WORK MUSIC

They got this new singer from England. Her name is Same but it's pronounced Charmin - like "please don't squeeze the Same." She's big - BIG BIG BIG, but not as big as Big Maybelle. There also are these sheetrocking Brit prettyboys, Durok Durok. Their hit was "Hey Gyp". Have you heard the song the Ethiopians did for themselves - "I'm Hungry." That's all I keep hearing on my work radio. And I keep thinking this music doesn't have NOTHING to do with work. You can't WORK to it - it's music to go hide in a corner and pick your nails shit. Alright, work music IS supposed to be generic - otherwise you stop and listen, mo. But it doesn't have to be synthetic. It's got to be a pushing around that you can lean your back into dependably; something that will move your feet for you when the last thing they did voluntarily was drag you home from the X town afterhours club. We are now talking about Blues, Rhythm and Blues and minimal R&R. It doesn't take hits to make people work, not even songs. What it takes are basic riffs and people who know how to be shamelessly repetitious without being redundant.

That's why I'm proud to be one of the Workdogs. We know we could be from IN-gland, but we also know that that would be wrong. Let's be realistic about this Modern World: these days a band doesn't have the TIME to practice. A modern band doesn't have TIME for writing new music or learning new songs. That would be wrong.

Equally wrong in the Workdogs opinion: LOOKING FOR GIGS-Who's got the TIME - besides you have to talk to someone. We play when something falls in our laps. BUSINESS MEETINGS - no TIME. PROMOTING THE BAND - why bother? None of us even live in the same state. We only get together for gigs and recording.

That's when we decide who's in the band. Sometimes it's difficult. It's hard even writing this piece. The fact is we like our day jobs WAY better than music. We only do music because we have to.