Flash!---TugMyBoat singer has LSD!!!

Yes folks, you've heard it here first. Kari has LSD...........
LEAD SINGER DISEASE....
He has lost his voice and we don't know when he will get better. See what happens with some fall gigs.
The story here is that after the Otava gig, the next day Sunday, he was saying his voice was a little weak. No wonder. One of the high points of the gig was on how Kari took command of his voice and put on a stellar performance. Then after that he went to an island with some friends for some R&R.
What happened on that island can only be speculated. But with the rumours that are coming out now, it goes something like this. Laced with Muumi Pop along with some fantastic summer weather, Kari stood up with his hands in the air and shouted "I feel FREE!!!" and then began his rarely witnessed nature boy transformation to FinnTarzan where a middle aged disrobed male begins to climb trees in an ape like fashion and proceeds to yell the Tarzan yell. You know the one "AAAAEEEEEAAAAAEEEEEIIIIIIIEEEEEE!!!!" This always happens to some degree when Kari travel to nature. The gang on the island began to laugh and enjoy watching and listening to Kari's self-proclumation of freedom with nature in a somewhat rebellious fashion.
Passing by boaters may have noticed FinnTarzan because of the way the tree he was perched on was heavily swaying because of his weight, and they probably applauded in the performance.......but.....after a reported 4 hours, the "AAAAEEEEEAAAAAEEEEEIIIIIIIEEEEEE!!!!" began to get a little tiresome and was then the performance was suddenly put to a halt when a rare Great White Owl, who wasn't getting his daytime nap, had enough, flew to our lead singer and responded with even a bigger "AAAAEEEEEAAAAAEEEEEIIIIIIIEEEEEE!!!!". Stunned back to reality, our lead singer fell off the tree and has been unable to speak since. Strange but true.
Once again falls gigs are put on hold. Will keep you posted.

What a difference another gig makes.

Having heard the recording of the Huvikumpu gig, I was pleasantly surprised. It wasn't that bad. I was expecting a lot worse. At Robin's we could no wrong. This time we could do no right.
During the gig we could only hear the drums and not ourselves and needless to say mistakes were made by all of us. In fact twice the pick-up dropped off my acoustic and I couldn't hear the difference. The best thing to go wrong was when near the ending of a song, a strange ringing sound could be heard.......It was Jouni's cellular calling!
The reason for the mess that we didn't have our mixer with us and two of the members of the other band "The Mojo Band" helped with mix after a crash course by Osku, who in return mixed them. After hearing the recording I can only thank them for a great job mixing in such difficult conditions. Thanks!
The Mojo Band were great! A polished performance with true blues feel. It was fun working with them.
As for us, we have all spread out in different directions for the summer and will get back together when feeling to make some noise again calls. I've started to get the ball rolling for a gig in Rautalampi in September hopefully. We need more gig time. We know our songs well and I feel the songs are performed better than at Robin's, but we lack experience in gig performancing when the challenges change from location to location. Makes thing interesting....
And now as I go to my corner for some r&r, I look back at all we've done since last fall with the band complete and gigs performed, I can only take a breath and think that this is kind of real neat!
Or.....as our fellow Dutch Philosopher would comment "It could of been much worse"......