Los Angles Raiders The Band

Mark Eric - Goin' Native

"Boys on Top is a musical group that explores the strictly factual elements of romantic relationships. Every song is in the key of A. The lyrical content of each song describes real events that happened during the course of an interpersonal relationship between the song writer and his partner. Emotions are not presented as facts, nor are they assisted by musical motifs. Instead, presentation is careful to cover events as they occurred with minimal descriptive language and a straight forward ban on outright emotional expression. Interpretation of events as either positive or negative is avoided at all cost."

Catalogued.

I ate breakfast in Portland and lunch in Olympia but wound up skipping dinner in favor of pursuing the fleeting dream of photographing Foot Village in foggy San Diego. Decidedly, they are a band that could never be captured by photograph or audio recording. Audio-Video would be incest at best. There is no point is posting a song as it will only poorly imitate the true experience. As for trying to capture the most minuscule morsel of the entire event, this is the best I came up with:



Really, you should just watch this space and hope and pray that your city makes the list.

As for the beginning of my day, all the tidal flats of the Puget Sound and the scenic vistas of the rolling remains of Mt St Helens resulted in this:

The Vibrarians - Wade

This track is from Get out of Town CS/CDr on Ick Ick Records. A single on K records is promised.

Reverse Pyramid Scheme

Guy Blackman - Live at the Echo Curio

I met Ian Mackaye and Guy Blackman within 24 hours. One started Dischord Records and the other started Chapter Music. They both made me think of ideas that scale. The music of Guy Blackman scales naturally. For certain songs, he used a backing track but could have easily sat there and sang unaccompanied. Actually, he could have sang to himself way out in the middle of nowhere to no one with no suitable surrounding objects providing back-scatter for his own listening pleasure. Equally, all of us could have picked up a thousands guitars each and played and sang the repertoire of 'Guy Blackman' (not the flesh and blood man) in unison.

The ideas of Ian Mackaye scale in the approaching limit of my own ideas, which have been expressed on this internet-writings many times. Firstly, everyone start a band. Secondly, never accept money for playing a show, unless you write songs about accepting money for playing shows. Thirdly, no visual elements.

I also want to take this time stamped opportunity to tell you my Hallowe'en costume idea. This is possibly the only original idea I've ever had. Sadly, someone will post a comment telling me about it's already been done but I will persist in believing that this was a genuine original idea and not absorbed or inherited. This year, my costume is entirely smell based. There is no visual element to the costume.

Regionalism

From the sprawling nucleus of San Diego is the spin off of a band posted below. See the man in the yellow pants. There are releases, shows and general excitement of course, all of which are found around the internet in various places. I'm just going to take it easy. I'm just going to "show up". Enjoy it:

Wavves - Gun in the Sun

More LACC (Live at Che Cafe)

Katy Davidson - Lake or something

I'm terrible at song titles but I need to call it something. This is a perfect minute and a half sample of the song/lyric writing genius of Katy Davidson/Dear Nora/Lloyd & Michael, who have already been featured on this internet ramblings many times. However, this time I'm bringing some new content to the massive web of waste of time. Better than writing about how I just discovered the Vivian Girls or some obscure yet re-issued something or other.





Fantastic Magic - Seagulls

See above for visual perspective and listen to the audience applause for auditory perspective. Fantastic Magic fill the space in between the eucalyptus outside the Che Cafe. Photo by Danny Munioz and recording by yours truly.

Endless Possibilities of Repitition

The goal of this proposal is to investigate the resurgence of popularity of fun music that is played with guitars. There are more than a few bands in San Diego playing music suitable for parties, and more than a few times I have found the conversation turning to seminal or criminally underrated or exciting new things.

Here, the story goes something like this. This dude got older and left behind his tendencies for edgier rock/pop/punk to chase that authentic 60s sound with increased veracity. A club is dedicated to this cause. The kids have bands that accidentally play the rawest garage possible. The kids will never stop having bands like this. I enjoy it and catch a set by the exceedingly popular King Khan. I remember a few things fondly, mainly poutine related. I also recall the November 14th, 1997, possibly 1996 at the Gary Oak Sea Scout Hall and the band that follows. This was during a golden era of Vancouver music. A band had actually moved FROM Montreal TO Vancouver for some to be a part of it. I never saw them play, but I did later uncover this gem in the vaults of CiTR's Live at Radio Thunderbird Hell: The Spaceshits playing The Real Kids and inspiring stage banter for many years to come.


The Spaceshits - All Kindsa Girls
Talking Parts:
The Spaceshits - Tunning
The Spaceshits - Captain Highliner

p.s.
Thanks to all those who bought 'Baseball in China' T shirts and helped with bills. Everyone start a band.

Popsheep Fund Drive

For a few days there, Popsheep was offline. This was because it was time to pay the bills and we pretty much procrastinated on that one until it was too late and, consequently, way more of a hassle than it should have been in the first place.

In order to recoup some of the financial and emotional losses associated with this website, we are holding an incentive based fund drive not unlike a Faulty Towers marathon.

THE INCENTIVE:




ABOUT THE SHIRT:
That's Shaq and Yao Ming holding the World Series of Baseball Trophy. The shirt and song are mainly about this event.




THE COST
$30 available in standard Small, Medium and Large, in natural cotton or occasionally white cotton. Drawn and hand printed by yours truly in a limited edition of 50. Duncan owns one. Shipping in North America and a tear stained thank you note included in the price.

Thank you.