14 posts tagged “music”
Ashia came by yesterday to help me get packing because I can't part with even the most worthless of items. Exhibits A,B,& C: three 10-gallon bags full of clothes for donation. A have a few bikes and set a of weights to liquidate, but other than my furniture should decompose Voltron style into a stack of lumber and from there it's smooth sailing.
The Saxyderms played a nursing home today, and of course they all loved us. Knowing that at any given time 90% of our audience will be Irish American we constantly keep Danny Boy ( Irish Tune from County Derry ) in our back pockets to tug at hearts and purse strings. Today we laid it on thick, and they along which is a first. Poor Tom was close to losing it. The song works wonders I tells ya.
The progress of the Saxyderms is very similar to career mode in Guitar Hero / Rock Band, except that we play for old people instead of dive bars. Close enough. Tom is trying to land us a gig playing the National Anthem for a Lowell Spinners game. Straight to the top folks!
Saxyderms
Holst: Jupiter: Bringer of Jollity
At ~3 minutes you can actually see me arpeggiating with all my might. The instrument is huge cut me some slack. This came out awesome, though Jupiter is far from my favorite movement of this suite. Some spots need woodshopping, but I really think we pulled this off well.
Niehaus: Lucky Seven
This was a particularly live room, all the surfaces were one form of rock or another. I'm surprised we didn't saturate the tiny mic on Peter's camera, nonetheless we really need to get some better recording EQ.
The evening of November 14th is the tentative date for our next current. It'll actually be inside, and free to boot. The set list will look something like this:
Rhapsody on Civil War Themes
Jupiter
First Suite in Eb
Second Suite in F
Mario
Folk Song Suite
Irish Tune/Shepherd's Hey
Bach Quartet
Carousel on the Sands
so figure about an hour or so.
What a day; Honk! took over Olde Somerville Towne. I just back from a sick show at the Dilboy VFW . I''ve never really felt like dancing so much until I heard these groups. They will be in town again tommorow, marching from here to Harvard Sq. for Oktoberfest. Alas, I have apples to pick and won't be able to attend. Go in my place?
Album of the Year: The Meanest of Times
Now I'm just really confused.
Rotten Tomatoes: Once: 97%
I get the feeling that no one on my vox even knows about this movie so consider this a heads up. You know, because I'm so film scene. Its classified as a musical by some, but I'd say that's unfair. Although the movie does revolve around music, and a lot of it is similar to a music video, it lacks that campy break-into-song-for-no-reason quality that really irks me. ( I've seen a few musicals and the only ones I've enjoyed are Chicago and dancer In the dark.)
There was one scene in particular that really appeale to me. Everyone was gathered inside a tiny apartment, eating and drinking at a giant table. When the food was finished everyone had to play music. That's the kind of thing I've always wanted to do but I guess I never hung out with the right people. I think when it goes down in real life its more like take a hit and then play music, but whatever. I've never been particularly good at the sort of spontaneous voicing. Its hard to explain to you plebians, but maybe you understand. The time since last I played sax gets longer with each moment. I keep telling myself its the braces but ~10 years ago when I first had them I played everyday of the week. In the summer for like 6 hours. I might skip tommorow's rehearsal, the first since april(?) due to the aforementioned orthoontic troubles Fuck what I loser I've become. did you know that I'm particularly good at self-guilting?
Anyway, aside from one song being a little over used I liked it and the music was catchy enough that Id buy the album. Also: support the homeland.
I'd like to put my stamp of approval on BreaksFM, a breakbeat web radio station. I'm guessing its based out of the UK because everyone morning at 7AM when I turn it on I'm assaulted with cockney accents. The livesets are intense, espeically MC Profit who seems to freestyle all morning. Much love to the London breakz community.
Namaste.
The saxyderms played for about 3 hours in Copley square and made $160 from the huge line of people lined up to get into that fancy looking church. GG
I finally got around to listening to the Dropkick Murphys stuff I have on my iPod and i like it a lot. --scenepoints for liking an established band. I think I've lost my taste for beer now as well. Slowly but surely my body is ensuring that never have fun eveeeeeeeeeeer again :3.
So the rehearsal with the "Saxyderms" went well. The Tufts center for the arts is beautiful, I'm incredibly jealous. Anyway we'll be playing somewhere around Copley sometime around 11-1PM tommorow. In 2 hours we read through maybe 15-20 pieces(?) By the end I was dead tired, but happy to know that I was playing with some enthusiastic people.
