Audience Participation Request/Album Six News??
Hi everyone! Hope you grabbed volume four of the Official Bootleg Series while it was available. It’s gone now, but if you grabbed it, it’s now up to you to distribute it. That’s how it works!
We’d toyed with the idea of releasing a complete Marc With a C rehearsal for volume five, but could find no suitable tapes. Besides, we came up with a more fun way of doing such a thing. It’s this simple: you either email us at RetroLowFi@gmail.com or through our MySpace page and request a song you’d like to hear us attempt to play in rehearsal – likely after a drink or two. We won’t do any pre-preperation, so if we totally fuck up your obscurity of choice, it’s captured for all time in two-track glory. There’s a bit of criteria for choosing the songs that we’d like you to stick to: first off, the song you choose has to either be an original composition by Marc With a C (this would not extend to songs from the Lo-Fi Is Sci-Fi project unless we’re in a rare mood, and it *certainly* doesn’t include any songs from either of mine or Chris’s former bands). You can request a cover song as long as you’ve either seen us do it live, heard rumors of it’s existence in our archives, or we’ve released it on a record/Official Bootleg. I mean, c’mon. Let’s play fair, guys!
The deadline for request submissions is Friday, March 7th, which is also the same day that you can find Chris Zabriskie doing a solo lunchtime set at the Downtown Library in Orlando Florida. Yes, we’re serious. He’ll be behind a grand piano. It’ll be awesome. But seriously, the quicker we get requests, the quicker we can record this “open rehearsal” for you all. If we get too many submissions, we’ll probably pick them at random out of a hat. Or a coffee cup. An empty one, of course.
And now, the news you’ve likely been waiting for if you’re reading a blog by Marc Sirdoreus:
Pre-production for the sixth Marc With a C album is underway. I simply will not “live blog” this. You may get an occasional “yeah, we did some studio work” in a blog, and we might even play a few new songs live soon, but I will not chronicle the progress. There is no release date at the present time. There is no confirmed tracklisting. And until we’ve finished the album to our satisfaction, this is probably the last time I’ll tease you with any info until it’s done. I can say that this album feels very, very special so far, and we plan on taking very good care of this record for you. Here are the only two things I will confirm for you:
1. The album has a working title of Linda Lovelace For President.
2. This is a minute and twenty second recording that has snatches from songs that may or may not be demo versions of all of the currently proposed songs for the Linda Lovelace For President:
Marc With a C – Album Six Demo Reel?.mp3
That should tide you over for a little while. We look forward to seeing your song requests for the new Official Bootleg, and to hearing from you all soon. We love you. No, seriously.
Love on ya,
Marc
