Change is Good if it's Change for the Good

Monday, April 9, 2007

Dateline: Winston's. Ocean Beach, CA

 

Has anyone besides me (and besides the six or eight voices in my head) checked the Electric Waste Band website lately? www.electricwasteband.com  "Last updated March 7, 2007"? "So what" you say ["you" meaning the sole earthly reader of Bill's Corner]. Well, April 9's show marked 30 days since the last update, so SDPOTARTO, LLP [San Diego Patrons of the Arts Roving Table One, Limited Liquorfunds Partnership] hired insider and EWB guitar phenom Rockin' Rob Harvey, Esquire, to put the EWB website in default and seek an interim order transferring title to said LLP. Harvey is my kind of lawyer: heartless, soul-less, no loyalty, betray-for-a-fee. He's like the little reptile brother my parents never hatched.

 

So technically, April 9's show was the sole property [all rights reserved/any rebroadcast strictly prohibited] of SDPOTARTO, LLP, and we acted like it, brothers and sisters. We telepathically and overtly dictated [not "requested"] every song played that night, from Reuben and Cherise to open the show to everything else. Remember the smoking slide acoustic guitar by Mark Fisher on Walking Blues? Yup, you can thank the new ownership for that, too, specifically SDPOTARTO's co-founder, Mr. Barrow E. Cassidy, Bertha & Tangled Up in Blue? Yours truly made those happen, hyper dimensionally of course (I wouldn't waste my time asking the deposed & former Mannequin King/now keyboard indentured servant, Paul Bell.) Bassist Lance and drummer Fletcher seem content with their owners so long as the beer kept comin'. Wrapping up this report, honorable mention goes out to SDPOTARTO's northern chapter rep., Mr. Dennis D., who drove all the way from Santa Rosa with his family of ten after many months drooling over the reports of Monday night at Winstons, and he was not disappointed, per his publicist. Dennis personally caused China Cat/Know You Rider to open set #2, albeit our back-stabbing lawyer Harvey was in on that one, to be honest.

 

I look forward to tonight when I instruct the doorman to put Paul Bell on the guest list, at least for this week.

 

Bill