tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-209676652024-03-07T13:26:46.617-08:00HumBlogwords and photos from a Humboldt County journalist..."Bob"http://www.blogger.com/profile/03665191979200618536noreply@blogger.comBlogger81125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20967665.post-3117696944750479882014-07-25T06:57:00.002-07:002014-07-25T06:57:25.605-07:00Should I try blogging again?I used to write this blog, Humblog. It was something I started when I was exploring the so-called "blogosphere" for a piece with the unwieldy title, <a href="http://www.northcoastjournal.com/012606/cover0126.html">Humboldt Blogs: blogs and the blogging bloggers who blog them</a>. It didn't last, only a year and a half, but did I some interesting blogging - some extensive interviews for people like Trey Anastasio, Harry Shearer and <a href="http://www.ejn.it/mus/mengelberg.htm" style="background-color: white; color: #996699; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: small; line-height: 20.799999237060547px; text-decoration: none;">Misha Mengelberg</a>, among others, and I posted some videos I shot, ran a series called Who Are You?, (which was also a separate blog) and some writing by others. Lately I've been thinking about reviving my column, The Hum, and I'm trying to figure out how to do it. Would this work as a start? Does anyone still read blogs? Give me some feedback..."Bob"http://www.blogger.com/profile/03665191979200618536noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20967665.post-47777813075265758132007-07-10T21:58:00.000-07:002007-07-10T22:24:51.284-07:00the left hand column<object height="350" width="425"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/YQ1h9IJ3Zes"><param name="wmode" value="transparent"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/YQ1h9IJ3Zes" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" height="350" width="425"></embed></object><br /><br />just a quick observation about another local blog: <a href="http://northcoastpost.blogspot.com/">North Coast Post.</a><br /><br />The Postmaster uses a couple of embedded routines in the left hand column to provide Humboldt-related content from around the web. First there a Video collector that actually seems to work. Along with vids of the People Project protest around the corner from my house and one of Arcata's Redwood Park, there's a video I shot on New Year's Even on the Plaza showing one of our fine local samba drum troupes. (See above.) Keyword Arcata?<br /><br />It's the "Words still matter" section that fails routinely. The key word seems to be <a href="http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&ned=us&q=Humboldt&btnG=Search+News">Humboldt</a>, which turns out to be a poor choice. More often than not, it doesn't matter, not to HumCo locals anyway. The aggregator apparently pulls up the top four hits on Google news for the word, which in theory seems like you'd get local news. The trouble is, the county's namesake, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_von_Humboldt">Alexander Von Humboldt</a>, was a popular guy, and all sorts of stuff is named after him. As noted in Wikipedia: All of the following places are named for Humboldt: <ul><li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humboldt%2C_South_Dakota" title="Humboldt, South Dakota">Humboldt, South Dakota</a>, United States</li><li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humboldt%2C_Tennessee" title="Humboldt, Tennessee">Humboldt, Tennessee</a>, United States</li><li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humboldt%2C_Kansas" title="Humboldt, Kansas">Humboldt, Kansas</a>, United States</li><li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humboldt_County%2C_California" title="Humboldt County, California">Humboldt County, California</a>, United States</li><li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humboldt_County%2C_Nevada" title="Humboldt County, Nevada">Humboldt County, Nevada</a>, United States</li><li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humboldt_County%2C_Iowa" title="Humboldt County, Iowa">Humboldt County, Iowa</a>, United States</li><li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humboldt%2C_Saskatchewan" title="Humboldt, Saskatchewan">Humboldt, Saskatchewan</a>, Canada</li><li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humboldt_Park%2C_Chicago" title="Humboldt Park, Chicago">Humboldt Park</a>: an official Community Area and park in Chicago, Illinois, United States</li><li>Humboldt Peak (Pico Humboldt)Mérida State, Venezuela</li><li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alejandro_de_Humboldt_National_Park" title="Alejandro de Humboldt National Park">Alejandro de Humboldt National Park</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuba" title="Cuba">Cuba</a></li><li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_von_Humboldt_National_Forest" title="Alexander von Humboldt National Forest">Alexander von Humboldt National Forest</a> in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peru" title="Peru">Peru</a></li></ul> So today three of the news hits are about things in Chicago's Humboldt Park: a car crash and a Latin jazz fest, and the other is about the Humboldt in Canada. Sure it might change later this evening, but most often it just doesn't work. <div class="titleBox_gsnb"> </div><span class="statusItemSep_gsnb"> </span>"Bob"http://www.blogger.com/profile/03665191979200618536noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20967665.post-16459865675397921682007-06-26T19:58:00.000-07:002007-06-26T20:10:19.369-07:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2EMVwturUBVrLQvdGfEJDlxn3pC2c82jB8O0KmRcaNgsUV7tgAd95pzLFAH5oSyx71vBOnI9uESWESR3wl3JXAtpYfRBd49JqO3r5ZZRtvhbPpVSb2qFAAY5bi-RR2SNObIUfOA/s1600-h/2007_0623spencerday90002.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2EMVwturUBVrLQvdGfEJDlxn3pC2c82jB8O0KmRcaNgsUV7tgAd95pzLFAH5oSyx71vBOnI9uESWESR3wl3JXAtpYfRBd49JqO3r5ZZRtvhbPpVSb2qFAAY5bi-RR2SNObIUfOA/s400/2007_0623spencerday90002.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5080573706309653938" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:180%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">the white sunglasses band</span></span><br /></div><span style="font-style: italic;"><br />this photo and accompanying note came today from Peter, who just returned from a Japanese tour with my son, Spencer.</span><br /><br /><br />tour was amazing. went very smooth. spencer was received very well and we both made tons of comrades and friends while we were out there. he impressed numerous journalists with his extensive knowledge of japanese music. attached is a photo of our band we pieced together for our finale show in tokyo. the white sunglasses band. 2 bassists, guitar (T from <a href="http://www.green-milk.com/">green milk</a>) me and spency.<br />enjoy,<br />will send more flicks soon!<br /><a href="http://culturama.org/">peter</a>"Bob"http://www.blogger.com/profile/03665191979200618536noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20967665.post-7772197824895344402007-04-04T11:13:00.000-07:002007-04-04T12:09:59.306-07:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.icporchestra.com/mm2.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 320px;" src="http://www.icporchestra.com/mm2.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:180%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Riffing with Misha</span></span><br /><br />I wasn't sure what to expect when I called <a href="http://www.ejn.it/mus/mengelberg.htm">Misha Mengelberg</a>, one of the founders of the <a href="http://www.icporchestra.com/">Instant Composers Pool</a> on the last Saturday morning in March. I'd been told it might not be an easy interview, I figured I'd improvise, and honestly we both had a blast once we got rolling, talking about religion, politics, history, and sometimes music.<br />We began with confused conversation about when the group was coming to California, and furthermore what day of the week it was (the day before April Fool's Day). Misha was in a hotel in Washington D.C. ICP was set to play at the <a href="http://www.loc.gov/">Library of Congress</a> that night.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Tonight you play at the Library of Congress.</span><br />That's right. It's next door to where we are now.<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">What do you think about that?</span><br />I think Americans have some regard for our music, and are keeping all that stuff. You'd think they'd want to capitalize on it. I would think it's impossible to capitalize on our way of playing. That's hard I think. I don't think many people would put money on it. (laughs)<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Has it been a hard way to earn a living for you?</span><br />Sometimes, most of the time...<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">But you've been at it for a long time.</span><br />Yes, but the people in Holland now say that we should skip all the provisions and subsidies for musicians and all that. And we should go and do real work. (laughs)<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">So there was <a href="http://www.culturalpolicies.net/web/netherlands.php?aid=813">public support for artists</a> and musicians but it's changing.</span><br />Since World War II ended they were supporting the arts. Painting first because we have such famous painters, then music a little bit. There were some Dutch composers in the Middle Ages who did rather well, no financially, but with some fame like <a href="http://w3.rz-berlin.mpg.de/cmp/lassus.html">Orlande de Lassus</a> and a few others. I could go on for a short while...<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Was it church music?</span><br />Yes, the church put some money into composers writing masses and things like that.<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">I suppose you always have to find some way to get paid...</span><br />Oh sure, that's an important aspect of everything, even music.<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">I don't imagine you chose this path because you thought it would be a great way to earn a living.</span><br />Oh, no, no, no. Far from that.<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">You say if the government has its way you'll have to get a real job. What job would that be?</span><br />I could start a greengrocer or something. That might be helpful. I won’t do that, but maybe I should.<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">This may be a dangerous question to ask...</span><br />No, no, there are only dangerous answers.<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">OK, what is an instant composition?</span><br />Well, well, if I would know that maybe I would be rich now. And I am not rich. An instant composer seems to be somebody who is just fantasizing that he is a composer or something. It's more fantasy than reality I think.<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Is it synonymous with <a href="http://www.google.com/search?num=20&hl=en&amp;amp;amp;amp;gbv=2&newwindow=1&safe=off&q=define%3Ajazz&btnG=Search">jazz</a>? Whatever that word might mean.</span><br />Yes, It's synonymous with freak and idiot, frauds, and maybe a little bit with somebody who makes music and thinks something of it.<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">What do you think of it?</span><br />I don't think. (laughs) I have no opinion. Well, if I have an opinion, it would be challenged immediately by everybody.<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Is <span style="font-style: italic;">not thinking</span> part of the idea, that you play without a preconceived idea of what comes next?</span><br />Yes. For sure yes. I think that's true. I have no idea what I'm going to do. Very well put.<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">But on the other hand, doesn't the group use sheet music and notes on the bar?</span><br />Sometimes, but the sheets don't help very much.<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Maybe just to serve as a roadmap?</span><br />Yes, like a map, that's the theory, but you might take your boat to Greece and end up in Capetown or something. That's what musical theory is about. That's my thing, I studied that profession. I am a theorist, but I don't know or understand anything about music.<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Do you play the same songs one night after another?</span><br />Sometimes we do that. And we play them just as we played them yesterday, but not completely, because somebody did not the labor to write down what he played exactly. And we all have that kind of sickness where we simply forget how we played yesterday. So we play each time something different. We cannot be outed for that because we do not promise anything other than that.<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Do you record the shows?</span><br />From time to time we do, not everywhere. You are from Knoxville, is that right?<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">No, from Arcata, Humboldt County, in California. That is the home of </span><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.ramboyrecordings.com/mm.htm">Michael Moore</a><span style="font-weight: bold;">.</span><br />Yes, Michael's father is there.<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Jerry Moore is a professor here.</span><br />What does he teach?<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Music.</span><br />What music?<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Well, he teaches jazz. I think he may be retired now. But he also led groups that fit no category. He would draw on music from many cultures...</span><br />Or animals or whatever...<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">He might combine something from the classical tradition with jazz...</span><br />But do those words mean anything?<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">That's a good question.</span><br />(Laughs)<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Perhaps I should ask you. Do those words mean anything?</span><br />That's a nice question. We'll leave it unanswered.<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">It's hard to find words for <a href="http://www.icporchestra.com/audio/ohmydeer.mp3">music</a> as unique as what comes from the ICP.</span><br />Well thank you. But maybe it's not even music that we play. Sometimes I doubt that. But that won't make a difference. Music is what people call music. That may be a hackneyed way of putting it. You go further with a definition of that type than most others. What I mostly say is that: Music is what people call music.<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Some people consider a bird's song to be music.</span><br />No, A bird song is a bird song.<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">To a bird it's just talking.</span><br />I had a parrot once, no my wife had a parrot. And he could imitate almost all the fragments I was singing or whistling in the house, in the bathroom or wherever. Most of the time I was whistling or whatever. That bird hated me so, he made a plan first then executed the plan: to imitate all the music that I could make, but not only that, to do it higher, better, snappier, I should think of some other qualities, but that was what he did. I recorded that. It made a very nice set of sounds. He used a Charlie Parker lick and ended with a shriek or something.<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Was the parrot a musician?</span><br />No of course not, He was a parrot. He was grey red tail and they are well known for their brilliant imitations of things. He could also speak, but of course he did not know what he said.<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">You could also say the same about certain musicians.</span><br />Oh yes. There are a lot of musicians who never give a thought to what they are playing or doing. Of course, but that doesn't matter. It doesn't mean they are dumb, it might have something to say about their quality as technicians, and there is a certain technique involved in what those so-called musicians do, yes.<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">As an instant composer, it must be your job to go beyond that way of thinking. I wonder, do you feel restricted by the fact that you usually must start with the familiar? How do you create something new when you have to use old building blocks?</span><br />Oh that's done in history a lot of times. Taking old roads and building churches or something.<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">I don't think I understand.</span><br />Let's say <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_road">Roman roads</a> -- the Romans made roads through all of Europe. Then at a certain point nobody was asking for roads anymore. They were happy or unhappy where they were and stayed there their whole lives and never traveled.<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">So they would take up the stones from the roadbed to build churches...</span><br />Yes. That's what they did finally. They thought: what do we need with these stupid old roads. Let's make something useful with them. And they did in their way, I think. Of course I think it's a ridiculous idea to build a church at all, but that's not the point here. In the Middle Ages, the question was what shall we do with them?<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">You originally come from Ukraine, is that right?</span><br />I come from Russia, Ukraine, yes, from Kiif.<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">And when did you migrate to Netherlands?</span><br />In 1938. I was three years old.<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Did you parents leave for political reasons?</span><br />Yes of course, but mainly it was because the Russians wanted them out. They said, well that woman is a German. She can be a spy.<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Your mother?</span><br />My mother was German, yes, a German Jewish woman. And my mother was afraid that the Germans would come to Russia and she would be one of the first victims, because of her being Jewish. The mother of my mother, my grandmother, was Jewish, so in the female line, I was also a Jew. But that's not how the Germans understood the word Jew. Since I had a non-Jewish father and grandfather, they would not see me as a Jew.<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Because they follow patrilineal descent not, matrilineal...</span><br />That's right.<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Do you think of yourself as being a Jew?</span><br />(Laughs) No, no. Maybe half human, half something else. Being Jewish is not on my program.<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">So you spent almost your whole life in Holland, grew up there.</span><br />Yes, I was a little Dutchman. And now I'm an old Dutchman.<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">How did it happen that you discovered American jazz growing up in Holland?</span><br />During the war we had jazz records. We would have been shot perhaps if the German had found out. I had a 78, a little recording from <a href="http://music.barnesandnoble.com/search/mediaplayer.asp?ean=074646143223&disc=1&track=16">"The Mooche," </a>by the American, Ellington. I was a boy between 5 and 9, and with that music the horror of the German occupation was gone. I wanted to know about that type of music. I found out in 1947. <a href="http://www.amsterdams-blazers-collectief.net/componisten/mengelberg.html">My father</a> <span style="font-style: italic;">(Karel Mengelberg)</span><b> </b>was a <a href="http://www.amsterdams-blazers-collectief.net/diversen/bandamunicipal.html">critic</a>, a music critic for a Socialist daily journal, so he went to all kinds of classical concerts and took me with him. He wanted me to learn about Beethoven and Mozart and all that.<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Was he also a musician?</span><br />My father could play music. He was a conductor and a composer. So he wrote music and conducted.<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">But he made his living writing about music?</span><br />Yes, because nobody wanted to have him as a conductor, and that was because they thought he was a Communist, and they were right. He was a Communist from when he was 12 years old living in Holland, then living in Germany. At first they had no children, then at 34, my father planted me, and my mother went to a new job, because in Europe there were no jobs for her. She played the harp all her life. In Ukraine they had a symphonic orchestra so she went there. Then I came along.<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">So both your parents were professional musicians.</span><br />Yes, that's right. But that was not their plan for me. They said don't do that because you won't earn enough money. You'd better do something else.<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">What did they have in mind for you?</span><br />Not anything really, but I had something in mind, which had not so much to do with music. I wanted at a certain moment, when I was 12 or 13, I wanted to become an architect. And maybe become famous and build some very big projects. Then I would have time to put all my time to music. Because music was the thing that I felt I would be the best in from all the professions. I had a talent for music more than for writing or making signs or whatever.<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">There's talent, then there's passion.</span><br />Yes, but you maybe should not answer those passions. But if they are strong enough, you somehow get lured into it.<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">You know my son has always had a passion for music, but when he went to college he decided not to study music, instead he chose philosophy.</span><br />That's better than music I think. As a philosopher when you have only one original thought in your life, you can bank on that. That's what most philosophers do or have been doing. <a href="http://www.iep.utm.edu/s/spinoza.htm">Spinoza</a>, the Jewish philosopher in Holland, he was an Atheist, but he never dared say that he did not believe n God. Instead, when all others in Holland would say, 'It's in God's hands to do this or that,' he said, 'Well, nature sometimes gives advice on what to do.'<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Nature instead of God...</span><br />Yes, of course four centuries later, my father told me there is not such a thing as God. He did that because his father also told him that when he was a little boy. And my grandfather's father put him in an asylum thinking he was crazy, and he died there.<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">His father thought he was crazy because he did not believe in God?</span><br />And because he did not want to go to church any more.<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">That's a bit frightening.</span><br />It was for my father as well. So my father gave up religion also when he was six or seven. He told my grandmother, 'I also do not want to got to church on Sundays.' He said he'd prefer to be mad than to go to church every Sunday. He was adamant, and was allowed to become the first Atheist in my family. He taught that to me and to my brother, and not only are we Atheists, we are <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antitheism">Anti-theists</a>. We became very anti, anti-church and beliefs and all.<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">To turn this conversation back to music, I wonder, what role do you think music plays in society as a whole? What is the purpose of music?</span><br />The purpose. Another fantastic question. There is no direct purpose and I don't know what I'm doing. That's what I finally think. I have no special affection for music because all the music that I hear on the radio, in the department store, jingles on TV at 7 o'clock when I want to see the news. All those things I hate.<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">There's even music on the news to tell you how you should feel about the news you see.