Back in the day me and my good friend Captain Kirk we were partners in a recording business called Red Ant Records brought to you by Couch Potato Productions this was the glory days the 70's 1970's that is Sex drugs and rock and roll no aids no crack cocaine no problems just music everywhere young people having fun not being serious Just out experimenting with life. Not a bunch of Poker faced cock suckers all looking to make a dime looking for the weak calf in the herd that is what we have today.Not back then people didn't have alterior motives most people were up front honest good hard working people not looking for anything but a good time. And if they asked you to hang out that's what they meant. So here is he cast of characters Captain Kirk on lead guitar Me Tomcat on rhythm guitar Dub Newbill on base guitar Micheal on mandolin and fiddle Cole on Drums along with half a dozen others what do you call people who hangout with musicians???? Answer is drummers///// I didn't say percussionist Kirk Couch was a percussionist Cole was a drummer hit them hard and hope your setting the right tempo. You can find a lot of drummers but it is hard to find a good one..
What really hurt our band and our recording efforts was we never could find a great singer we could all sing but none of us had that over the top great voice and that is really what you need. Or someone with extreme confidence to put on a show that is the most important thing in show business you have to be larger than life
The voice is not near as important as the personality. This does not translate to the recording side of it but the live performance it really does there. It is like the Ramones terrible records great live performance and true originals. Then there comes that point in time when you say am I going to live this bohemian life style forever or is it time to grow up and get a real job. I was talking to a friend of mine over at a club called Belly's one night a guy named Donny Allison and he was talking about how all these know bodies he went to high school with were buying nice houses and cars and having kids and he was still playing in the bars starving to death pushing 30 sleeping with a different girl every night it is not exciting after a while it's just routine. And the places and faces all start to look the same. And you really have to be out there for about ten years to understand it with a lot of different bands.Banging your head against that mike stand night after night trying to find your style or sound or whatever will work.So you can sell t-shirts and make money. We didn't know anything about merchandising and promotion we though if we could get a record deal they would take care of all that.So stupid o'well
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