The Debutantes

So much bass!  Last night!  My ears!  Brent’s good at it, but why did he take so long to do it?!  So much dedication to one night!  So much indifference to the last five years!  …I enjoyed watching him enjoy playing Glen’s songs.

Good morning.  The Keddiz explosion continues to jostle jugglers & rustle the rabble.  If you find yourself on that SHORT end, here’s a brighter bit I can PORtend:  For on 10/10/10, the Fall of 2006 will enter your frame like the undesirable din that’s doing the same.  Be there.

Andy Hurt wasn’t there last night.  Here are some statements made in light of that fact:  ”I feel better because of it.”  ”Finally, we can accomplish something we won’t have to delete later!”  ”Drums? I laugh with vigor!  Do you hear it? It’s the return of mouth noises!”

Please see this demo from the demo vault.  ”Bilge Juice for Sno-Cone”:

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More highlights from last night:

–Danny feels it’s difficult to know what “needs” to list next to Glen’s songs on the Stat Sheet.  So he’s decided to just put “marimba and space noise” next to everything.

–Brent fainted when he found the word “ADOLF” on his thumb drive (which is filled with mean-spirited, Brian Kelly-mastered, non-deletable songs).  When Brent came to, Glen showed him that it was actually “A00LF.”

–Something about “Shiddy.”  I forget what.

–Danny dissed Zabaglione.  Glen now has no choice but to make this the best song on the record.

+++++++Keddiz

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Blogging is difficult for those who do not care about being heard, but who don’t want to be forgotten.  It is with this spirit that I begin another smokescreen in the hopes that you hold off on giving up on Les Debutantes.  Let’s summarize the nature of this band:

Les Debutantes are a loose collection of war veterans who make their own recording equipment out of spare electrical parts they find at Godo’s Junkyard in Okolona.  They use these tools on the catalog of songs they’ve conjured while in combat, asleep, in therapy, and on the Louisville light rail.  Officially to date, they have 695 songs in the bucket.  ”The Bucket” is a lemon-shaped pail at Su-Su-Studios into which the sheet music of new Debutante songs are “tossed in like so much nothin’.”  When it’s time to “de-bucket,” Les Debutantes “reach in, then lay it down,” such that a clown do frown.

Centennial–the 100-song album from the Fall of 2006 which has a hard release date of 10/10/10–is a project designed to use a fraction of those songs for some purpose other than having them as trophy-like memories of how Les Debutantes deserve to be making money just by being the people they are, thereby making it possible for them to quit their jobs (which they use for writing back and forth to each other about what could be if all goes as planned).

Les Debutantes love talking about the old days.  They rarely recall that the old days are just as bad as these days and the future will only get worse, if only because there’ll be more oppressive, obfuscating old days to make us feel bad about all that we eventually do wrong (in unknowing attempts to build on the irrevocable mistakes from the old days).

Keddiz is running for Mayor of Louisville in 2010.  I am Keddiz.  In my way, I am part of this band, not completely unlike how Kendrick Samson is to this day.  If you don’t know Kendrick Samson, it doesn’t matter.  But please know me, because if you haven’t noticed…the candidates this year, if I can be candid, are very much sub-Keddiz.  Let us have Keddiz in ‘10.  Really.

Don’t Throw Your Vote Away

Vote for Keddiz, Come What May!

In conclusion, last night we talked about a Justice League cartoon and all of Brent’s other projects.  And it turned out that my Devo color is green.

—Keddiz

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You should have seen him…J. Brent Stewart, current bassist for the Ravenna J. Colt and former member of Les Debutantes.  I was there, right in the front row, staring him down like an animal.  I was an animal last night!  Brent played the bass with BOTH HANDS and managed to thump the crowd into the kind of frenzy you come to expect from a rock show at a bar throughout the last fifteen years.  Stewart was the solid part of the Ravenna rock, the fruit in the band’s apple butter, the A to John’s ‘merica, the best pun in a party-time funny book.  It was truly the best concert of recent memory.  Like my wife said (and I agree), “Brent really is a great bassist.”

They were good.  It’s good music.  If you want to hear music that has been MASTERED, RELEASED, FIXED IN THE MIX, and EMBROILED IN A FERVOR THAT AROSE FROM THE AFFECT THAT THE MUSIC HAD ON ITS LISTENERS….then check out the Ravenna Colt’s new album.  Brent Stewart, Les Debutantes will miss you, but we hope you find the success that Centennial would have given you if you’d just waited another eight months.

You ever get the sense that Brent cares more about things he has to do that he won’t tell us about, than the things he must do that we all know EVERYTHING about?  I’m getting that sense now.  Let’s do a quick profile of The Ass of Bass:

sex: male

age: 24

status: engaged

height: 5′8″

race: black

blood type: C-

ACT score: 38

outlook on life: always positive

descr. of family crest: an eagle perched on a great oak with a black sun in the distance

occupation: sells Tandys

favorite food: flan

favorite drink: hot chocolate

cats’ names: fluffy, britney, bubby, booby

favorite game:  Sneak King

favorite artist: Big Audio Dynamite

famous quote: “I wish this night would last forever!”

favorite basketball player: a Diener

best attributes: courage, intelligence, kindness, sense of humor, curiosity, street smarts, potential

worst attributes: n/a

favorite TV show: JAG

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–J. Glen Reid, Songwriter & University Administrator