SUCK FACE BLOW - Library Mariachi Band Guy!

The Coquetries Of

SUCK FACE

BLOW

LIBRARY MARIACHI BAND GUY!

A Short Fiction Series

That Is Supposed To Suck!

By

David A. Archer

02/15/1968

12/29/2006

When I first got here with my mother some years ago, I discovered an incredibly wonderful thing about this city.

THERE WERE NO MARIACHI BANDS AT THE PUBLIC LIBRARY!

Of course, being Suck Face Blow, I saw this as an incredible opportunity and I took advantage of it!

No sooner than I had began to put the band together and do little performances to feel the place out, than I was met with incredible recognition.

People just started to move out of the way when it was that they saw the Mariachi band on the way into the public facility.

We also noticed that the louder we played and sang, the more people responded. It was a very short time before we were treated like Rock Stars, even getting great attention from various forms of security.

I personally think they liked the costumes... we did, allot and they weren't even of our Suck Face Blow heritage.

I suppose the big winning combination was in changing up the standard instrumentation for a Mariachi band now and then. We found great response in using a kazoo instead of various horn instrumentation's.. but the experimentation just keeps going with the variations.

I guess you could say we were the first Mariachi band to consistently perform in a public library, but the celebrity benefactors would hear nothing of it - I guess it really made some of the Jazz guys upset, ... insisting that they in fact, were the first and we on the other hand, would have to relegate ourselves as some form of copy cat act. Even though no one had ever seen a Mariachi band perform in the Library before, and especially in such an impromptu manner - costumes and all. Then of course, some guy from Chicago Canada, in Seattle (maybe Vegas) claimed to be the first ever - but that guy always claims to have been the first ever of just about everything.

It got so heated after some performances, that those interested parties even demanded that we wear and sell T shirts which sported the Mariachi band name they wanted us to use, being "We Are The Second Library Mariachi Band Ever."

I have to say that I first - second (that is) - got the idea from hearing various examples of different people not being accustomed to the basic standards in a public library. More directly, some of the individuals that found themselves singing out loud quite frequently while listening to their headphones.

No one seemed to mind the rather prominent presence of various forms of popular music being sung to a tune no one else could hear.

It was sheer brilliance! Hands down one of the better gigs I have ever come up with.

This spring, as soon as we can broker a deal with the first Public Library Mariachi Band - our Library Mariachi Band is set to do a nation wide Public Library tour... surprise gigs mostly just for the publicity aspects of it in the reaction to such a unique form of performance taking place. Of course, given the seemingly touchy aspect of being the First Public Library Mariachi Band.... our management will probably have to resolve to promoting it as the Second Ever Public Library Mariachi Band Tour!

It should still go alright, but the T shirts and other merchandise will be more expensive to produce given that there are so many other letters in Second Ever Public Library Mariachi Band Tour than there are in First Ever Public Library Mariachi Band Tour.

I know it doesn't seem like that much just looking at it, but when you have to make as many items in bulk as does a successful performing act, it adds up... especially in design costs and the like.

Then again, maybe we could just say that the words wrapping around to the back of the garment is supposed to be like that... so people can read them while they are passing by and turning around and stuff.

That sounds like something for the bands management and spin doctors though.... the band itself needs to concentrate on material and rehearsal. Especially the kazoo material and the solos in those pieces.

But lets face it, I am Suck Face Blow! How could it not be a resounding success?