So it seems like he's alright, gets his drink and refills yours
Last night we performed a personal concert for the Scottish couple in their living room…which is not really a very nice thing to do to someone, but we thought they might appreciate it. I hope we were right…! We tacked it together with “taco Tuesday” [meaning i prepared yummy tacos for everyone!!!!] which was also combined with tattoo-sday, so it was Taco Tattoosday and a concert. But we didn’t even start the concert until around 10 pm. We tried to take it as seriously as possible, preparing backing tracks and instruments we would need beforehand etc etc.
It was fun. It was the first actual Ash Productions type gig we have had in a long time, and even if our audience was captive, I think they could really appreciate it.
I will have to type the set list up later cause I don’t have it now. I thought you would like to see what we performed.
We did a few songs that we have never performed in concert before EVER, so that was exciting. We also tidied up one or two things that needed tidying.
For example, the Tekken Tag song.
We decided to do it because we love Tekken Tag and because Colin said he likes it too and he even knew about the different characters and stuff, so we thought oh, we have to perform that for him, then…but then when we went to rehearse it (on the day of the concert) we were kind of embarrassed by how some of the lines didn’t even make sense. So Athrylis said, can’t we change this line so that it says something else there? So we did. And then it was like, well if we’re doing that, why don’t we change this, too? And I’ve always hated how this doesn’t scan, let’s just change it. And before you know it, we had gone through and changed probably a third of the lines in the entire song. And now it’s a much better, and less embarrassing, and BETTER…song. So that was good. And we performed it, and they liked it.
It’s good to remember that just because you created something doesn’t mean you can’t change it later. (Especially when nobody really appreciated it much in the first place)
Speaking of things that are underappreciated, one of the first songs we did in the set was WONKAVISION, so I guess…I *guess* this is the first time we ever performed WONKAVISION in concert, because…I…don’t think we had any other Ash Prod concerts after we wrote that song. Am I wrong?
It didn’t have the cello part, this time, I was playing the guitar, but it was so fun to do. That song is so FUNNY. And so good. And they don’t know how good a parody it is of Oh, Mr. Darcy, and they don’t get the references to Portland, and they aren’t nearly as familiar with Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory as we are…but they STILL loved it! So that was really gratifying and nice.
And they also liked Expendable guy. Oldie but Goodie! They seemed to totally get it. And they laughed at “My my my…”
Oh, and we also did the celebrities song and the bun shakin bun song, which were both short and silly.
We covered a lot of songs too, for example BOOM! And a Bear Comes Out, and I have to say, considering that it was acapella and so underhearsed, we really did that song justice, and I think it’s going to become a staple of ash productions concerts from this point on, seriously.
Oh, and of course we did Gay Men Scottish Guys, ON REQUEST, and they were so pleased by that, pleased pleased pleased. And they were like “Our gay friend would piss himself laughing” or something like that
OH, and the big performance of the night was our debut of our newest song, which is a parody of Arashi’s “MONSTER” about Colin, who was nicknamed “Hot Cramb, Peepin’ Monster” as part of some kind of inside joke, so we (well, mostly Athrylis) wrote an entire SONG that is completely about Colin, and it’s just completely full of accurate details and inside jokes and
when it was time to sing it, we didn’t think we were gonna make it. We started laughing SO MUCH before we even hit play on the backing track…and we were laughing so hard and so hysterically that colin was already pink faced and on the verge of tears from laughing and he didn’t even know yet that the song was going to be about him. He was just laughing because we were laughing.
And then it had at least two false starts because we couldn’t get through the first two lines without laughing. In particular, “Hot Cramb!” and “Here comes the Peepin Monster!” and “He’s ridin’ his bike!!” seemed really impossible to say through laughing.
But once we got through the beginning we made it through the whole thing without melting down and it was really okay. And I think Kim made a video on her phone of the whole thing because once she realized that we were singing a whole song about Colin she was like oh, here’s one for the scrap book. I think she got at least one of the false starts on there, too. Oh man. So, that was fun.
