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Not So Happy Hour

by BassKase

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1.
Highball For Happy 04:45
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2.
Sammy The Goose Settles Old Scores 05:41
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3.
Don Mills Rides Again 05:48
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Bartender Mike Finally Gets Frickin' Cable 04:14
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5.
Cheaplaffs Explores The Exotic 05:12
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about

The power of beer! Slumming around the web a few GLB Canuck Pale Ales in, BassKase stumble across SCTV’s Happy Hour skits. For the uninitiated, this was a bit about an after-school show hosted by Happy Marsden and his puppet pal, Sammy The Goose. It was set in a dive bar run by the largely disinterested Bartender Mike. True to genre form, they would cut away to a faux 40’s serial Western starring Don Mills (also the name of a Toronto suburb…) and his sidekick Cheaplaffs.

Being a few beers in and reaching for more, he thought “what would these characters be up to 20 years later?” This is what he came up with…

Happy Marsden – Happy was happy being Happy and still is. A committed barfly, he’s content with his next highball sliding his way down the bar.

Sammy The Goose – Sammy always was an enigma. No lines, only clacking his beak. Shitty costume. No respect. He’s still doing a slow burn. Sammy’s mad as hell and he wants some get-back…

Don Mills – In an old home with a singular dream. Saddle up and ride once more into the sunset.

Bartender Mike – Mike’s a simple man. Same bar, same crap TV. After all those years of adjusting rabbit ears to tune in Jazzercise from a local station, all he wants is frickin’ cable. His dream is finally realized!

Cheaplaffs – He played the comic relief role for years and was typecast as a dusty rube. No one knew he had sophisticated tastes. Now unencumbered by the persona, he’s diving deep. Real deep.

What better way to salute a satirical program than with a satirical tribute and kicking tracks?

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released August 10, 2023

Curtis Ruptash – bass, keyboards, sampler and production
Darryl Deslauriers – guitar on Bartender Mike Finally Gets Frickin’ Cable
Songs written by Curtis Ruptash, except Bartender Mike Finally Gets Frickin' Cable which is written by Curtis Ruptash and Darryl Deslauriers
Mastered by Patrick A. Pritchett
Artwork by Alysia Kaplan

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BassKase Chicago, Illinois

BassKase is the nom de guerre of producer/bassist Curtis Ruptash. Co-leader of Canadian avant-funk dub collage artists Guerilla Welfare, dub disrupters/audio manipulators Peabody & Sherman, ambient/glitch Frostback and others.

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