Canaries Development?

[xtrizeme]

I just kind of wanted to forward this to the band.
"You, The(e) Speaking Canaries, have been my favorite band for 10 years. You will always be my favorite band.
For over 10 years, I have spoken in restrained hyperbole everytime someone thought I looked cool and asked what my favorite band was. I spent a few years trying to get a band together that might be as great as The(e)s. Then I had a kid. But I never stopped singing the Canaries praise when people asked if I liked Nirvana. But I'm growing busier everyday. My daughter starts pre-K about 30 minutes outside of where I live next week. Which means I'll be spending a lot of time taking her to school, and less time doing promotion for the band. I just worry that if I'm not doing promotion for the band, no one will.
I don't totally know what's going on with the band. In fact I have no idea what's going on with the band. But I am quite sure that self-promotion continues to be the bands weak point.
Editor's note: The(e) Speaking Canaries are, like, the greatest band of all time. Don Caballero is like second. But like, Che wails on drums-so everybody knows that Don Caballero rules, cuz like... Damon Che is like Neil Peart... ON STEROIDS!!!
Unfortunately, people who are into musical songwriting are few and far between. And even less fortunately, there is a shortage of people that will try to promote your band if you don't want to promote your own band.
The Battles are huge now. You have a problem.

[miser42]

they have been touring over the last year

[xtrizeme]

Che is a master of self-unpromotion. I live in Atlanta where Che has ties to Henry from Chunklet. Even if Atlanta has a shitty scene, it has Henry who will report on interesting things, will promote anything Damon does, and has probably garnered more attention for Don Cab than anything other than this site(which was birthed post-Chunklet, incidentally). If they would have played here, you could have counted on fucking major Canaries praise in the next Chunklet(because they're the best band in the world). THE closest I could get to seeing a Canaries show on the last tour was Mt. Pleasant, South fucking Carolina...343 miles away from Atlanta(or any other metropolitan area for that matter).
I have a few friends in bands that are way more successful than they should be(i.e they suck but are persistent). I understand that Damon is um, uncompromising, and I think that he is the only person in the world that I would consider to be a" rock and roll genius" ( that includes the Edge... and Bono).
Che's a weird dude. The best show I've ever seen Don Cab play was the 2nd Don Cab reformed show in Atlanta about a year ago, with about 20 people in attendance (there were about 200 people there to see the shitty opening band). Che put on a show that blew my already Che blown mind. He wasn't angry at the low attendance, he wasn't egotistical at all. Instead, he seemed to be fueled to deliver the best Don Cab performance ever to the best Don Cab fans in the world.
Che has always been his own weird dude, who obviously wants it that way. What bugs me is the fact that he seems so happy to exist in his own world when he so obviously needs to be a prominent example of what rock should be about. I don't know, I guess my criticisms are kind of ESPNish, but they're real.
I am a Che fan, not a Che friend; I've had conversations with multiple Che band-members about what I'm talking about. Frustration about being in the best band in the world...without any attempt to let that be known, or even to let that fact be possibly heard.
For what it's worth I've approached Che about this once. At the beginning of the What Burns tour I asked Che about Canaries plans and he told me he couldn't comment on something that didn't exist(which as a member of a great band that should exist but doesn't, I completely understood). I told him that the Speaking Canaries were my favorite band of all time and I hoped they would keep making records. He blushed. And gave me a very heartfelt faux-punch to the gut. It wasn't weird at all.

[miser42]

haha that is funny. that is how he always greets me.....the good old punch.

anyway....i have heard the new recordings they are doing. and if they do see the light of day, you will not be disappointed.


these recordings are with the trio too....not just damon.