I'm singing tomorrow night in the Boston area (one last harangue)

[Squeech]

Here's how the other guy I'm singing with (not a DU'er) describes it:

SATURDAY,
SEPTEMBER 18, 2004
9:30 p.m. to 12:30
INNER LIMITS restaurant
corner of Waverly Ave. and Main St.
Watertown, MA
617.924.3771
www.innerlimitslounge.com

Goatarist/singer Tim Mungenast and modern folk/protest singer Michael Bloom
will hold forth for 3 hours, doing duo and solo sets, improv duets, improv
solo sets, protest songs, goat songs, a little looping, and maybe Tim will
bring his electric sitar to bring some twang into the evening. (Kinda like
the Incredible String Band jamming with Phil Ochs and Syd Barrett.)

(Of course I love the Phil Ochs reference!)

[quispquake]

1. Nothing wrong with ISB & Syd Barrett references either!!!

Good luck on your show! (Wish I could be there, but I'm a few too many hundred miles away).

[Squeech]

2. Tim's the one that writes like Syd Barrett

We usually play as a rock power trio, doing his songs (I'm the bass player). I wish I could come up with stuff as non-linear and surreal and all-around goofy as he can dream up.

But I think the singer/songwriter style is good for both of us. He has a lot of fun turning on all his stomp boxes and making a lot of noise and playing the guitar hero, and certainly I can understand the attraction of that! But it's as true for his more abstract songs as for my more or less explicitly political stuff, we both go over better when people can hear the words. Which does not happen in the shabby rock'n'roll clubs we normally frequent.

[Squeech]

3. Kick

Blatant self-promotion

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4. Son of kick

Gotta keep this visible for lunch hour browsers in my time zone

[ET Awful]

5. Wish I could make it :( Have other stuff going on already though.

Double damn.

[flamingyouth]

6. I'm intrigued, to say the least

Have you recorded anything?:hi:

[Squeech]

7. I have a four song CD

Actually five songs, if you count the extra "art rock" mix of the title track, "Man Behind the Curtain" (my tirade against Smirky). I did it at the home studio of a good friend who does all sorts of audio production, and together we took the opportunity to enhance the disastrous record of the chimp in the White House with appropriate sound effects (including some samples from well known recording artists who could afford to send big lawyers after us).

This friend of mine also does a weekly radio show on the MIT college station WMBR, and plays a lot of political songwriters, many of whom he's recorded. He's a busy man, and a valuable one.

Hopefully, after November 2, nobody will need to hear "Man Behind the Curtain" any more.

The other songs are "Welcome to Kyoto," a sarcastic look at how the rest of the world must view us for blowing off the Kyoto Accords; "American Dream," a rumination on how we teach consumerism to our children, and "Risk," an unfocused anti-war song wherein I hypothesize that what allows the generals to wage war at all is that they practice it mainly in the situation room, moving pieces around on the board, distanced from the actual screaming and bleeding and dying.

I'm (slowly) recording more personal, less political stuff for future release, but I wanted to get the above out there for election season.

[Squeech]

8. Another kick

If a post falls in the forest, does it make a sound?

[Squeech]

9. One last kick

Please note that the performance is now *tonight*

See ya there?