rants
following my instinct…I usually divide humanity in 2 categories :
people with an haircut
people without an haircut
this dude has one
this video could make me throw in the rubbish bin my computer, any Native Instrument software (yes…even Reaktor !)…and any button or slider I have.
controllerist…just another way of saying : wanker
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http://www.eclipse2012.com/first_round_ticket_announcment
250 $ for an early bird ticket…without even a name in the lineup yet
500 $ on the door
and they are asking to all the artists to play for free…or nearly for free…since it is THE ECLIPSE.
welcome to the rip off of the century…organized by a bunch of psychedelic vampires.
the australian 2012 eclipse party
the end of the world is closer and closer
(you might as well give all your money to them… :D )
they suck so hard ! (with so much passion)
they are the screen…they ejaculate !
from analog industries
Monk’s Advice
1. Just because you’re not a drummer doesn’t mean that you don’t have to keep time.
2. Pat your foot and sing the melody in your head when you play.
3. Stop playing all that bullshit / those weird notes. Play the melody!
4. Make the drummer sound good.
5. Discrimination is important.
6. You’ve got to dig it to dig it, you dig?
7. All reet!
8. Always know… (Monk)
9. It must be always night, otherwise they wouldn’t need lights.
10. Let’s lift the bandstand!!!
11. Avoid the hecklers.
12. Don’t play the piano part. I’m playing that. Don’t listen to me. I’m supposed to be accompanying you.
13. The inside of the tune (the bridge) is the part that makes the outside sound good.
14. Don’t play everything (or every time). Let some things go by. (Always leave them wanting more.) Some music just imagined. What you don’t play can be more important than what you do.)
15. A note can be small as a pin or as big as the world. It depends on your imagination.
16. Stay in shape! Sometimes a musician waits for a gig, and when it comes he’s out of shape and can’t make it.
17. When you’re swinging, swing some more!
18. What should we wear tonight? SHARP AS POSSIBLE!
19. Don’t sound anybody for a gig. Just be on the scene.
20. You’ve got it! If you don’t want to play, tell a joke or dance, but in any case, you got it! (To a drummer who didn’t want to solo.)
21. Whatever you think can’t be done, somebody will come along and do it. A genius is the one most like himself.
22. They tried to get me to hate white people, but someone would always come along and spoil it.
so the story goes…
somehow I am famous to be a pain in the ass for festival organizers…some of them do not book me because they don’t like what I say…(or maybe they don’t like that I say it)…
they are worried of the troubles that I could cause to them.
but i always showed up for my gig…apart of once at the Glade few years ago since they behaved like total wankers…they promised me that I would never play again in UK..and infact I didn’t since then.
the Sol Fest asked me to play many months ago…since I know personally some of the organizers (mr Pat Flanders).
he asked to me to play for half of my usual fee (300 miserable euros) since it is the first edition.
they told me the usual romantic story of a “true to the spirit” festival for the real party ppl…to promote real quality music…
I also been asked to help them in doing the lineup and to promote them….I gave to them my personal contacts with other artists and I even wrote personal emails to convince them to play for a small fee etc etc….
the deal was…you help us and in change the Sol Fest will give you back promotion and exposure…and you will be playing in the next (more successful) editions.
it didn’t take long to discover that the true spirit was a mirage…and that besides of many artists like me playing for peanuts there are instead big names like Jon Aquaviva or Balkan Beat Box who get fees of thousands of euros and that are clearly attracting to the festival the kind of ppl that usually go only to saturday night disco.
I got a bit upset when I discovered that at the end my name in the lineup was very small…smaller than many names not really more “famous” than me.
I got even more upset when I saw that they even wrote my name wrong…MAUAXAUM or something like that…
you might think that it is just an ego issue…maybe you are right…but after so many years I would appreciate a bit more of respect for what I do.
yesterday they sent me an email saying that they cannot even afford to give me a free guest ticket…and that my “wife” or “girlfriend” has to pay 65 euros reduced ticket to get in. (let’s see…squeezing in 200 girlfriends gets them an extra 13000 euros…pre sale must be really low…I wonder if they ask 65 euros also to the Jon Aquaviva’s boyfriend…lol…)
when I dared to complain about this…I got told that I am the usual pain in the ass…always complaining for no reason…
what to say….simply pathetic !…
in my opinion their attitude SUCKS !
this is not a “true spirit” festival…but just another money operation done by mythomaniacs who dream to become rich at the second edition
(next year…they think they will get all the ppl after the Boom in Portugal)
as usual this kind of organizers ask to artists like me to play for nothing because we are all a “family”…and on the side they pay huge fees to the big names on the top of their lineups.
I will not feed this kind of ppl…with my energy and with my music any longer….even if this means that I will not play anymore to any festival.
I will not go to play at the Sol Fest
they are losers and impostors…and I honestly hope that it will be such a disaster to discourage them to even try a second edition.
we do not need more ppl like this in the scene
it’s about time…time to stand and claim
(see you at Sonica :-)
ps. I forgot to mention that once I throw mud on a dj on the mainfloor of the Boom 2006…yep…I was a naughty acid punk who hated cheesy creamy progressive…from that it started a dancefloor revolt…hundred of ppl follow my example and they had to change dj very fast to avoid a revolution…never the less Boom Festival booked me for the last 3 editions at the Liminal Village and the Ambient Garden…
ps2. to you…Sol Fest Organizers who might be reading…this post had more than 100 views in 1 day….and ppl are linking it on their facebooks and retwitting it…I am a small shit…but if you step on me you will stink alot ! (or in plain english…FUCK OFF!)
ps3. pls link this post to your Facebook, Twitter or whatever network you use…pls help me to spread my side of the story…if you liked the story… :D
