THIS blog WILL COMMENT ON LIVE ROCK PERFORMANCE. THE FIRST HUNDRED POSTS ; MY HONEST OPINION AS LIVE ROCK CRITIC. I have written lately of my own Live Rock journey and how it did end up wrecked on the rocks again and again. Still it is an incredible improvement to have recovered from virtual paralysis a number of times and be able to write and compose and play instruments and most of all to have been able to dance on stage and perfrorm on Harmonica with LIVE ROCK BANDS.
Thursday, 16 June 2022
Sunday, 5 June 2022
I FIXED MY BIG MUFF AND LESLIE IS BACK IN SERVICE. THIS WAS MY FIRST YOUTUBE POSTING USING THIS GUITAR:
THE LES PAUL GUITAR I AM PLAYING IS USED IN MANY OF MY SONGS LATELY.
I AM DEPENDENT ON MY BIG MUFF, NEED IT TO PERFORM MOST OF THE SONGS I AM CURRENTLY PRACTICING WITH LESLIE THE BLACK BEAUTY LES PAUL.
MY MUFF WAS BROKEN FOR TEN DAYS.
I hooked up a 9 V from 120 V adapter and that made the Big Muff howl.
I found a replacement 9 V battery connector IN A FIFTY YEAR OLD RADIO ALARM CLOCK and I scavenged it. ( The clock still works) I hooked up the wires inside the Muff to the connector and I had Leslie back. The Guitar has inspired Darling. Darling is a Black Girl who is the subject of a dozen songs. Darling Space Girl, Darling in 4X Double Vision, and Darling from the Ghetto.
I DID "BAD DREAMS" TWICE AND "SPACE 06" WHERE DARLING JOINS ME AT THE EDGE OF THE GALAXY FOREVER.
I AM SO RELIEVED. I ACTUALLY CANNOT MAKE TO MY CAR, SHELL SHOCK WILL CAUSE TONIC IMMOBILITY, SO I HAD TO FIND A SCAVENGE AROUND THE HOUSE.
There is a you tube post called "Dance of the Golden Bodied Witches" which is a Leslie Paul Black Beauty Extravaganza.
The video is filmed reflected entirely in the Black Window Glass with the Golden Bodied Witches reflected and I am reflected playing with Leslie.
I cannot find "Dance of the Golden Bodied Witches'', not even where you would expect the video to be with "Witches Chorale".
Postscript June 16 2022:
I DID HAVE A ONE HOUR MUSIC PRACTICE LAST NIGHT. THAT IS RUNNING TIME. I DID WARM UP GUITAR AND KEYBOARD TUNES AND SPACEY INTRO'S. I PERFORMED SEVEN SONGS EXACTLY AS WRITTEN WITH KEYBOARD, GUITAR, HARMONICA AND VOCALS ACCOMPANIED BY SEQUENCED TWIN KURZWEILS. IT IS EXHAUSTING TO PLAY AND SING FORCEFULLY AS ROCK MUSIC REQUIRES AND I WAS EXPERIENCING VIRTUAL PARALYSIS COMING ON AT THE END. I FELT WEAKNESS, MY NECK KINKED MY KNEES WOBBLED AND THERE WAS AN ALARMING LOW BACK RAW FEELING. I SLUNGED ABOUT AND KEPT ON MOVING WITHOUT STABILIZING WHEN I MOVED AND TURNED. IN THE MIDDLE, I HAD, TO SIT FOR A 22 MINUTE BREAK.
Wednesday, 1 June 2022
HEARD ABOUT ME
THIS IS A RECORDING FROM THE END OF MY "OUT AND ABOUT" PERIOD WHERE I SONY "HX PRO" TAPED ANY ORIGINAL LYRICS AND MUSIC THAT I HAD CONCEIVED. I SEQUENCED MY KURZWEIL K2000 V 1 TO PLAY THE ORIGINAL SYNTHESIZED SCORE AND I RECORDED THAT LIVE,WITH MY LIVE AMPLIFIED VOCAL AND HARMONICA PERFORMANCE WITH NO CUTS.
