Comments and/or reviews of my music are the only thing keeping me out of the soup kitchen lines...

Why?
Well, if you go into a record store, and you see an album by someone you've never heard of, and know nothing about, with no liner notes, are you gonna buy it instead of the one with any one of those three?

Any chance i will ever have of getting off the dole and back playing is if somebody knows about my music, not me.. so far nobody does.. still, after 35 years. if someone comes to my page, they will not see any reviews such as 'i like this' or that's good' or 'that sux lemons'.
The reason almost nobody's heard of me after 35 YEARS of gigging is mostly that the press, also, did nothing...
You've heard it said that the only bad press is NO press... well i can attest to that, but in fact the only bad press is no press ABOUT THE MUSIC.
I can distinctly remember the second to last gig that the Alhambra hotel ever held, in Victoria, and we played it that night... the whole entertainment staff of 'Monday' magazine were there... i could see them bangin on the table and digging the boogie we were laying down... all original or remakes...
Not a word was EVER mentioned in that paper..
so nobody ever knew..
anyone coming to my blog will see MY opinion of the songs i post but other than the couple of comments on a couple tunes, by one of the only 4 readers i know about (thank you guys, sincerely...!)
the rest is... well,nobodys gonna take the time out to listen if there isn't a single comment om any of these...

Thiis isn't a hobby... it's what i spent most of my life doing... but if i'm horribly deluded, and these really DO suck, at least id like to know, cuz then it's GONNA be a hobby an i'm hangin it up...
So i'm gonna post a couple that i THOuGHT were good.. in case i really AM deluded...


This ones mostly rythmn with a little lead
BOOGIE No# A-03 (extra strong durability model - warranty extended for the full life of the song)


and this ones mostly lead with a little rythmn
A BLUES SONG


And this one i thought kicked..
AMPLIFIER FRYER

Please boycott 'my space'

And here's why...you can view any my space site in even a year old browser, but even a TWO WEEK old revision of camino isn't new enough to log in.. this is not even a personal page, but my band space.. apparently there's 'a whole lot of new features' that can't be seen with old browsers.. well since (in my opinion) that's not true, as they can be 'seen' just fine.. just the security of anyones page is threatened since if you cant log in you cant affect what's hap[pening.. this is just (in my opinion) some new way of applying invasiveness or other suspect software (in my opinion)

Both of my old girlfriends used to love 'swing time'

Now now! there... Shame on you for thinking such a thing... did you really think I was talking about.........
Lawrence Welk ;-)

But this is my 'Swing Time'
And yes, they both really did like it..



I don't think i've posted this one before either... it was recorded in the late 90's and was entirely done on a couple of cassette decks...

P.S. here's an AMAZING bit of trivia about Mr. Welk... between the bubbles, cocktail schwaltz, and endless polkas, his love for Surf Music would surface...
Yes, Surf rock...Astonishingly, he had some of the surf greats on there! Such as the Astronauts, The Chantays, Surfaris, and i think even the Fireballs etc...
....You'll never think of him in the same light again!
i wish more tape had survived of these.. they were the first thing to go when allocating show time... although the show was , for the most part, live , some bits were taped...

recorded between institutional stays..

And produced by mr zappa too.. this fella was truly what gave credibility to the name 'bizarre' for frank's record label..



I wonder how many of you know who this is...

Doc is my REAL name

so im faced with a bit of a dilema.. before the innernut it was easy to be doc rock... but it seems that theres a few i seen now i've been online... now i aint gonna change my name legally...
Firstly Doc is, of course short, like Tom for Thomas.. in my case it's DOminiC.. it stuck cuz of all the pharmacological studies etc etc (hey man if ya know any other pharmacy techs, ask them if THEY ever memorized Goodman's and Gilman's ;-)..
Folks just started calling me doc 'rock' cuz around here there was Doowop Doc, steel guitar Doc, an me.. folks would ask 'are ya singer Doc, country Doc, or Rock Doc? when they met me..
So anyways i wuz bored, and thought i'd clear the air..
That's the story, folks...

boy was that interesting (yeah right...)

