About Mark Jacobs

Someone In Georgia (former soviet, not former Crown Penal Colony) Loves Cerveza Muscular

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!

Studio Recording Number Two

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.

New Show 2.10.2018 @ Big V’s on University

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?

So What’s with T Shirts from Defunct Record Stores?

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).