THIS FRIDAY (please read!)

[Tim]

Hi everyone,

This Friday (March 10th) will be the first appearance of the band I play in. The band is called Balisong, and our music captures a variety of genres from the Doors to Oasis (I would say from Abba to Zappa, but then I realize that I would be lying). But more or less I guess it's straight-up rock and roll. It doesn't fit into any particular decade, that's for sure.

I play bass in the group, and I suppose I am one of the co-founders. Some of you may have heard me complain or talk about the drama that has existed over the past year between my bandmates and I -but now it's all built up to this: Our first appearance (hooray!)

I hope at this point in reading this you are as excited as I am while writing this. But if you're not, it's still alright. The details of this fantastic appearance is that we'll be appearing at the MSE Common Room this Friday (March 10th) at around 7:30 (though we'll likely be going on around 8 ish). For those that worry that it might run late, the set will only run about 30-40 minutes. And we'll be likely doing two sets. So you can check out one while you're on a study break... (Though I recommend catching our first set -it will likely be the better one) There is a cost to this, and it's $2. The proceeds of this will be going to CP, thanks to the generosity of the MSE Club Executive and their interest in promoting art on campus.

If someone could bring some magazines to hand out, it would be great. Also it's a cool place to sign people up.

Okay that's it for my pitch. Please tell all your friends that may be interested. Do remind them tho that we aren't professionals, so it will sound "okay" but not "mind blowingly awesome", though I wouldn't rule out any surprises at this point.

I'm kinda zonked right now w/ an unexpected flu (or somethingorother) , otherwise I'd post the poster (if it were finished) and a map. But I'll do that tomorrow or the day after tomorrow..


A.

P.S. For those that witnessed my "singing" during karaoke, I want to assure you that I won't be singing lead this evg... hahaha

[Tim]

Hey everyone,

Here's the poster for the event.


or you can check the url here if the image doesn't load

betamaximum.textdriven.com/heavy.jp



The cost of $5 was set by the MSE Club. Could someone bring copies of the new magazine to hand out?

Tell me what you think of the poster? It's almost like art-at-gunpoint for me....

[Genna]

I can't wait and I encourage everyone to come and support amit's band - which is quite good from what I've heard.
The poster is cool Amit - I recognize the photo - it's been in a past issue.

[Genna]

Hey the show was very good. Amit's band rocked quite hard.
Original tunes were great as were the most excellent Doors covers! Honestly - very promising band! Went very well for a first gig I'd say.
What happened to the Zeppelin and Pearl Jam?

[Tim]

That was a mispronounciation on Kerim's part during his banter: I think he heard me do the bassline for "How Many More Times" and it came to his mind. In all honesty we've only fooled around w/ Zeppelin pieces -Communication Breakdown, Whole Lotta Love, When the Levee Breaks, Heartbreaker-, but have never practiced them nor have ever played any twice. If we tried to do it, it would've been bad. As for "Pearl Jam", Kerim was inviting people to "come up here and jam". I don't know if we'll ever do any Pearl Jam. I like the group but I can't stand Eddie Vetter's voice. Maybe if Kerim doesn't sing like that, we'll do one.

To all the people that came out to our first gig, thanks a million! Thanks for bringing your friends if you brought them!! To those that couldn't make it, you guys missed a very memorable event that will probably be retold when we're famous (hahahaha):

Our drummer had a serious case of food poisoning. We had a last minute replacement. This guy had practiced with us only once or twice, and hadn't touched the drums in months. Now imagine showing up at a music show and immediately be coersed into an instrument that you never touched? It's almost nightmarish, when you think about it. But Martin pulled through. The music also drew an interesting audience: The campus police followed the noise and dropped in! We stopped & cleaned things up a little. And then we went on to the last two songs of our first set. The music was not as good as we wanted -b/c one of the microphones conked out and other little snags.

If Lesley were to play, our songs would've been tighter. Our second set would've been longer, with a few of our newer songs. And covers of Leonard Cohen (Everybody Knows), John Lennon (How Do You Sleep?), Layla (Derek and the Dominoes), New Order (Love Will Tear Us Apart) and The Velvet Underground (I'm Waiting For My Man). It's really cool how we selected these songs.

We will next play again in a few weeks (probably a month) and it will be at a bar on St. Clair West. I will definitely give more notice about this one -though we'll probably do another one after exams too.

And if you saw the base I was playing, it's going to be converted into a showcase of "Chromium Man's Rogue's Gallery" where I will have a pick guard on it featuring characters from Cr Man comics --> but drawn conceptually by others (like yourselves!). So if you're interested, PM me or tell me on MSN, and then I'll randomly match the person w/ the character they would be drawing. I'll describe all the details on another thread.

Thanks again for coming out!!!