Thursday, April 17, 2008
There are so many ways to reach a certain point. There are definite transformations that lead to some where, but the basic feeling is to keep keepin' on!!! At times I find I have soooo much stress, but out of that debacle comes the action of creation. I am like a kettle whistle, working up steam, the only idea is to keep my heart and mind in tune with the skills... suffering is no fun, let me tell you what... I have hope in salvation and artistic creation even though I have been exposed to so much of the modern... Sort of a contemporary slant on nilhlism.... a paragraph of words can not capture my clarity or my fog.
April 16th, '08 at Bug Jar
I played last night at the Bug Jar in Rochester, NY.
My friends Hooda Thunk!? played, they are kind of a folky jam band. 2 acoustic guitars, fender bass, keyboard, and snare-n-hi-hat drums. They were loose and textural, a great listen. Some of those guys are the reason I got into playing guitar in the first place when I was 15.
My other buds No Shears Ted (a play on no tears shed) played too. They were funky and laid-back. I used to play with the bass player, Mike. No Shears Ted was a lot tighter than Electric Organic was when Mike was in it. I totally dug their sound, it reminded me of Beastie Boys' In Sound from Far Out or whatever that album was called. Any how, dig it man...
I played solo, no band until next month due to some problems. I used my Seagull acoustic/electric, my cheap-o harmonicas and holder, a loop station, violin, sampler, and drum machine. I had some sequences for songs, other ones I just improvised the instrumental parts. I had my violin tuned to an A chord so I could just bow/ wail on it with out fingering and play harmonica at the same time, with a guitar progression looped harmony. It was fun, while I was doing that I was thinking "this has gone beyond folk music into the realm of performance art", which is a good thing. My friends Sarah and Marta were video taping it for me so I can edit the show into a nice lil' video... The sound wasn't the best, I was quiet enough that you can hear a steady din of the crowd on the tape(there were about 40 people there).
When I started using the sampler and drum machine, the crowd dialed in. It was louder and way more funky with the big bass sounds. The tunes was "Joyful Mile" and I seem to play it different every time even though I always have the same sequence as bedrock.... I like it, it gives me a chance to improvise without the band, which seems to rely on improvisation as a major part of its vocabulary (which makes every show an adventure...).
Overall, a good show, I felt all of the music was well received by the crowd.
Set list:
Blood Dust
Winter Rain
Gone Again
Here For You
Poem From The Road
Joyful Mile
Glistening Trees
Decidedly Beautiful
Void
Thursday, April 3, 2008
Wherever I go, there I am...
Yeah,
so I went to the Monotonix tonight, from Tel-Aviv. Great show, high energy Sabbith stoked rock... There was a guy who kept getting naked, during all of the bands' sets, Monotonix put a snare drum on his crotch and played it... Wacky wild stuff... This is my first blog. Good God!
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