</span><br />Yes. sure, sure. You have happy music for happy stories and when there are 600 deaths you have the sad music. (laughs)<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Something in a minor key in the background.</span><br />Yes. A minor key, yes, that creates the right atmosphere, yes. That's how I think about music. It is ridiculous most of the time.<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">But what you do is a rebellion against that sort of thing.</span><br />That's fine. Why not rebellion? Yes. That's a fine word. I have more contact with rebellion than with complacency, seeing what happens without reacting. There's nothing to be complacent about.<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">So is the idea of instant composition a rebellion against complacency?</span><br />When people ask me, why are you doing all those things playing all those notes? I say I really don't know and I don't want to know. That's my reaction to your question.<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Tonight you play at the Library of Congress. Do you know what the pool will play?</span><br />No, no, no. I never have, so why would I know?<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">There's no set list?</span><br />No set list. Well, maybe we are going to play some certain pieces: they asked us, I have made some Ellington arrangements some years ago. And they want us to play some of those.<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Any particular songs?</span><br />Yes, I think there is one guy at the library offices, <a href="http://www.wpfw.org/data_programming/shows/soundofsurprise_larryapplebaum.html">Applebaum</a>, who I think is the specialist on jazz affairs. So he is the author of the request I think. He asked, 'Please could you play some of those arrangements for us?' We do that sometimes, but not on order, that's something we do almost never, but maybe we do it tonight.<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">After the performance here there is a workshop: Instant Composing for Everyone. I like that idea. I'd like to see the application of instant composition applied to other things beyond music.</span><br />That could be the subject of some thought, things that can be done immediately on the spot.<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">We could all use more spontaneity.</span><br />I talk about that, spontaneity. It's a little word, there's fake spontaneity and real spontaneity. What that is, I really don't know anymore. Most of the time what I am doing has to do with some sort of pseudospontaneity. That's what I call it.<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Pseudo, in that it's spontaneous and it's not?</span><br />You could say that.<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">I did say that, but is that what you meant?</span><br />Yes, that's what I meant to say and what I mean. For myself, I reject spontaneity as such because it gives you no clue in terms of if some empathy might come from it. And sometimes I think there is some value to it.<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Are you still learning things yourself?</span><br />I am learning every time I think of certain music. What I most do with my time nowadays is not play anything, but only think my music. I could do this or that, would that give maybe an answer to the question of so and so and so? Could I do it? Or is it too difficult so I should I ask a real piano player to play it for me? I have written a piece in 1994 for Frederick Rojowski (sp?). Do you know that name?<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">I have to admit, I do not.</span><br />He's a piano player, a very good one. He is now as old as I am, a little older perhaps. He asked if I would write a piece for him. He said there was a restriction, he said, "I am now an old and lazy player, so don't write something too difficult." He knew very well what was difficult because he was the guy who played <a href="http://w3.rz-berlin.mpg.de/cmp/stockhausen.html">Stockhausen</a>'s 11 piano pieces, a very mind-breaking and technique-breaking piece written at the end of the '50s. He wanted something easier for an older avant-garde player, Ha ha. Whatever that is. So I started, but something happened that had never happened in my life. Within five bars the piece became very complex and very difficult to play. I thought he would never play it and he never did. We put it on the piano and he tried to play one phrase and said, "It's too difficult, I would make mistake on mistake." I admitted I had not kept my promise, I had to write this stupidly complex and difficult piece.<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">You had to?</span><br />My thoughts compelled me to write what I wrote.<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Have you ever found anyone to play it?</span><br />Yes, I found a Dutch player, not a bad player. It's called "Left, Right," my piece. The left hand does one thing while the right is doing something else, then the left hand come back, then the right, and so it goes: left, right, left, right. This Dutch player could play about 85 percent of it. A very competent Japanese woman does even better, 89 percent.<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">What about you?</span><br />No. Ha. I am not a piano player.<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">I suppose it always helps to have skillful players to execute your concepts. Is that one of the reasons for the ICP?</span><br />Yes. I sometimes start to play something, and cannot, but I can think it and that's enough for me. That's enough because they can play it. There are always fragments I can take care of. With my piece, "Left, Right," I can hit perhaps 12 percent. I can play something like the far nephew of the piece. That's what I do when I improvise. You may still ask, why, what sense does all that make? And I still don't have any answer for you. Ha ha!<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">So you can't explain why you do what you do...</span><br />Don't ask that. You should know by now what my answer will be. Let's eat <a href="http://homemades.blogspot.com/2006/12/spring-rolls.html">a good Indonesian spring roll</a>. That's an answer for the question. Ha!"Bob"http://www.blogger.com/profile/03665191979200618536noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20967665.post-51781747761949741082007-03-27T18:45:00.000-07:002007-05-18T14:56:06.693-07:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxIzJwzn5nbX_h7avkzCYYEOpNURM_Gwf7x9NS4iYBEugxryEPLHMkj8h8EFC9JXYFN63BHz6aCX1J-A540wj7Z8QZbOgSwkC19PW9buYLJHn4fuuDmlqDvEjTYiyVzha_PHnMgw/s1600-h/Harry_BLK_SUIT.JPG"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxIzJwzn5nbX_h7avkzCYYEOpNURM_Gwf7x9NS4iYBEugxryEPLHMkj8h8EFC9JXYFN63BHz6aCX1J-A540wj7Z8QZbOgSwkC19PW9buYLJHn4fuuDmlqDvEjTYiyVzha_PHnMgw/s400/Harry_BLK_SUIT.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5046786040555915122" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:180%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Who is Harry Shearer?</span></span><br /><br /><br />The name may not be familiar but I’ll bet you know Harry Shearer’s voice. He is Montgomery Burns, Waylon Smithers, Ned Flanders, Principal Skinner, Kent Brockman and many other on the satiric cartoon show <a href="ttp://www.thesimpsons.com/index.html">The Simpsons</a>. He’s also an actor (among many roles he was <a href="http://www.spinaltapfan.com/atozed/TAP00492.HTM">Derek Smalls</a> in This Is Spinal Tap, a satiric mockumentary about a rock band and Mark Shubb in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Mighty_Wind">A Mighty Wind</a>, a satiric mockumentary about folk music). He’s a novelist (<a href="http://www.justincharlesbooks.com/book/?GCOI=19321100322880">Not Enough Indians: A Novel</a>, a satiric tale about a Native American casino), a film director/writer (<a href="http://dir.salon.com/story/people/conv/2002/03/29/shearer/index.html">Teddy Bear’s Picnic</a>, a satiric look at a powerful men’s gathering a la Bohemian Grove) and a playwright (<a href="http://www.audible.com/adbl/entry/offers/productPromo2.jsp?BV_SessionID=@@@@1005106026.1175047022@@@@&BV_EngineID=ccccaddkhlfkgkfcefecekjdffidflm.0&productID=PF_LATW_000002">J. Edgar</a>, a satiric tale about the FBI director) and he’s the host of a radio show, <a href="http://www.harryshearer.com/leshow/">Le Show</a>, originating from <a href="http://www.kcrw.com/">KCRW</a> in Santa Monica, and broadcast locally on <a href="http://www.khsu.org/">KHSU </a>(Mondays at 7:30 p.m.). The local station, currently in the midst of a fund drive, is serving as sponsor for Shearer’s stage show <a href="http://www.humboldt.edu/%7Ecarts/events.php?eventid=54">An Evening With Harry Shearer</a> on Friday, March 30, at the Van Duzer.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Good morning and thanks for squeezing me into your busy schedule.</span><br />My pleasure.<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">You’ve been in the recording studio.</span><br />Yes, I’m doing a CD.<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">What is it?</span><br />It’s all songs that I’ve written, supposedly funny songs, some of them involved in the show I’m doing there Friday.<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">What is your stage show?</span><br />It starts out with remarks and sort of expands, goes into video and music, so it becomes a tiny but inspiring multimedia extravaganza, all with just one person.<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">You sing to pre-recorded tracks?</span><br />Yes. I don’t travel with a band. I have traveled with bands. I know what’s involved with that.<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">What is involved?</span><br />A lot more time, money and effort.<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Debauchery and so on?</span><br />That’s known to happen as well, but it’s mainly time and money.<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Should we expect a <a href="http://www.spin.com/features/everybodystalkingabout/2007/04/070425_spinalt/">Spinal Tap reunion tour</a> in the wake of </span><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.thepolicetour.com/">The Police</a><span style="font-weight: bold;"> and </span><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003352302">Genesis reuniting</a><span style="font-weight: bold;">?</span><br />Um, I don’t know. Spinal Tap is always a serious proposition that involves many more people than it should, and that’s not including the people you’re familiar with.<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">That sounds mysterious.</span><br />It is.<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Is there a relationship between your stage show and Le Show?</span><br />To a certain extent. I talk about some of the same things I talk about on the radio program. I’m speaking in the same sort of voice I use when I speak as myself on the radio. I don’t do characters on stage, again that involves makeup and wardrobe, stuff I don’t carry with me. It’s really just this person who talk to you at the top of the show.<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">No makeup and wardrobe, which are not required on radio...</span><br />Which are not required on radio, which is one of the reasons I love radio. Nothing against the people in makeup and wardrobe...<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Do I understand correctly that you got your start with <a href="http://www.jackbenny.org/">Jack Benny</a>?</span><br />Yes. That was my first broadcast. It wasn’t my first broadcast appearance, I was on a children’s radio show locally in L.A. when I was a kid, but Jack Benny was the first time I was actually paid as an actor.<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">How did that happen? Did you grow up in a show biz family?</span><br />No, not at all. It was a total fluke. I had a piano teacher who changed careers and became an agent.<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">And she liked your voice.</span><br />She liked something about me, I don’t know. It couldn’t have been my devotion to practicing piano, I’ll tell you that.<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Do you think you learned something from Jack Benny?</span><br />I learned a lot form Jack Benny. As time has gone on I’ve thought a lot about him in the way I approach comedy, for instance the way I approach satirical characters. The flaws in his character and the flaws in the characters I play are all down to humanity, that is to say people are not flawed because they’re not monstrous, it is because they’re human.<br />Even with people whose politics and wielding of power I may despise, I ascribe their failings not to demonic qualities, but to the very things they share with me and everyone who’s listening: human stupidity. I think that comes from Benny.<br />A lot of satirists think the people they like are wonderful and those they hate are monsters. That way they become stick figures and kind of predictable in a way. Another thing I learned from Benny is the value of being around a bunch of other funny people. He always loved having people around who laughed. That’s not true of everybody in comedy.<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">What strikes me, when I listen to you, and listen to Jack Benny, is the use of </span><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.randomhouse.com/wotd/index.pperl?date=19980515">deadpan</a><span style="font-weight: bold;">, particularly on Le Show, which I assume is you.</span><br />It’s a form of me. It’s a kind of me, one of the varieties of me. Yes, I suppose...<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Do you read newspapers all day and gather material for the show? Do you have a staff helping you?</span><br />No, it’s all me. I’m a voracious consumer of news junk.<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Do you read the news on the Internet mostly?</span><br />Mostly, but I get the <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/">New York Times</a> dead tree edition, but the vast majority I read is on the Internet, and I check in with broadcast media as well, the <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/">BBC</a>, not the World Service, but their brilliant domestic talk service, and with Australian news, and satelite TV, like once a week I’ll look at <a href="http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/55ABE840-AC30-41D2-BDC9-06BBE2A36665.htm">Al Jazeera</a>, all to try to get beyond, or ‘outside the bubble’ as I put it. It is amazing how much people in the rest of the world know about what’s going on that we don’t.<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">I watch the news on TV, then watch the BBC TV news and wonder, why didn’t they mention that?</span><br />As I said on last week’s radio show, just to check myself I went and searched <a href="http://www.npr.org/">NPR</a>’s site to see if there was any mention of Army Corps of Engineers last week on All Things Considered or Morning Edition. It said, ‘Sorry your search has no results.’ Last week was the week they announced the results of the official investigation by the state of Louisiana, basically holding the <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/03/24/AR2006032401819_pf.html">Army Corps of Engineers predominantly responsible</a> for the disaster associated with Katrina. You know, you’d think that would be newsworthy.<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">You live part of the time in New Orleans?</span><br />Yep.<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">And your house was OK?</span><br />We’re fine. Yes.<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Obviously that has become a big topic on Le Show.</span><br />Yes, both because I am in New Orleans a lot and see what New Orleanians think about the situation, but also because I care about it.<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Your show is broadcast in many formats, touching on all ways of delivering radio content.</span><br />Yeah, it goes from something as arcane and archaic sounding as short wave radio to something as up-to-date as a podcast.<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">I’ve been listening to the podcast because I can never seem to remember to tune in to radio shows the way I do TV shows. But I just found out that they cut the music out.</span><br />Yeah.<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Why do they do that?</span><br />Because of all these rights issues.<br /><a href="http://www.riaa.com/issues/piracy/default.asp">RIAA business</a>?<br />Yes. It’s money. In some ways it’s a rerun of what happened when radio first started playing records. What’s sort of reassuring is the the record business has not become dumber. The record business opposed playing records on the radio in the old days, not realizing that that was the greatest promotional device ever invented for the record business. They spent years and years and years fighting it. Now they’re doing the same thing with the Internet and podcasting, again not realizing it’s a great promotional tool and blah, blah, blah.<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Are you familiar with <a href="http://www.lefsetz.com/wordpress/index.php">Bob Lefsetz</a>?</span><br />No.<br />He’s involved in radio down in L.A. and sends out a newsletter often dealing with that subject, the <a href="http://recordingindustryvspeople.blogspot.com/2007/03/riaa-ordered-to-turn-over-its-attorneys.html">cluelessness of the record industry</a>.<br />I think they’re not only clueless, they wouldn’t know a clue if they saw one, and wouldn’t know how to find a clue. They’re clueless as to what a clue might be. It’s an advanced state. It really is remarkable.<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Being someone who reads the newspaper and absorbs all this information about what’s going on in the world, do you think that ultimately makes you cynical?</span><br />No. It makes you highly skeptical. The people I make fun of are the cynics. They’re the people, whether they are in broadcasting or the government, who think that people are saps, that people have an attention span of four seconds, that people won’t know if they’re telling the truth or not. Those are the true cynics. The skeptic’s job is to expose the cynic.<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">So you’re a skeptical satirist.</span><br />Yeah, well... I guess...<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Maybe not?</span><br />Well, I was going to say that might be a redundancy, but on second thought, there are partisan satirists who are not skeptical, who basically campaign for one side or the other in an argument and lose their skepticism.<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">One more thing, should we call you Dr. Shearer now?</span><br />You know I did get an honorary doctorate. Yeah, but when you call people that, you set up all sorts of expectations...<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">What’s your doctorate in?</span><br />Oh, that’s such a good question. It’s in the drawer I think.<br /><br />[addendum: Harry was being cagey regarding the potential for a Spinal Tap reunion. It was announced at the end of April. I learned of it via <a href="http://www.punmaster.com/">Punmaster's MusicWire</a>.]<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Spinal Tap Reuniting For Live Earth Show</span><br /><br />Spinal Tap is back, and this time the band wants to help save the world from global warming. The fictional heavy metal group immortalized in the 1984 mockumentary, "This Is Spinal Tap," will reunite for a performance at Wembley Stadium in London as part of the Live Earth concerts scheduled worldwide for July 7.<br /><br />The original members of Spinal Tap will be there: guitarist Nigel Tufnel (played by Christopher Guest), singer David St. Hubbins (Michael McKean) and bassist Derek Smalls (Harry Shearer). Rob Reiner, who both directed "This Is Spinal Tap" and played the fake documentarian Marty DeBergi in the film, will also be in attendance.<br /><br />A new 15-minute film directed by Reiner on the band's reunion will play tonight (April 25) at the opening night of the Tribeca Film Festival in New York. The festival is to open with a showing of several global warming-themed short films produced by the SOS (Save Our Selves) campaign. SOS is also putting on the Live Earth concerts, to be held across seven continents.<br /><br />"They're not that environmentally conscious, but they've heard of global warming," Reiner says of Spinal Tap's often clueless members. "Nigel thought it was just because he was wearing too much clothing -- that if he just took his jacket off it would be cooler."<br /><br />Spinal Tap has reunited several times since the film, but hasn't for a number of years. For the band, whose last album was 1992's "Break like the Wind," the occasion warranted a new single: "Warmer Than Hell."<br /><br /><br />Reiner provided a sneak peek at the lyrics: "The devil went to Devon, it felt like the fourth degree / He said, 'Is it hot in here, or is it only me?'"<br /><br />The director said the new short film explains what the band has been doing with their lives lately. Nigel has been raising miniature horses to race, but can't find jockeys small enough to ride them; David is now a hip-hop producer who also runs a colonic clinic; and Derek is in rehab for addiction to the Internet."Bob"http://www.blogger.com/profile/03665191979200618536noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20967665.post-1165432326465230132006-12-06T10:57:00.000-08:002007-02-23T12:51:51.875-08:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://myspace-376.vo.llnwd.net/00241/67/36/241406376_l.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 400px;" src="http://myspace-376.vo.llnwd.net/00241/67/36/241406376_l.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Trey Anastasio interview Part 2</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">in which Trey names his next record and discovers that <a href="http://www.myspace.com/treyanastasio">he has a MySpace page</a>...</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Your new record is on your new label, Rubber Jungle. Is that independent?</span><br />We have a distributor, but Rubber Jungle has just two employees: just me and Patrick Jordan. We’re distributed by Red (?garbled?)<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://www.phish.net/archives/interviews/1993/199303.html">When we spoke in 1993</a>, Rift was just out and you were starting your experience working with Elektra. You had already been burned by another record label (Absolute A-Go-Go/Rough Trade). I asked if you thought the relationship with a major was going to work for Phish. Do you think that old model is gone at this point?</span><br />I tried it another time. When the Elektra contract ran out we did one record with Columbia. That was a big thrill because Columbia has such a history, Bob Dylan and Duke Ellington, but it was the same kind of problem: basically the fit between myself and the major label system. I think this is pretty much it now. It’s such a relief and sort of a dream to do this. I already have another record that will come out after this one, an instrumental record, no singing. It’s hard to explain, but it’s a 10-piece band with horns where the horns are layered. It’s out there. You know if this was on a major label, I’d have to explain it. Now I don’t have to explain it to anybody except Patrick Jordan my one employee.<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Does it have a name?</span><br />Patrick Jordan?<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">No, the record.</span><br />The record, right now, is either going to be called The Horseshoe Curve or Cook Drive. I kind of like Cook Drive because most of the times I’ve listened to it I’ve either been cooking or driving. But I don’t know.<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Cook/Drive? Or Cook Drive like an address?