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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.
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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
from The Guardian
Overseas artists boycott Britain in protest at visa clampdown
A Russian-born poet on US passport, Alex Galper, is held in cell and deported for planning to speak at arts festival
A growing number of foreign artists, ranging from grassroots fringe performers to world-renowned stars, are ruling this country out of their future travel plans due to difficulties with obtaining visas. They are following in the footsteps of the admired Iranian film director Abbas Kiarostami, who abandoned plans to come to Britain to direct an opera after the UK embassy in Tehran asked him to submit his application documents twice….
I can say that even if I hold an european passport I often have problems or I get questioned at my arrival in Uk airports…they not friendly…and I don’t feel welcome anymore in that land…
let’s leave them alone on their island…their own music and art.
I am sorry. But, after the past decade of lies, distortions, obfuscations, and out and out deception surrounding 9/11 and every other damn issue under the sun, I don’t believe anything they say about anything anymore. (And, I know this shite ain’t new, but as the brazeness elevates due to our unquestioning acceptance of information that is tenuous at best, and out and out provable lies at worst, it gets more surreal by the day).
So, when I heard there was a unexpected press conference about national security and knowing that they never tell any truth about REAL issues that threaten our national security, my gut reaction?…
‘Don’t tell me, they got Bin Laden. What a way to kick off Obama in 2012 corporate campaign’!
I choked on my grapes when the NYT pre-released the story.
And, I don’t buy their official story. Let me get this straight. The most wanted enemy of the United States was killed in a firefight and the body was unceremoniously dumped into the sea before any independent source could verify its authenticity. All of the sudden, the US which wages war and routinely tortures brown people to justify their criminal operations against humanity overseas is vested in following proper burial protocol for the most wanted man in the world. They were content with a photo id.
Right.
And, why the hell wouldn’t they take him alive? Wouldn’t that go against national security issue interests, if Osama is masterminding covert plots to terrorize the entire globe? With the entire US military at our fingertips, and him in a known location and compound, we couldn’t manage to even TRY to take him alive? You would think that would be the orders, if national security was the true issue. Get him alive at all possible. And, given that there is an entire movement to bring about the truth of what really happened on 9/11, don’t you think they would want to at the VERY least produce a body to put any doubts to rest AND bring closure to the families and relatives of 9/11 victims?
Logic and consistency seem to always fray when we go near the subject of 9/11 and its supposed mastermind. The American people were content to just gulp up a ‘independent’ commissions report that was riddled with inconsistencies and holes the size of the grand canyon along with outright fallacies, so this must have seemed small theatre compared to the years long dodge, obfusication, and cover-up of truth to the true events of that day.
I d-o-n-o-t-b-e-l-i-e-v-e t-h-e-m
I don’t trust known liars. I don’t trust a government that launched a middle-east strategy based on a boogeyman and fabricated connections to a terrorist organization with a leader whom the US trained. I don’t believe it is all a coincidence that high level officials were warned to not fly that day, or that Norad didn’t scramble planes, and flight tapes were crushed and destroyed and thrown in garbage cans
And, I am sick of being called a ‘conspiracy theorist’ when the evidence contradicts their own claims and bolsters the case for logical scrutiny and a truly independent investigation. The killing of Osama Bin Laden has not been proven, and if we had him in our custody, that would have been very simple to do.
Why the hell didn’t we?
by debbierlus - original article
http://www.justresponse.net/Bin_Laden1.html
http://www.reddit.com/tb/h3bq1
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/may/03/osama-bin-laden-10-myths-cia-arsenal?intcmp=239
preface :
my humble excuses to Interchill/Andrew for having the doubt that he was involved in this stupid and useless action. thanks for the support !
read the story here : who owns my music ?
Soundcloud…my love <3
you are very sexy, good looking, young, smart and cheeky,
expensive…and unrelyable. (like those chicks)
I loved you at first sight: I did my first account at the very beginning…more than 2 years ago.
i still remember the first time i uploaded a tune to you…my hands were swetty…you showed me the waveform…you got me.
I supported you, promoted you and payed for your service with 3 accounts : cloudcycle, bakshish and mine.
you are the only social network that i use (ok…twitter too)…no Myspace…no Facebook.
I never payed before…expecially to be part of a network…i thought you were also offering me a distribution service…I loved the absence of adverts.
I never got my music removed (without notice too) from a webservice before…you did.
after 3 days you still didn’t reply to my emails.
you silently put my music back online…without even a “ooops…sorry”…
if I was Amon Tobin and you removed the promo teaser of my new album…now you would paying the bills of my lawyers.
you declared something FALSE in your business email to me (I pay for your service…remember)…stating that Interchill asked you to do so.
you reply to Interchill…not addressing the real issue…and saying that from now on I will be whitelisted and my content will not be filtered
so I am now whitelisted because I am an Interchill artist (I am not) and not because I fucking own the copyrights of my music…and I am a (good) customer.
you created a damage to the image of Interchill and to our relationships.
you gave me 2 days of headache
still no reply to me
how sad
on April fool day I uploaded to you a copyrigheted song made by Electric Light Orchestra : “Don’t Bring Me Down”….yes…I admit it…I commited a crime.
your robot didn’t find out yet :D
i can say it now…
YOU SUCK !
(should we talk also of your constant lack of bandwidth, shit statistics that never work and bugs in the system ?)
it might seems that i am doing a big deal without a real reason
I promise you…there is a very good reason…
.and a good lesson to learn :
I will not rely on your service so much anymore…and will not renew my subscription
I will go back to stream directly from my server…and I will start to use other networks too.
I found a site…very cool…I can upload with no limits….even video…embed the player on any site..
a huge comunity and network : YouTube :D
EDIT :
you finally answered…with this email…not addressing any problem..saying sorry…and giving me 6 months extra on my account ( worth a bit more than 10 euros)…
Hi again,
Just synced with the copyrights team again with more details on this. The track was released on Thursday. We’re very sorry for the delay, this was due to the team reviewing the situation and what happened exactly.
For the inconvenience this has caused, we are extending your Lite subscription for 6 months
Very sorry again for the troubles this has caused.
Thank you very much for waiting,
like my “wife” said…sounds like..a robot apologizing.. :D
this is not long enough…mmm….
“i tell you once more…before i get on the floor…don’t bring me down…..prooos” <3<3<3
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