Going to try and get back into playing a couple shows. We'll see what happens. Was going to put this CDR out but I don't really know if I am going to just yet. Working on some new instrumentals for a record offer I couldnt pass up, hopefully some more details to come. Sometime in the next couple of months I will be finishing up the 7" that was supposed to be slated for Labor of Love (if they still want to do it) and recording the LP of that stuff. Also plan on recording a solo banjo record exploring tunings and styles of the 20s and certain field recordings of the 60s. Here are the dates for the gigs...
May 1st w. Family Underground & MV EE at Feeding Tube Records
May13th w. One Happy King, TBA, Diamond Junction Bowling Lanes Palmer, MA
Tuesday, April 12, 2011
Wednesday, March 16, 2011
Heroes...
Here is a video, in which the user has disabled the embed function so you'll have to follow the link sorry about that. My friends Bill and Pat, playing "Danville Girl" (Dock Boggs). True Heroes of mine, they should be yours too. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IuPlMA4aWcE&feature=relmfu Pat just had an LP come out as well, I recommend tracking it down as soon as you can *EDIT* here is the link (http://www.etsy.com/listing/69361913/american-songs-with-fiddle-and-banjo-lp).
And while on the topic of 1920s music and heroes... Frank, Kim, and Mike also known as The Little Brothers have put out a mind-blowing CD of country blues. And none of that "Fancy picking on fancy Chinese Martins" (Pat from the back of the CD). Check it out/support, you can probably still order there first one on CDbaby(link is for the new one, but search around for that other one). Also they were interested in having a vinyl release of that album so if you can help them out, get in touch, www.donegone.net....A video of them playing one of my favorite cuts on the album, "New Bumblebee Blues"
TOTAL SUPPORT.
I am doing nothing, I can barely play after the surgery, it hurts and I gave up on the last demos I was working on. No shows coming up or anything. Just lots of listening. There is a show in the works for May actually.
And while on the topic of 1920s music and heroes... Frank, Kim, and Mike also known as The Little Brothers have put out a mind-blowing CD of country blues. And none of that "Fancy picking on fancy Chinese Martins" (Pat from the back of the CD). Check it out/support, you can probably still order there first one on CDbaby(link is for the new one, but search around for that other one). Also they were interested in having a vinyl release of that album so if you can help them out, get in touch, www.donegone.net....A video of them playing one of my favorite cuts on the album, "New Bumblebee Blues"
TOTAL SUPPORT.
I am doing nothing, I can barely play after the surgery, it hurts and I gave up on the last demos I was working on. No shows coming up or anything. Just lots of listening. There is a show in the works for May actually.
Saturday, February 5, 2011
Twilight Peaks
I am playing a show on Saturday February 12th at the Flywheel.
Love is a Stranger
Gallery opening and reception with the artists from 5:00 - 8:00pm
If anyone ever finds this tape/cd I would love a copy. thanks.
Love is a Stranger
Gallery opening and reception with the artists from 5:00 - 8:00pm
OPENING RECEPTION: Multi-media Group exhibit exploring the theme of Love, from ecstasy to neurosis, elation to grief, familial, romantic, mystical. Featuring the work of Maggie Nowinski http://maggienowinski.com/ Angela Zammarelli http://little-lungs.blogspot.com/ Josh Burkett fotolog.com/jibbajub Erin Newman-Long http://erinlong.carbonmade.com/ Tony Pasquarosa (Crystalline Roses) http://crystallineroses.blogspot.com/ Janice Young, Luke Cavagnac http://www.invisiblefountain.com/ Born in 1973 in Northampton, Massachusetts. Paints a lot and plays rock & roll. Opened The Invisible Fountain (Easthampton, Mass.) as a place to display art in 2003. Went to college. Has a family. Favorite color: rainbow. Ted Lee, Allison Ginsberg http://allitron.tumblr.com/ Remy Zbel http://rzbel.tumblr.com/ Chris Dooley Sita Magnumson Event is free and open to the public. Post-reception show in the ballroom to follow at 8:00pm (admission $7.00, with $2.00 off admission if you bring something sweet to share). Show includes video screenings from award-winning filmmakers, an Instant Cinema performance from New York City-based Naval Cassady, poetry of Lea Banks (All of Me, Booksmyth Press 2008), and musical performances by Crystalline Roses, Satan's Answering Machine, Timecard, and others. Image copyright Erin Newman-Long, courtesy of the artist.
