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August 25, 2003

 

Alas, all is for sh*tty sh*tty sh*tty naught.  F--- it.  F--- f--- f--- f--- f--- f---!!!

 

Advice to kids: do not start a band.  It is a waste of time.  Or: do start a band.  Or: don’t.  Or: look, it doesn’t matter.  It doesn’t matter what you do.  You may as well go start your own wrestling federation.  Or better: set up your very own country.  Base it on progressive but humane principles.  Hire the Grateful Dead to be band at your country’s opening day soirée.  Ask Joan Osborne if she’s as fun-loving as she looks in the picture with the band that’s in that one Rolling Stone.  I guess that now they go under the sobriquet “The Dead,” rather than “The Grateful Dead,” considering that they are sans Jerry.

 

That’s a real band.  That’s a band.  Just let them perform and do band stuff so that you can concentrate on organizing elections at your new country.  And be sure to invite the members of “The Dead” to be the “house band” of your new country.  They will respectfully decline, but that does not mean that there cannot be an honorary decal affixed to the underbelly of their Leer jet.

 

 

July 10, 2003

 

Hello hello.  Tomorrow night, July 11^th, at 8:00 PM, we are playing an all improvisatory set at Peace Park near State Street in Madison, Wisconsin.  We have not told anyone about it.  Why?  Because we’re just going to be playing a bunch of weird noises, and people don’t want to hear that.  But we’ll have fun playing for the vagrants/frat boys who pass us by.  God bless them, yo.

 

Then, on this coming Saturday, July 12^th, we opening for The Jumpjets at Zad’s on 438 South 2^nd Street at 10:00 PM.  No one will be at this show, either.  Okay, maybe the Jumpjets’s exuberant throngs of fans.

 

 

June 28, 2003

 

Our heartfelt thanks to those of you who fit all of the following criteria:

 

-        having attended the Zad’s show,

-        are reading this right now, and

-        give even a tiny bit of shit about any of these criteria (including this one).

 

You are truly a remarkable person, whoever you are.

 

Anyway, I thought Zad’s went okay.  We were loud.  And thank you to Jack who was kind enough to learn the tunes, play them very well, and keep the tomfoolery (like making weird noises into the microphone that had a kind of Jamroquai-esque sleazy sensuality to them) to a minimum.  Paddy will be back soon and will be playing with us on all subsequent shows.  So, in other words, we’ve already hit our peak.  Sorry if you missed it.  Just joking (about being sorry if you happened to miss it).

 

And also thank you to Stephen Schlei’s band, Das Überteam, from whom we hope to hear more in the future.

 

We (the Prudent Bear) playing at this sketchy park in Madison called Peace Park where lots of hoboes hang out on Friday, July 11^th, at 8:00 PM.  This show will be different than usual in that we are going to use the sketchiness of the circumstances to do some “out there” improvisation-type stuff.  Just to piss off frat-boy passers-by and the women who love them.

 

Much less sketchy will be our opening slot the following night at a venue in Riverwest.  I remember neither the name of the bar nor the name of the band for which we will be opening.  That information soon.

 

By the way: today I learned that Drake University is in Des Moines and that Wilco’s bass player John Stirratt did a solo record.

 

Also: read the latest Paddy’s corner.  If you’re bored.  It was written before the Zad’s show.  Yay.

 

 

June 11, 2003

 

The address of Zad’s is 438 South 2^nd Street.  It’s right next door to The Social.  The cover charge will be $3.  That’s as low as they’ll let us go.  But we pass the savings on to you, the consumer.  Think of it this way: it’s the price of the beer that you won’t remember having drunk.

 

The opening act is: Das Überteam, a band fronted by Milwaukee art/pretentious rock favorite Stephen Schlei.

 

So: it’s on June 21, at 10:00, at Zad’s.  Do come.

 

 

June 2, 2003

 

We are playing a show on June 21, 2003 at Zad’s on 2^nd Street in Walker’s Point.  Since Paddy will be in NYC, Tom’s brother Jack will be filling in for Paddy on bass.  You should come.  It starts at 10:00.  We’ll probably have an opening act, but we don’t know who yet.

 

 

May 28, 2003

 

New Paddy’s Corner.  Be forewarned: it has not been grammar-checked.

 

 

May 25, 2003

 

The three mp3s listed below are now available on mp3.com.  “When the Sagacious Lie” is an improvisation from our first practice together.  It sounds real boss.

 

Also: we are recording much better-sounding demos (which is to say, not just rehearsal tapes, which are the sources from which the presently-available mp3s have been garnered) of our easiest-to-play songs with Nashville veteran M. Konshack @ The Konshack Ranch.

 

Also: there are shows in the works.  Really.  Trust me.

 

Also: as nobody appears to have noticed, we have refurbished the Prudent Impudent Interface section.  PLEASE: somebody post something on there about aliens.

 

 

May 13, 2003

 

Mp3s of “David Schwimmer,” “Vu Song,” and an improv entitled “When the Sagacious Lie” have been submitted to mp3.com.  Now we need only await the approval of the Department of Homeland Security.  Also: since we are only allowed three mp3s at a time, we have taken down the mp3s that have heretofore been available.  Sorry about that.  I know that you were in the middle of listening to them.

 

 

May 10, 2003

 

We had a show scheduled for the 31^st.  No longer does it exist.

 

We will try to perform a few times this month (perhaps an ambition best characterized by its thoroughgoing otiosity), before people’s various soul-searching projects usurp the bulk of the month of June, to the detriment of the Prudent Bear and of rock and roll in general.

 

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