Thick Crust

Dear Patrons of the Arts,

Many of you have asked* what Murphy's Flaw 2.0 has been up to for the past month since our international debut at October's Tierra del Sol Harvest Festival in Sunland.

"International?" we hear you exclaim, "Don't you mean 'irrational?'"

Indeed, no: guitarist Mike Gurzi found a link to this YouTube Clip on a site in Britain.

The great Flawed master plan is coming together nicely. Local exposure --> international exposure--> remastered box set of the entire Flaw recording catalog, available both in stereo and mono** just in time for Christmas at only $250.

The only detail yet to be worked out: No recordings. We're working on that. There's no limit to the length the Flaw will go to in order to provide you, the loyal fan base, with a CD -- Short of actually spending money to go into a recording studio and do it right. The flowchart looks like this:

No Talent -->No Gigs-->No Money-->No CD.

We should be a case study at Harvard Business School.

Despite that, sporadic attempts are being made. John came up with the idea of using last week's rehearsal tapes for a CD, because the rehearsal turned out really, really well.

This was shouted down by the band which pointed out that a) John wears hearing aids and plays banjo and wouldn't know sonic quality if it smacked him in the face and b) the recording came out really, really well. The rehearsal itself was, well, a rehearsal.

Point taken.

And still we gig. Just as a shark must keep moving to stay alive, so must the Flaw, moving silently through the water, smelling blood, breaking smaller fish in two with our sharp, powerful metaphors.

We will be appearing this Saturday night, Nov. 28, at BASC Bluegrass Night at Vincenzo's Pizza, 10364 Mason Ave, Chatsworth, CA. The music, so to speak, starts at 7 p.m. Prior to that we'll be spending an hour trying to figure out how to arrange seven musicians, with instruments, mic stands and cables, all into the tiny Performance Corner at Vincenzo's.

An artist's conceptual sketch is attached.

The first set will be the Flaw's Greatest (International!) Hits, and in the second set various members of the audience will take to the stage to show us how the first set would have sounded if we'd only rehearsed. Throughout, the tip jar will be passed by Andie "the enforcer" Bryan. Give freely; she can smell fear.

A map to Vincenzo's in Chatsworth is here. Go for the cheesy pizza, stay for the cheesy music.

-- The Flaw


*actually, no one has asked. This is a cheap writer's device.
**not monophonic, mononucleosis. Don't lick the cd.

"Murphy's Flaw -- better than you'd think"