TWILIGHT PEAKS, ROBBIE BASHO
I have been listening a lot to Robbie Basho's Twilight Peaks album. It is one of his last efforts and it really radiates a soul that seems to reach out of the speakers. The playing is a little bit more melodious and less frantic than a lot of the earlier stuff, even when he is tremolo picking something about it seems to be moving on air. As much as I love Basho's earlier stuff and his unique voice, I find myself coming back to this album again and again. I think what is unique about it is the fact that sometimes even if I am not in the mood to listen to Robbie Basho I can always throw this album on.
If anyone ever finds this tape/cd I would love a copy. thanks.
Monday, December 27, 2010
Discography...
I am bored and snowed in and sick of the TV, and the Lovecraft book I keep reading, I am at my folks house... Since I have the internet here, I figured I would try to upload my discography for this project while I have the internet... I am not very good at uploading things (basically I apologize if any of these dont work), but I got a hotfile account a while back to get some dead soundboards off of a great blog that now may or may not exist in secrecy...
Observational Chymistry Tape, was the first release for this project and where the name came from, its a song on this tape. Recorded the guitar and voice with Will at the old Dead Air, and the overdubs with Gebo. I did 25 tapes and 50 CDRs I think... The Download is a Side A/Side B thing, that is how Gebo and I mixed it in its finality, and I cant remember some of the song titles...
OC
Electric Abstractions were some bedroom recordings I made of Loops and did monologues over them sometime. I used to do this a lot and this was a compilation of the ones I thought worked the best... Some of the monologues are passages from Lautréamont's Maldoror. It was a CDR I made a few copies and gave it to friends. I originally wrote the tracklisting to include the piece "begin" but crossed it off and left it off the CDR.
EA
An EP named after a quote from On the Road, but written primarily as an ode to the secrets contained in the deepest parts of the ocean and possibilities of black holes and aliens. It is also inspired from a part of Maldoror, the part hailing the Old Ocean. /50 CDRs
Ripples
This was an instrumental CDR that I made about 50 copies of or so, it came with a full color print of a painting I made. It was recorded sitting on my porch, my friend was sleeping in the other room for the majority of the 12 string recordings, I was kind of zonked and had a tape recorder going for some reason, then I recorded some banjo and some other six string guitar. I think the whole thing was more or less improvised. I also included a tape I made about 15 copies of called Chemosynthesis, this long song eventually became the songs of the morning star I believe. Chemosynthesis is the process by which the deepest plants in the ocean are able to survive.
C.R.
These were recorded in Hadley in the summer or something I also recorded a bunch of demos, it was directly to the hand-held recorder I used for the C.R. disc. Justin Pigott put this out and it features him as well as legendary Dane Peter Bonneman. Peter's stuff is so good, Justin's as well, they are two of my favorite humans. My stuff is two written songs, an improvised minor song and a Charles Manson cover.
3 Way split
One Man Cult, this existed in two different horrendous versions, that I hope no one ever hears. The final product came after I recorded another batch of songs/improvisations while being snowed in in Hadley. Then I could replace some of the old stuff, then Ted and I went back and forth, eventually getting this out... The themes on this vary greatly from song to song, and the whole thing sort of describes the Cult of my own mind. I think it could be a lot better, but I am usually unsatisfied with my stuff. I think some of the stuff seems forced or something. It is still available (/250) if you dont have the record.
OMC
BUY
There was a couple of other things but mostly just other versions of songs on these things, hope you guys dig this... Any feedback is always appreciated. Thanks...
