Hey folks! To celebrate the release of The Complete Shmopera, I decided it would be pretty cool to record a video of my favorite track in the entire collection, “The Spacebot Is Me”. This was a pretty epic track that just has a certain magic about it – I haven’t worked it out just yet, it could be a number of things:

1) Hilden screaming like he has his balls in a vice

2) Awesome Flugelhorn solo

3) It’s a Guns n’ Roses piss take

4) The line “I watch the weapon systems come online”

5) BURN BURN BURN BURN

Well, either way something about this song just worked for me, and like an inspired badger on a mission I improvised the following guitar solos after only hearing the track once. One take to record. It was 6am and I was late for a train.

Frankly, this is the easiest guitar lead I’ve ever written and I still don’t know why. It’s also my favorite.

And with that, I’m gonna sign off for now, please feel free to check out my personal website www.philhaymes.com for more music and the occasional DGR/Robot Panic related track. Oh and for all you guitar freaks, yes that was a whammy pedal.

Hello friends! Just a quick note to let you all know that the Complete Shmopera will be available for download starting Monday, April 26th.

The Shmopera be available for a $10.00 donation to the show and will be in high quality MP3 format. Included in the ZIP file will be the following:

-An hour and a half of music comprised of all 3 years of the Shmopera. Newly remixed and remastered.

-A special episode of After Hours on the subject of the Shmopera. Found only in this package.

-3 Wallpapers featuring the Spacebot, the Captain and the Meat Cleaver

-A short behind the scenes video showing highlights from the making of Shmopera III.

-Unreleased material that never made it into the Shmopera plus outtakes and other funny shit I found.

Starting April 26th, the Shmopera Logo will appear on the main page of Robot Panic. Click the logo to go to the download page and follow the instructions in order to download your copy of the Shmopera.

Once again, thanks for listening and we hope you enjoy the Complete Shmopera!

We’re proud of many things on this site, but I think I can speak for the three of us when I say that this makes us pretty damn happy with ourselves.

It’s the Grand Finale of the Shmopera and we’ve brought in the infamous Phil Haymes who lends his Rock God status to the track and…shit…just takes it to a whole new level. As is his way. Make sure to give a shout out to Phil Haymes in the comments for his awesome guitar work on this track. A sincere and heartfelt thanks to you, my friend.

To recap for those who may have missed it:

The Captain, self proclaimed King of Silver City, has lost it all. The Spacebot is victorious and has destroyed all that the Captain knows and loves.

The Captain is out for revenge and in his most vengeful moment, he discovers a truth that leads to the ultimate ending.

We hope you have enjoyed the 2009 Shmopera as much as we have in making it. We present the conclusion with Act 4, in the Audio Format of the Future: Stereo.

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Again for your listening pleasure, we present Act 3 in Stereo for your rocking pleasure. And rock you shall as the Spacebot goes hardcore.

He warned the Captain, but still he gloated and lived. But the Spacebot is unwavering in his programmed disdain for the human race and the angry flame of their destruction rages in his cold circuit filled heart.

As his destructive flight takes him to Silver City, the empty reaches of space are filled with the chant of “Burn, Burn, Burn”.

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For those looking for the true Hi-Fi experience, here is the Stereo version of Act 2, featured this week on Drunken Gamers Radio.

In this episode:

The Captain, self-appointed king of Silver City, finds his life is not what it once was. Could someone or something be missing?

The Spacebot, newly assembled after last year’s destruction, is pissed. As all good Spacebots do, he prepares for war.

If you missed last week’s episode, you can find it here.

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