posts on our page and announce our selections no later than January 1st,2013. WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR? Submissions are open now so post your music at www.Facebook.com/SquidhatRecords and get in on it! If you know of a great Vegas band get them to submit. Help spread the word! Now, obvious criticism aside, this isn't really that bad of a thing. I think the whole concept of Record Labels is antiquated, but whatever. Some bands are too fucking lazy and too fucking self-indulgent to do things for themselves, and thus they must rely on others to do the things they could easily do themselves if they wanted to. BTW, I'm not talking about any bands in particular, or am I? Hmmmm. ;-) Anyways, after a quick band huddle, a few phone calls and text messages, a plan was hatched, and things were put in motion to make that plan happen. It's an idea that's been toyed with for awhile now, for better or for worse, and using acquired knowledge, established connections, and resources at hand that are now available that weren't back then, we figure it's as good a time as any to announce that The Loud Pipes are getting back together to irritate the shit out of you and to make you all worry with nervous anticipation as to what's going to happen next. We're coming to wreck the party and remind you of the Power of Punk Rock N Roll. This shit's going trilateral in every direction in every available format. It's gonna blow up big time, I can assure you of that. The Loud Pipes Rock N Roll Nightmare Train is about to make another fun run to Hell and back, and you don't wanna miss it. Boarding on Track 138, of course, so all of you better get your ass on board. To add some fuel to the fire that makes this machine run, if you could go to the Squid Hat Records Facebook page by clicking here and letting the powers that be there know that you wanna see The Loud Pipes play their showcase, that would be splendid. I mean, after all, it's supposed to be about the best band in Vegas, right? The next great band, right? Well, The Loud Pipes fit that criteria to a 'T'. I think we'd be a splendid addition to the Squid Hat Records roster, but to make that happen, we need people to go to the Squid Hat Records Facebook page and post up and tell them it would be nice to have The Loud Pipes play this showcase. It's grass roots people. We always relied on our Friends to help us out back then, and today is no different. Blow that page up and demand to see The Loud Pipes play. I can assure you with the utmost sincerity that you want to see us play this gig. Seriously. :-) Official announcement coming forthwith. Forget the Truth - Accept your Curse.
OK - you wanna know the REAL reason why nothing's getting fucking done around here? It's because of this - that damn Simpsons - Tapped Out iPhone game. It's consumed my whole Life as of late, and I can't seem to stop it - even if I wanted to! LOL If I'm not setting up the balloons for the Thanksgiving day parade, or making sure that Apu is feeding the quintuplets, or that Willie is working on his manifesto in his little shack, then I'm collecting money to buy doughnuts and more junk I don't need for the game. If you play it, and I hope that you don't, then you know EXACTLY what I'm talking about. Damn you Simpsons creators for making such an addictive game! LOL Yeah, between this and sexy time with my girl, or the constant band practices my insecure band mates foist upon me, I'm really getting nothing done website wise, and that kind of sucks. I totally blame Her. ;-) Oh well. It's not like nothing is getting done around here. I mean, Bob turned in a Show Review for some gig he went to @ the Double Clown last weekend that The People's Whiskey played. Click here to read that. It's Bob's usual nonsensical drivel and I'm certain that a few of the bands he's discussing will have their feathers ruffled and be bitchy towards him, like some bands in town are, and I find that amusing. Being Honest about someone's music/passion/art/whatever is always tricky, and I could give a fuck less. Lighten up people. Life's too short, ya know? I think there's some disparaging words in the Show Review Dean turned in for that Horror Business gig @ the Bikini Bar that went down a few weeks ago, but I'm still trying to decipher/decode/disentangle his gibberish and make some sort of sense out of it, so that's coming soon. Oh yeah, I finally posted that Music Review of King Tuff that I did a while ago, and you can click here to read it, and for some reason that write up I gave Unfair Fight's new EP came out wrong, so I need to fix that before I re-post it. Marijuana is a Hell of a drug. ;-) Yeah, Life's pretty sweet right now, and I hope things are with you too. There's a couple of cool gigs happening tonight -- one @ Artifice, the other @ the Double Clown. Choose wisely for something to do tonight. Me? I got a date. ;-)
It was probably my most surreal political moment ever in my existence on this planet. I'm at an Aluminum Falcon band practice on the day of the election, with the TV set bouncing back and forth between CNN and FOX news, to attain the different perspectives and biases and prejudices that both sides were eschewing, and we're running through a couple of new tunes and all of us are transfixed to the boob tube's glow, which is feeding us stats about electoral votes and poll projections and other asinine things that, just a few hours ago, I could of cared less about. All sides of the spectrum were represented in the house, with Tyson being a Democrat, Jeremy a Republican, and me an indifferent, apathetic lazy blob . Their political vocal interactions were hot and heated, with their viewpoints and points of interest being debated loudly in between songs while the stats for what was going on with the election were scrawling slowly along the bottom of the TV screen. We would literally be in the middle of running through a tune and all six of our eyes were glued to the TV, watching Obama's electoral vote tally climb higher and higher towards his eventual victory. Everytime all 3 of us were staring at the screen seemed surreal to me, with the contrast of playing fast, obnoxious Punk Rock music, which is generally associated with Rebellion and Dissent and whatnot. While the results didn't directly affect me, and I never got dragged into any of that 'If you support this candidate or political group, I'm going to de-friend you on Facebook' bullshit that was going on, I felt that I, in a small way, took part in a political event, albeit small in nature but huge in emotional involvement and beliefs. One went home Happy, the other, not so Happy... LOL My Friends. You gotta Love them. :-) Everything's updated. New Pictures from the Unfair Fight EP Release gig @ Yayo Taco posted (click here) and, finally, the American Buckshot photos from the Favorite's gig that Colin Oscopy, aka Zak took. You can click here to check those out. Thank you so much Sir! I owe you a drink or two or twelve. Maybe now the 2 fashion conscious girls in my band will stop bugging me about those photos. You ladies have new photos to post on your precious Facebook pages, so go Go GO! and do that pronto, OK? OK! hahaha I don't wanna talk about the Raiders. I fucking HATE that there's no Hockey this year -- GO WRANGLERS!! -- hahaha I'm having too much fun. Hope you are too. |
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