</span><br />Oh, Cook Drive... I like that. You just named it for me. That’s better than The Horseshoe Curve. You like Cook Drive? Thanks for naming it. That’s due to come out in March so it’s already done, mastered. That’s another thing. Major labels aren’t really set up to have something like Shine come out and then a month later having somebody standing in their office saying, ‘Can you put this one out?’ They’re like, ‘I don’t understand.’<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Because they want to finish marketing the first one and fear that the second might interfere or whatever...</span><br />I think you’ll see more of that sort of thing.<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">And you have to take into account the state of the music industry in general, with the ongoing transition to the digital era. It seems like everything’s up in the air at this point. At least that’s what I hear. </span><br />I’ve been hearing a lot of that. Just this morning I was on the phone talking with someone about the whole song concept.<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">The song concept? </span><br />Well, I guess the album is becoming less important than the song. It’s because kids, like my 6th grade daughter, she’s never been in a record store. She gets all her stuff online. And when you buy online, you pretty much just buy a song, so the idea of an album disappears. I guess there are record deals being cut now where people will sign to do a song or three songs instead of three albums. That’s the wave of the future, so a lot of people are kind of saddened by the fact that you’re not going to get another <span style="font-style: italic;">Dark Side of the Moon </span>that way.<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">The form will change to meet the new medium. You know when Duke Ellington was writing songs he wrote them to fit on one side of a 78.</span><br />Exactly. And I’m thinking, what if you kind of embrace that idea. Now that we have this vehicle, the Internet, where you can put something out very fast, you can be boom, boom, boom, done -- mastered on the Internet, available for download. That means you can maybe inject the time concept. You could put out a song, and then another song would come out on the heels of that song that refers back to the previous song. You know people have bought one song; they’ve heard the lyric and the melody. Now, two weeks late, I’m going to put out another song that follows it.<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">You know when Dickens was writing Great Expectations he put it out in serial form. </span><br />Interesting. Then eventually it would come out as a full book. You could do something like that on the Internet.<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Right, after he put it out there one chapter at a time, he published it as a full novel. Similarly, you could release an album one track at a time.</span><br />And you could leave it up to people, explain that you mean for these songs to go together. When I put out Bar 17, it came out with this other album Baby Steps. A guy stopped me on the street a couple of days ago and told me he thought that four or five songs on Bar 17 really clearly refer to things on Baby Steps. He took four songs from Bar 17 and three from the other and made his own record with the quieter songs.<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">With something like iTunes your sequencing of an album can be thrown out the window. </span><br />And that’s kind of cool.<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">What exactly is “Bar 17”? Is it a particular point in that song?</span><br />It was that came to me when I was walking down the street one day. I thought if you had a really long intro...<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">So you have a 16 bar intro, then the real song starts...</span><br />Then the story starts...<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">And I guess that’s where you’re at right now: The intro is done and now it’s time fro the rest of your life...</span><br />That’s exactly what I meant. You’re the first person who kind of took it that way. That’s what I was thinking -- and it was a really long intro. (laughs)<br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Louise the publicist cuts in again: Guys, we need to wrap it up. </span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Okay, we’re being told we can’t talk any more.</span><br />You’re not going to believe this but it’s true. I remember your voice. I think I remember that interview from 1993.<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">You told me it was a different kind of interview that you were used to. We got into some deeper issues, partly because I don’t always adhere to the normal interview style. We were talking about growing up in Princeton and the Rhombus. Do you ever go back the Rhombus?</span><br />I have not been back to the Rhombus in quite some time, but I think it’s still there. I still talk with Tom [Tom Marshall, his childhood friend and songwriting partner].<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">I went to your MySpace page today...</span><br />I don’t have a MySpace page...<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Believe me, you have a MySpace page. Posted on it today was a photo of you and Tom on stage playing together. Tom posted it.</span><br />On my MySpace? How does that work? I’m so sorry. I don’t have a MySpace page (he laughs).<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">There’s a page with your name on it. Maybe this person who’s listening in on the phone knows about it. Do you know about it? Are you still there? </span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Louise: Did someone ask for me?</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Yes. Do you take care of Trey’s MySpace page?</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Unfortunately I do not. </span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Does KSA? (the publicity company?)</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Louise: No, it’s probably Patrick.</span><br />Trey: Yeah, Patrick, my employee in Rubber Jungle probably does it.<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">You partner in crime, well, not crime exactly.</span><br />My partner in putting out new exciting records...<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Well, I know you have this set of new toys in the studio and you probably want to go play with.</span><br />I do. I’m standing in front of them right now.<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">I’m looking forward to this show coming up. I hate to admit it, but I haven’t seen you play since 1993. </span><br />You’re going to like this. It’s a really killer horn section, a great drummer, great bass player...<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">From New Orleans right?</span><br />Right, Tony Hall. You ever hear that song “The Maker” by Daniel Lanois. That’s him, he’s the money. <br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">I have a couple more questions, but we’ll save them for another day. Good talking with you again after all these years.</span><br />Thank you.<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Have fun with the new toys. Make some more great music...</span><br />Talk to you soon...<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Bye.</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Louise: Bye. Thank you.</span>"Bob"http://www.blogger.com/profile/03665191979200618536noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20967665.post-1165256800826117042006-12-04T10:26:00.000-08:002006-12-04T10:53:30.396-08:00Richard Thompson Arcata 12/1/06<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/7056/2115/1600/560027/Richard%201.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/7056/2115/400/539594/Richard%201.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br /><p class="mobile-post">This note came in today from my friend Gus Mozart, a very serious Richard Thompson fan (and a KHSU deejay among other things).<br />The photo came from concert photographer John Chapman (who sat right behind me at the <br />show) via CenterArts.</p><p class="mobile-post">Gus (aka Russ) writes:</p><p class="mobile-post">> I posted this to the RT discussion list, and thought y'all might like to read it. If you were there, you know of what I speak! If you missed it...... sorry!</p><p class="mobile-post">> best, russneversleeps<br />____________________________________________________<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">"A holiday, a holiday..."</span><br /><br /> Mr. Thompson has certainly earned one.<br /><br /> His touring schedule for 2006 ended Friday evening with a truly phenomenal performance at the Van Duzer Theater at Humboldt State University. I've seen Richard close to 50 times, beginning in 1985, and this was easily one of the finest solo shows I've seen him do.<br /><br />Obviously rested from the Hawaii trip, and in prime condition after the 3 night run at Montalvo, he didn't coast for one second of his 2 hour set. He opened and closed the show with new songs, both of them worthy additions to his prodigious songbook. In the last dozen years ago, he has started almost every show I've attended with new material. I've always been struck by the audaciousness of this move - generally, an artist wants to pull the listener in with something "up", and preferably instantly recognizable. Yet Richard doesn't play that game. Whether it's because he is simply being true to himself as an artist, believing as he does in the strength of his work, or just being playfully obstinate, either way, it's ballsy!<br /><br />I might be disappointed by this habit, except that every time I hear these new tunes, I'm always bowled over. "Poppy Red" was gorgeous, and a perfect way to begin an exquisite evening of song by one of the best singer-songwriters on the face of the earth. <br /><br />"Crawl Back" was riveting. He did a long guitar solo in the middle, very different than anything I'd heard him do on this song -- It was jagged, prickly, even a little odd, and I loved it. Then, at the end, when he repeats "crawl back", his voice built in intensity until he was roaring. It was an absolutely thrilling moment. A co-worker of mine, who'd never heard a note of Richard's music, was in tears.<br />"Oh my god, he's incredible!" she said at the end of it. Yep.<br /><br />The second new one, "'Dad's Gonna Kill Me" was as great as I'd heard. A moving depiction of a soldiers' experience... stuck in a place he doesn't want to be, and can't get out of. This song, along with Tom Waits' recent "Road To Peace", are two examples of a new breed of songs inspired by the conflict in Iraq. Sad that war has to be the source of such inspiration, but perhaps when people hear these tales sung, more hearts and minds will be opened to the futility of this stupid military mess.<br /><br />And what did he follow that with? A witty ditty like "Hots For The Smarts". I'd heard this once before, and only thought it okay, but RT was on a roll. He delivered verse after verse with comic timing, and the audience was thoroughly charmed. A broken string brought a singalong with "Sam Hall". "Persuasion" was lovely. "Vincent".... He does this virtually EVERY NIGHT, and it's STILL amazing. How he manages to make it sound fresh each time, I don't know. It's a tribute to his excellence as a performer.<br /><br />I hadn't heard that he'd started doing "Matty Groves" recently, so I was<br />pretty surprised when he actually did it. Another epic story, expertly presented. Classic Fairport from the man himself, when you thought you'd never, ever hear him play it.<br /><br />Then, the "1,000 Years portion of the set: "Shenandoah" was sung with such wrenching emotion. Breath taking. "Oops!" absolutely rocked, and he did the Britney-hand-movements around his eyes at it's close, which was hilarious. Pardon me if I don't relay a more detailed accounting of the set, and encores, because I'll run out of superlatives. Suffice to say that everything was superb. <br /> <br />Except I have to mention "Sunset Song". I'd read a few things posted on the discussion list about this song, but I was not prepared for how stunning it was. Wow. A beautiful melody,shifting timbre in unexpected ways. A lilting, heart breaking guitar figure that propels that melody. And lyrics that convey a wistful,longing, sadness, that, while melancholy, leave you with a warmth, and an ache, at the fragile and fleeting beauty of life.<br /><br />The next album is going to be a real keeper!<br /><br />Setlist:<br /><br />> Poppy Red<br />> Walking On A Wire<br />> Crawl Back<br />> Down Where The Drunkards Roll<br />> 'Dad's Gonna Kill Me<br />> Hots for the Smarts<br />> I Want To See The Bright Lights Tonight<br />> (broken string) jokes / Sam Hall<br />> How Will I Ever Be Simple Again?<br />> Cooksferry Queen<br />> Persuasion<br />> Vincent<br />> Matty Groves<br />> So Ben Mi Ca Bon Tempo<br />> Shenandoah<br />> Oops!<br />> I Feel So Good<br />> Cold Kisses<br />> Valerie<br />><br />> (encore 1)<br />> 1 Door Opens<br />> Dimming of the Day<br />><br />> (encore 2)<br />> Wall of Death<br />> Sunset Song<br />><br />> (pre-show soundcheck)<br />> Goin' Back<br />> Withered and Died<br />> Drinking Wine Spodie-Odie<br />><br /> best, gm"Bob"http://www.blogger.com/profile/03665191979200618536noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20967665.post-1164946799283430352006-11-30T20:19:00.000-08:002006-11-30T21:54:51.083-08:00<b>Peter Walker Live at Synapsis</b><br /><object width="425" height="350"><param name="movie" value="http://youtube.com/v/st5XbDbfa68"></param><embed src="http://youtube.com/v/st5XbDbfa68" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="425" height="350"></embed></object><br>Guitarist Peter Walker performs a flamenco-influenced tune at Synapsis in Old Town Eureka, Novemember 2006."Bob"http://www.blogger.com/profile/03665191979200618536noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20967665.post-1164168527552937552006-11-21T20:08:00.000-08:002006-11-28T12:07:48.146-08:00a conversation with Trey Anastasio Winter 2006 part 1<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7056/2115/1600/13898_39_48.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7056/2115/400/13898_39_48.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><div class="MsoNormal">Early in 1993, a rock band from Vermont called Phish came to play at Humboldt State while touring college campuses across the country. The band was on its way up, at the forefront of a new scene that was developing. Phish would eventually inherit the mantle of the Grateful Dead to lead the nascent jamband movement. Before the band played here I spoke with Phish’s founder and guitarist <b>Trey Anastasio</b><span style="">, the unintentional leader of a growing cult of Phish aficionados for <a href="http://www.phish.net/archives/interviews/1993/199303.html">an interview originally published in the now defunct Edge City Magazine</a>. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="">Thirteen years later Trey is coming back to Humboldt for a show at the Eureka Muni Dec. 6. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="">Last week I talked with him again.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><a name="OLE_LINK50"><i>P.R. Person: </i></a><i>Trey? </i><i><o:p></o:p></i></div><div class="MsoNormal">Trey: Hey.<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i>P.R. Person: Bob?</i><i><o:p></o:p></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b>Bob: Trey?</b><o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal">Hey Bob, how are you doing?<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b>I’m good and you?</b><o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal">Great thank you.<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b>And where are you?</b><o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal">I’m in my new studio, which I just opened yesterday in New York City.<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoBodyText"><b>That sounds exciting.</b><b><o:p></o:p></b></div><div class="MsoNormal">It’s really exciting. I’m pacing around looking at everything.<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b>All the new toys?</b><o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal">Yes. And a lot of old toys. I’ve been moving in. I’ve had a series of five or six little home studios in my life and I still have pieces of gear from the first one, which is where all the original Phish music was written back in New Jersey. A lot of the stuff went up to The Barn in Vermont. And now I’m doing this one in New York. Each time there’s new gear, plus all the old stuff. <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b>Is The Barn turning into something else?</b><o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal">The Barn is changing. If you look inside the <b>Bar 17</b><span style=""> album [released in October] it says something about the Seven Below Fund. That has now started running. What we’re doing is, with help from my sister, we’re taking all the money raised on my last tour for philanthropy, and the money from the record, to go to a patron of the arts program. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal">For now The Barn has been divided into work spaces and we’re going to get three artists to come live and work there through the winter. The idea is that they work side by side and kind of vibe off each other, then they interface with this existing program in Burlington, a community of visual artists, metal workers glassworkers, etc. They’re in the city and the others are in the mountains at The Barn. And while the artists in residence are living in The Barn they’ll teach classes for Vermont school kids. So, the big [music] gear that’s in the Barn has been covered up as the space goes into its second life as an artist’s space. <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal">The Barn is like a big piece of art in itself. It took five years to do. I didn’t do all the work myself of course, there were two brothers I worked with, but everything is made out of salvage. It’s really cool. Lots of local artists have put things in over the years, ramp ways, strange little elevators that go up into the cupola, crazy doors, so it’s very arty. I just needed a change after making seven albums in a row there. So there people will paint or sculpt or whatever, maybe put some piece of sculpture in the middle of the woods.<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoBodyText"><b>While you work in New York in what I assume is a very different sort of building..</b><b><o:p></o:p></b></div><div class="MsoNormal">The contrast is intense. I don’t even have any windows. I’m in a little hole in the middle of the city with a black ceiling. But it’s cool. I needed a change as I said.<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoBodyText"><b>I have to tell you a little story. I‘m calling from Humboldt County Calif. When you were going to play here last time, 13 years ago...</b><b><o:p></o:p></b></div><div class="MsoNormal">I went to the Co-op and saw Humboldt Bud. You know Bud?<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoBodyText"><b>I do. Bud Culbertson. He still works at the Co-op. He’s also a radio deejay. You stole his girlfriend away, well not exactly, not personally, but she went to work for you... </b><b><o:p></o:p></b></div><div class="MsoNormal">(Trey is laughing almost uncontrollably.) It was his wife by the way, not his girlfriend. <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoBodyText"><b>Shelly was with <a href="http://www.phish.net">Phishnet</a>, then she went to work for you guys in Vermont, didn’t she?</b><b><o:p></o:p></b></div><div class="MsoNormal">She did. I don’t know where she is now, she left a while ago.<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoBodyText"><b>I think she’s doing white water rafting or something like that.</b><b><o:p></o:p></b></div><div class="MsoNormal">Tell Bud I said Hi. He’s a very nice guy.<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoBodyText"><b>So, when I interviewed you, I didn’t know that much about Phish, but I was working at this restaurant, and our dishwasher was a big fan early on. With his help I did some research. When we talked on the phone we ended up yaking for something like 80 minutes. </b><b><o:p></o:p></b></div><div class="MsoNormal">We did?<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoBodyText"><b>I put the interview in a local music mag (Edge City) and someone from Phishnet transcribed it and posted it on the web. My dishwasher was so thrilled that I had talked with you and asked for a copy of the tape. I gave it to him. Not much after, he quit his job to follow Phish on tour. </b><b><o:p></o:p></b></div><div class="MsoBodyText"><b>Fast forward to a couple of months ago. I heard you were coming to play at the Eureka Muni in Dec. (on Wednesday, Dec. 6) and I wanted to send to interview to Matt, the guy who booked the show locally, another person who once worked for you. I did a <a href="http://www.google.com/search?num=20&hl=en&lr=&newwindow=1&safe=off&q=%22Trey+Anastasio%22+%22Bob+Doran%22&btnG=Search">Google search</a> to find it and not only did I come up with the Phishnet interview transcription, I found the actual interview recording is being <a href="http://db.etree.org/myshows.php?userid=Dionietzschen">traded as a SHN file</a> or as a </b><a name="OLE_LINK51"><b>BitTorrent </b></a><b>download.</b><b><o:p></o:p></b></div><div class="MsoNormal">Really? Wow. I had no idea that was going on.<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoBodyText"><b>It made me wonder, what is it about Phish that inspired that level of unlimited devotion? What do you think?</b><b><o:p></o:p></b></div><div class="MsoNormal">I don’t know. There’s something about it. I’m probably the last person who could answer that question. But when things were sort of getting to be too much and then I guess I sort of pulled the plug. They certainly got mad. (He laughs again.)<span style=""> </span><o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoBodyText"><b>So I hear. </b><b><o:p></o:p></b></div><div class="MsoNormal">I always thought that all the decisions made for the band were made from the heart. I think that’s why people liked us. I just try to do my best to do the right thing at the right time, then roll with the changes. I always thought that was what was cool about Phish. And I think when that change came it wasn’t what people wanted, but it came from the same place all those other decisions came from. When you go against an honest decision based on the heart it’s like trying to skip a stone across the Pacific Ocean. You know what I mean? <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal">Again what I thought was so cool about Phish was that everything was so improvised and unplanned. It’s funny that the beginning of this conversation was about The Barn, because The Barn was made with no plans. That’s my space. I don’t have a MySpace, I have a barn. I did that as a pet project while Phish was going and it was all with salvage. At one point there was this school being torn down and we took the blackboards out. All of a sudden we had all this slate, so we used it to make a shower with a slate bottom because that’s what we had. The were no plans whatsoever. And there were no plans to start Phish or to have that happen, and there were no plans to stop it. I just knew it was the right thing to do at the time. And now, today, I’m standing alone in this studio in New York and I don’t know what’s going to happen. That’s the philosophy by which I’ve run my life, despite the reactions. If people are going to throw beers at you, there’s nothing you can do about it.