Live Rock Critic 53

                           Live Rock Critic 53  April 23 2017

I am being criticized for defending myself against moronic critics who have no respect for the living artist, myself.

My original work was criticized in a ridiculous manner which has no substance but was  just plain nihlistic rejection and anecdotes of how little other alleged viewers thought of my work.  Piffle.

There is more substance to the rejection of the original artist by the musicians who had work in the cities where I sought to create a career for myself.  I could not travel by van from one bar to the next,  I would have to be a member of a band which was original and capable of performing in the desirable venues available to the more capable musicians. 

The catch to this plan is that to have credibility one must be literally``famous`` in one's home city.     I would need to form or join a band and work my way up in the local venues to gain credibility.         The problem would then be supporting the band financially by working locally. The gigs in most of the venues were occupied by zealously schmoozing cover bands. People drank more to old blues songs, was the adage among bar owners.  I did try to overcome these difficulties, I tried to become known on my own. I learned to perform new material instantly, live, to be ready if the opportunity arose to work at music by forming or joining a band. I have recorded everything written, composed and performed by myself for decades. When the internet made self publishing possible I wrote and composed and performed, recorded, video taped and DVR'd and posted music videos, cartoons and animated political satire and social satire, sometimes set to music.

I resent being unfavorably compared with lousy material done badly by the same bar bandies I have complained about. I do not venerate old , traditional or dead. I could not give a damn about the anything of the dead. I absolutely refuse to fail to defend myself just because the stick I am being beaten with is dead. 

Tony Robertson was a big help in 1990, he reminded me that I played harmonica when I had severe head injury and a complete mix-up of all memories. I think that I have developed creatively and that the music and the videos and the political satire cartoons are a further evolution on the writing sessions and the original music played at the "Space Jam" I hosted on my farm in Richmond or in the Burr House in Delta. We learned a lot of brand new fresh riffs every Sunday.     

A vibrant creative music scene could still flourish with new material performed at live venues, music unavailable elsewhere.  Internet Publishing of live original music from venues might be the thing, but not old blues songs ! Perhaps there is still an original music scene in some cities, maybe even in Vancouver and I am unaware.                      Respect the living composer!                                                                                             Lindon Collard                                              Live Rock Critic

                    Live Rock Critic 52: I respond to my critics:

Much more critical than I am of ...well , virtually everyone , are those who trash, dismiss and dishonor my efforts to write, compose, perform, record , video, and publish my work.

I perform live and even record live, using the Stax Studio system which is to put all effects on the instruments, amps and voices and to balance sound using VU and Decibel meters and to then record in stereo using best possible gear. I recorded literally thousands of performances using a Sony HX Pro on new studio quality tape. I find the quality good and useable with Alesis Tapelink.

 When I started making video live, I was faced with the single microphone fake 5.1 or stereo which provided fast, synced but low quality sound. I tried numerous methods, H4N Zoom for instance, to add better sound but I had difficulty. Last night I was excited to use my new stereo & movie camera the Sony MV 1, inexpensive but supposed to work but the SD card was incompatible. The Sony MV 1 is supposed to wi fi to my computer, I hope it works.  I have a new RolandGR707 and sequenced Kurzweils version of "Hillbilli", "Marijuanaville" theme which I am desiring to film .

I have tried to produce video of many types since about 1992. Most of my youtube is '08 to '12 when I made a concentrated effort to publish my work. I had a friend,Tony Robertson, who would at times have writing sessions with me, Vaqueros lead hand and mc at some jams and played with Sue Medley, great going for a graduate of a Blues Music School.{ I originally posted without Tony toured Europe with "Long John Baldry".    My girlfriend who knew the lyrics to all songs. Karioke girl, had some appreciation of my musical ability from having heard my harmonica with a live band. I took her to see Baldry and Robertson and after that she had a less dynamic idea of musicians I knew and me. She thought the performance was old and lame. She dumped me not long after. I never did like Baldry, I attended because Tony told me he was in town. }

    I received a call from one of my oldest friends where he maintained that Tony Robertson videos were applauded but people he showed my videos to `Laughed at me`. I nervously checked my Lindon Collard.com website. Everything was in order, I clicked on music videos and there was Darling Space Girl and 6 more animated shorts. Check them out, on a computer, so data on the phone is not a cost issue, the data cost per second factor has damaged the posting of videos.   Scroll down to my live performance videos, all performances filmed live with sequenced basic song platform of Bass, Drums and Keys. The two Kurzweils will also do real sampled winds, strings and horns. Laughed at or other blanket dismissals, I simply cannot accept that type of criticism. I hope my blog has accurately criticized.

I am proud of my compositions and performances and my producers`animations which are on:

Lindon Collard.com,  or Google Lindon Collard    lindoncollard@gmail.com.   Lindon Collard WEBSITE: 3 Menus: Music Videos - Blogs - Political Satire.  

You be the critic. Check out Tony Robertson Vaqueros, find more than four videos if you can. Check out my website  and  google plus and Youtube for hundreds of mine. You can post commentary or e-mail me a critique or comparison. I will post a Live Rock Critic of the live Robertson performances later,  possibly, I am sure I would offend people with my views on confusion, pitch awareness, covers of songs not sounding like the tunes, no scintilating leads, lack of proper relationship to the melody with leads, monotone guitar and lack of inventiveness . I will not air my views at this time. I am guilty of railing and raving about weak vocals and off pitch vocals and lack of stage presence. No I will not go there. I do not wish to shove any sacred cows or shovel out Bull Chix today. Bye for now .