Incognegro

Can anyone else tell I'm getting tired of blogging?

I'm getting tired of blogging.

The daily grind, anyway.

I've explained TMR's interests and outlook a billion times, and it does no good, so - since you're all so happy with Glenn Reynolds' precognitions and I don't feel like doing it again - I'm happy to know I'm right and just let the cards fall where they may:

"There are not enough Tea Party people, not enough libertarian people, not enough socially conservative people to win a Republican nomination, by definition. Anyone who comes from one of those traditions must expand beyond that tradition to win."

And to "expand beyond that tradition" must mean some of that "rethinking in other areas” Mickey Kaus was talking about.

Or not.

You never know with the Get-off-The-Democrat-Plantation crew.

I don't anyway.

Even our hero, Hammering Hank Aaron, tells them they're racists and they didn't get a clue, so what does that tell you?

Jenny McCarthy says "I am not 'anti-vaccine'” after years of being anti-vaccine - is that any different from the "colorblind" Republicans who can't stop doing and saying racist things?

I can't see it.

It's all cultism to me now - herd mentality - call it what you want.

A woman told me acupuncture is an ancient practice yesterday.

I let her talk.

This morning another woman attacked me over recycling.

I apologized for upsetting her.

Most major hospitals have mainstreamed my wife's beliefs - what am I going to do, blog about the idiocy I see - some more?

It's so widespread I'll never do anything else.

 

 But now I am doing something else.

 

Tomorrow is another edition of Uncle Ray's Psychedelic Soul, where he and I will be counting down his Top 100 Psychedelic Soul Albums and discussing whatever he may decide to throw at me.

(He's indicated Hank Aaron WILL be a topic,…)

Feel free to tune in, call in, catch up, make trouble:

In case you haven't noticed, I've honestly stopped giving a damn,…

 

The Crack Emcee Has Made It Back To San Francisco

The King - returned to his throne,...

In case anyone wondered/cared, I've made it back to San Francisco safe and sound, with the last shit I own. I was even on Radio Valencia this morning, discussing music with my pal, Uncle Ray, just like I'd never left.

As you can see, above, Ray's in one circle of my friends/artists that, most famously, includes Keith Knight, who draws The K Chronicles, a black underground comic featured in our country's "Weekly" family of newspapers (SF Weekly, Seattle Weekly, etc.). After talking, Ray caught me unawares by requesting I be on his show - and, then, he did it again - asking me to return, on-the-air. So, it looks like I might have my first new gig, just days after finding myself back in The City. 

 That's a BIG difference from Middle America right there.

That's not to say it isn't weird to be back, considering The Dotsies have (finally) taken over, raising the price of everything four-and-five fold. Will I be able to "make it" again, under these new, and more expensive, circumstances? I was expecting the tech turnover, so I don't know if it'll be as difficult for me, since I'm used to how creepy The Dotsie's new wealth can make things.

Most SF "artists" are moving away now - so I'll have to wait and see,…

 

The Crack Emcee: This Is How It's Done

Moving a little slow today when it comes to blogging - discussing music with people elsewhere - but I thought I'd show how I work, since I don't read, play, or do notation:

This is "Temporary Jigsaw", a demo that was started by an artist I respect immensely - "Uncle Ray" Wilcox. He had it laying around in it's original version and played it for me, blowing me away, so I told him I'd finish it for him. I took it home, re-did it on my computer, and wrote some very-conservative lyrics for it (criticizing both gangsta and hippie posturing) resulting in this:

Temporary Jigsaw by The Crack Emcee

Later, I presented that recording to the band and here's what we did with it - you'll notice nothing is different but the outrageously good lead guitarist having his way with it (Mike Cavesano, above in the brown jacket, with our bass player, Ubi Whitaker, who is Bob Dylan's God Son) and my spectacular drummer, friend, and long-time collaborator, Kevin Carnes, doing his thing:

Temporary Jigsaw by The Crack Emcee

So, with only a few exceptions, that's how these songs were created. Hope you like them!

P.S.

If anybody's saving these - put this live version ahead of "Baldhead Friend" in your track list.

Get It Right When I Write

So I see a headline saying Scott Weiland's leaving Velvet Revolver, and I'm wondering who Scott Weiland is - and what has the awful name of Velvet Revolver? - when I see the name Stone Temple Pilots and I go, "Oh, yea, they sucked." It seems Duff McKagan, of Guns and Roses, is in Velvet Revolver. I was on a record with him a really long time ago (above) but what really tickled my fancy was this quote from the scribe, Margaret Wappler:

"All I’ve got to say is that no one in this fine mess has written a song as cool as 'Mr. Brownstone.' Well, at least not since Slash actually wrote 'Mr. Brownstone.'"

It's like she was reading my mind,...

Here's a few other releases I was on, in no particular order, and just the ones I could find quickly - not all of these were mine, and some were very-limited releases:

"America Fears The Drum"

"Rock Star"
Free download: Temporary Jigsaw (Written by "Uncle Ray" Wilcox and The Crack Emcee. Performed, produced, engineered, and recorded by The Crack Emcee)


"Sex Bomb"

"Suck"

"Tasty Licks"

"The Big Lowensky: Crackhouse Hits From The Clinton Era"
Free download: Democracy Sucks! (Written by The Crack Emcee. Performed by The Crack Emcee's Little White Radio. Produced, engineered, and recorded by The Crack Emcee.)

"The Crack Emcee (Best Of Collection)"
Free download: Pow! (Written by Broun Fellinis and The Crack Emcee. Performed and produced by Broun Fellinis and The Crack Emcee.)

"'Till The Bars Break"