Anyway…Athrylis must be so sad and heartbroken now, because these are the most bestest and appropriate friends that we (well, especially SHE) has had in a LONG time, and now she’s got to fly thousands of miles away from them and it feels extremely…well, unfair, basically. And now she is gonna start her life in LA. She leaves in about three days.
Yikes. Just yikes.
Okay, that’s all for now, bye bye.
It was fun. It was the first actual Ash Productions type gig we have had in a long time, and even if our audience was captive, I think they could really appreciate it.
I will have to type the set list up later cause I don’t have it now. I thought you would like to see what we performed.
We did a few songs that we have never performed in concert before EVER, so that was exciting. We also tidied up one or two things that needed tidying.
For example, the Tekken Tag song.
We decided to do it because we love Tekken Tag and because Colin said he likes it too and he even knew about the different characters and stuff, so we thought oh, we have to perform that for him, then…but then when we went to rehearse it (on the day of the concert) we were kind of embarrassed by how some of the lines didn’t even make sense. So Athrylis said, can’t we change this line so that it says something else there? So we did. And then it was like, well if we’re doing that, why don’t we change this, too? And I’ve always hated how this doesn’t scan, let’s just change it. And before you know it, we had gone through and changed probably a third of the lines in the entire song. And now it’s a much better, and less embarrassing, and BETTER…song. So that was good. And we performed it, and they liked it.
It’s good to remember that just because you created something doesn’t mean you can’t change it later. (Especially when nobody really appreciated it much in the first place)
Speaking of things that are underappreciated, one of the first songs we did in the set was WONKAVISION, so I guess…I *guess* this is the first time we ever performed WONKAVISION in concert, because…I…don’t think we had any other Ash Prod concerts after we wrote that song. Am I wrong?
It didn’t have the cello part, this time, I was playing the guitar, but it was so fun to do. That song is so FUNNY. And so good. And they don’t know how good a parody it is of Oh, Mr. Darcy, and they don’t get the references to Portland, and they aren’t nearly as familiar with Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory as we are…but they STILL loved it! So that was really gratifying and nice.
And they also liked Expendable guy. Oldie but Goodie! They seemed to totally get it. And they laughed at “My my my…”
Oh, and we also did the celebrities song and the bun shakin bun song, which were both short and silly.
We covered a lot of songs too, for example BOOM! And a Bear Comes Out, and I have to say, considering that it was acapella and so underhearsed, we really did that song justice, and I think it’s going to become a staple of ash productions concerts from this point on, seriously.
Oh, and of course we did Gay Men Scottish Guys, ON REQUEST, and they were so pleased by that, pleased pleased pleased. And they were like “Our gay friend would piss himself laughing” or something like that
OH, and the big performance of the night was our debut of our newest song, which is a parody of Arashi’s “MONSTER” about Colin, who was nicknamed “Hot Cramb, Peepin’ Monster” as part of some kind of inside joke, so we (well, mostly Athrylis) wrote an entire SONG that is completely about Colin, and it’s just completely full of accurate details and inside jokes and
when it was time to sing it, we didn’t think we were gonna make it. We started laughing SO MUCH before we even hit play on the backing track…and we were laughing so hard and so hysterically that colin was already pink faced and on the verge of tears from laughing and he didn’t even know yet that the song was going to be about him. He was just laughing because we were laughing.
And then it had at least two false starts because we couldn’t get through the first two lines without laughing. In particular, “Hot Cramb!” and “Here comes the Peepin Monster!” and “He’s ridin’ his bike!!” seemed really impossible to say through laughing.
But once we got through the beginning we made it through the whole thing without melting down and it was really okay. And I think Kim made a video on her phone of the whole thing because once she realized that we were singing a whole song about Colin she was like oh, here’s one for the scrap book. I think she got at least one of the false starts on there, too. Oh man. So, that was fun.
Anyway…Athrylis must be so sad and heartbroken now, because these are the most bestest and appropriate friends that we (well, especially SHE) has had in a LONG time, and now she’s got to fly thousands of miles away from them and it feels extremely…well, unfair, basically. And now she is gonna start her life in LA. She leaves in about three days.
Yikes. Just yikes.
Okay, that’s all for now, bye bye.