HAVE YOU HEARD ME, PERFORMING LIVE WITH A WELL REHEARSED BAND?
DID YOU HEAR ME PERFORM WITH MY FORTY FOUR HARMONICA, 14 SCALES X 3 TYPES OF TUNING, EACH FOR A SPECIFIC PURPOSE, FULL SET OF HARMONICAS?
THE EXTRA TWO HARMONICAS WERE AN F UNDER A AND AN A OVER F. THERE WERE ALSO A FEW ODD HARMONICAS, TINY SHARP ONES AND CUMBERSOME CHROMATICS.
THERE WERE POLICE OFFICERS IN VANCOUVER BC WHO HAD HEARD ME AND SEEN ME WHO "KNEW WHAT WE WERE TRYING TO DO" BY PERFORMING AND DID NOT THINK I WAS CRAZY.
THE SOOKE RCMP HAD NOT HEARD ME PERFORM THEY HAD HEARD MY WIFE'S EXPERT TESTIMONY THAT I WAS CRAZY, I THOUGHT I WAS GOING TO BE A ROCK STAR SHE SAID. THAT WAS ALL THE RCMP POLICE IN SOOKE BC HAD TO HAVE HEARD.
What is the Heard connotation? That is that what I was doing, particularly at the end of my "out and about period", was going around sitting in with any band I could sit in with anywhere, usually in Vancouver, but in London England once upon a time, which is what Johnny Depp did. I was not famous but I could fit in with any kind of band and play anything they wished to play.
The other relevant parallels between my musical adventures and Johnny Depp's is that he had some sort of music scene happening like my SPACE JAM which ran for many years. John Depp II went around writing lyrics and probably tunes as well like I did. Depp was able to cruise around Los Angeles and New York and London and I was unlawfully confined here at Otter Point House with Moron Police collaborating with my Moron Ex-Wife like a bunch of bullies that have stolen a kid's hat or shoes and fling them away depriving the person of their prized possession, in my case my possession was my way out of the Basement Workshop.
I TRIED REALLY HARD AND PRACTICED ANY TIME I COULD WITH A LIVE BAND OR ALL ALONE WITH CD'S. TO BE DEFAMED, OVERRULED, SIDELINED, TERRORIZED AND PARALYZED BY MY WIFE, MY FAMILY, THE POLICE, AND EVEN THE DOGCATCHERS ON VANCOUVER ISLAND NOT IN VANCOUVER IS TERRIBLE.
DESPERATE TO GET TO PLAY I COMPOSED MY OWN TUNES, I SEQUENCED MY KEYBOARD COMPOSITIONS AND I TAPED AND VIDEOTAPED AND PRACTICED.
Tuesday, 31 May 2022
JOURNALISTS APPEAR ON TELEVISION MORE OFTEN THAN MUSICIANS
SELF CONGRATULATION AT THE BILLBOARD
AWARDS WITH THE FAT BLACK CATS
STROKING THEMSELVES LAVISHLY.
( THIS WAS A POST ON LIVE ROCK CRITIC.)
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BLANCO ACADEMIA, APEING THE OLD WHITE BOY'S
NETWORK THEY LOVE-HATE , MEET AS FELLOWS
AND GRAND FELLOWS AT OUR ALSO HUGELY
EXPENSIVE UNIVERSITIES TO SELF CONGRATULATE.
YOU MET IN CONVOCATION,
WHAT WAS THE REVELATION?
'TWAS JUST MORE CONGRATULATION,
PROMOTING YOUR CONGRATULATION.
DID YOU THINK UP
SOMETHING NEW?
DID YOU DRINK UP
THE INTELLECTUAL BREW?
WAS THIS THE POINTLESS ANEW?
