Shakedown Band - Canadian Rock And Roll

"The Shakedown Newsletter" #8

Well, well, well, WELL.... The "Shakedown Band" was at it again Thursday night, Feb.07, 2002. Once again it was at, "The Studio" on Crockford Blvd. Scarborough.

The rehearsal brought forth about 2-3 new tunes that will be continued on into this week’s upcoming rehearsal on Feb.14th . It was enjoyable and light and this time the affable Peter Szekeres was present and happening nicely as were you all.

The "Shakedown Band" players during the rehearsal discussed the matter of a comrade-type gathering for the sake of just hanging together as friends for a period of time together. Getting some brother-hood time together while away from the grind of the studio workouts. Just R&R it and do some light hearted talking on their music while listening to some of their music recordings, having some munchies and whatever else strikes their fancy. We should do this real soon. Again I hope we will all attend and also to be able to have the J-Man present so as to properly include and introduce him. He plays very much a key roll in our PR developments. I would also suggest again that a weekend day would be best for this. Lets be prepared to make a final date this week at rehearsal for this event.

Conducting the rehearsals is a lot of work and even frustrating sometimes. However, I for one am slowly coming around to another curve in the road to the "Shakedown Band" saga and feel that the band will pull this project off in good fashion in the long run.

It helps to relax more on its issues and share the workload amongst the membership. So guys, be prepared to dig in of your own accord and offer up suggestions of which songs we play next from the list of songs that we do play. Plus be prepared to start bringing your own personal pieces of work that you have written to the table and that you feel that you would like to see what the band can do with them. Lets get our works on digital once and for all as the summer is coming fast and I for sure don’t want to extend our material prep time beyond the spring period. Let alone the bookings for the places for us to play will be starting early into spring giving us even less time to get our shit together.

You all have brought forward lots of good work up to now which has resulted in a lot of great ideas on the songs we have been working on. Now lets see if you all can stay the line some more and be repetitive on those ideas consistently each and every time that we play the materials. I know what it is I want both from my own parts I play and each of your parts being played.

That’s what’s next on the rehearsals blackboard. Hence the MP3 features and tapes will reaffirm to all what we will each need to be doing for our individual play on each song. Once on top of that properly we are going to blow the audience away as well as the roof off of the rooms we play in.

News Update:

1.) The band will continue to look towards altering its locations for its rehearsals after Feb.14, 2002. At which point we will have completed a 4-week booked commitment at "The Studio" location on Crockford Blvd., Scarborough. After which point perhaps the band will again try "The Art Zone" along with some other tested studios and perhaps some "new" locations like the "Cactus Studios" as suggest by the Stevie-Keys man.

2.) If at any time any of you feel that you would want to update or add items to the Newsletter or the Web Site then feel free to send it to me and we’ll get it onboard. All inputs to the band’s materials and efforts towards the band’s identity are appreciated greatly.

3.) A new feature providing the above #2 item updates will be placed here and you are all welcome to participate with your comments, issues or whatever you please and have it added to our Shakedown Band Newsletters. Just cut and paste here or send an attachment on an E-mail to me.

Ok you’s Guys... that’s a wrap.

Yours truly,

Madcowjack