MMJ tribute album

[EC]

So, when's the tour?

It starts next month.  We begin in Toronto at a joint called Stanley's, which is usually the home to KISS and Led Zepplin coverbands, alternating as a karaoke bar with the biggest selection of country tunes in the province.  From there we journey to Virginia where we're going to open for Billie Joe Shaver and Todd Snider.  Then we move to Alabama as the Drive By Truckers opening act.  From there we fly to Europe, and take Belgium and Holland by storm, pretending to actually be My Morning Jacket, finally making our way back overseas to bring peace and harmony among the fans there.  I'll play Jim, because we have the same hair, and I'm just gonna cover my face with it and wear a nudie suit or a t-shirt about someone loving me in Winnipeg, so no-one can tell it's me.  (Everyone knows that the Dutch just smoke pot all day and hang out in saunas, so I'm sure we can fool 'em pretty good.)  Hellacious can be Tommy, and 'wiggum can be Patrick.  (I have a wig you can borrow, 'wiggs.)  lfish and 'o' are gonna have to fight over Bo and Carl, but I don't mind letting other people take turns as Jim if they want to.  My friend has a special pedal from his old Peter Frampton cover band days that he said I could borrow.  I've notified everyone on my street to put their pumpkins in the freezer, so we've got that covered.  If anyone has any interplanetary travelling connections, that might help with the spaceship.  I have a few gobos left over from a show I did in the summer, so the rock and roll lights should be okay.  Our tour is going to end in Nashville.  We're going to play two venues:  Robert's and the Exit-In.  My rider won't say anything except that I will need a constant supply of Pabst in a can, and I don't mind carrying my own guitars.  Hellacious, did you remember to include that bit about making sure that every hotel room has an electrical outlet somewhere near the beds so that you can plug your fan in?  (;))
Oh yeah, we're going to do a Christmas Special (a version of Oliver, but way more fun) at the Actors Theatre of Louisville.  We're going to replace most of the existing songs ("Consider Yourself" will be replaced by "One Big Holiday", "Where is Love" will be transformed into "Lowdown", and "You've Got to Pick a Pocket or Two" will be taken out altogether, and "X-Mas Curtain" added for that holiday feel.)  As a treat for the kids, we're gonna give 'em chocolate syrup poured over ice, and interactive, multi-media booths equipped with answering machines will be set up during intermission so that kids can record their own voices and listen to them.  This event will take place on December 24th, so as not to make a difficult choice for people on the 25th, when Wes Anderson's The Life Aquatic opens.

Does anyone know if you can get a live feed to an ultrasound machine?  John, it might be a great way to include the kids...

I think it's gonna be great.  Who's with me?  :)

[corey]

That's the best thing I've ever read. I don't have anything to add. It's perfect.  :)

[marktwain]

Sounds flipping fantastic.  Can I come along?  I was a roadie once for Metallica... Speed of Sound tour. (Bunch of assholes).

I can pick a little, and I've got backing vocals covered.  Plus, you might need someone to dress as the bear...

[hellaciousc]

ROCK!
let's do it.
you're a trip EC.  Pabst in a can. awesome.

i laughed out loud at your post too tundra.
i was the Dude for halloween.
white russians made my head hurt.

[Oz]

Can I sing the high parts? Pleaease....? I don't know if I'm any good at it, but I just love singing the high parts...

[corey]

I don't believe in PBR unless it's in a can, btw. I've had it in bottles and that's just blasphemous.

So far, I have these tracks:
Lowdown by HUtch and the Hookers
Bermuda Highway by EC
Phone Went West by Buddy
O is the one that is Real by O

Evelyn is not real by Lfish should be at my house any day now. I think there is another on it's way to me as well, but I don't remember. I'll have to go back through my e-mails and see.

[marktwain]

I sincerely wish I could lay down a track, but I suffer from a lack of recording devices (among other things).  If anyone ever wants to come over and jam, though, just let me know.

[EC]

Everybody is allowed to come on tour with us - we'll need a lot of help.  'O', of course you can sing the high parts.  We'll just have lots of helium balloons and angry women around if you get stuck in your lower register.  

tundra, don't worry about your recording device.  Just concentrate very, very hard, and send your selection telepathically to 'wiggum.  He's very receptive.  It helps if you elevate yourself beforehand - takes away any feedback and self-made walls.

Now all we need is a jet...

[lfish]

Now all we need is a jet...

It seems like Kerry won't need his jet anymore.
Hey hey, every defeat has new opportunities.  :o

Everyone knows that the Dutch just smoke pot all day and hang out in saunas, so I'm sure we can fool 'em pretty good

Haha, But you forgot the belgians, we just smoke pot, but don't take sauna's.  Way difficult to fool us.  ;D

[Oz]

Where the hell did the sauna thing come, by the way? I have never set foot in one my entire life... Smoking pot, okay, but saunas?  ???

[lfish]

But you would like to take one if you could O, wouldn't you?
If we follow the reasoning of mr Bush (just for rembembering: Iraq would like to have weapons of mass destruction --> Iraq has weapons of mass destruction -->let's bomb that stupid country), that will do to say you're taking sauna's.

Sorry for the moment I'm politically frustrated. Just ignore.

[EC]

Where the hell did the sauna thing come, by the way?

Sorry...  I did one of those things where I was going on second-hand knowledge.  My friend has gone to Holland a few times, and the people she hangs out with to go saunas (steam baths?) all the time, and she says that it's a common social thing there...

Sorry.   :-[

[corey]

I got Lfish's "Evelyn is not real" today!
I also have a PM from BenGrim that says that "Masterplan" should be on it's way to me.

[EC]

So does that mean it's almost done?  Is there anything I can do to help with the artwork?  Let me know if you need anything, 'wigg.

Hooooooorraaaaaaayyy!

[corey]

When I get the one from BG, we'll have 7. When I do my bassline and mix, we'll have 8. I'd really like to have at least 10. Buddy is working on doing "The way that he sings" to send as well. I think they're the only ones that have volunteered to do 2 tracks.

[EC]

Hey y'all.  I recorded a little version of Tonite I Want to Celebrate With You this morning.  I can't remember if anyone picked it, but if they did, it's no sweat to not include it.

[corey]

It hasn't been picked, so it's yours...  :)

[EC]

 :)

(If there's time still, 'wiggs, maybe I'll try to work it a bit and get rid of those damn plosive b's and other little bombs that might make ears explode.  Although, I kind of tried to do that this morning, but, it kept seriously fucking with the sound in those sections.  And I feel terrible that on this, one of the few occasions where I can actually apply practical skills that I learned in theatre school [namely how to speak into a microphone without killing people], I have failed miserably.  How disappointed my microphone technique prof would have been.)

Yes.  I had a prof for microphone technique.  Crazy.

[corey]

If you can do it, that's cool. If not, it's not a big deal.
I have a little foam thingie that goes over my mic and that SOB still pops sometimes.

[Oz]

Hey, Ol', have you got any plans with the artwork yet? If you like the pictures I send you, could you scan them and e-mail them back, I could start working with them...