Cranky George Trio gig June 13th
Posted: Tue Jun 14, 2005 8:50 pmOnce again, thanks for coming Carmen. Sorry our greeting was a bit on the tangential side. Nice to talk to Jeff too for a bit afterwards.
The name? When the Low and Sweet Orchestra was the Sweet and Low Orchestra, someone had the bright idea of going to the sweetener company - Tetleys or Kraft or Procter and Gamble or something - to ask if it was alright to use that name. What was he thinking? Well, of course they said 'No', cease and desist and all that. So we spent a useless and wasteful night thinking up names, only to change the Low and the Sweet around. Kieran's only suggestion was that we should call the group 'Cranky'. That didn't fly. The 'George' comes from wanting to give just the trio of us, Dermot, Kieran and myself, a moniker, when we recorded our half-album a couple of years ago. Because none of us wanted to go out on the road with the Low and Sweet Orchestra, we referred to that by way of possibly calling ourselves 'Mossback George' after James Stewart's character in It's a Wonderful Life, which is a barb thrown his way by one of the townsfolk, because he'll never leave town. For Cranky George, since every band has to have a name, we just put the two together.
Drunken Boat? Well, it's too similar, we think, to the song we call Madrid (the mutinous song with all the names of ports in it), and since Madrid is a newer song, and the one song sort of cancels the other one out - well, one of them had to go. I dare say we'll play Drunken Boat again, when we play out again, sometime, and to get to your last question, Carmen, last night was our last gig for a while: everybody's going away, or doing something else for the rest of the summer. We'll be back in September. I'm going to look for other places to play, too, though Molly Malone's is a favourite.
Tunnel of Love benefits, as all the songs do, from a bass. Sort of pulls everything together. If the bass-playing was a bit on the erratic side, it's because Brad left home without his notes and had to spend a time in the car with Dermot, a pen, paper and a guitar while the rest of us waited to go on.
See you later.
The name? When the Low and Sweet Orchestra was the Sweet and Low Orchestra, someone had the bright idea of going to the sweetener company - Tetleys or Kraft or Procter and Gamble or something - to ask if it was alright to use that name. What was he thinking? Well, of course they said 'No', cease and desist and all that. So we spent a useless and wasteful night thinking up names, only to change the Low and the Sweet around. Kieran's only suggestion was that we should call the group 'Cranky'. That didn't fly. The 'George' comes from wanting to give just the trio of us, Dermot, Kieran and myself, a moniker, when we recorded our half-album a couple of years ago. Because none of us wanted to go out on the road with the Low and Sweet Orchestra, we referred to that by way of possibly calling ourselves 'Mossback George' after James Stewart's character in It's a Wonderful Life, which is a barb thrown his way by one of the townsfolk, because he'll never leave town. For Cranky George, since every band has to have a name, we just put the two together.
Drunken Boat? Well, it's too similar, we think, to the song we call Madrid (the mutinous song with all the names of ports in it), and since Madrid is a newer song, and the one song sort of cancels the other one out - well, one of them had to go. I dare say we'll play Drunken Boat again, when we play out again, sometime, and to get to your last question, Carmen, last night was our last gig for a while: everybody's going away, or doing something else for the rest of the summer. We'll be back in September. I'm going to look for other places to play, too, though Molly Malone's is a favourite.
Tunnel of Love benefits, as all the songs do, from a bass. Sort of pulls everything together. If the bass-playing was a bit on the erratic side, it's because Brad left home without his notes and had to spend a time in the car with Dermot, a pen, paper and a guitar while the rest of us waited to go on.
See you later.