Davezine 12

My mind is racing to try to finalize things for this Davezine release party next month. I have bands, a story, and good intentions, and still need to work out some boring basics like, GETTING THE FUCKING ZINE DONE and GETTING THE VENUE. But things are looking good right now, so I'm not worried.
My story is Low Level Bureaucrats 2: (Karl) Love Story, and if I may say, is funny as shit. It's about a gambling lobbyist named Jack Roulette who tries to bring legalized gambling to Beatown, using Karl Love as his pawn. If this party is anything like last years, holy fuck.
I've written about 4 new songs, which I will play at this next show. But I can't give any more info until it's finalized. But if everyone can save the date--June 24--hopefully the rest will fall into place within the next few days.

Talking Head show wrap-up

Talking Head, May 13
Drug Mule
Koma Agir
Presto Magente
This was certainly one of the more interesting line-ups I’ve been with in a while. Presto Magente were a 3 piece that seemed to have home-assembled their instruments, switching things around, alternating singers for an interesting folk/electric sound. Koma Agir was a duo who sang traditional Kurdish protest songs with something that looked like a lute and a little round hand-held drum--they were later joined by 2 others who played violin and guitar to add to the mix. Drug Mule did about 35 minutes of noise improv, throwing in a trombone solo from time to time--basically unstructured but neat.
For whoever remained, I played 15 songs, mixed it up a little, doing a few I never really do live--Photocopy, Sleazebag…I tried out a different brand of lotion this time (cost 99 cents) and found it to be oilier than usual, it cleaned up a little easier. The sound was better than ever, and the people remaining danced and generally spazzed out. I was happy with the general feel of the show, and the short notice turnout. I sold some shirts and Cds, always a plus, but if I can just get one new fan anytime I play, I think that’s a worthwhile goal.

meter maids...grrrrrrrrrrr.

Readers of Davezine #11, Low Level Bureaucrats, might enjoy this blurb in the Baltimore City Paper about meter maids sleeping on the job (second article down)

http://www.citypaper.com/news/story.asp?id=11800

The Talking Head show is 7 bucks and starts at 10, by the way.

G for G-riffic

Only two days til the next show. I have all my t-shirts, sold a few last night. I was really hoping to just cover the place on Saturday with Davey G and the Keyboard fans, kind of like the last scene in V for Vendetta with all the people in the Guy Fawkes masks, except with t-shirts. A sea of white, my face, and lotion. Cool.
They put me up on the talking head site, but I don't know why they insist upon calling me Davey G and HIS Keyboard...after 5 years, sheesh. But they're still all right with me.

Show stuff

I sent out an e-mail, a myspace invite, a myspace bulletin, put the show up on my web site...it's the best I can do for a show that is this Saturday. Freaked when I accidentally deleted 55 of my contacts from gmail (I got 'em back) but still feel genuinely retarded.
I may run through old and generally underused songs at this show--I'd love it if I did more new stuff, but it's so hard when my bread and butter has been songs I've been doing on and off for 5 years, which are well-known and generally loved.
I have lots of t-shirts now--Large, Medium, Small...I'll post them on the site when I can get a decent picture.

Pre-Talking Head e-mail info

This is the e-mail I am working on, as soon as I get all the remaining info I am sending it out.

Davey G and the Keyboard This Saturday!
Saturday, May 13, 10 p.m at the Talking Head Club in
203 Davis Street
Baltimore, Maryland
With Drug Mule and others.

The “most responsible man in show business” gets busy with friends from Drug Mule with a show that will kick off at 10, with Davey G headlining some time later in the evening.
For those of you who have never come out for a Davey G show, here is an excellent pre-Mother’s Day opportunity. Come out and support the man who has been called an “excellent e-bayer” and “always punctual” by the on-line community and friends, respectively.
For more info, songs, etc, go to
http://www.daveygandthekeyboard.com
Yeah. I’ll probably do 15 songs and rub lotion on myself at the end. The usual.

3-18There is life in Pittsfield!!! Source of the Nile, North Street. Next to the Bagel store., Pittsfield, MA Davey G and the Keyboard with The Beat Machine, BARE BONES, THE BITTER LIFE TYPECAST, 315 (last show?), WASTELAND, THE STILLBORN EXTRACTION, HED 1ST, SCHLITZ I grew up in this town during the early '90s, and was in a semi-retarded sounding punk band called Lampstand. Pittsfield has apparently gone through some changes since I left. One of the problems with Big City Mentality is that everything is taken for granted. Everyone just looks at Baltimore and treats it with total disregard because it's not New York, "the scene sucks", blah blah, whatever. And then I think about what it was like when I grew up in a town that really sucked, and definitely was not New York and there was no "scene." The kids in Pittsfield are doing something really great--they are making their own scene, shunning the whole "Club" mentality and making something out of the ashes of a decaying post-industrial city. And from what I saw this Saturday, it's turning out pretty damn well. Source of the Nile is a store on the main drag in downtown Pittsfield, which hosts punk shows on a certain Saturday every month. The store appears to sell a variety of things, like video games, records, various old toys and books. I cannot stress enough on how overwhelmed I was by the fact that something like this existed in my hometown, the same town where historically, anything progressive or cool was instantly stymied or shut down. But here I was on a Saturday night, surrounded by punks and just various other kids, in a store that would not have been out of place in any big and supposedly "cooler" city. Here we all were as something like 8 or 9 bands took the stage and the energy never seemed to let up. I can't really do a band review as such, but I'll just say through a lineup of ska, hardcore, punk, etc., there were around 50 people crammed into this store space, completely supportive of everyone. I felt maybe a little old (and I'd been driving 7 hours to get here) and had to wait around. But once I got started, I could not believe how the response was. I played a 15 song set--sloppily, but no one seemed to care. I had fans right up front yelling my lyrics at me, totally into it. It seemed like every time I looked down to change the setting on the keyboard, I expected them to be gone, but they weren't. I finished, covered in lotion and disoriented as usual, but surrounded by the love of the really hard core fans, the ones who actually listened to my music enough to know it by heart. I never thought I'd get love in Pittsfield. My hat is off to the owner of Source of the Nile. Anyone reading this--if you're up in Pittsfield, or going through, take some time and drop in. He is a supportive leader in a town that needs it. I did not have anything like this when I was growing up--I urge you to support him and keep a good thing going.

Talking Head?

Sort of confirmed, and very very short notice, I have a show next week at the Talking Head Club in Baltimore, with Drug Mule and two others. Apparently there was supposed to be this band from Italy, but they had visa problems and now the show is whatever is left. So I guess it's back on the practice wagon for the next week as I attempt a longer set and bring in some real fans.

Davezine Reading, stuff.

There's a picture of me on this site, from when I did my reading a few weeks ago. BCPL zine site

It went well, got rid of a few zines and wore the new Davey G and the Keyboard shirt. I have picked up several zines to read, and have a little momentum going for the release of Davezine 12, next month.

Looks like there will be a show next week, at the Talking Head, following some award thing on Friday that I'm accepting on behalf of my brother, who won 2nd prize in a screenwriting contest in Baltimore.