Lip Singing

Today is worth two posts.
Friday my band played an outdoor show for the city of Des Peres (Des Peres, MO). This was our second show on our "City and Parks Department" tour. These shows sound silly, but let me say that it is so nice and refreshing not to have to play for stupid drunks. I don't mean to sound ungrateful, because the stupid drunks are paying my college tuition (thank you, stupid drunks), however, there are a lot of kids at these outdoor shows and they just think we're something special. The whole band received many hugs at our Lake St. Louis outdoor show. Some of the kids even "rushed" the stage, so to speak. It was cool. They wanted autographs and pictures. At last Friday's gig, a group of 7-9 year-olds came up to me and started asking me all these questions. One girl asked, "Are you lip singing?" I replied, "No, honey, we don't make enough money to do that." They thought that was funny. It just goes to show you that record companies don't have quite everyone fooled. The future generation does not buy into the facade, so record companies better knock off the lip sync game. (That'll be the day--Even Jon Bon Jovi uses a lovely, pitch fixing device during live performances called, "Auto- tune." He might as well move his mouth to a pre-recorded track). Actually, I am just jaded and still pissed at Geffen records.