well tonight

well tonight i eyed this rad peavey, but i never got to pick it up. picked up the flute, tho, and some sort of drum that kept sliding around, but not me, just the drum.

and at some point i played pool, and at some point we talked about the blues. the old blues. the masters, the first ones to be recorded. and maybe who dares to play the blues, an maybe we will.

next week.

next week at styler’s open mic, where the equipment comes storming through the door at quarter after nine, and the coconut sits on the mixer, and the effects fly fast and hard, as they should, cos who knows what the hell we ar doing, cos we never did it before.

where the colossal fossil sauce rocked it out, and pulled out the hendrix and the marley and the sugar hill gang, yes, they did. and me, i guess i used to know it hands down, but now i know less than i did, but i think this is thoroughly understandable.

and this is ocmd music at the steer inn just down the road from where i once slammed on the brakes in my 1969 VW bug, and slid sideways into the intersection, then sat there, trying to look normal, until the light changed.

i might of ran over a toad, driving home, and this weighs heavy on my heart, but i could not swerve, my tires are bald.

and my old dog, hitch, she is sleeping on the floor. snoring. she wakes up once in a while to go outside, or eat some food, but mostly she just snores.

so that’s the happenings at the steer inn, i suppose. i tried to film the fake cow, but set off the alarm, and all the chickens were asleep.

but i rocked on the swing in the backyard. which is worth at least one more day on earth, as i see it.

OCMDmusic 5.07.09

OCMDmusic 5.07.09

sleeping for days
these rainy days
loving the thunderstorms

this might be my last radio23 show for a while – styler is going to take over for a month, i don’t know the timeslot yet, but we can be fairly certain it will be in the wee hours of the morning.

what have we got today? sleepy sleepy day.

i’ve got a track from skribe, local band who played the pirate rob paddock blast off last weekend. i made the first night’s show, at booty’s, but missed the next. sleeping for days, that’s what i have been doing. woke up long enough for a shot of tequila for cinco de mayo, which promptly knocked me back out.

and shout out to code anchor, who also played the booty’s show. i respect bands who play the show before the show. these guys not only played the show before the show, but played *another* show before that, just for me, in the parking lot, they let me film an impromptu version of ‘la bamba’. i have not captured this footage yet, but i have some track from their CD to play today.

another shout, since we’re shouting, out to monsters from the surf. i keep playing their title track, and keep loving it, and keep hoping they will come play here in OCMD soon. i think they should play in the basement of a parking garage.

speckled, we are, as well, with MDHC and the pizza recordings. big shout to pizza (phenomenal drummer), who broke his sorry collar bone. get better soon, dumbass!

OCMDmusic will bring the noise

local music goin off – i have some live LCC, from a tavern show, and new Soul Scrolls – i’ll hear it first when you do. that’s how it is.

looking for some new MDHC, and ryan muller is back, but someone swiped his bass amp, so that is no good. if you are the one who swiped that amp, you suck.

got some mana and got some fishbone. got some rachmaninoff, but that is not for the faint of heart. especially number 3.

wish i had some katchuturian, but that i left in a thrift store in the deep southeast of portland. with an old school record players. no really, one of the school grey ones.

and for the great down under, sporting an eastern shore as well, and for being such good sports about all of us from this here maryland eastern shore, who became a fan of them, thinking they were us, and didn’t even notice the mountains in the photo, or else thought, who knows what those folks up by cambridge are doing these days. for all we know they built some mountains.

well for the eastern shore of australia, i am playing blood by the middle east, a band from townsville. now the location of townsville i do not know, exactly. australia is round, and i for one find this a source of great confusion.

local musicians – IM me @OCMDmusic or email me ocmdmusic@yahoo.com – send some tracks along, don’t be shy. there is no time to be shy.

and for jeff simmons, who made radio23 possible, i say many thanks, and i say bring the noise.

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dazed and confused, and this is not the exception, as there is no rule. here in OCMD and luckily i have a 12 minute version of the song. now *this* song is worth a dollar. everybody give led zeppelin a dollar.

so this drunk golfer guy walks in to the bar last night, all hunched over, permanently, as if he is constantly addressing the ball. he said he came from up north, then said connecticut, but hesitantly, as if it was not exactly connecticut, so now i am wondering if there is some sort of sub-state up there above new york city. if there is, i want in. i’ll run the beer cart.

so this guy takes on a couple of gnarly lookin skater guys, all by himself, like a pro. he drove six hours to get here, for twenty four hours. so i said, ‘hey – you’re in ocean city’, and i said, ‘come play our course’. maybe he will.

speaking of sub-states, michael pulls out this District of Columbia quarter and shows it to me. he says there is no place for it in the collectible item book, which only has the fifty states. but i say sure – why not let DC have their own money. hell, let’s even let them vote.

well it was a tough winter, but not too tough. things are picking up, and folks are taking care of each other. looks like we won’t need those air-drop supplies after all, but if anyone wants to send them, please include some loose tobacco.

by the way, locals (and golfer guy from the north), there are two good shows i know of this weekend. one is a delmarva nightlife blowout at Booty’s, with 86 the Effort and Phantom Limbs, and the Lower Class Citizens are playing at the tavern before they go on tour, so we should send them off right.

options for musicians:

a quick browsing of currently available options for music online:

tunecore.com ::: last summer i uploaded to the account, which goes to a bunch of sale sites, including amiestreet.com, which sold one copy for $.15 . i got a penny. amiestreet.com has good search – i searched by song name and found mine (above link).

7digital.com ::: fast upload, no crazy ‘management’ routine, but lowest price one can set is $1.00 . my song is not worth a dollar. not many songs are. a one-time live recording, might be. this link does not go to my song, nor my page, as i could not find myself there. but i think i am still there, somewhere. here’s the link.

iTunes ::: i did the entire application thingy maybe two years ago now, and never heard a thing.

sirius radio ::: HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAH!

garagepunk.com ::: podcasts. all you pod people can go nuts. but seriously, podcasts are creating cool fast formats, and i like it! especially check their surfcasts, especially #11