With the frightening immediacy of NXNE out of the way for now, I'll soon enough be returning to my more usual place in the gig/time continuum. (Coming next week — reviews from 2011). While I get caught up on sleep and put the finishing touches on the next couple posts, how about some filler?
Despite my natural inclination to want to retreat to my wilderness cabin, remote from humanity, and peck away at my manual typewriter to craft my manifestos, keeping this thing running tends to put me in contact with folks. And as it turns out, one of the most satisfying parts of the whole operation comes when I can pass a recording back to a band:
And sometimes they show up in interesting ways:
I have a lot of respect for the people who faithfully document the music scene on video — they have a lot more stuff to worry about when they're at a show than I do. I've considered it a badge of honour to be able to help out with a couple of the city's best, including published author Colin Medley:
And I've also pitched in with Graeme Phillips and his army of camera operators:
These guys work in the present tense — a lot of this stuff I haven't even caught up to yet. Hopefully there'll be more to come!
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Wow the Sloan vocals really suck.
ReplyDelete"Published Author" might be a stretch, but thanks for the shout out anyway. You've saved my butt more times than I can count and you'll surely save my butt again in the future!
ReplyDeleteIn response the the gentleman above, do people ever think about what they're saying before they leave nasty comments? Like, the fact that in the video he's referring to, the band is playing in a basement of a record store and were obviously experiencing sound issues on stage? Could that explain the less than ideal vocals?