Harbourfront Marketing? & Speechless

I remember specifically when the Delightful Davey C said "that's how you do it." because i had showed up with a random mic-ready list of stuff to say. he also said "I like your voice," (when I was hating it) and "I like the spoken work stuff". I have taken much encouragement from his other comment "you should never aplogize for being you"

If I could find them and if I knew how I would post the audio on the blog.
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His website says "Join the Woodshed Orchestra cooking live at a show near you.
Or reheat their recordings, which are available from http://daveclark.zunior.com/
Booking and Contact info: Dave Clark(416) 531-4646woodchoppers@sympatico.ca
Q. what IS contact improv (i.e. with dancers Andrea Nannn and Yvonne Ng)
"dance is not enough for me, there's no story."

LESSON #2)

when i had to get back up on the mic fright pony, i showed up for my music lesson with a list of things i felt like saying into a microphone. most of which were harbourfront slogans i found out were even thought up by harbourfront staff (not an agency) and used in the wonderful 30th anniversary campaign. slogans that i phoned michael in marketing that day, from my desk in the bank tower, to get. And then ddc and me made a boomwhacker racket in the back of it, which felt right because i was first exposed to those in the Lakeside Terrace during Milkfest.

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LESSON #1)

Dave Clark (Rheostatics, Gord Downie) is a drummer, percussionist, vocalist guitarist, bassist, keyboardist, TUBAist, Geminim Award winning composer, bandleader, band manager, music instructor, conductor, audio engineer, producer, graphic artist, poet and mulit-media arts festival director who has participated in music and art internationally for more than 25 years, demonstratrating a high level of inventiveness and tenacity, running his free from improv orchestra the "Woodchoppers Association."

I think he brought his daugher to my papermaking workshop at Hillside. If it was him, he changed his hat. If it was him, thank GOD it took me a while to recognize him. And, thank god for the kind of god who witnessed the Dinner is Ruined band get booed by a nasty Rheo's audience and so joined them on stage. He said it changed his life, I still want to ask him how.

He's the kind Can rock guru who likes to be around when people cut their first records, when they are having the time of their lives making music. Or, becoming a band like Wayne Omaha did at the Gas Station... I would gladly play you the 2 min recording of my very inspirational first music lesson with said Canadian idol. I thought of it as sort of production instruction since we recorded almost every instrument in the room, playing to the tracks of the instruments we'd just previously recorded, you know?

It was fun, though I suffered the mic-fright.

Who knew drumming is so much like driving a tractor?

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When ddc kicked me out of music school he said I should go to improv school and/or writing school. Or something like that. And I tried to take it as a compliment. And, so, it is because of him that I blew my brains out at the kareoke club in front of Martin Tielli and it is also his fault that I joined a cult called Toastmasters.

And, here's a few mentions in Soulshine reviews:

http://www.soulshine.ca/reviews/liveReview.php?lrid=147
http://www.soulshine.ca/reviews/liveReview.php?lrid=128