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AUGUST 2008
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Long overdue update
we appreciate your patience
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Maintain Radio Silence reviewed in LMN
Ba(n)d news
After Maintain Radio Silence we've been working on Paul's first album sans Weathermen
since Cycles. We hope to have it out before the end of the year......more to come.....early mixes to be posted
here.
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Paul's been playing some acoustic shows at Air Devil's Inn lately and I'm
going to start posting them to the tubes - links in the listen tab.
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Thanks for all your cards and letters. If you have any audio or video you'd
like to add the the archive - email me ..."site queries" button..bottom left.
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From our good friend Bob Douglas...
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Etiquette For a Night of Live
Music
reprinted from Candye Kane's Blog
HELPING
THE BAND
If you inform the band that you are a
singer, the band will
appreciate help with the next few tunes, or however long you can
remain standing on stage. If
you're too drunk to stand unassisted,
simply lean on one of the band members or the most expensive piece of
equipment
you see. Just pretend you're in a Karaoke bar. Simply
feel free to walk up on stage and join in. By the way, the drunker
you are, the better you sound, and the louder you should sing. If by
chance you fall off the stage, be sure to crawl
back up and attempt
to sing harmony. Keep in mind that nothing assists the band more
than outrageous dancing, fifth
and sixth part harmonies,or a
tambourine played on one and three and out of tempo. Try the
cowbell; they love the
challenge. The band always needs the help and
will take this as a compliment.
The microphone and PA system are
merely props, they don't
really amplify your voice, so when you grab the mic out of the
singers hand be sure to scream
into it at the top of your lungs,
otherwise no one will hear what a great singer you are. Hearing is
over-rated anyway.
The crowd and the sound guy will love you for it.
HOW TO REQUEST A SONG FROM THE BAND
When
requesting a song from the band, just say "play ... my song!"
We have chips implanted in our heads with an unlimited database
of
the favorite tunes of every patron who ever walked into a bar and all
songs ever recorded, so feel free to be vague.
We love the challenge.
If we say we really don't remember that tune you want, we're only
kidding. Bands actually
do know every song ever recorded, so keep
humming. Hum harder if need be... it helps jog our memory, or just
repeat
your request over and over again.
If a band tells you they do not know a song you want to hear, they
either forgot
they know the tune or they are just putting you on.
Try singing a few words for the band. Any words will do.
It also
helps to scream your request from across the room several
times per set followed by the phrases, "AW COME ON!" and, "YOU
SUCK!" Exaggerated hand gestures expressing disapproval from the
dance floor are a big help as well, such as the thumbs
down or your
middle finger up. Put-downs are the best way to jog a band's
memory. This instantly promotes you to the
status of "Personal
Friend Of The Band." You can bet your request will be the next song
we play.
Entertainers
are notorious fakers and jokesters and never really
prepare for their shows. They simply walk on stage with no prior
thought
to what they will do once they arrive. We don't actually
make set lists or rehearse songs. We mostly just wait for you
to
yell something out, then fake it.
An entertainer's job is so easy, even a monkey could do it, so don't
let
them off the hook easily. Your request is all that matters.
Once you've figured out what genre of music the band plays,
please
make your requests from a totally different genre. The more
exaggerated the better. If its a big band playing,
yell for some
Metallica or Slayer or Pantera. Likewise, if its a Latin band, be
sure to request Brown-eyed Girl or
some Grateful Dead. Musicians
need to constantly broaden their musical horizons, and its your job
to see that it happens....immediately.
TALKING
WITH THE BAND
The
best time to discuss anything with the band in any meaningful way
is at the middle of a song when several band members
are singing at
the same time. Our hearing is so advanced that we can pick out your
tiny voice from the megawatt wall
of sound blasting all around us.
And we can converse with you in sign language while singing the song,
so don't worry
that we're in the middle of the chorus.
Musicians are expert lip readers too. If a musician does not reply
to
your question or comment during a tune, it's because they didn't
get a good look at your mouth in order to read your lips.
Simply
continue to scream your request and be sure to over emphasize the
words with your lips. This helps immensely.
Don't be fooled.
Singers have the innate ability to answer questions and sing at the
same time. If the singer
doesn't answer your questions immediately,
regardless of how stupid the question may seem, it's because they are
purposely
ignoring you. If this happens, immediately cop an
attitude. We love this.
