I don’t know if it’s the cover art, the lyrical content, or just that someone in Georgia loves Cerveza Muscular to such a degree that they’ve unleashed a bot attack. Now this is kind of weird, the comments are almost all positive, with one of the rare negative comments being that my earlier posts were better, more interesting. The comments are also repeated, though sent from a newly generated email address that bypasses earlier, spam-marked addresses. Many of the comments come from “Authors” listed as Health and Fitness, John Deere Tractor Manuals, and some other wacky versions. The comments are interchangeable, and not necessarily limited to one author or submitting email address.
If you have any insight into this zany phenom, let me know. I’ll try not to mark YOUR submission as spam, though it is a pain in the bottom to have to review the eddresses of all of the comments that have been generated. It’s probably well over 2000 by now.
More importantly, the new material coalesces nicely, confidence is rising among my band mates, and we have the same solid crew backing up the recording as last time. Back in the studio at the end of July.
Again, thanks to all of the bots that have been submitting those positive reviews, I’m printing out the comments and using the mass of paper as insulation…that way I’ll use even less energy to heat the house and limit the amount of earnings the Russians can gain from western energy purchases. Oh wait, was that off topic?
Keep those cards and letters coming, Cerveza Fans!
Hold on to your beers, rock fans…Cerveza Muscular just booked the studio for the next recording session. We will again descend on Will Maravelas’ studio 14:59 to record our second studio album. The song list is pretty much set, with one or two tracks to square away and lock down…plenty of time, Leonard. Artwork, booking shows to get sharp, and setting up the production run are all on the to-do list. Seriously geeked.
Cerveza Muscular welcomes three other acts to Big V’s on Saturday, 2.10.2018. Karl Jones and his friend Howie will play the 7:30 set, Cerveza Muscular at 8:15, Fast Randy at 9:30 and The RI at 10:30 to round out the evening. Bring out a bunch of friends and you won’t be disappointed. New material being prepped for studio session number two. All the old material changes cause it’s not carved in stone…it’s rock. See what you’ve been missing. By the way, do you like the IPhone photo of the bridge at Shady Lake?
Looking forward to Cerveza Muscular’s show at The Viking on Halloween…
Following quickly on the heels of that excellent night of homage to the zombies, werewolves and sexy nurses that is Halloween…
Cerveza Muscular will be hosting an afternoon of music at Barely Brothers Records
Saturday, 11.4.2017
1:00 PM The Red Flags
2:00 PM Cerveza Muscular
3:00 PM thelonesomekid
No Cover
All Ages
merch for sale
And above all else, Mike and Spencer at Barely Brothers have a great vinyl shop that Cerveza Muscular heartily endorses, they support local bands so come on out and support a great record store. Below is a picture of an earlier visit to Barely Brothers, gotta love the stage with windows at your back, great afteroon sun to ward off the chill of a November afternoon…see you all there!
BOO!
Cerveza Muscular plays The Viking Bar on Riverside (just east of Cedar) on Halloween night!
Joining one of my favorite Minneapolis bands, Street Hassle, as well as Marcus Noise and Buffalo Sleeper.
21+ Show so get your Fake ID from your Fake President and spread the Fake News…Cerveza Muscular will be scorching frequencies yet again.
Somewhere between five and eight songs not available on the CD will be featured in the night’s set.
7:00 Cerveza Muscular
8:15 Street Hassle
9:30 Buffalo Sleeper
10:30 Marcus Noise
Big Scary Fun starting early, so don’t be late. Get the kids out to cause havoc early and get on down to the Viking for some harrowing rock and roll.
See if you can find the following among the stickers on the cases…
Mike Watt’s Firehose Basesball Card, Arcwelder, Minor Threat, Butthole Surfers, Meat Puppets, Porcupine, Period Bomb, DK’s (ripped), Circle Jerks, Cell Block, Doggy Style, The Silverteens, Urge Overkill, a home made Stiff Little Fingers sticker, Surly Brewing (3 or 4? I L-U-VVVVV Furious), Treehouse Records, Extreme Noise Records, and (several) Twin Town guitars stickers…
You can buy Cerveza Muscular’s CD at the following Twin Cities record stores:
Barely Brothers, HiFi Hair & Records (as well as John Kass’ White Bear Lake Store), Treehouse Records, Extreme Noise, No Name Records, Down in The Valley, Electric Fetus, Roadrunner Records and Dave Foley’s Record Store (the only CD in stock at his vinyl hole in the wall on 38th & Grand).
If you look closely in two of the videos I am wearing T Shirts from record stores. If I had a chance I could list another ten or twenty record stores that I’ve frequented that are no more. I do not have shirts, for example, for the following record stores no longer in existence: The Wax Museum (Tom Tevaggia? Thanks for the posters), OarFolkJokeOpus (Terry, Peter and the great selections), Positively Fourth Street, Platters (Thanks to Kevin Cole for Meat Puppets comps for First Avenue, unsolicited when I went in to buy) or Pipe Dreams (Keith Cipowski, what was the name of the competing record store on College Avenue?). The place in Oshkosh where I got the best record deal ever, like seeing Husker Du and Bad Brains at Duffy’s for $2.00, snatching Richard Hell and the Voidoids Blank Generation for a coincidental $2.00. In the two videos, I am wearing shirts from Garage D’or (Terry Katzman) and Atomic Records (Rich Menning). Sad bitter tale that both are no longer in the game, damn shame. Gotta wear one of my many Roadrunner Records shirts, represent one of the stores still open (thanks, Beggs, Davin and Keith).
This cheesy little video was my lame attempt at a promo video for the first CD. It is the 12th track on the CD…last but not least…in the words of Monty Python’s Graham Chapman…”Every One a Maserati.” Andrea Rugg would probably not include it in her photography portfolio, but I find it charming in it’s simplicity. It was first posted on FaceSchnook, but I’ve tried to share it as much as possible. This CD is now available at the following record stores, tell them the bass player sent you…
Barely Brothers Records, HiFi Hair & Records, Roadrunner Records, Treehouse Records, Extreme Noise Records, Down In The Valley, Know Name Records, Electric Fetus, as well as at Dave Foley’s shop on 38th & Grand. If they’re out, tell them to let me know and I’ll get them more copies. My contact information is at the top of the website.
Stephanie Forsyth joined us on stage, as she did on the recording, for track #3, Flint Power and Water. We were joined by Rank Strangers, Blackbird Bridge and Howling Andy Hound and The Blood Shot. Raucous night, and the new shirts were a decided hit…get yours now…the cover art by Molly Gates on a high quality orange shirt. Thanks to Sally Kiser for the video.
This video was shot by Paul Lundgren during a great afternoon of music at Barely Brothers Records in Saint Paul. Barely Brothers is located near University and 280 on Raymond, between Keys and Foxy Falafel. They are really hospitable, and the afternoon went far too quickly, just like the insufficient number of hot Italian sausages I BBQ’d on the grill out back. Someone posted a video of The Silverteens set and you can see me through the window, pulling the sausage off of the grill. I should have grabbed one while I had the chance. Huge thanks to Ringout! and The Silverteens for their great sets. They really set a high bar for us to follow, and we gave it a ripping shot. Thanks to all who filled the record store during the three sets.