SIMPLY AN EXERCISE, OTHERWISE,
JUST SOMETHING TO DO?
Saturday, 21 May 2022
CAPRICIOUS JUSTICE
THE CORRUPT ADMINISTRATION OF LAW AND DEFAMATION MOTIVATES CRIME AGAINST THE TARGETTED VICTIM. PEOPLE KNOW THEY CAN COMMITOFFENCES AGAINST A MAN WHO IS DEFAMED WITHOUT CONSEQUENCES. BUSINESS AND ARTISTIC ENDEAVORS ARE HAMPERED.
Saturday, May 21, 2022
THE PREPONDERANCE OF THE METADATA
THE POSTING OF WRITING, VIDEO,
AND MUSICAL PERFORMANCE
COUPLED WITH THE CREATION
AND RETENTION OF TAPES AND
VIDEO OF COMPOSITIONS CREATES
A BODY OF LEGAL EVIDENCE WHERE ONLY THE METADATA IS PERTINENT
AND SIGNIFICANT EVIDENCE.
IT DOES NOT MATTER IF YOU LIKE
OR DO NOT LIKE MY WORK OR IF
YOU ARE CERTAIN THAT I WOULD
NOT SUCCEED.
ANY EVALUATION WHICH WOULD
BE BROUGHT FORWARD TO
ATTEMPT TO DENY THAT I
WOULD SUCCEED WOULD
BE LEGALLY WORTHLESS
SPECULATION.
WHAT MATTERS IS THAT THE
METADATA AND THE RECORD
OF THE WORK THAT WAS DONE
AND THE PERFORMANCES
I EXHIBITED IN A RATIONAL
PROJECT TO ACHIEVE
POPULARITY EXISTS.
I WAS WATCHING A HISTORICAL
FILM ABOUT MUSICIANS.
THE VERY INTERESTING
INFORMATION FOR MYSELF,
WAS THAT THE VALUE OF
MUSICIANS WAS BASED
ON THEIR PERFORMANCE
SKILLS AND HOW MANY
SONGS THE HAD IN
THEIR SONG BOOKS.
I HAVE ALWAYS HAD MORE
SONGS WRITTEN THAN ANY
MUSICIAN I EVER
ENCOUNTERED AND
I STILL DO.
I HAD THE INTENT TO SUCCEED.
I AM SURE THAT I WAS ON THE
RIGHT TRACK TO BE SUCCESSFUL.
I BELIEVE THAT THE STEALING
OF MY INHERITANCES, THE
ARSON AND THEFT OF
EVERYTHING I HAD OR
WAS AND THE DEFAMING
OF MYSELF WITHOUT ANY
RATIONAL REASON
PREVENTED ANY SUCCESS.
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Thursday, 19 May 2022
A TOTALLY BANKRUPT CULTURE
BILLBOARD AWARDS ARE ON AS I WRITE.
DO THEY SUCK BIG TIME OT WHAT!
THERE WERE HOURS OF CONGRATULATION AND SELF CONGRATULATION.
THE "WEEKEND" IS A FAT BELLIED 1970,s SOUL SCHMALTZ REPRISE.
ED SHERAN IS LAMING AWAY STANDING WITH HIS PATHETIC ACOUSTIC GUITAR AND BACKING TRACKS. YECCK!
MACHINE GUN KELLY EPITOMIZED THE FAKERY. TATTOOED SLATHERED IN FAKE JEWELRY AND JUST TALKING TO BACKING TRACKS WITH A FAKE GUITAR SOLO. WATCH HIS HANDS, LISTEN CAREFULLY. THERE ARE MULTIPLE GUITAR TRACKS.
THERE IS NOT ONE PERFORMANCE IN THE ENTIRE MIGHT I FOUND EVEN INTERESTING. A LOT OF THE PERFORMANCES WERE REALLY LOUSY.
