The Living Rockumentary

Tony: I was afraid I'd put my bandmates on the spot by spewing out my band history but Max and Ken have met the challenge and related inspiring, entertaining yarns of truth and tunes. And Brian is always yup for this kind of thing. You can bet his will follow soon.
I love those crickets in Ken's long summary. I laughed out loud at that. We all know about playing music onstage and so many people in the room don't pay attention- no reason not to expect the same for our rockumentary, right?

One perspective to add to Ken's story. I was such a fan of Ken's Ribboncandy tapes at the time we auditioned him as a drummer for Humbert that I really wanted him to wow us on drums because I thought it would be just sick to have what I thought were the the best four songwriters in all of Northampton in the same band- we could release 20-song albums every year that were good from start-to-finish. But, at that precise moment Humbert had a manager (for a very short time and he was a raging alcoholic who invited A&R people to our shows only to embarrass us and himself by getting pissed, slurring and drooling all over them, telling bad randy jokes- the next day he'd be on the phone to me all serious about lining up more VIPS to the next show after he'd scared away everyone the night before. Collingwood was horrified when he met this guy, laughed at me and Ari for keeping him on- it's alright- he didn't last long). OK, I got off the track. Anyway, Humbert was at a crucial juncture- the closest we were to being signed and the closer we got, maybe the more our previous drummer realized he didn't really want to be a a part of it and kept passively-aggressively leaving us in the lurch, cancelling shows all the time, etc. So we needed a drummer who could step up and be perfect out of the starting gate and that was Brian. Ken would've been great long-term- he was the future ace in Triple A, Brian was the dominating veteran closer we needed at the trading deadline to make a pennant run because ours had gone to Heathcliff Slocumb-ville.

Let's see how much farther I can get relating my band history now- Hannah's up and preoccupied for the moment but I'm tempted to just drop this and go play with her while the wife sleeps away in the other room.

THE GENERICS (1989-1991): Every song was a comedy song- even the few covers we did ended up parodies- "Brown-Eyed Girl" became "Braindead Girl." Clapton's Cocaine became Chow Mein, etc. But here's why The Generics were special- we took the standard pyramid of band success and flipped it over and approached our "career" that way. Follow me...
At the bottom of our pyramid, we had brainstormed ideas for about 8 full-length albums. Go down a level- we actually wrote songs for about 5 of these albums. We recorded 2 1/2 albums' worth of songs. Relatively speaking, we spent more time recording than we did playing gigs. And at the tip of the pyramid, the thing we did the least with our time was rehearse. Flip this paradigm over and you have the way a band SHOULD go about their business.

I just picked a howling Hannah up off the floor and placed her in my lap as I proofread what I've written so far and she's completely nodded off now so I think I'm going to follow her to Napsville myself (in case you're wondering, Napsville is about 20 miles east of Heathcliff Slocumb-ville).