Please keep Mick Abrahams in yer thoughts an prayers

One of the founders of the whole british scene, back in the 60s... is currently recovering from a heart attack.. right after a serious attemt to up his health (aint it always the way...)
Not only wuz he the original jethro tull guitarist... he was a founder member of blodwyn pig... which i always thought were better than tull anyways...
An he aint even old yet... not really..
he's still got his chops and the more support he gets the sooner he'l be back up an at 'em
Here's one site you can post your support...
http://audiocandy.com/mdat/Mick_Abrahams/

and here's another of his...
http://www.squirrelmusic.com/

Up the blooz man!

To all the snobby "please upgrade' websites

How frikkin DARE you... it YOU GUYS that are RESPONSIBLE for the influx of viruses, worms, and trojans.. by insisting on browsers that are the latest upgrade, (Mine is a MONTH!!! old), and subsequently forcing folks to upgrade to the NEWEST UNSTABLE OS's, you're ENCOURAGING the growth of opportunistic malware....
Instead write your pages by people who DONT have to get home at 5 so the ol lady wont have a baseball bat at trhe door, or fols whoi just wanna get drunk after work....
Incidentally... for y'all it's  MY SPACE
that's causing the problem... and at least i'm not alone... there's a half million other pissed off people!

Things are movin again..!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Y'all are gonna be the first to know... everytime there's progress on this one I'm lettin ya all know...
Sometimes the hardest thing in starting a new project , is finding the RIGHT direction to take it.. that is, something where everything goes smoothly as tho it's meant, where the songs are as good as they could possibly be, and everything is just , well, right!
So, i done FOUND it...
It's a three guitar lineup.. doin the old southern thing.. with blues, country, rock, and fusion all mashed up an together.
Even original bands gotta do a little bit of remakes .. it ain't 'covers' when an original band does it, it's 'remakes'...
although with three guitarists theres gonna be enough material for a good two hour set, aint no reason i shouldn't consider stuff by , say , the outlaws, or skynard,...
Man i'm just dyin to give 'high tide and green grass' a go....
....more to come.
Comment on this one are... like... go for it!!!

Oh.. a P.S. here... i don't know about food licencing regs... i'll have to check that one out... butr I'm thinking at every gig i should see that we have a couple hundred bucks worth of hot fried chicken wings to give away, done right there on the spot....
What d'y'all think?

And youll never believe what kind of day i've had.. and i can't even steer you to my blog that tells ya... sometimes you really ARE powerless......

The entire security of the net (This affects You and Me!)

A serious note here...
Gone are the days that you had to remember one or two passwords to log in to a couple of sites... these days it's not unusual to have HUNDREDS of different logins and passes (and they SHOULD not all be the same!)
Well, i am sickened by one of the few areas where Apple (yes Apple) DROPS THE FRIKKIN BALL....
ever since i started using Mac OSX... i've had random 'disappearing logins' where i've had to go back and try to remember what the combo was...this DESPITE in safari, camino, etcetc having enabled 'remember'.. this is supposed to be in something called a 'keychain' but they simply disappear.
THIS IS SERIOUS.
If the whole move to 'cloud computing' is even gonna work.. this shit CANNOT happen..
Even though OSX is free from malware THAT WE KNOW OF, compared to, say, windows, how is it any less of a security threat if you don't know why your login and passwords are suddenly gone and need to be re-entered from scratch.. how do i know that it isn't because they've been harvested....?
At least with windows the malware is in yer face... and if it's NOT malware then it's INEXCUSABLY bad design from Apple.
When you select 'save this password' it should be locked down in stone... I'm not talking about online cookies here... they seem more reliable, and that is even scarier, that they should work when OSX's own capacity to save these fails...

blame CONDUIT.... apparently every site that has availed itself of its toolbar cannot load login info untul the toolbar has loaded!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
And has anyone ever been able to get 'dont show this again' on that toolbar to ever work?
Is there a real security issue here?

More of 'The Catch'

This is a better mix than I had.. courtesy of Ronny 'strat'...
Yeah, i know we recorded it but doesn't mean i had a good copy anymore...
But now i do.. Thanks Ron!

IN SCENARIO

About the lack of updates...

... soon posting will be back on a regular basis.. with a whole lot of (old) new stuff, especially 'The Catch'.. I am in the process of transferring the DAT of all the catch stuff (that's both lineups) and it will sound nice, as well as having NEVER been analog!

Hey it's gettin near Christmas , innit?
So here's a nice little tune to get y'all in the mood ;-)




Hmm...no comments... maybe PETA's had a complaint!