<span style=""> </span><o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoBodyText"><b>Getting back to the unlimited devotion question, I have my own theory, that Phish devotees and Deadheads use the band as something like a substitute for religion. </b><b><o:p></o:p></b></div><div class="MsoNormal">We filled in something that was missing in some people’s lives. Have you ever heard of <a name="OLE_LINK52"></a><a name="OLE_LINK53"><span style="">“Dissolution of the Order of the Star” by Krishnamurti? Krishnamurti was going to be the second coming of Christ or whatever. In the ’20s he was trained in spiritual matters, raised to be the leader of this giant organization called the Order of the Star. The day they handed him this position, he went in front of all these people and said ‘Stop. What do you expect me to do? You had me read all this about spiritual matters. Well, I’m dissolving this organization. Spirituality comes from within, from your own heart. Stop following me around. Follow yourself. Listen to yourself.’ You have to read this speech, you can find it on the Internet. That speech has become a famous piece of spiritual writing. It’s an amazing thing.<o:p></o:p></span></a></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style=""><span style=""><b>When we talked years ago you described the growth of the band as a word of mouth </b><b><i>cult</i></b></span></span><span style=""><span style=""><span style=""><b> thing.<span style=""><span style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">And with that cult comes a framework. You know I just got this disc, a new release from Phish, <i>The History of Colorado 1988</i></span></span></span><span style=""><span style=""><span style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">. It’s a live recording from 1988. It was interesting because I’d never heard the show. It sounded like so much fun. And there are about four people in the audience. What happened was we got more and more popular and more and more popular and suddenly we had 80 employees. We had to tour so many nights per year. Everything became regimented.</span></span></span></span></b></span></span></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style=""><span style="">Now, talking to you today. I’m in this different place. I’m in this teeny hole-in-the-wall studio and I’ve given my barn to some artists and I have my own record label. It’s so exciting and I very happy because it’s all so unknown. Eureka is going to be the first night of this new nine-piece band I’ve put together. I’m bringing this horn section and a couple of guys from a previous band and Jeff Stipe on drums. It’s a brand new band playing the first night ever. To me that’s exciting. People were all excited to see Phish 150 times and I suppose it was exciting. And I have to say, being in Phish was the greatest experience of my life, but now here I am coming to Eureka to play the first night ever with a brand new band. I don’t know what’s going to happen. That’s real excitement. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style=""><span style=""><i>P.R. person intrudes: Guys, time to wrap it up...</i><i><o:p></o:p></i></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style=""><span style="">We continue out talk and move on to discussion of Trey’s upcoming album, the meaning of Bar 17 and more... Check back when I return from vacation. Right now it’s time to pack...<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>"Bob"http://www.blogger.com/profile/03665191979200618536noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20967665.post-1160931518598672192006-10-15T09:58:00.000-07:002006-11-17T06:44:40.640-08:009 Questions for Richard Gilewitz <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.richardgilewitz.com/presskit/rg_helmet_72dpi-med.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px;" src="http://www.richardgilewitz.com/presskit/rg_helmet_72dpi-med.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br /><P class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:28.0pt 56.0pt 84.0pt 112.0pt 140.0pt 168.0pt 196.0pt 224.0pt 3.5in 280.0pt 308.0pt 336.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="6"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18.6667px;"><B> </B></SPAN></FONT></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN><SPAN style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Arial"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="6"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18.6667px;">Those who enjoy the sound of fingerstyle guitar will want to check out <B>Richard Gilewitz</B></SPAN></FONT></SPAN><SPAN style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Arial"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="6"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18.6667px;">, who plays at Jambalaya Wednesday, Oct. 18.“It’s an unplanned night, no set list,” said Gilewitz calling from Florida before taking off on tour. “The music I play can be anything from ‘Embryonic Journey’ to a prelude by Bach to a John Fahey tune or something I’ve written. I play a little bit of everything in the fingerstyle guitar realm and in between I tell tales of life on the road, talk about origins of tunes or maybe about how I once mailed a fingernail to Leo Kottke.” </SPAN></FONT><SPAN style="color:black"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="6"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18.6667px;">Gilewitz</SPAN></FONT><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="6"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18.6667px;"> </SPAN></FONT></SPAN><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="6"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18.6667px;">is currently working on a book for Mel Bay called <I>Nylon to Steel</I></SPAN></FONT></SPAN><SPAN style="color:black"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="6"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18.6667px;">. He wrote another called <I>Fingerstyle Acoustic Guitar Workshop</I></SPAN></FONT></SPAN><SPAN style="color:black"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="6"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18.6667px;">. “It’s basically everything I know, even a chapter on how to deal with the sound man. That’s some of the stuff I’ll do in the workshop.” The workshop he refers to is the following night, Thursday, Oct. 19, from 6-7:30 p.m. at Arcata Music in Sunnybrae. “It will be a combination of me playing, and a Q&A session afterwards; all levels of players are invited,“ said Gilewitz. </SPAN></FONT></SPAN><SPAN style="color:#0000DD"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000DD" face="Arial" size="6"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18.6667px;"> </SPAN></FONT></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></P><P class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:28.0pt 56.0pt 84.0pt 112.0pt 140.0pt 168.0pt 196.0pt 224.0pt 3.5in 280.0pt 308.0pt 336.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><SPAN style="font-size:14.0pt; font-family:Arial"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="6"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18.6667px;">We had our own Q&A session via e-mail...</SPAN></FONT></SPAN></P><P class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:28.0pt 56.0pt 84.0pt 112.0pt 140.0pt 168.0pt 196.0pt 224.0pt 3.5in 280.0pt 308.0pt 336.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><SPAN style="font-size:14.0pt; font-family:Arial;color:#0000DD"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000DD" face="Arial" size="6"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18.6667px;"><B>Who are you? </B></SPAN></FONT><O:P></O:P></SPAN></P><P class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:28.0pt 56.0pt 84.0pt 112.0pt 140.0pt 168.0pt 196.0pt 224.0pt 3.5in 280.0pt 308.0pt 336.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><SPAN style="font-size:14.0pt; font-family:Arial;color:black"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="6"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18.6667px;">My name is </SPAN></FONT><A name="OLE_LINK22"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="6"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18.6667px;">Richard Gilewitz </SPAN></FONT></A><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="6"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18.6667px;">and I have been playing acoustic fingerstyle guitar for 34 years.</SPAN></FONT><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="6"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18.6667px;"> </SPAN></FONT></SPAN><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="6"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18.6667px;">I have been fortunate to have performed in concert as well as the conducting of seminars in 48 states and 8 countries. </SPAN></FONT><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="6"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18.6667px;"> </SPAN></FONT></SPAN><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="6"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18.6667px;">I have also released 6 recordings and Fingerstyle Guitar Workshop Books and DVD's for Mel Bay Publications with worldwide distribution. I mention 'fingerstyle' guitar which is another way of saying I DON'T play flatpick style guitar.</SPAN></FONT><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="6"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18.6667px;"> </SPAN></FONT></SPAN><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="6"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18.6667px;">The pick kept falling in the hole. </SPAN></FONT><O:P></O:P></SPAN></P><P class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:28.0pt 56.0pt 84.0pt 112.0pt 140.0pt 168.0pt 196.0pt 224.0pt 3.5in 280.0pt 308.0pt 336.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><SPAN style="font-size:14.0pt; font-family:Arial;color:#0000DD"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000DD" face="Arial" size="6"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18.6667px;"><B>Where are from? </B></SPAN></FONT><O:P></O:P></SPAN></P><P class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:28.0pt 56.0pt 84.0pt 112.0pt 140.0pt 168.0pt 196.0pt 224.0pt 3.5in 280.0pt 308.0pt 336.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><SPAN style="font-size:14.0pt; font-family:Arial;color:black"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="6"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18.6667px;">I was born in San Diego, CA, grew up in my formative years (I made up the 'grew up' part) in New Jersey, attended high school and college in Alabama and have been a Florida resident since the late 1980's. </SPAN></FONT></SPAN><SPAN style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#0000DD"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000DD" face="Arial" size="6"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18.6667px;"> </SPAN></FONT></SPAN><O:P></O:P></SPAN></P><P class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:28.0pt 56.0pt 84.0pt 112.0pt 140.0pt 168.0pt 196.0pt 224.0pt 3.5in 280.0pt 308.0pt 336.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><SPAN style="font-size:14.0pt; font-family:Arial;color:#0000DD"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000DD" face="Arial" size="6"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18.6667px;"><B>What do you do? </B></SPAN></FONT><O:P></O:P></SPAN></P><P class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:28.0pt 56.0pt 84.0pt 112.0pt 140.0pt 168.0pt 196.0pt 224.0pt 3.5in 280.0pt 308.0pt 336.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><SPAN style="font-size:14.0pt; font-family:Arial;color:black"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="6"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18.6667px;">I continue to compose for the acoustic 6 and 12 string guitars along with a few other 'toys', record, tour in concert, conduct acoustic guitar camps, conduct music industry sponsored guitar 'music dealer' store events, teach privately, write for the national music publication Singer and Musician magazine, and still dig out music I couldn't play in college to take a fresh 'crack at it'. </SPAN></FONT><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="6"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18.6667px;"> </SPAN></FONT></SPAN></SPAN><SPAN style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#0000DD"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000DD" face="Arial" size="6"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18.6667px;"> </SPAN></FONT></SPAN><O:P></O:P></SPAN></P><P class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:28.0pt 56.0pt 84.0pt 112.0pt 140.0pt 168.0pt 196.0pt 224.0pt 3.5in 280.0pt 308.0pt 336.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><SPAN style="font-size:14.0pt; font-family:Arial;color:#0000DD"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000DD" face="Arial" size="6"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18.6667px;"><B>Why do you do what you do? </B></SPAN></FONT><O:P></O:P></SPAN></P><P class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:28.0pt 56.0pt 84.0pt 112.0pt 140.0pt 168.0pt 196.0pt 224.0pt 3.5in 280.0pt 308.0pt 336.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><SPAN style="font-size:14.0pt; font-family:Arial;color:black"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="6"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18.6667px;">For many years my pat answer was to say "I didn't want a real job".</SPAN></FONT><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="6"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18.6667px;"> </SPAN></FONT></SPAN><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="6"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18.6667px;">In reality I have begun to realize the absolute absolute! necessity to stay on one's toes, work extremely hard, be creative, and more than anything fight like mad to maintain something along the lines of that passion that made (probably most of us) start playing in the first place.</SPAN></FONT><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="6"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18.6667px;"> </SPAN></FONT></SPAN><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="6"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18.6667px;"> </SPAN></FONT></SPAN></SPAN><SPAN style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#0000DD"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000DD" face="Arial" size="6"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18.6667px;"> </SPAN></FONT></SPAN><O:P></O:P></SPAN></P><P class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:28.0pt 56.0pt 84.0pt 112.0pt 140.0pt 168.0pt 196.0pt 224.0pt 3.5in 280.0pt 308.0pt 336.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><SPAN style="font-size:14.0pt; font-family:Arial;color:#0000DD"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000DD" face="Arial" size="6"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18.6667px;"><B>What are you working on? </B></SPAN></FONT><O:P></O:P></SPAN></P><P class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:28.0pt 56.0pt 84.0pt 112.0pt 140.0pt 168.0pt 196.0pt 224.0pt 3.5in 280.0pt 308.0pt 336.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><SPAN style="font-size:14.0pt; font-family:Arial;color:black"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="6"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18.6667px;">I recently compiled my entire repertoire in every tuning for every guitar to determine with the much feared 'metronome' exactly where my tunes 'live'.</SPAN></FONT><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="6"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18.6667px;"> </SPAN></FONT></SPAN><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="6"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18.6667px;">In other words, having the groove is one thing but having the 'click' is another.</SPAN></FONT><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="6"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18.6667px;"> </SPAN></FONT></SPAN><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="6"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18.6667px;">This became apparent in recent years as I have had the fortune of playing with tremendous players and the need for them to 'tap in' is crucial for them to be able to become absorbed in the music, have no doubt, release and add the most possible. Additionally I am playing a few old tunes that accidentally got shoved into the attic and working on a few new pieces.</SPAN></FONT><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="6"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18.6667px;"> </SPAN></FONT></SPAN><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="6"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18.6667px;">Some by J.S. Bach, a couple of refinements of my teacher David Walberts pieces, and conjuring up a new tune or two. </SPAN></FONT><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="6"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18.6667px;"> </SPAN></FONT></SPAN></SPAN><SPAN style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#0000DD"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000DD" face="Arial" size="6"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18.6667px;"> </SPAN></FONT></SPAN><O:P></O:P></SPAN></P><P class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:28.0pt 56.0pt 84.0pt 112.0pt 140.0pt 168.0pt 196.0pt 224.0pt 3.5in 280.0pt 308.0pt 336.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><SPAN style="font-size:14.0pt; font-family:Arial;color:#0000DD"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000DD" face="Arial" size="6"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18.6667px;"><B>What’s next? </B></SPAN></FONT><O:P></O:P></SPAN></P><P class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:28.0pt 56.0pt 84.0pt 112.0pt 140.0pt 168.0pt 196.0pt 224.0pt 3.5in 280.0pt 308.0pt 336.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><SPAN style="font-size:14.0pt; font-family:Arial;color:black"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="6"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18.6667px;">I have an interesting instrument called a Banjitar which is a 6 string Banjo type instrument tuned and played like a guitar.</SPAN></FONT><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="6"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18.6667px;"> </SPAN></FONT></SPAN><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="6"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18.6667px;">Along with experimentation with that I am seeking out workable tunes with a Breedlove synthesiser guitar to see 'what my work'. </SPAN></FONT><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="6"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18.6667px;"> </SPAN></FONT></SPAN><O:P></O:P></SPAN></P><P class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:28.0pt 56.0pt 84.0pt 112.0pt 140.0pt 168.0pt 196.0pt 224.0pt 3.5in 280.0pt 308.0pt 336.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><SPAN style="font-size:14.0pt; font-family:Arial;color:#0000DD"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000DD" face="Arial" size="6"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18.6667px;"><B>When will you be here? </B></SPAN></FONT></SPAN><SPAN style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black"><O:P></O:P></SPAN></P><P class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:28.0pt 56.0pt 84.0pt 112.0pt 140.0pt 168.0pt 196.0pt 224.0pt 3.5in 280.0pt 308.0pt 336.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><SPAN style="font-size:14.0pt; font-family:Arial;color:black"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="6"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18.6667px;">Solo shows: Oct. 18th - 9pm Jambalaya - concert 707-822-4766 </SPAN></FONT><O:P></O:P></SPAN></P><P class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:28.0pt 56.0pt 84.0pt 112.0pt 140.0pt 168.0pt 196.0pt 224.0pt 3.5in 280.0pt 308.0pt 336.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><SPAN style="font-size:14.0pt; font-family:Arial;color:black"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="6"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18.6667px;">Oct. 19th - 6 pm Arcata Music - guitar seminar 707-822-3531 </SPAN></FONT></SPAN><SPAN style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#0000DD"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000DD" face="Arial" size="6"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18.6667px;"> </SPAN></FONT></SPAN><O:P></O:P></SPAN></P><P class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:28.0pt 56.0pt 84.0pt 112.0pt 140.0pt 168.0pt 196.0pt 224.0pt 3.5in 280.0pt 308.0pt 336.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><SPAN style="font-size:14.0pt; font-family:Arial;color:#0000DD"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000DD" face="Arial" size="6"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18.6667px;"><B>Website?</B></SPAN></FONT></SPAN></P><P class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:28.0pt 56.0pt 84.0pt 112.0pt 140.0pt 168.0pt 196.0pt 224.0pt 3.5in 280.0pt 308.0pt 336.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><SPAN style="font-size:14.0pt; font-family:Arial;color:black"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="6"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18.6667px;"><a href="http://www.richardgilewitz.com">www.richardgilewitz.com</a> </SPAN></FONT><O:P></O:P></SPAN></P><P class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:28.0pt 56.0pt 84.0pt 112.0pt 140.0pt 168.0pt 196.0pt 224.0pt 3.5in 280.0pt 308.0pt 336.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><SPAN style="font-size:14.0pt; font-family:Arial;color:black"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="6"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18.6667px;">Chinese zodiac sign: The Boar </SPAN></FONT><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="6"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18.6667px;"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000DD"> </FONT></SPAN></FONT></SPAN></SPAN><SPAN style="font-size:14.0pt; font-family:Arial;color:#0000DD"><O:P></O:P></SPAN></P><P class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:28.0pt 56.0pt 84.0pt 112.0pt 140.0pt 168.0pt 196.0pt 224.0pt 3.5in 280.0pt 308.0pt 336.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><SPAN style="font-size:14.0pt; font-family:Arial;color:#0000DD"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000DD" face="Arial" size="6"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18.6667px;"><B>Anything else you want to add? </B></SPAN></FONT><O:P></O:P></SPAN></P><P class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:28.0pt 56.0pt 84.0pt 112.0pt 140.0pt 168.0pt 196.0pt 224.0pt 3.5in 280.0pt 308.0pt 336.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><SPAN style="font-size:14.0pt; font-family:Arial;color:#0000DD"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000DD" face="Arial" size="6"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18.6667px;"> </SPAN></FONT></SPAN></SPAN><SPAN style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="6"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18.6667px;">Many years ago I recall working for an agency and I was helping them to book dates for one of my guitar heroes as a youngster, John Fahey.</SPAN></FONT><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="6"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18.6667px;"> </SPAN></FONT></SPAN><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="6"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18.6667px;">I recall booking him in Eureka/Arcata area somewhere and I remember him thanking me and telling me how much he specifically enjoyed your area.</SPAN></FONT><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="6"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18.6667px;"> </SPAN></FONT></SPAN><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="6"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18.6667px;">I have always wanted to play there myself and with all the touring I have done for many years this apparently seems to be my first opportunity.