Observational Chymistry Tape, was the first release for this project and where the name came from, its a song on this tape. Recorded the guitar and voice with Will at the old Dead Air, and the overdubs with Gebo. I did 25 tapes and 50 CDRs I think... The Download is a Side A/Side B thing, that is how Gebo and I mixed it in its finality, and I cant remember some of the song titles...
OC
Electric Abstractions were some bedroom recordings I made of Loops and did monologues over them sometime. I used to do this a lot and this was a compilation of the ones I thought worked the best... Some of the monologues are passages from Lautréamont's Maldoror. It was a CDR I made a few copies and gave it to friends. I originally wrote the tracklisting to include the piece "begin" but crossed it off and left it off the CDR.
EA
An EP named after a quote from On the Road, but written primarily as an ode to the secrets contained in the deepest parts of the ocean and possibilities of black holes and aliens. It is also inspired from a part of Maldoror, the part hailing the Old Ocean. /50 CDRs
Ripples
This was an instrumental CDR that I made about 50 copies of or so, it came with a full color print of a painting I made. It was recorded sitting on my porch, my friend was sleeping in the other room for the majority of the 12 string recordings, I was kind of zonked and had a tape recorder going for some reason, then I recorded some banjo and some other six string guitar. I think the whole thing was more or less improvised. I also included a tape I made about 15 copies of called Chemosynthesis, this long song eventually became the songs of the morning star I believe. Chemosynthesis is the process by which the deepest plants in the ocean are able to survive.
C.R.
These were recorded in Hadley in the summer or something I also recorded a bunch of demos, it was directly to the hand-held recorder I used for the C.R. disc. Justin Pigott put this out and it features him as well as legendary Dane Peter Bonneman. Peter's stuff is so good, Justin's as well, they are two of my favorite humans. My stuff is two written songs, an improvised minor song and a Charles Manson cover.
3 Way split
One Man Cult, this existed in two different horrendous versions, that I hope no one ever hears. The final product came after I recorded another batch of songs/improvisations while being snowed in in Hadley. Then I could replace some of the old stuff, then Ted and I went back and forth, eventually getting this out... The themes on this vary greatly from song to song, and the whole thing sort of describes the Cult of my own mind. I think it could be a lot better, but I am usually unsatisfied with my stuff. I think some of the stuff seems forced or something. It is still available (/250) if you dont have the record.
OMC
BUY
There was a couple of other things but mostly just other versions of songs on these things, hope you guys dig this... Any feedback is always appreciated. Thanks...
Saturday, December 25, 2010
Xmas Comp.
A BIG THANKS TO MYSTERY TRAIN RECORDS!! Mystery Train Records has put out a Christmas Comp of sorts, I have a song on it, its a version of Lil McClintock's Please Dont Think Im Santa Claus. He recorded it with guitar and voice, I did slightly edit it by recording it with my nylon string banjo, but tried to keep the spirit of the tune alive... An interesting piece nonetheless it is actually about 3 songs in one, The Santa verse, Lindy Lou On the Watermelon Vine, and the verses about work. I remember reading about it in the book Songsters and Saints Vocal Traditions on Race Records but cant remember exactly what they said about it, I lent that book to my friend Phil and he gave me a different book back. The book is amazing, it weaves in and out of a lot of vaudville, blues, and raggy kinds of songs "Race Records." A lot of the more bizarre/rarer songs that were recorded. The first time I heard this song was on The Music of the Medicine Shows compilation, one of my favorite releases of Old Time music, because you really get the whole spectrum, Gid Tanner, Uncle Dave, Tar Heels but then you get the Frank Stokes, Shorty Godwin, Lil McClintocks... So that was a lot of rambling, apologies but if you care to follow up...
BOOK
BUY MUSIC OF THE MEDICINE SHOWS (Iknow, no one likes CDs. But its Old Hat, they are the best, Liner notes, Photos, nice packaging...)))
Working on some new music as well, probably a CDR of some kind... its mostly instrumentals. Its pretty much done but I may record some banjo stuff for it...
