What does it mean? Really. What does any of it mean? Should there be some sort of pay off? Of course there should be, but that doesn't mean it will be in the form that you would expect right? Here's lyric I've been working on...
Rarely, what you earn
equals what you deserve
And the idea is that you can reverse it later in the song as the speaker's situation/attitude develops...
Until what you deserve
matches up to what you earn
and so on... keep an eye out for those lines in a song... maybe it'll happen this month.
This weekend, June Star is heading down to Raleigh and Carrboro to play a handful of shows... North Carolina... one of the Alt. Country meccas... When I first became interested in touring, nay obsessed, I focused much of my energy on getting a show down that way. There were these tantalizing names... The Cave, The Pourhouse, The Local 506... These were places that I noticed bands like June Star seemed to play... and I set off on a quest of sorts to get a show down that way.
The first show we played in North Carolina was at the Cave... which was booked by Mr. Mouse. I shit you not, Mr. Mouse! Talk about getting involved in the rock and roll world... here's an owner and booker of a venue who doesn't go by Mitchell Albright... or Steve... it was Mr. Mouse. Fabulous. And, you had to send a physical presskit then follow up in two weeks with a call to the venue on Tuesday or Thursday between the hours of 2-4pm.
I followed the directions... as any literate person would... and after two weeks I called. Two rings and the phone picks up... and the voice on the other end squeaks, "Cave."
I'm not making this up... his voice sounded kind of mouse-y... a cool, masculine mouse-y in case he's reading this blog... Although he no longer owns the Cave, I have nothing but love and respect for Mr. Mouse... he was always helpful and kind to us and I was sad to hear that he moved on... June Star played off an on at the Cave since 2002. I played the Pourhouse with ellen cherry on Easter Sunday 2005... and we played the Local 506 w/Birds and Arrows about two years ago. Dreams do come true.
The entire time I was, and still am, signed up on the Guitartown email list. The Triangle area email list was the go to place to find out about new records, upcoming concerts, and concert reviews... I signed up since I liked that stuff... but also to drum up some support when we came to town... I know... kind of shady and self serving... call me Mr. Rat.
One of the listserv members, Jonathan, has been super supportive of us... with the explosion of "social media," which BTW seems to really be a loose thread of memes questioning/challenging my faith, humanity, or patriotism when daring me to "like" or "share" images of U.S. soldiers or air brushed eagles crying, but now "social media" really wiped out email groups... and Guitartown suffered... they were putting on some shows... they communed at SXSW... a lot of that seemed to disappear. But Jonathan, with many folks from the community, has been working to bring Guitartown back to the forefront or at least back into a larger awareness... it's pretty cool... I think all of their hard work down there has paid off.
Both of our shows in this weekend are sponsored by Guitartown... currently I'm unable to post the images... of the posters... but will do later tonight... The recognition and thanks are well earned most richly deserved....
Gotta run...
Grimm
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