'Gigging', The Rock Musical by
Robert Edwards, offers an honest insight into a gigging
musician's journey from the Prairies to the Big Time.
Anyone who has been in the music business, or involved with a
musician, can surely identify with this musical.
The well crafted script, lyrics and melodic scores will evoke
feelings of frustration, recall deep sentiments, all splashed
with a wonderful sense of humour.
| Enjoy the wisdom of Honky
Tonk Goose! |
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"'Gigging'-
the Rock Musical - is the most provocative and insightful
rock musical , to ever come out of western Canada. This is
the real grit and grind of life in the music business. A
must see for all musicians, who believe that talent, is
the way to success in the music business" |
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"'Gigging"
the musical, cuts into the flat tire, of life on the road.
'Miles Away" is an anthem for all bands, that have
been stiffed on a gig....., but managed to find enough
empties to call home, to tell your girlfriend the show was
sold out. The exhilaration of having a "hit
song" as you watch you soul burn ,in the furnace of
teen angst" |
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"Playing
music’s not a easy way of living….“Gigging” the
musical…what to do, when you get to, where you thought
you were going.. Learn from the goose experience, and for
those on your way to making it ,sooner or later, you will
get the goose" |
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"Goose
talks with naked honesty, on the destruction of personal
relationships, that shadows the isolation of fame. If you
have no friends, drinking alone in your hotel room, while
you wait for calls, from people who lie to you… you have
made it…the Goose has seen the bottom of the bottle…he
was almost down!" |
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"Think you
can play a 'little' guitar? Bunnie Rait burns the strings
,with those lucky rabbit feet!" |
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"'Going
South' . what Canadian musician has not felt the lure of
California, be in the sun all day, walkin in the sand and
hear the bands play …..many great Canadian singers, like
Neil Young and William Shatner have gone to the promised
land…and stayed…. the Canafornia Dream…they pay
American taxes and vote for American leaders…but remain
proudly Canadian… Goose may go south, but he comes back
again ….Canadian musicians who do this, are tragically
hip…. You can be a musician from Canada or you can be a
Canadian musician….if you have no health care, and are
drinking beer, that taste like pony piss,,,,you are not a
Canadian musician… Goose always comes back home…with
the wisdom, and the music, that Goose has shared with us
all…for myself, after watching 'Gigging' I will never be
the sane" |
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“'Gigging'
the musical---West Coast musicians listen to the Goose ….the
temptation to leave the studio, to watch seagull fights,
or go to your local protest is great….you may save a
panda. and get a tan , but you have no fans …After
taking us on the long, soul destroying road, littered with
parasites and the isolation of fame.. T.C. Honker ends
this musical journey, by giving us, the true measure of
gigging … no matter what kind of music you play …if
you love what you are doing .. you are still just a
musician, so get over it… Bunnie Rait said it best,…’there
are no small gigs, just small musicians.” T.C. Honker
has shown me the Zen of gigging. …Music is the process,
not the result" |
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