I am going to do everything I can to not embarrass any parties involved, but I have got to speak on this.

By the way, these are my feelings on the subject, only mine. Not Dale's, Eric's or Q's or Kathy's, just mine.

We played a function recently. I wont say what. I wont say where.

I will say that it is the kind of function that we normally do not play. But we occasionally make exceptions........

We got there, soundchecked. Talked to some of the people putting on the event, who were all very nice.

We get the same questions we sometimes get when we play private functions....

"What songs do you play?"
"Do you play this song?"
"Why wont you play this song?"
"You must do this song...it goes like this." (bad singing of the song we don't play, ensues)

We go on to play the event. And we have a good time and the crowd seems to have a good time.

Right?........wrong.

We get an official complaint that we, "misrepresented who we were".

From a person who wasn't even there. They heard from someone at the show and decided to lodge a complaint

This person said:

"They didnt play any hip hop............
and The crowd didnt dance when they played......"

It was a 4 hour gig. If you think we do a four hour gig and not play hip-hop, well thats kinda crazy.
And they were right, no one danced....for the first 15 minutes. They stayed up for the rest of the event. All night.

Matter of fact, we got the biggest responses when we played Sublime, 311 and Rage Against the Machine, all non-hip-hop tunes.

So the point of all this is the following:

1. If you are going to book a band, especially us, do your homework ahead of time and find out what type of music we play.

Our manager is more than helpful when it comes to sending a list of the cover songs and originals we perform. We have been around a while now and more often than not, someone can tell you what we do. We may not be for everybody, but we appeal to a broad range of fan.

2. If you are gonna lodge a complaint against us....actually be at the show you are ticked off about and get your facts straight.


Btw. We had a great time at the event and even played some of our original material there and it was very well received.

So thats it. I just needed to vent my spleen about that. We pride ourselves in putting on a good show and one thing I think we do very well is we know how to represent ourselves well. When we first heard about this complaint it made us laugh and I figured i could get a funny blog out of it.

Cheers.


Your Boy,


Timothy