So it is Friday October 5th. Where are you with your life? Looking for a little adventure, a little walk into the unknown? I saw this scrawled on a brick wall, in an alley on 5th avenue in Calgary. The remaining members of 13 Channels are playing tonight. Yes that is correct. The band minus Corky will be live tonight. The scrawl did say that it was “For madmen only”, but in these times we are all madmen, are we not? It is good and bad for the band these days. They continue to struggle on minus the Corkster. Corky was a relatively late addition to the band but he brought them back to the music they had stopped playing. The band found new life with Corky, and then he vanished. Rumors have him wandering the Himalayas with Tibetan Monks or living as a fisherman in Nanaimo BC. The truth is out there, somewhere but for now Corky is all myth and vapor trails. For tonight’s performance the band has reached out to Slamming Sam the Bass Man. Sam has suffered his share of the demons of the dark and has yet to reach a level of commitment with the band. The show must go on. Sloppy Bottom Jenkins has been released from rehab in time to play tonight. Those weird guys from Bush and Gore are playing as 13 channels; it seems the weak sales of their last experimental CD – Off With Their Heads and Let’s all Have Stale Bread, recorded with an all gay male prison choir, have brought them back to 13 Channels where they have enjoyed most of their success. Remember tonight, for madmen only, 13 Channels.
Davie-Joe Beef is usually reliable when it comes to isolated factoids, but I don’t think anyone would be surprised to learn that Davie-Joe has spent more than his fair share of days pushing a peanut along the floor with his nose in a daisy pink rubber room, hence the constant references to Mad Men and prison choirs. That said, this writer IS surprised to know that DAVIE-JOE is now experiencing time shifting. While the rest of us look for the band on October the FOURTH, Davie-Joe will be there on some fictional day of Friday, October the FIFTH!
Let’s all say a prayer for DAVIE-JOE and bless him for his faithful pursuit of the 13CH.
Here’s my Songlist prediction for tonight’s performance:
I crave you (Warm up)
Alone Again (Warm up)
1. Shiite Show (you DONT want to know)
2. Emergency Smoke
3. Beercan
4. Gut Feeling
5. Ziek Rudkins
6. Beers across the fence
7. Mad Men Only
8. She Drove a Pink Cadillac
9. I think it’s funny
10.Mortal Coil
11. Dream Maker
12. Keep me from the Devil
13. Mortimer’s Basement
14. Existential Inklings
So from one mad man to another, where the bitch’s at? Whats that you say, forget the bitch’s . The Chananls are playin, i gota go… Where’s my P.O. Get my lawer, get my stash, and get my axe. I
So a slight corkster update, we spoke in broken speech at great lenth today. In his words, he feels his world laks a little something, he says , lack of male bonding as well as a lack of a musical outlet has brought him down. He talked of days gone by and nights where things come to him as whispers only to ponder the truth. He strugles with reality and often drifts in and out