THE REST OF THE PERFORMERS WERE FAT DANCING CLOWNS. REALLY GROSS.
Wednesday, 18 May 2022
I SHOULD BE PROFESSIONAL REVIEWING SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE MAY 14 2022
I SHOULD HAVE, IN DETAIL, REVIEWED ALL OF THE DEFINING FACTORS WHICH WOULD APPLY TO THE PERFORMANCE AND TO THE MUSICAL COMPOSITION.
IN MY NEXT POST I SHOULD HAVE DONE ONE OF MY OLD TIME LIVE ROCK CRITIC CRITIQUES OF SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE MUSIC PERFORMANCE.
THERE WAS REALLY NO MUSIC. THERE WAS CERTAINLY NO ROCK BAND. THERE WAS A COMPUTER DERIVED SCORE, I BELIEVE,WHICH WAS NOT QUALIFIED TO BE DESCRIBED AS MUSIC.
WHOSE JUDGEMENT IS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE PROMOTION OF ARTISTS WHO SO NOT REALLY PRODUCE A MUSICAL PERFORMANCE BUT MIME THEIR WAY ONTO STAGE. IS IT THE AUDIENCES THAT OR THE PRODUCERS WHO ARE SO DUMB.
SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE MAY 2022
SELENA GOMEZ WAS FAT AND LUMPY.
FATTER AND LUMPIER |
POST MALONE: WAS THAT A MIME OF HIS BACKING TRACKS HE WAS MOTING?
I remember my music being called down as "moany" by a colleague as we animated my ex-wife's head. She demanded to use a Google Free Play.That only happened once. My music is not moany but
POST MALONE, HE IS THE MOAN MAN!
Tuesday, 17 May 2022
COME WITH ME ON MY MAGIC CARPET RIDE
SOME OF THE CARS WERE VERY COOL,
SOME OF THEM, NOT QUITE SO COOL.
5:30 AM PULL OUT OF OTTER POINT AND HEAD FOR THE FERRY TO VANCOUVER. GET ON THE FERRY AND GO TO SLEEP IN THE CAR.
ARRIVE IN DELTA AND DRIVE TO VANCOUVER DELIVERING A COUPLE WEEKS WORK.
GO TO ONE OF MY USUAL SLEEPING SPOTS, PARK AND HAVE ANOTHER SLEEP. I COULD BE UP FOR FOUR HOURS AFTER THE MULTIPLE SLEEPS UNTIL I HAD TO SLEEP AGAIN.
I GOT A TAKE OUT, FROM THE GLUTEN RESTAURANT ON HASTINGS STREET OR I ATE AT THE ONLY SEAFOOD OR THE GREEN DOOR, ALL LOCATED DOWNTOWN IN VANCOUVER.
THERE WERE A COUPLE OF FRIENDS PLACES I COULD GO TO AND MAKE COFFEE AND HAVE SOME MARIJUANA. THEN I WOULD FIND MYSELF A SATURDAY AFTERNOON SHOWCASE OR PROFESSIONAL'S JAM SESSION WHERE THOSE OF US WHO DID NOT GET TO PARTICIPATE ANY OTHER WAY GOT IN OUR LIVE ROCK MUSIC PRACTICE WITH OTHER MUSICIANS ON A STAGE WITH AN AUDIENCE.
MOST OF THE TIME I HAD NOWHERE TO STAY. WHEN MY AUNT WAS AWAY, WHEN I HAD A ROOM TO USE, RARELY, I HAD SOMEWHERE TO SLEEP SEVERAL TIMES A DAY. MUSIC CAN GO ON LATE AT NIGHT AT DIFFERENT PLACES SO IT IS HARD TO GO STAY ANYWHERE.
USUALLY I SLEPT IN MY CAR. I WENT TO THE EAST END RECREATION CENTER FOR A $2 SHOWER AND SAUNA.
