ADAM N. COPELAND
I have been informed that there is already a terrible “NO FRILLS RIFF ROCK” band by the name of BLACK WATER RISING in the New York area. I certainly don’t want people to mistake us for them. It may be necessary to rethink the name for the 100th time.
Some times you have to struggle for songs, and sometimes they just fall out of you while you are sick:
Beware: Here be yellings
Finding it harder to keep a lid on this, so for now I’ll do a little blurb here on the blog. Expect the requisite horrible MySpace/Facebook/Twitter/Mailing List deluge to come in the following weeks.
I have a band again, and I am writing songs again. I went through a brief period of personal recovery and to be on the other side of it feels good. Which I think means it is something I ought to be sharing. I wanted to be super cool, Mr. I’m too-hip-for-school, and wait. Try to make that shit all mysterious. Then like a cheetah - BAM - I would spring it on everybody at once.
Ahem.
Then I realized that there are maybe a couple dozen people total who still even give a rat’s ass, so why bother with all the smoke and mirrors.
So:
We are BLACK WATER, and consist of the 3/4 of THE MELTDOWNS that are not in the lovely and talented BEN FRANKLIN.
We spent a lot of time over the winter trying to find other musicians to collaborate with. At first it wasn’t working at all. Then we found someone we thought would be a perfect fit - that is, until they decided it wouldn’t work with their schedule. After many beers and strife, we decided to soldier on alone anyway and make a real push at giving this thing a go.
With luck, we’ll be looking to start booking in April. Right now we’ve got about five to six songs finished, with several more in the hopper. Here’s a crude video of one of them - it’s called “Keep Your Eyes Closed”
Better recordings coming soon, I promise.
I was sitting at home trying to think of ideas for the next Coyote Park recording and I got somewhat inspired by the sound of my dryer spinning and wanted to come up with a riff that sounded just as circular. What came out sounds like mutant bluegrass. The problem here is I can’t figure out what the heck I was playing because I didn’t write it down, or I did and I can’t find it.
Once I found out that the next issue of Parlor was going to be about booze, I decided this wasn’t going to work and shelved it until further notice. Now I feel like I ought to go back and at least try to pick out what I was doing.
Here’s a swatch of old music I combined with some new stuff. I hope to have some words to this by the end of the week. I was purposely trying to give it a spare feel and focus on nailing the transitions.
One of the weird things about this tune is that the main progression starts VII - I.
Why not, huh?
Everyone is getting excited about the “rally” of last week and today. Maybe everyone ought to take a moment to consider the whole DJIA from the last year:
There’s the rally. That little pathetic baby sized uptick on the bottom right. They aren’t entirely without precedent either, as you can see similar spikes in Jan and Feb, which lead to further drop-offs. Optimism is great and all but come on, people.
Yep yep. Long time no see.
I guess I was listening to older Nick Cave when I did this.
Now that George Bush is no longer President of these United States I think it is only a matter of time before there is a pro wrestler with a “holy roller” gimmick.
I know Brother Love did it for a little while back in the Macho era. Yet, he wasn’t really a wrestler, but a ringside personality.
Brother Love’s deal was a bit more shtick and camp than I’m talking about, too. I’m talking about someone possessed with the Wrath of God. Someone who is absolutely convinced that their actions are guided by a higher power. It would be interesting to see if someone like this came off as a heel or a face in the Bible Belt, who did in fact, vote for GWB twice even though (or because) he said God told him to invade Iraq.
The real pity is that if someone ever did come up with a gimmick like this, they would probably play it less like Klaus Kinski in Aguirre and more like SID VICIOUS / JUSTICE / SYCHO SID.
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Without giving too much away, this is what my Mint profile has to say about how much I have spent in the last year and a half:
To put this in a little more perspective, I paid a total of $22,000 in rent in the previous year and a half.
God damn this is funny.
“You just accused the Dalai Lama of potential cannibalism!”