Devils Night at Ottos Shrunken Head 2009
So for 2009 we were all given the magic of having Halloween on a Saturday. Oh yeah! So of course we started our fun on… well Thursday but that’s a story for another post. We started *performing* for you all on Friday, aka Devils Night. Until that Friday we had been doing shows at big venues like the Highline Ballroom, which is awesome, but many of you were emailing asking us to do another show where you could actually be up close and personal with us, with like minded miscreants all around you in a crowded cauldron of crazy!
Well, you asked, we delivered and EVERYONE had an amazing time! The staff was welcoming to devil and angel alike, super heroes put aside grudges to clink bottles with criminal masterminds, and I finally got to kiss Wednesday Addams.
Obviously you fans know best when and where we should be playing because not only was our New York City homecoming show amazing fun, but our Halloween Saturday night in Hartford, Connecticut was an energetic monster mash that found our beloved bondage bunny spent and tattered, our rum gone, and my instrument of malevolence shuffled off this mortal coil.
keyboard goes bye bye
Finally succumbing to Death’s cold caress, my musical lifemate met it’s end, hanging on just long enough for us to finish our encore for all of you who made the Ulteria Helloween celebration the amazing evening it was.
I’ve had that keyboard for so long I’m not really ready to part with it even after that. Performing with her was like having your lover become a zombie and not wanting to acknowledge it. Slowly, over time, she changed (ok, broke down more and more) and I kept repairing what I could and adjusting my playing to work with what parts of her were still cooperative, but after so many nights giving pleasure to others together, the cracks reopened, the tape I lovingly wrapped her wounds in unwound, and the music came out one last time.
It doesn’t seem fitting to just put her in the earth. Should my mad science not be enough to reanimate her again, I’d really love to find a way to spread the creativity that she gave to me to everyone who loves what we’ve created together.
Maybe it would be a more fairy tale ending if some of you could keep a part of her close to your heart?
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Sounds like it was a wonderful party! Sorry to hear about your keyboard though. Very cool idea of spreading its parts around though. If you are up for some real madness, I know an artist who makes sculptures up here out of broken electronics. He maybe able to so something up nifty for you.
You can make a Bride of Frankenstein type of reanimation of her. Mount the electronics in something new, replace broken buttons and keys with toggle switches.
Oh the fun you could have re-animating such a girl with the golden voice!!
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