BOOK
BUY MUSIC OF THE MEDICINE SHOWS (Iknow, no one likes CDs. But its Old Hat, they are the best, Liner notes, Photos, nice packaging...)))
Working on some new music as well, probably a CDR of some kind... its mostly instrumentals. Its pretty much done but I may record some banjo stuff for it...
Saturday, November 6, 2010
New Stuff...
Ted (feedingtube) put out a live tape, and put a song of mine on it, also on the tape are Astral Plane Junkies, Major Stars, Grey Skull, BenGeorge7, and Elaine Kahn... The song is off an Old EP called "Ripples in the Upsidedown Lake of the Void," which is actually a random line in "On the Road," had never noticed it before but it was really prominent in this book on tape version I was listening to, but even less relevant was that that EP specifically was made because of a chapter on the ocean in Leautremont's "Maldoror." Whats weird is I remember playing the song that night, and it kind of came out of no where, had not played or even thought about it in a long time. Its called "The Sun." Pointless rant I guess except to plug an old book...
Anyways might have a new tape out soon of a live set from a night a bit ago at a wonderous location of freedom that no longer exists anymore... More on that to come. The two electric songs remain unmixed...
A couple of shows in the works both at the Flywheel.
11/15/2010 7 PM with La Caza, Gas Station, Merchandise, and Neon Blud.
11/21/2010 6 PM $8.00 and it will be a set in conjunction with a short story Film Festival.
check out flywheelarts.org to check out more stuff...
Anyways might have a new tape out soon of a live set from a night a bit ago at a wonderous location of freedom that no longer exists anymore... More on that to come. The two electric songs remain unmixed...
A couple of shows in the works both at the Flywheel.
11/15/2010 7 PM with La Caza, Gas Station, Merchandise, and Neon Blud.
11/21/2010 6 PM $8.00 and it will be a set in conjunction with a short story Film Festival.
check out flywheelarts.org to check out more stuff...
Sunday, October 17, 2010
Show Friday...
10.22.2010 7:30pm $8
Flywheel Easthampton
W/DJ12xU, the Terribles, Prints
Playing a set at the Flywheel, will probably play mostly new stuff. Its The Food Bank of Western Massachusetts benefit show The Food Bank of Western Massachusetts works with our community to reduce hunger and increase food security. The Food Bank works behind the scenes of nearly every charitable organization that helps to provide food to people in need in western Massachusetts. Our 400 member agency programs include soup kitchens,food pantries, homeless shelters,childcare centers,and elder programs throughout Berkshire,Franklin,Hampden, and Hampshire counties. Each year the Food Bank distributes more than 6 million pounds of food to these agencies to help feed people in need. The Food Bank is one of more than 200 certified food banks that are affiliated with Feeding America, a national network of food banks and food rescue programs.
Also on Saturday (10.23.10) people should go see Bobb Trimble in Palmer, hes playing a set one of three he has booked for the year. The support is Josh Burkett, and Sunburned as well, a great night of musics.
And lastly check out this vid of Red Favorite playing live, it will blow your mind...
Flywheel Easthampton
W/DJ12xU, the Terribles, Prints
Playing a set at the Flywheel, will probably play mostly new stuff. Its The Food Bank of Western Massachusetts benefit show The Food Bank of Western Massachusetts works with our community to reduce hunger and increase food security. The Food Bank works behind the scenes of nearly every charitable organization that helps to provide food to people in need in western Massachusetts. Our 400 member agency programs include soup kitchens,food pantries, homeless shelters,childcare centers,and elder programs throughout Berkshire,Franklin,Hampden, and Hampshire counties. Each year the Food Bank distributes more than 6 million pounds of food to these agencies to help feed people in need. The Food Bank is one of more than 200 certified food banks that are affiliated with Feeding America, a national network of food banks and food rescue programs.
Also on Saturday (10.23.10) people should go see Bobb Trimble in Palmer, hes playing a set one of three he has booked for the year. The support is Josh Burkett, and Sunburned as well, a great night of musics.
And lastly check out this vid of Red Favorite playing live, it will blow your mind...
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