</SPAN></FONT><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="6"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18.6667px;"> </SPAN></FONT></SPAN><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="6"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18.6667px;">Ya never know how the wind blows. </SPAN></FONT><O:P></O:P></SPAN></P><P class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:28.0pt 56.0pt 84.0pt 112.0pt 140.0pt 168.0pt 196.0pt 224.0pt 3.5in 280.0pt 308.0pt 336.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><SPAN style="font-size:14.0pt; font-family:Arial;color:black"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="6"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18.6667px;"> </SPAN></FONT><O:P></O:P></SPAN></P>"Bob"http://www.blogger.com/profile/03665191979200618536noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20967665.post-1160760853613705462006-10-13T10:34:00.000-07:002006-10-13T10:43:34.540-07:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.primaverasound.com/data/artistas/lou_reed_art.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px;" src="http://www.primaverasound.com/data/artistas/lou_reed_art.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br /><a href="http://www.livedaily.com/news/10855.html">Lou Reed tours ahead of 'Berlin' premiere</a><br />including a stop in Arcata..."Bob"http://www.blogger.com/profile/03665191979200618536noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20967665.post-1159930694893232722006-10-03T19:51:00.000-07:002006-10-03T19:58:15.223-07:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7056/2115/1600/collage226.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7056/2115/400/collage226.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br />Bob Asks - the Uke Man Speaks<br /><br /><br />Who are you?<br /><br />I’m “the Ukulele Man,” a tag hung on me 15 years ago by the owner/promoter of Stach’s (now Little Brother’s) *1 (*relates to links at bottom), a revered night club in Columbus, Ohio.<br /><br />I’m a crusty old bard (61 yrs.) seasoned by Joe McCarthy, the 60’s, and the education wars (31 years in an 8th Grade English class – the last 18 years as local union president too). I write songs and sing them, write poems and speak them, see what’s going down in our country and the world and resist it.<br /><br />I’m an Ex-Boy Scout, an Ex-Catholic, an Ex-Good Boy – but I’m NOT a “Grumpy Old Man.” “Grumpy” is a constant state. I’m generally a “Sweetie.” It is true, though, that I have no patience with stupid, conniving grown-ups who, for example, still swear Saddam was behind the NYC and Pentagram attacks. I’m an active activist (I’m told that Humboldt County understands that term). And, finally, “I’m mad as hell, and I’m not going to take it any more!”<br /><br /><br />Where are you from? (originally/now)<br /><br />My Mom was from a small town, Chillicothe, Ohio – the first state capital. My Dad was from Kendallville – a small agricultural town in the northern Indiana. I was born and grew up in Columbus – the present capital and hotbed of right-wing/business clap-trap. Twenty-eight years ago, I moved to Circleville (“Home of the Pumpkin Show” ta-daaaa!!! *2) – located south of Columbus and north of Chillicothe – another small town and – it turns out - more politically backward than Columbus – you know: the kind of place where if you ever get to the point where you no longer know what you’re doing, lots of folks can tell you.<br /><br />Looks like I haven’t gotten too far; but I HAVE traveled – East and West coasts, from New Orleans to Minneapolis-St. Paul, and to Europe twice. Now I’m traveling to California again.<br /><br /><br />What do you do?<br /><br />I write songs and sing them, accompanied by my Uke or by my Band, “Ukulele Man & his Prodigal Sons” *3. I write and perform poetry, and sometimes “act.”<br /><br />I “play out” regularly with the band or solo. All seven of us toured New York *4 and Boston *5; three of us did Santa Cruz *6. We play Festivals*7, clubs, and bars in Central Ohio, and have done our share of benefits. Periodically I get to NYC for the Ukulele Cabaret*8 and for the public-access TV Show “Midnight Ukulele Disco.”*9<br /><br />I’ve appeared in two films: the short Auraprint *10 playing a gay-porn producer and in the full-length Man of Faith playing Rev. Leroy Jenkins’ degenerate neighbor. I recently performed in a stage production, Dr. Danga Grimaldi’s Exhibition Fantastique, part of the month-long Columbus Fringe Festival.<br /><br />I’m a member of NION (Not In Our Name), an activist group dedicated to opposing the Bush agenda*11. Besides attending/marching-in various protests in New York City these last six years, I initiated the organization of “Ukuleles for Sanity,”*12 a group who marched together first in the “No RNC” (“No Republican National Convention”) protest (we marched along near the Green Dragon that someone set on fire soon after passing Madison Square Garden and Foxxx News). During that time we also organized and performed “Dubya’s Ukulele Farewell Party”*13. It didn’t work, but we’re still trying.<br /><br />Having given up on effectively haranguing the local news-rags via “letters,” I’ve started a blog*14 (http://www.ukuleleman.net/blog.html) and have developed a growing number of readers. Check it out!!<br /><br /><br />Why do you do what you do?<br /><br />Because it’s there (to do)? Because I must? There’s some truth in that.<br /><br />Also, I was a little naïve as a “young person” – remember the “Boy Scout / Good Boy” reference above? Emotionally, I was with the revolution of the 60’s, but didn’t have a clue about how to get involved physically. I’m trying to make up for that.<br /><br />At the same time, what I “see” (I’d like to say “as an artist”) makes me pretty “far out” in the context of this Midwestern, Red State, Conservative, Republican, Bible-thumping “oasis in a world of sin” that is Ohio.<br /><br />A fellah has to do SOMETHING to stay sane living in a nuthouse.<br /><br /><br />What are you working on?<br /><br />Well, we’re still trying to get rid of Bush, and will be joining with World Can’t Wait and others on October 5 (it’s nationwide) to “Drive Out the Bush Regime.” The point is to organize people around the knowledge that the only way real change will happen is if the People themselves demand it.<br /><br />Musically, I’ve got most of my tracks laid down for my third CD (all original stuff, as with the first two*15 ). We’re starting to lay down band tracks now.<br /><br />A poetry book has been in the planning stages – on and off – for a while now too.<br /><br />And I’m working like crazy going over my set lists for the California trip - and practicing (old guys think they have to do that).<br /><br /><br />What’s next?<br /><br />A few days after I get back to Ohio we play the Pumpkin Show – it should be interesting – it’s the centennial year for it. But I guess the next Big thing will be planning a trip to the UK to see some friends and play some music, particularly in Glasgow while visiting Alistair Hulett*16 and the Centre for Political Song.*17<br /><br /><br />When will you be here? With who?<br /><br />I’ll be in the area from October 7 through the 10th. I’m playing Six Rivers Brewery October 10, and I’m bringing two Ukuleles with me.<br /><br /><br />Who's that?<br /><br />Tentatively it’s a new Ovation “Applause” soprano uke and an old-reliable tenor “Fluke.”<br /><br /><br />Website? Links?<br /><br />Please check out my Blog (# 14 below) and any other sites that seem interesting!<br /><br />1. Little Brothers: http://www.littlebrothers.com/ 2. Pumpkin Show: http://www.pumpkinshow.com/<br />3. Band My Space: http://www.myspace.com/ukulelemanandhisprodigalsons 4. NYC – Bowery Poetry Club: http://www.bowerypoetry.com/ 5.Boston Sky Bar: http://www.skybar.us/ 6. Santa Cruz – Uke Fest West: http://www.ukefestwest.com/perf.html 7.COMFEST (Community Festival): http://www.comfest.com/schedule.htm and Columbus Arts Fest: http://www.gcac.org/fest/ 8. Ukulele Cabaret: http://www.ukulelecabaret.com/ 9. Midnight Ukulele Disco: http://www.ukuleledisco.com/ (may be under renovation)<br />10. Auraprint: http://www.alienstevens.com/vid_aud_pix/artflixx_m/auraprint.mov 11. NION: http://www.notinourname.net/index.html 12. Ukuleles for Sanity: http://www.ukesanity.org/ 13. Dubya’s Ukulele Farewell Party: http://ukesanity.org/concert.htm 14. My Blog: http://www.ukuleleman.net/blog.html 15. CD’s, “SumoNinjaLele” and “Crazy Old World.”: http://cdbaby.com/found?artist=Ukulele+Man&soundlike=&album=&style= 16. Alistair Hulett: http://www.alistairhulett.com/ and http://www.folkicons.co.uk/alistair.htm 17. Centre for Political Song: http://www.caledonian.ac.uk/politicalsong/<br /><br /><br />Anything else you want to add?<br /><br />Well, I think I’ve said enough, except for:<br /><br />I hope everybody comes out to the Six Rivers Brewery on October 10. That’s my one chance to see everyone!!! I understand it’s not a real late evening; so stop by. The Uke and I will be goin’ at it from early to closin’.<br /><br />Yours - Ukulele Man<br /><br />p.s. Here’s a short list of my “roots” & “influences”:<br /><br />Dad, Big Billy Goat Gruff, Mom, Horton, "Hippity Hop Bunny," Captain Video, Howdy Doody, Pinky Lee, Captain Kangaroo, Scrooge McDuck, Sister Ann Mary, Alfred E. Newman, Mark Twain, Li’l Abner, Tarzan, Uncle Vern, Turok Son of Stone, Aunt Sis, Laurel & Hardy, Hank, Sally Flowers, Soupy Sales, The Kingston Trio, The Mouseketeers, Pete Seeger, Little Richard, Ed Sullivan, Elvis, Sherlock Holmes, Chuck Berry, the Plymouth, Honorable Ball Peen Man, Woody Guthrie, Edgar Rice Burroughs, the Beatles, Edgar Allen Poe, Dylan, "Brown Eyed Girl," Inherit The Wind, Herman’s Hermits, Herman Melville, the DeSoto, the Temple of Psychic Prophecy, The Monkees, the "Jones-Lawrence Memorial Award," Don Quixote, Indian Ike, Twilight Zone, MLK, "The Conqueror Worm," Star Trek, Malcolm X, Robert Frost, Dr. Strangelove, Venice, The Rolling Stones, Fellini, "Ozymandias," Don McLean, Edvard Munch, Animal Farm, Al Crapp, the TR3, Emily Dickinson, Kung Fu, T.S. Elliot, The Crucible, e.e. cummings, Leaves of Grass, Jung, Steven Crane, the Bug, Joe Cocker, Brave New World, Carlos Castenada, "Eldorado," Bob & George, New Orleans, Pee-Wee’s Playhouse, Kenny Sparky Mona and Ray, John Lennon, Café Du Monde, San Francisco, "The X-Files," Waiting for Godot, Oscar Wilde, the Redwoods, The Simpsons, Manhattan, the Eldorado. <br /><br /><br /><br />thanks, Bob"Bob"http://www.blogger.com/profile/03665191979200618536noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20967665.post-1157561023421817372006-09-06T09:39:00.000-07:002006-09-06T09:57:49.876-07:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://myspace-035.vo.llnwd.net/00206/53/05/206245035_l.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px;" src="http://myspace-035.vo.llnwd.net/00206/53/05/206245035_l.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">WE are Coming For Your Gold!!!</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Who are you? </span><br /> Jollyship the Whiz-Bang<br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Where are from? </span><br />Band members originate from all over the country, from Anchorage Alaska to Austin Texas. our current home is Brooklyn, New York<br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">What do you do? </span><br />A multimedia puppet rock opera about pirates.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Why do you do what you do? </span><br />to combine all the best elements of pop, rock, theater and performance art. To be more than a band and less than a theater troupe<br />http://www.blogger.com/img/gl.bold.gif<br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">What are you working on? </span><br />currently we are recording a new album of songs from our last show and writing a script for our next show.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">What’s next? </span><br />a show about a pirate battle of the bands, an east coast tour, and plans to abduct more slaves for our Groupie Galley.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">When will you be here? With who? </span><br />September 7th at the Six Rivers Brewery with the Rubberneckers<br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Who's that? </span><br />your favorite local cowpunk band!<br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">MySpace? </span><br /><a href="http://myspace.com/jollyshipthewhizbang ">myspace.com/jollyshipthewhizbang </a> <br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Webpage? </span><br /><a href="http://www.thewhizbang.org">www.thewhizbang.org</a><br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Anything else you want to add? </span><br />this is our first west coast tour and we are incredibly excited about it. if you like quirky rock songs, high energy performances and absurdity-laced narratives then you will most likely enjoy our show.<br /><br /> thanks, Raja"Bob"http://www.blogger.com/profile/03665191979200618536noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20967665.post-1157084529027350922006-08-31T21:15:00.000-07:002006-08-31T21:22:09.463-07:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://myspace-815.vo.llnwd.net/00572/51/83/572303815_l.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px;" src="http://myspace-815.vo.llnwd.net/00572/51/83/572303815_l.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">The band MAYSTAR</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Who are you?</span><br /><br />The band MAYSTAR.<br />I know all bands say this, but we're really serious: we don't really<br />fit into any genre. It's really frustrating not being about to<br />identify with any certain kind of sound. It makes describing our<br />music a chore and booking shows with similar sounding bands<br />impossible. It's not like we are *that* different, but in a way we<br />are. We're like shoegaze with out all the instruments, indie rockers<br />without the rock, gothic without all the black, alternative, but we<br />just don't sound like Alanis Morrisette. Although a few confused souls<br />did compare us to Nirvanna.<br />Others say our sound is kind of like a spine-tingling stripped-down<br />Pinback and old Black Heart Procession meets Blonde Redhead, Denali,<br />Deerhoof, and Siouxie. That stripped down part is definitley the thing<br />that makes our sound hard to categorize.<br /><br />I am May Jacob<br />and Abe DeLeon is the other half of the band. He's currently making<br />out with his guitar somewhere.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Where are from?</span><br /><br />From. That's a hard question. I've moved over 40 times in my life,<br />first because of my mother's restlessness, and then because of living<br />in foster homes. I've lived many places in California, including Morro<br />Bay (in San Luis Obispo), Nevada, and a couple places in Alaska. I<br />currently live in San Diego.<br /><br />Abe is has lived in San Diego his whole life.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">What do you do?</span><br /><br />I write lyrics, melodies, and sing. But I guess it's not just singing,<br />our show is a little bit like going to see a play. I have my degree in<br />Theatre and I think the years of theatre classes come out when I sing.<br />Like laying down on stage for parts of songs, and kind of acting the<br />songs out, in an almost gothic way, kind of. I also design the dresses<br />I wear for our shows. And I do drawings and graphic design for our<br />CDs, shirts, flyers, and the web-design for our site and myspace. I'm<br />secretly a MAC nerd, but shhh, don't tell anyone! ; ) One step in<br />the other direction and I may have found myself a computer programmer.<br /><br />Abe plays guitar, keyboards, and drum beats. He kind of does a little<br />bit of everything. We have all these things we do for our live show,<br />and he played construction worker for them to come into existence. Abe<br />used to play drums for Soul Junk. He also played guitar and other<br />instruments in San Diego's Jupiter Crash and The Verso. He mostly<br />wrote all the parts for both bands. He's really an amazing guitarist,<br />he comes up with these guitar parts that no one else around here can<br />even play.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Why do you do what you do?</span><br /><br />I have no idea. I've been writing songs and poems ever since I was put<br />into foster homes at the age of 11. They were always just written<br />songs, but as soon as I turned 18 and got away from the foster homes,<br />I started putting them to music.<br /><br />Abe plays guitar because he loves it and it's his way of expressing<br />his feelings. Abe's reason for living is music. Really.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">What are you working on?</span><br /><br />Right now we're supposed to be working on recording new songs, but I'm<br />really sick and so Abe is recording what he can by himself. Yeah, the<br />sick person gets to do the interviews I guess.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">What's next?</span><br /><br />Next we're thinking about touring some more, and writing some more<br />songs. We also have a lot of filmmaker friends and keep talking about<br />making a music video, but so far there hasn't been any time for that.<br />We always get all sorts of ideas for all these things we want to do,<br />and there are just so many that we are just all over the place without<br />any specific direction. We do what we feel. Logic and creativity<br />always get all mixed up together with this band. Whether that's a bad<br />or good thing, I don't know yet.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">When will you be here? With who?</span><br /><br />We'll be playing at the Alibi on Sunday, September 17th.<br />I've had at least five of my friends tell me to say hi to Ian for<br />them when we're there, so I take it this must be a good place with<br />good people.<br />Apparently we get 5 free pitches of Olympia. If you want free beer,<br />you should come talk to me. Seriously.<br />The other band we're playing with is Meru.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Who's that?</span><br /><br />I was told that they are from Portland, but their website says<br />Olympia, Washington. Olympia, like the free beer!<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Website? MySpace?</span><br /><br />Our website is <a href="http://www.maystardesigns.com/">Maystardesigns.com</a><br />I boycotted myspace for at least a year, but finally put up a profile<br />in late 2004. Abe boycotted myspace until just a few months ago.<br />We've just now begun to really use it: <a href="http://myspce.com/maystar">Myspace.com/Maystar<br /></a><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Anything else you want to add?</span><br /><br />I really like carrot juice. Hint, hint.(haha)<br />Let me know if there is anything else you need from me!xoxo<br />May*"Bob"http://www.blogger.com/profile/03665191979200618536noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20967665.post-1155612547326729852006-08-14T20:29:00.000-07:002006-08-25T15:23:06.426-07:00<b>James Brown - Please, Please, Please</b><br /><object width="425" height="350"><param name="movie" value="http://youtube.com/v/MxfRhJjW0hA"></param><embed src="http://youtube.com/v/MxfRhJjW0hA" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="425" height="350"></embed></object><br>incendiary snip from the T.A.M.I Show (try to ignore the indecipherable banner, it goes away)<br /><br />My musical taste was not really formed in 1965. I was entering high school and had gone from being a Cali-surf rock fan (and dressing in Madras shirts) to discovery of The Rolling Stones, who I saw as somehow cooler than The Beatles and other British invasion bands. I knew a little bit about Motown from listening to Top-40 on my little AM radio, but for the most part black music was still a mystery to me. <br />A movie came to play at the El Rey Theater in my hometown that summer, something called The T.A.M.I Show with the initials standing for Teenage Music International. It was aimed right at me. Jan and Dean were the hosts. The Beach Boys were one of the featured acts along with a duck-walking Chuck Berry, Smokey Robinson, The Supremes and Marvin Gaye (inexplicably backed by the uncredited Crystals). A few other acts played at the concert videotaped at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, a couple of forgettable Brit bands and proto-garage rockers The Barbarians, who I recall had a drummer who’d lost his hand and replaced it with a drum stick. <br />Waiting for the Stones to close the show something earth-shattering happened. James Brown came on -- and blew my mind. He did two or three songs, but it was “Please, Please, Please” that stopped the show. An appeal to a lover who’s going to leave him, it ends with James begging “baby please don’t go; please, please, please.” He becomes a man possessed, he can’t let go, not just of the woman who wronged him, but of the audience, and the song itself. He grabs the mic and falls to his knees — hard. His handlers put a cape around him and start to walk him offstage. He stops, throws the cape off and stumbles back to the microphone to resume his plea. He falls again, they return with the cape, he throws it off, tears off his houndstooth check coat, cries out, leaves once again and returns, singing, “please, please, please…” He the word chants 37 times hitting every beat until he is spent. <br />I know now that the song was almost 10 years old at that point, and that the cape business was a routine part of his act, but he had me hook, line and sinker. I went out and bought his then-current hits, “Papa’s Got a Brand New Bag” and “I Got You (I Feel Good)” and I felt good. I picked up Live at the Apollo Vol. 1 and Vol. 2 and eventually a couple of dozen other albums by Mr. Brown, many of which have since been appropriated by my son who knows timeless funk when he hears it. Sure, he’s a lot older now (73 to be exact) and even crazier. He demands odd things like ice cubes frozen from Mountain Dew, and he probably lets his band carry most of the show, but I’ll bet he can still dance 1,000 time better than I ever did, and I’m guessing he can still milk an audience for all it’s worth. So I’ll be there dancing in the aisles of the Van Duzer Monday night when he opens the new CenterArts season with a sold out performance. And I know when he’s done I’ll feel good."Bob"http://www.blogger.com/profile/03665191979200618536noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20967665.post-1155161205516056642006-08-09T15:06:00.000-07:002006-08-14T20:54:29.433-07:00<b>RIP Arthur Lee</b><br /><object width="425" height="350"><param name="movie" value="http://youtube.com/v/OpLEAPGowNY"></param><embed src="http://youtube.com/v/OpLEAPGowNY" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="425" height="350"></embed></object><br>I bought the first Love album when it came out in the Sixties, saw the band as doing something like what was going on in the San Francisco Bay Area at the time. In retrospect I see that what Arthur Lee was up to was quite different, and way ahead of the times."Bob"http://www.blogger.com/profile/03665191979200618536noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20967665.post-1154410178489411832006-07-31T22:29:00.000-07:002006-08-21T00:02:46.576-07:0014 Questions for The Bottom Dwellers<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.bottomdwellersmusic.com/img/bd_3.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px;" src="http://www.bottomdwellersmusic.com/img/bd_3.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br /><DIV><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><B>Subject: </B></FONT><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><B>Re: Bottom Dwellers</B></FONT></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE><BR><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV><DIV>Hey Bob,</DIV><DIV>Below are our answers to your questions...