Preach on Brother Ramon!

over at my favorite music blog:


Look, strings break, you offend people, you miss notes, hell you even frikkin’ bomb but goddamn that’s the chaotic fun of a live show. Make your noise, commune with your fellow noisemakers, raise a bottle of Shiner to those who came out, and fling your poo like the monkey you are. Playing live is like a baby kicking and screaming vainly; "Look what I made in my diaper! What’s on you epitaph, motherfucker?!"


Almost all the music I'm involved in is about playing live or performance in fundamental ways...
Music for the theater is about serving the show - so whether it's performed live or recorded for a show it is all about the show. You can listen to it outside of that, but you'll be missing what it is about, you'll be missing what it is...

and then there's TDU
We have recordings,
but they aren't the same really...
what happens the night of a show only happens
that night...
nothing ever really even gets close again.
When improvising is at the core of what you do
the concept that a record could be better
than a live performance seems just wrong.

Now, The Last Bastions, that's a whole 'nother
pail of worms...
Our live shows bear little relation to our "studio"
cd's...
but even then, when we create a 60 minute piece,
it is with the idea that you will listen to it as a 60 minute piece,
as if you were seeing it live.
Our recordings don't contain singles,
and the sweet spot is not on side 2.
Some of them do contain
ambient music for uncomfortable spaces.
Where was I going with all this?
Who knows?

Y'all come out for a drink wednesday night...
We're having a blast!