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"The Shakedown Newsletter" #4

Well, well, well, WELL.... Seems the "Shakedown Band" after having gone ‘incognito’ there on Thursday, Jan. 10th this past week, has made it through and back. Still in one piece after all… "THE THREE MUSKETEERS" … indeed!

Q. again…? Where’s Stevie-Keys… ?

A. still…? YO!…

Yup... While the rest of us worked our butts off. OL’ Stevie was doing something else with his… However, we will arise again together as the, "Shakedown Band" once again. Won’t we guys?.

By the way guys, our Stevie-Keys contacted me on Friday evening and blithered something about how he had either got something, caught something, or had found religion and was in Heaven…Say, "YO" Stevie…

I was listening to the practice tapes from last Jan.10th rehearsal. I tell ya Steve when you get back from do’in what ever it is you do with girls…

Meanwhile, back at ‘The Studio’. Jack found out that he has another pedal-setting to twiddle with for new sounds from his digital guitar processor. Then Brandon was hot with his fun new toy… the Chinese Symbols. Which I think I overheard him swear, "he just had to get one or two of those for his own"…) and bassist, "Peter S." was slap’in, wack’in and smoothly moving through the paces really nice. Peter really liked the studio and all its acoustic and sound room setting qualities. Along with a fridge, couch, etc.

It’s a great room for us and makes for excellent tape recordings of our rehearsals. Damn them for there "no smoking" anything policy. YO!… Stevie… it’s a good room as you know and to loose that one is a bitch. We all admit we like it for the same reasons. Maybe we will be able to get a comfortable room like that elsewhere that will be central to us all? Maybe not.? Steve, lets all talk on it and maybe for now maybe every 2nd weeks rehearsal. Just an idea. Maybe we will be able to work around the problem. We all 4 need to agree on the matter anyway.

Two new tunes came to the table at the Jan. 10th rehearsal and one has a special spot for a nice keyboard track. You’re going to like this one Steve. The other tune has possibilities and is at this time totally open ended.

By the way. Did I mentioned that Jan. 10th’s recording has an excellent take of ‘The Immigrant Song". It’s a sure keeper for whenever Peter’s is good to go on that analog tape to digital thingy. Currently we are experiencing technical difficulties… but Peter assures us that the ‘Shipping and Receiving Department’ is reporting that the much needed parts are expected to arrive soon.

Q. Again… Oh man, what is he on about now they ask…

A. Again… you’ll see.

Q. By the way… What’s a "DAT" ? What’s a "COMPILATION CD" ?

A. What the "Shakedown Band" doesn’t have for itself, just yet…

News Update:

Here are some sites that I visited and I’ll say one thing. There is a ton of this stuff just waiting for the "Shakedown Band" to move in on and check out in the near future. Seems that with the computer age being such a major part in the music industry today there will be no shortage of these kinds of resources for us to tap into once the time comes. I strongly urge you all to have a quick look at the web sites and do a little surfing on them. Lots of bars will be open to us it seems…

Category: Miscellaneous
accepting demos

Posted by: hooper
Location: Toronto

Young, and very eager producer fresh out of school looking for exiting bands to work with that hopefully have direction and talent. Demos (tape/cd) need not be high quality just good enough to get the gist of the tunes. Independant acts are highly encouraged to submit tapes as there are many hidden ways that a good band can obtain funding for studio projects.

Category: Miscellaneous
BANDS needed FOR MASSIVE SHOW

Posted by: bririp
Location: TORONTO

Hey everyone, there is a massive show happening on Sept 2nd at the Reverb/Kathedral. We are now recruiting bands that wanna play a massive show and make some cash while doing it. any bands interested please email me at crypticrecords@hotmail.com and do this ASAP because we must get the word out quickly.

http://www.bandgig.com/

excellent site for band bookings guys… check out this one… madcowjack.

http://www.bandname.com/bandgig/venues.html

also a pretty good site to cruise through… madcowjack.