</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Ivan Sohrakoff</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Bottom Dwellers</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">www.bottomdwellersmusic.com</DIV></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE><BR><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV></DIV><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; -khtml-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -khtml-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; -khtml-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -khtml-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; -khtml-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -khtml-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT face="Arial" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Arial"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#FFFFFF"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#FEFEFE"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#F8F8F8"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#F0F0F0"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#E0E0E0"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#C9C9C9"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#C0C0C0"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#ADADAD"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#989898"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#818181"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#787878"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#696969"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#575757"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#444444"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#3A3A3A"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#2C2C2C"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#1C1C1C"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#111111"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0C0C0C"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#080808"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#050505"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><B>Who are you?</B></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></DIV></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE><BR><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; -khtml-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -khtml-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; -khtml-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -khtml-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; -khtml-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -khtml-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT face="Arial" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Arial"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#FFFFFF"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#FEFEFE"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#F8F8F8"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#F0F0F0"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#E0E0E0"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#C9C9C9"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#C0C0C0"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#ADADAD"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#989898"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#818181"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#787878"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#696969"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#575757"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#444444"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#3A3A3A"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#2C2C2C"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#1C1C1C"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#111111"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0C0C0C"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#080808"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#050505"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><B><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000DD" face="Helvetica"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">Four young boys who live on I-5 that sing about trucks,</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000DD" face="Helvetica"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"> </SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000DD" face="Helvetica"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">drinking and George-fucking-Bush.</SPAN></FONT></B></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></DIV></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE><BR><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; -khtml-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -khtml-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; -khtml-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -khtml-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; -khtml-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -khtml-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#FFFFFF"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#FEFEFE"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#F8F8F8"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#F0F0F0"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#E0E0E0"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#C9C9C9"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#C0C0C0"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#ADADAD"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#989898"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#818181"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#787878"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#696969"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#575757"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#444444"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#3A3A3A"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#2C2C2C"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#1C1C1C"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#111111"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0C0C0C"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#080808"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#050505"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><B></B></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#FFFFFF"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#FEFEFE"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#F8F8F8"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#F0F0F0"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#E0E0E0"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#C9C9C9"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#C0C0C0"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#ADADAD"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#989898"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#818181"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#787878"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#696969"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#575757"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#444444"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#3A3A3A"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#2C2C2C"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#1C1C1C"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#111111"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0C0C0C"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#080808"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#050505"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><B>Where are from? (originally/now)</B></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></DIV></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE><BR><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; -khtml-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -khtml-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; -khtml-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -khtml-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; -khtml-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -khtml-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#FFFFFF"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#FEFEFE"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#F8F8F8"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#F0F0F0"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#E0E0E0"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#C9C9C9"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#C0C0C0"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#ADADAD"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#989898"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#818181"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#787878"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#696969"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#575757"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#444444"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#3A3A3A"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#2C2C2C"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#1C1C1C"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#111111"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0C0C0C"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#080808"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#050505"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><B><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000DD" face="Helvetica"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">Mark is a native Woodland American, and remains so.</SPAN></FONT></B></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></DIV></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Adam is a native San Somethingerotherian, but escaped the city bustle for a twangier country lifestyle.</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Chris is a native South Bay boy who jogged all the way to Woodland and stayed there.</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Ivan is a native Humboldt-Countian (Fortunan) who left for school and never came back.</DIV></BLOCKQUOTE><BR><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">We all live within a 4 or 5 block radius of each other in Woodland, California. It's better coverage than the WPD and WFD are able to provide combined. We personally take pride in the level of service, and quality of swampy tonk we are able to provide to our town, even if they don't know they want it yet.</DIV></BLOCKQUOTE><BR><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; -khtml-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -khtml-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; -khtml-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -khtml-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; -khtml-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -khtml-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT face="Arial" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Arial"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#FFFFFF"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#FEFEFE"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#F8F8F8"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#F0F0F0"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#E0E0E0"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#C9C9C9"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#C0C0C0"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#ADADAD"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#989898"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#818181"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#787878"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#696969"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#575757"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#444444"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#3A3A3A"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#2C2C2C"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#1C1C1C"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#111111"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0C0C0C"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#080808"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#050505"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><B>What do you do?</B></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></DIV></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE><BR><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; -khtml-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -khtml-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; -khtml-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -khtml-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; -khtml-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -khtml-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT face="Arial" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Arial"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#FFFFFF"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#FEFEFE"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#F8F8F8"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#F0F0F0"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#E0E0E0"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#C9C9C9"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#C0C0C0"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#ADADAD"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#989898"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#818181"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#787878"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#696969"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#575757"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#444444"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#3A3A3A"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#2C2C2C"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#1C1C1C"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#111111"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0C0C0C"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#080808"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#050505"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><B><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000DD" face="Helvetica"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">We bring honky tonk to where honky tonk is needed.</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000DD" face="Helvetica"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"> </SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000DD" face="Helvetica"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">We live, breath</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000DD" face="Helvetica"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"> </SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000DD" face="Helvetica"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">and eat pickin', strummin' and stickin'.</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000DD" face="Helvetica"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"> </SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000DD" face="Helvetica"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">We drink lots of high</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000DD" face="Helvetica"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"> </SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000DD" face="Helvetica"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">quality beer.</SPAN></FONT></B></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></DIV></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; -khtml-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -khtml-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; -khtml-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -khtml-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; -khtml-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -khtml-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT face="Arial" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Arial"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#FFFFFF"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#FEFEFE"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#F8F8F8"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#F0F0F0"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#E0E0E0"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#C9C9C9"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#C0C0C0"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#ADADAD"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#989898"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#818181"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#787878"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#696969"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#575757"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#444444"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#3A3A3A"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#2C2C2C"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#1C1C1C"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#111111"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0C0C0C"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#080808"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#050505"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><B>Why do you do what you do?</B></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></DIV></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000DF">We</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000DF"> love to play music, and probably because of our varied musical backgrounds, landed on the "twang" genre, with some swamp thrown in. However, most contemporary "country music" doesn't sound very good, probably because of commercialism, confusion and bad taste. We're trying to do our part to take country music back from its ugly mainstream state.</FONT></DIV><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; min-height: 14px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#FFFFFF"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#FEFEFE"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#F8F8F8"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#F0F0F0"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#E0E0E0"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#C9C9C9"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#C0C0C0"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#ADADAD"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#989898"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#818181"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#787878"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#696969"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#575757"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#444444"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#3A3A3A"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#2C2C2C"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#1C1C1C"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#111111"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0C0C0C"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#080808"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#050505"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><B><BR></B></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT face="Arial" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Arial"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#FFFFFF"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#FEFEFE"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#F8F8F8"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#F0F0F0"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#E0E0E0"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#C9C9C9"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#C0C0C0"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#ADADAD"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#989898"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#818181"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#787878"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#696969"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#575757"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#444444"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#3A3A3A"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#2C2C2C"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#1C1C1C"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#111111"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0C0C0C"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#080808"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#050505"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><B>What are you working on?</B></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></DIV></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE><BR><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT face="Arial" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Arial"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#FFFFFF"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#FEFEFE"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#F8F8F8"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#F0F0F0"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#E0E0E0"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#C9C9C9"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#C0C0C0"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#ADADAD"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#989898"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#818181"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#787878"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#696969"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#575757"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#444444"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#3A3A3A"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#2C2C2C"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#1C1C1C"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#111111"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0C0C0C"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#080808"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#050505"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><B><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000DD" face="Helvetica"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">We are working on a new album, mostly writing and working out songs at this point</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000DD" face="Helvetica"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">.</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000DD" face="Helvetica"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"> </SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000DD" face="Helvetica"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">We made our first album by making songs while recording for the</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000DD" face="Helvetica"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"> </SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000DD" face="Helvetica"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">record, but this next one will be just about the opposite.</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000DD" face="Helvetica"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"> </SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000DD" face="Helvetica"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">We</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000DD" face="Helvetica"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"> </SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000DD" face="Helvetica"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">already perform many of the songs which will appear on the next</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000DD" face="Helvetica"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"> </SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000DD" face="Helvetica"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">record, so they'll be seasoned a bit.