GUIDED BY VOICINGS - Blogging is in Big Trouble

happiness is a warm gun

what a great experience it is to play one of the weirdest songs in beatle history. i’m an out and out paul man. but this song is working for me.

Big Trouble Restaurant Tour!

So it’s a Friday night and you didn’t get tickets to the Ali show. Boo-hoo. Come on down to Cafe Maude and enjoy the sounds of Southwest Minneapolis drizzled on by St. Paul’s finest, the Big Trouble gang. And on Sunday after you have had half of a good weekend complete the picture with a banging trip out the see the good homies Big Trouble at the Red Stag tomorrow night!

Unbelievable Dakota Show

Dear the Dakota,

We are so surprised you let our mongrel hip-hop rock distortion pedal dirty t-shirt broken cymbal martini pbr chaser jazz cigarette felonious skunk bad chord chart parallel 5th fuck a breath mint can’t sight read octave pedal weird jokes western massachusetts blues licks bass solos in the wrong key 6/8 always shaky b sections always verbally announced. But guess what, we are great.

—Sean

Big Trouble at the Dakota on 10/9/09 at 11:30. $5.

We can’t wait to play Beatles tonight

the beatles are the best band in the world. here are the basslines that I’m most likely to fuck up at the big Beatles show tonight.

1 - Something - I think when George Harrison wrote songs Paul McCartney thought…hey I get to mess around on this one and just do whatever I want. What the hell is George going to say about it? 16 note fancy ass fills all over a quasi ass ballad? Done. I have practically given up on the version of the fill that happens in the solo, but I have a couple hours to change my mind.

2 - I’m On Sleeping - okay, bass chords? Cool. But how did he make them sound so clear and perfect on that weird fill. And who writes songs in Eb minor? I guess the same people who like baked beans to have no sweet taste to them and people who like their beer at warm temperatures.

3 - Carry That Weight - Playing Carry That Weight is very hard and it is a real page turner since they are quoting all these other songs. It’s going to be a real page turner.

4 - The End - oh my god, why are those hits so hard to play at the beginning. Are you guys human? I think the answer is no.

5 - She Came in Through the Bathroom Window - Paul…I’m going to get these. The second verse, it’s so great. And I’ve learned to never play the one on the first beat of a minor chord. Always the third. Are you proud of me?

see you this thursday with peter sieve

this thursday at the red stag with peter sieve! enjoy it, enjoy it.

a lazy photo gallery

i did some google searching for folks, and this is what I found. what do you think? these finds were all in the first two lines of google image search. enjoy!