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Logocentric (adj). Regarding words and language as a fundamental expression of an external reality (especially applied as a negative term to traditional Western thought by postmodernist critics).

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March 13, 2022 at 11:54pm
March 13, 2022 at 11:54pm
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"Invalid Item" Open in new Window. | March Musical Monkey Madness Day #8

Prompt ▼


After modest success on local radio stations, Andre and The Muse's record label decided it was time for the big leagues and set them up on a world tour. Okay, maybe not the "big leagues" (Los Angeles and New York and Chicago are expensive!), but definitely the concert world equivalent of a minor league Triple-A affiliate. Okay, maybe more like the double-A farm system. Their United States tour included stops at the finest dive bars, public amphitheaters, and empty warehouse spaces the following cities had to offer:

         *Bullet* Calexico, CA / Mexicali, MX*
         *Bullet* Yuma, AZ
         *Bullet* Las Cruces, NM
         *Bullet* Kileen, TX
         *Bullet* Texarkana, TX
         *Bullet* Murfreesboro, TN
         *Bullet* Sandusky, OH
         *Bullet* Flint, MI
         *Bullet* Fort Dodge, IA
         *Bullet* Bismarck, ND
         *Bullet* Bozeman, MT
         *Bullet* Laramie, WY
         *Bullet* Vernal, UT
         *Bullet* Winnemucca, NV
         *Bullet* Bend, OR
         *Bullet* Redding, CA

The record label was a little tight on funds, so The Muse and Andre often had to sleep on the tour bus (which was actually the label president's rusted-out 1987 Ford Econoline 150 Camper) and found themselves having to work to earn their meals. "Corporate events with coordinators who couldn't care less" and "weddings that had lost their DJ at the last minute" were their real bread-and-butter during this tour. Sometimes quite literally, because they found themselves often subsisting on leftover table bread and pats of butter.

The world tour being a "big success" was somewhat of an exaggeration on the part of the label to hype up their two biggest performing artists at the time. Still, if you consider the fact that they started the tour with zero albums sold and ended the tour with... checks notes.... fourteen albums sold, then it was quite a success.


* The opening set of this show was held in the parking lot of the Jack in the Box on Rockwood Avenue between 1st and 2nd Streets, with the second set following from the dining room of "FLAUTAS Mi Nuevo Ranchito" off Calle Agustin Melgar. Some people accused the label of pulling a stunt just so they could say it was a "world tour" spanning multiple countries.

(Those people were Andre and The Muse.)

(They also happened to be correct.)


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