</SPAN></FONT></B></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></DIV></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; min-height: 14px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#FFFFFF"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#FEFEFE"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#F8F8F8"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#F0F0F0"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#E0E0E0"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#C9C9C9"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#C0C0C0"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#ADADAD"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#989898"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#818181"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#787878"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#696969"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#575757"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#444444"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#3A3A3A"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#2C2C2C"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#1C1C1C"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#111111"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0C0C0C"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#080808"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#050505"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><B><BR></B></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT face="Arial" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Arial"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#FFFFFF"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#FEFEFE"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#F8F8F8"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#F0F0F0"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#E0E0E0"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#C9C9C9"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#C0C0C0"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#ADADAD"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#989898"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#818181"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#787878"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#696969"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#575757"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#444444"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#3A3A3A"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#2C2C2C"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#1C1C1C"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#111111"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0C0C0C"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#080808"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#050505"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><B>What’s next?</B></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></DIV></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE><BR><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT face="Arial" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Arial"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#FFFFFF"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#FEFEFE"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#F8F8F8"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#F0F0F0"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#E0E0E0"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#C9C9C9"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#C0C0C0"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#ADADAD"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#989898"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#818181"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#787878"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#696969"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#575757"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#444444"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#3A3A3A"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#2C2C2C"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#1C1C1C"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#111111"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0C0C0C"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#080808"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#050505"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><B><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000DD" face="Helvetica"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">LA, Seattle, Winters, the usual.</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000DD" face="Helvetica"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"> </SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000DD" face="Helvetica"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">We're opening for the Derailers</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000DD" face="Helvetica"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"> at the Palms Playhouse in Winters, California to kick off our tour de Humboldt. After Humboldt, we're going to focus on our new recording and get that completed. We've done the Indian Casino circuit, the dive bar circuit, and we're planning on doing some festivals next summer.</SPAN></FONT></B></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></DIV></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; min-height: 14px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#FFFFFF"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#FEFEFE"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#F8F8F8"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#F0F0F0"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#E0E0E0"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#C9C9C9"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#C0C0C0"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#ADADAD"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#989898"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#818181"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#787878"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#696969"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#575757"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#444444"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#3A3A3A"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#2C2C2C"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#1C1C1C"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#111111"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0C0C0C"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#080808"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#050505"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><B></B></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT face="Arial" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Arial"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#FFFFFF"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#FEFEFE"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#F8F8F8"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#F0F0F0"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#E0E0E0"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#C9C9C9"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#C0C0C0"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#ADADAD"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#989898"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#818181"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#787878"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#696969"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#575757"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#444444"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#3A3A3A"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#2C2C2C"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#1C1C1C"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#111111"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0C0C0C"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#080808"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#050505"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><B>When will you be here? With who?</B></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></DIV></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE><BR><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT face="Arial" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Arial"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#FFFFFF"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#FEFEFE"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#F8F8F8"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#F0F0F0"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#E0E0E0"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#C9C9C9"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#C0C0C0"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#ADADAD"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#989898"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#818181"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#787878"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#696969"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#575757"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#444444"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#3A3A3A"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#2C2C2C"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#1C1C1C"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#111111"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0C0C0C"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#080808"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#050505"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><B><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000DD" face="Helvetica"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">We'll be in McKinleyville on Friday, August 25th at Six Rivers Brewery</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000DD" face="Helvetica"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"> </SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000DD" face="Helvetica"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">and on Saturday, August 26th at Blue Lake Casino.</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000DD" face="Helvetica"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"> </SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000DD" face="Helvetica"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">We'll be cramming</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000DD" face="Helvetica"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"> </SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000DD" face="Helvetica"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">as much blistering twang into the sets as we can muster.</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000DD" face="Helvetica"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"> </SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000DD" face="Helvetica"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">Be ready</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000DD" face="Helvetica"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"> </SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000DD" face="Helvetica"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">to dance, and wear your shit-kickers. We'll be the only band both nights.</SPAN></FONT></B></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></DIV></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE><BR><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#FFFFFF"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#FEFEFE"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#F8F8F8"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#F0F0F0"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#E0E0E0"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#C9C9C9"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#C0C0C0"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#ADADAD"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#989898"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#818181"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#787878"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#696969"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#575757"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#444444"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#3A3A3A"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#2C2C2C"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#1C1C1C"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#111111"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0C0C0C"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#080808"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#050505"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><B></B></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#FFFFFF"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#FEFEFE"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#F8F8F8"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#F0F0F0"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#E0E0E0"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#C9C9C9"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#C0C0C0"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#ADADAD"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#989898"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#818181"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#787878"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#696969"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#575757"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#444444"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#3A3A3A"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#2C2C2C"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#1C1C1C"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#111111"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0C0C0C"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#080808"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#050505"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><B>Who's that?</B></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; min-height: 14px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#FFFFFF"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#FEFEFE"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#F8F8F8"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#F0F0F0"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#E0E0E0"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#C9C9C9"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#C0C0C0"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#ADADAD"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#989898"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#818181"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#787878"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#696969"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#575757"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#444444"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#3A3A3A"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#2C2C2C"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#1C1C1C"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#111111"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0C0C0C"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#080808"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#050505"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><B><BR></B></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></DIV></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite">Where? Did you see someone? It's just you and me, right?</BLOCKQUOTE></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#FFFFFF"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#FEFEFE"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#F8F8F8"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#F0F0F0"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#E0E0E0"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#C9C9C9"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#C0C0C0"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#ADADAD"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#989898"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#818181"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#787878"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#696969"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#575757"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#444444"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#3A3A3A"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#2C2C2C"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#1C1C1C"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#111111"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0C0C0C"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#080808"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#050505"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><B><BR></B></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></DIV></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE><BR><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#FFFFFF"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#FEFEFE"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#F8F8F8"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#F0F0F0"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#E0E0E0"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#C9C9C9"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#C0C0C0"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#ADADAD"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#989898"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#818181"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#787878"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#696969"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#575757"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#444444"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#3A3A3A"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#2C2C2C"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#1C1C1C"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#111111"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0C0C0C"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#080808"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#050505"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><B>MySpace? Website?</B></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></DIV></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE><BR><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#FFFFFF"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#FEFEFE"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#F8F8F8"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#F0F0F0"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#E0E0E0"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#C9C9C9"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#C0C0C0"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#ADADAD"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#989898"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#818181"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#787878"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#696969"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#575757"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#444444"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#3A3A3A"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#2C2C2C"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#1C1C1C"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#111111"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0C0C0C"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#080808"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#050505"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><B><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000DD" face="Helvetica"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><A href="http://www.myspace.com/thebottomdwellers">http://www.myspace.com/thebottomdwellers</A></SPAN></FONT></B></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></DIV></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE><BR><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#FFFFFF"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#FEFEFE"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#F8F8F8"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#F0F0F0"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#E0E0E0"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#C9C9C9"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#C0C0C0"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#ADADAD"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#989898"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#818181"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#787878"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#696969"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#575757"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#444444"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#3A3A3A"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#2C2C2C"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#1C1C1C"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#111111"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0C0C0C"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#080808"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#050505"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><B><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000DD" face="Helvetica"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><A href="http://www.bottomdwellersmusic.com">http://www.bottomdwellersmusic.com</A></SPAN></FONT></B></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></DIV></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#FFFFFF"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#FEFEFE"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#F8F8F8"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#F0F0F0"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#E0E0E0"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#C9C9C9"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#C0C0C0"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#ADADAD"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#989898"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#818181"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#787878"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#696969"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#575757"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#444444"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#3A3A3A"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#2C2C2C"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#1C1C1C"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#111111"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0C0C0C"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#080808"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#050505"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><B>Bonus question round:</B></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#FFFFFF"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#FEFEFE"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#F8F8F8"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#F0F0F0"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#E0E0E0"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#C9C9C9"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#C0C0C0"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#ADADAD"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#989898"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#818181"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#787878"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#696969"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#575757"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#444444"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#3A3A3A"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#2C2C2C"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#1C1C1C"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#111111"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0C0C0C"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#080808"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#050505"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><B><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></B></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#FFFFFF"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#FEFEFE"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#F8F8F8"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#F0F0F0"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#E0E0E0"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#C9C9C9"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#C0C0C0"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#ADADAD"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#989898"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#818181"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#787878"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#696969"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#575757"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#444444"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#3A3A3A"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#2C2C2C"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#1C1C1C"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#111111"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0C0C0C"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#080808"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#050505"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><B>What's up with all that twang?