07/03/2007

Gallery Cabaret, Videos, & The Human Cannonball

Greetings to all the new friends and old friends of the dogs.

It’s time for the JM monthly newsletter on what’s happening with the pack. Last Saturday I had low expectations for our show at the Gallery Cabaret. For one reason or another, all of us in the band were beat and tired, and it turned out the starting time was 10pm instead of 9pm and the owner wanted us to go until 2am. That was not the kind of news this tired pack of dogs wanted to hear. On top of that it appeared that it was going to be a low turnout of people which can make any night feel like an eternity.

The first sign that I was wrong was when Barbara Holleck started her set. There was a medium sized crowd by then, but it was a great listening crowd and the listening was well deserved. Barbara was in top form and with class and style she strummed, picked, and belted out over an hours’ worth of emotionally charged tunes that proved to be the perfect way to start the night.

Thanks to a bunch of Andy’s friends showing, up by the time we started the place was full and lively. Once we got a few bugs out of the mix we were off and howling in our usual fashion and it turned out to be a fun night with a great audience. The highlight for us of course was going nuts at the end of our last song and the picture was something like this--- Brian the bad ass bass player jerks his triple jointed rubber neck around (I mean the one attached to his head) and he continues to play bass while he lays on the floor gyrating. Andy motorizes his hands until they look like their possessed by humming birds flying up and down the strings while the guitar steadily screams, my acoustic is nearly inaudible at that point so I simply beat the shit out it to make as much noise as possible, and Mike does his best to look like the serious musician while he murders his drums and slaughters his symbols. If you’d like to witness this spectacle first hand, we’ll be doing it again this Friday at Legends out in Addison, and no, that isn’t Buddy Guy’s Legends. Legends is a great venue with a nice stage, lights, friendly people, and plenty of room for the dogs to run wild.

In other news, thanks to Brian’s latest brain child, we are presently mapping out our first video which will be for the song “Made For Each Other” and hope to have that and one more done before the end of the year. Also on the table are plans for the first recording that will feature the Invisible Dogs and the song will be the ever popular “Mr. Hyde”. That too we hope to have available as a promotional single before the end of the year and it will be the first step to get the second album underway. We have a monumental amount of work to do, but I am encouraged by the response we are getting and hopeful that these dogs may have their day. We are still keeping an eye out for the missing dog to complete the pack and he’s out there somewhere in the form of a guitar player.

With that, have a great Fourth of July and don’t get blown up. I will be celebrating it by flying to Arizona tonight for a historical event. Tomorrow at high noon I will be shot out from a cannon across the Grand Canyon as a human cannon ball. We’re still going over some of the logistics as to which side I’m supposed to land on and exactly where I’ll be landing. Hopefully I’ll have a good video clip of it to put up on the website so stay tuned for that.

J.M and the Invisible Dogs