Green Release Party

At long last I have posted some new recordings. 

What began as a "demo" (useful in getting gigs) has evolved into a collection of covers and originals I have been playing around with over the last few years.  Click on the "Bruce's Old Website" link on the right-hand side of the page and you'll find them posted there for your enjoyment.

This latest album is called "Party @sshole"  

If this title offends, please allow me to try to explain.  It is merely street slang - a reference to an individual, found at a gathering, who displays a certain type of behaviour... If you've ever met one, this description should suffice.   

If you've never met one, or need a more specific example, consider the idea that perhaps to someone else, you're the party @sshole.

And they're not always men.  

Actually, some of my favourite @sshole's are women.

If you haven't met a party @sshole yet, then you probably don't get out much.   Or - maybe you're going to the wrong parties.  Or, you might be working with @ssholes who need to learn to party

These party @ssholes, though - they're really something.

They are all unique.  They all stick out.  They are usually a good time.  

In my heart of hearts, I would like to believe that they all mean no harm, that they're good intentioned.  But then, I'm feeling particularly optimistic these days.  Or, maybe I'm just getting skeptical of cynicism as I age.  I suppose that my somewhat vague definition does include the descriptor, "does not hurt anyone".  Yeah - that'd be fair to say.  

A list of suggested locations for finding these folks:

Family Gatherings

Political Rallies

College/University House parties

Anywhere a person can be spotted wearing a t-shirt with a clever saying that accompanies a satirical cartoon OR displays a list of "reasons why Beer is Better than _____". 

If you are one of these unique souls... well - you most likely know it, but you just don't care.  

It's kind of implied in the moniker.    

Of course, you may not say "party @sshole".  You may go by a different classification or nomenclature; "Type-A" or perhaps even "life of the..." being examples of popular synonyms.  I recently met one @sshole who called himself a "wallflower".  What an @sshole!

  

At any rate - I'm taking the time to celebrate them because I can, and because I think about them.

A lot.

(I mentioned that some of my favourite @sshole's are women, right?)   

There's a picture on the website which is my impression of an @sshole, and some would say that this is a pretty Darn Fine Representation. If there was a caption, it would read, "Party on, you @ssholes!!!"

I think you get the idea.

Some of the songs on this album are covers of old favorites and I would encourage you to go out and find the originals, because they're all really good.  

I had specific people in mind when I recorded each of the covers, and I hope that those people are big enough @sshole's to think "Hey, this song is for me".  'Cuz, well - it is.  I don't need to tell you who you are.  @sshole.

This was a heck of a lot of fun to do and I hope to keep posting new stuff up here over the next little while.  

I call this a "Green Release" because putting more plastic and paper into the world just seems such a horrible waste.  

Enjoy... 

Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh!!! 

Thank-you's.  I should do those.

A huge thank-you to Terra Hazelton for her inspiration and choice of tunes.  Also, to Edward Belanger for renting me a mic at hour 11,  John Schuett for inventing the world wide web, Rebecca Northan for having patience, though she thinks she has none,  Katie and Jane for the place to launch it into cyberspace, Richie for the constant stream of inspiration and musicology, and anyone else who had anything at all to do with this. 

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