Topic: Bands/Music
I'm still drying out. It's been one of those summers, right? Constant rain. (Give me that any time over constant heat and humidity, but that's beside the point.) Last night I went to see Kim Mitchell play; it was an outdoor show, part of the Festival of Friends in Hamilton (Ontario). Well, it just teemed rain all night. This was to be expected...because it's festival weekend, it's just a given.
But all week the news had been predicting rain for that night. They were right. We came prepared, but even in the two or three minutes it took to go from the car to the park, we were already pretty wet. (I had pretty much accepted right from the start I was going to get soaked.)When we arrived (the "we" being me and my sister), David Wilcox' set was just getting going on the main stage. So we watched part of his show, and heard the rest of it while browsing the craft booths. He was really good, of course.
Kim Mitchell came on about 9:45, opening with "That's The Hold" and following up with "Rocklandwonderland". He commended us all for coming out on such a crummy night. I was well back from the stage (in order to see over the umbrellas!), so the large screen to the side of the stage was good for watching when he was playing guitar solos. Well, the screen went out on about the fourth song.
A victim of the rain, I'm guessing. He scattered a few Max Webster songs through the set, "A Million Vacations", "Paradise Skies", and "Battle Scar". It was great to hear those ones done live again. Fittingly, the only time the rain eased up all night was when he was doing "Paradise Skies". Bassist Peter Fredette -- he of the amazing voice -- sang the Geddy Lee verse in "Battle Scar". The show closed out with "All We Are" (where Fredette's vocals really get showcased), "Patio Lanterns", and "Go For Soda". I thought due to the weather, they might not bother with an encore, but they did come back out (not making people wait long) to do "Lager & Ale". The show finished up at about 11:30.Some other songs included were "Ain't Life Amazing", "In My Shoes", "Easy To Tame", "I Am A Wild Party", and "Lemon Wedge". Kimosabe delivered the goods, not cutting things short due to the miserable weather, playing for almost two hours. Everyone headed home soaked, but having seen a great show.
(That's Kim in the top row of the ad, first picture on the left.)
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Updated: Sunday, August 9, 2009 6:44 PM EDT
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"The Party", from the Mutiny Up My Sleeve (1978) album. The story of this tab is of the I've-got-good-news-and-bad-news variety. The bad news is that I realized pretty quickly while doing the tabbing that I was never going to be able to tab the solo at full speed. So I decided rather than put in forty bars of guess work, I'd just leave the solo out. But I don't like doing that, so it motivated me to finally go searching the Web for a program that can slow down songs without changing the pitch. It also had to allow me to save the altered music and burn it to CD, since I can't do tabbing from my computer. I looked at a few programs, and a couple looked kind of complicated. I was basically looking for "Slowing Down Songs For Dummies", something I could use right away without engaging in a lot of manual reading. The good news is the third one I looked at seemed to be just the thing. Within just a few minutes I knew how to slow songs down and save them to my hard drive. Hurray! 
...soon