IMPORTANT
When
an entertainer leans over to hear you better, grab his or her
head in both hands and yell directly into their ear, while
holding
their head securely so they cannot pull away. This will be taken as
an invitation to a friendly and playful
game of tug of war between
their head and your hands. Don't give up! Hang on until the singer
or guitar player submits.
Drummers are often safe from this fun game
since they usually sit in the back, protected by the guitar players.
Keyboard
players are protected by their instrument, and only play the
game when tricked into coming from behind their keyboards.
Though
difficult to get them to play, it's not impossible, so keep trying.
They're especially vulnerable during the
break between songs.
BONUS TIP
As a last resort, wait until the band takes a break and then get on
stage and start playing
their instruments. They love this. Even if
you are ejected from the club, you can rest assured in the fact you
have
successfully completed your audition. The band will call you
immediately the following day to offer you a position.
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To Provoke War, Cheney Considered Proposal To Dress
Up Navy Seals As Iranians And Shoot At Them
Think Progress | July 31, 2008
Speaking at the Campus Progress journalism conference earlier this month, Seymour Hersh -- a Pulitzer-Prize winning journalist for The New Yorker -- revealed that Bush administration officials held a meeting
recently in the Vice President's office to discuss ways to provoke a war with Iran.
In Hersh's most recent article, he reports that this meeting occurred in the wake of the overblown incident in the Strait of Hormuz, when a U.S. carrier almost shot at a few small Iranian speedboats. The �meeting took place in the Vice-President's
office. 'The subject was how to create a casus belli between Tehran and Washington,'" according to one of Hersh�s sources.
During the journalism conference event, I asked Hersh specifically
about this meeting and if he could elaborate on what occurred. Hersh explained that, during the meeting in Cheney's office,
an idea was considered to dress up Navy Seals as Iranians, put them on fake Iranian speedboats, and shoot at them. This idea,
intended to provoke an Iran war, was ultimately rejected:
HERSH: There was a dozen ideas proffered about how
to trigger a war. The one that interested me the most was why don't we build -- we in our shipyard -- build four or five boats
that look like Iranian PT boats. Put Navy seals on them with a lot of arms. And next time one of our boats goes to the Straits
of Hormuz, start a shoot-up.
Might cost some lives. And it was rejected because you can't have
Americans killing Americans. That�s the kind of -- that�s the level of stuff we're talking about. Provocation.
But that was rejected.
Watch it:
Hersh argued that one of the things the Bush administration learned
during the encounter in the Strait of Hormuz was that, "if you get the right incident, the American public will support" it.
"Look, is it high school? Yeah," Hersh said. "Are we playing high
school with you know 5,000 nuclear warheads in our arsenal? Yeah we are. We're playing, you know, who's the first guy to run
off the highway with us and Iran."
Transcript:
HERSH: There was a meeting. Among the items considered and rejected
-- which is why the New Yorker did not publish it, on grounds that it wasn't accepted -- one of the items was why not�
There was a dozen ideas proffered about how to trigger a war. The
one that interested me the most was why don't we build -- we in our shipyard -- build four or five boats that look like Iranian
PT boats. Put Navy seals on them with a lot of arms. And next time one of our boats goes to the Straits of Hormuz, start a
shoot-up. Might cost some lives.
And it was rejected because you can't have Americans killing Americans.
That's the kind of -- that's the level of stuff we're talking about. Provocation. But that was rejected.
So I can understand the argument for not writing something that
was rejected -- uh maybe. My attitude always towards editors is they're mice training to be rats.
But the point is jejune, if you know what that means. Silly? Maybe.
But potentially very lethal. Because one of the things they learned in the incident was the American public, if you get the
right incident, the American public will support bang-bang-kiss-kiss. You know, we're into it.
...What happened in the Gulf was, in the Straits, in early January,
the President was just about to go to the Middle East for a visit. So that was one reason they wanted to gin it up. Get it
going.
Look, is it high school? Yeah. Are we playing high school with
you know 5,000 nuclear warheads in our arsenal? Yeah we are. We're playing, you know, who's the first guy to run off the highway
with us and Iran.
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GENERATION KILL
Corporal Josh Ray Person
Major Todd Eckloff
Omar and Stringer........
.....Funtown will Succeed....
jb
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