THIS IS AS GOOD AS IT GOT, TWO OR THREE DAYS IN VANCOUVER GOING AROUND SLEEPING AND PLAYING HARMONICA WHENEVER AND WHEREVER I COULD.
THE REST OF THE NEXT TWO WEEKS WAS USUALLY TEN HOUR DAYS OF WORK THAT WITH THE NAPS I NEED EVERY FEW HOURS COULD TAKE SIXTEEN HOURS.
MY MOTHER HEARD OF THIS AND THREATENED TO DISINHERIT ME FROM MY FATHER'S MONEY.
MY WIFE ''HE HANGS AROUND IN BARS."
"TARGET HIS MUSIC, IT IS ALL HE CARES ABOUT". SHE CLEVERLY MADE SURE THIS GOT TO THE MENTALLY ILL RCMP. {I did not love her more than Music. Oh what a pity. I love fucking though. I love Music equally.}
THE SOOKE POLICE WROTE VANCOUVER POLICE AND VICTORIA POLICE AND THE UNITED STATES POLICE " APPREHEND COLLARD FOR ANYTHING POSSIBLE".
THE DAMNED JEALOUS FOOLS WANTED TO FUCK UP THE TINY SHREDS OF MY OLD LIFE THAT I MANAGED TO REVIVE FOR A COUPLE OF DAYS TWICE A MONTH.
Saturday, 7 May 2022
THE TRANSLATION OF LIVE POLITICAL SPEECHES IS A FORM OF LIVE PERFORMANCE
TRANSLATION IS A FORM OF LIVE PERFORMANCE
LIVE ON TELEVISION, TRANSLATORS CREATE DIALOGUES FROM THE SPEECH OF POLITICIANS AND REPORTERS OF THE NEWS WHICH IS OF VARYING QUALITY.
I DO NOT KNOW WHO IS WHO AND IT IS POSSIBLE TRANSLATORS MAY NOT WANT TO BE PUBLICLY KNOWN.
ON CBC TELEVISION, THERE IS ONE PARTICULAR TRANSLATOR, GENERALLY ON EARLY IN THE MORNING HERE IS BC WHO DOES PERFECT TRANSLATION.
THERE ARE ETHNIC ACCENTS, SOME OF THE AFRICAN LANGUAGE ACCENTS ARE HARD TO MAKE OUT AND THE IMPLICATIONS OF THE VOICE TONE OF THE ORIGINAL SPEAKER ARE NOT TRANSMITTED ACCURATELY OR AT ALL.
YOU PROBABLY DO NOT ANALYZE THE ETHNICITY OF SPEECH. IT IS REAL AND CAN HAVE AN IMPACT ON THE ACCURATE COMMUNICATION OF REPORTS.
THERE IS THE ONE CBC TRANSLATOR WHO RARELY HESITATES, SPEAKS PERFECT NEARLY ACCENTLESS ENGLISH AND IS PROBABLY A FRENCH SPEAKER ORIGINALLY OR PREDOMINATELY AT ONE TIME.
THE TINY BIT OF FRENCH ACCENT TELLS ME THAT THERE IS TRANSLATION FROM FRENCH GOING ON. THE GREATEST SKILL WHICH IS DEMONSTRATED IS TO CARRY FORWARD MANY ASPECTS OF THE COMMUNICATION BY VOICE TONE, CADENCE, AND THE PAUSES.
ANOTHER VERY INTERESTING AND INSTRUCTIVE FORM OF TRANSLATION IS THROUGH SUBTITLES.
THE ORIGINAL SPEAKER OF THE DIALOGUE'S VOICE TONE AND CADENCE AND PAUSES, SPEED UPS, AND EMOTION ARE COMMUNICATED THROUGH THE AUDIO.
THE CAPTIONING CAN LEAD YOU TO BEGIN TO UNDERSTAND A FOREIGN LANGUAGE, AND TO NOTICE THE SIMILARITIES BETWEEN DIFFERENT LANGUAGES.
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