</B></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></DIV></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE><BR><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#FFFFFF"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#FEFEFE"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#F8F8F8"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#F0F0F0"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#E0E0E0"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#C9C9C9"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#C0C0C0"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#ADADAD"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#989898"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#818181"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#787878"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#696969"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#575757"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#444444"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#3A3A3A"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#2C2C2C"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#1C1C1C"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#111111"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0C0C0C"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#080808"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#050505"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><B><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000DD" face="Helvetica"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">We feel that most modern "country" music is lacking twang, and that</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000DD" face="Helvetica"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"> </SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000DD" face="Helvetica"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">is a bad thang, mang</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000DD" face="Helvetica"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">.</SPAN></FONT></B></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></DIV></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#FFFFFF"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#FEFEFE"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#F8F8F8"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#F0F0F0"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#E0E0E0"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#C9C9C9"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#C0C0C0"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#ADADAD"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#989898"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#818181"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#787878"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#696969"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#575757"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#444444"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#3A3A3A"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#2C2C2C"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#1C1C1C"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#111111"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0C0C0C"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#080808"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#050505"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><B>Did your Humboldt upbringing have any influence on the Bottom Dwellers?</B></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></DIV></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE><BR><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#FFFFFF"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#FEFEFE"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#F8F8F8"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#F0F0F0"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#E0E0E0"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#C9C9C9"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#C0C0C0"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#ADADAD"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#989898"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#818181"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#787878"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#696969"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#575757"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#444444"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#3A3A3A"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#2C2C2C"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#1C1C1C"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#111111"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0C0C0C"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#080808"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#050505"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><B><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000DD" face="Helvetica"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">Maybe.</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000DD" face="Helvetica"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"> </SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000DD" face="Helvetica"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">I (Ivan) really detested country music while growing up in</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000DD" face="Helvetica"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"> </SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000DD" face="Helvetica"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">Fortuna, and in fact, was a bit infamous for my opinions on the</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000DD" face="Helvetica"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"> </SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000DD" face="Helvetica"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">subject.</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000DD" face="Helvetica"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"> </SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000DD" face="Helvetica"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">I wrote articles for the Fortuna High paper voicing my</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000DD" face="Helvetica"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"> </SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000DD" face="Helvetica"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">opinion on the awful commercial country music played during on-campus lunch.</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000DD" face="Helvetica"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"> </SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000DD" face="Helvetica"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">I later discovered that country music doesn't have</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000DD" face="Helvetica"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"> </SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000DD" face="Helvetica"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">to sound bad.</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000DD" face="Helvetica"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"> </SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000DD" face="Helvetica"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">Thanks to musicians such as Wayne Hancock, Neil Young, Junior</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000DD" face="Helvetica"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"> </SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000DD" face="Helvetica"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">Brown, Buck Owens & Willie Nelson, I gained an appreciation for twang.</SPAN></FONT></B></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></DIV></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#FFFFFF"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#FEFEFE"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#F8F8F8"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#F0F0F0"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#E0E0E0"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#C9C9C9"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#C0C0C0"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#ADADAD"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#989898"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#818181"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#787878"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#696969"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#575757"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#444444"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#3A3A3A"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#2C2C2C"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#1C1C1C"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#111111"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0C0C0C"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#080808"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#050505"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><B>How's the propane-fueled van working out?</B></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></DIV></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE><BR><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#FFFFFF"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#FEFEFE"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#F8F8F8"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#F0F0F0"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#E0E0E0"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#C9C9C9"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#C0C0C0"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#ADADAD"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#989898"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#818181"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#787878"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#696969"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#575757"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#444444"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#3A3A3A"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#2C2C2C"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#1C1C1C"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#111111"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0C0C0C"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#080808"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#050505"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><B><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000DD" face="Helvetica"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">The propane part is fabulous.</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000DD" face="Helvetica"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"> </SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000DD" face="Helvetica"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">It takes a little more effort, but</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000DD" face="Helvetica"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"> </SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000DD" face="Helvetica"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">it feels good to make sacrifices for the environment.</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000DD" face="Helvetica"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"> </SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000DD" face="Helvetica"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">Other things</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000DD" face="Helvetica"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"> </SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000DD" face="Helvetica"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">like the broken door, rear air conditioner, and wonky seat belts</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000DD" face="Helvetica"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"> </SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000DD" face="Helvetica"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">are just like any other band has to put up with.</SPAN></FONT></B></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></DIV></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#FFFFFF"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#FEFEFE"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#F8F8F8"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#F0F0F0"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#E0E0E0"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#C9C9C9"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#C0C0C0"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#ADADAD"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#989898"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#818181"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#787878"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#696969"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#575757"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#444444"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#3A3A3A"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#2C2C2C"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#1C1C1C"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#111111"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0C0C0C"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#080808"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#050505"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><B>Car Talk?</B></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></DIV></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE><BR><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#FFFFFF"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#FEFEFE"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#F8F8F8"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#F0F0F0"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#E0E0E0"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#C9C9C9"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#C0C0C0"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#ADADAD"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#989898"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#818181"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#787878"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#696969"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#575757"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#444444"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#3A3A3A"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#2C2C2C"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#1C1C1C"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#111111"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0C0C0C"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#080808"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#050505"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><B><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000DD" face="Helvetica"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">It's a fact.</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000DD" face="Helvetica"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"> </SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000DD" face="Helvetica"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">A song from our debut album called "Company Truck"</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000DD" face="Helvetica"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"> </SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000DD" face="Helvetica"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">was featured on an episode of Car Talk.</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000DD" face="Helvetica"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"> </SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000DD" face="Helvetica"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">We submitted it, and they</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000DD" face="Helvetica"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"> </SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000DD" face="Helvetica"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">played it.</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000DD" face="Helvetica"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"> </SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000DD" face="Helvetica"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">I guess people who like cars like the Bottom Dwellers.</SPAN></FONT></B></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></DIV></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; 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border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#FFFFFF"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#FEFEFE"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#F8F8F8"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#F0F0F0"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#E0E0E0"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#C9C9C9"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#C0C0C0"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#ADADAD"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#989898"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#818181"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#787878"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#696969"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#575757"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#444444"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#3A3A3A"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#2C2C2C"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#1C1C1C"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#111111"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0C0C0C"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#080808"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#050505"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><B>Anything else you want to add? </B></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></DIV></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE><BR><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#FFFFFF"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#FEFEFE"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#F8F8F8"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#F0F0F0"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#E0E0E0"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#C9C9C9"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#C0C0C0"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#ADADAD"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#989898"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#818181"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#787878"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#696969"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#575757"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#444444"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#3A3A3A"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#2C2C2C"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#1C1C1C"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#111111"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0C0C0C"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#080808"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#050505"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><B><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000DD" face="Helvetica"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">Thanks for the interview.</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000DD" face="Helvetica"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"> </SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000DD" face="Helvetica"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">We appreciate the support.</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000DD" face="Helvetica"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"> </SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000DD" face="Helvetica"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">We'll be</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000DD" face="Helvetica"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"> </SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000DD" face="Helvetica"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">selling our debut CD "Twang Americana" at our shows, and we'll be</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000DD" face="Helvetica"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"> </SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000DD" face="Helvetica"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">featuring a great pedal steel player (Dave Zirbel) those nights as</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000DD" face="Helvetica"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"> </SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000DD" face="Helvetica"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">well. Dave is from Sebastopol and regularly plays with Johnny Dilks, The Mother Truckers, and just finished recording some steel tracks on (believe it or not) Sammy Hagar's new record. We decided we needed some star power to take on HumCo.</SPAN></FONT></B></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></DIV></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE><BR></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#FFFFFF"></FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV>"Bob"http://www.blogger.com/profile/03665191979200618536noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20967665.post-1154220550237761932006-07-29T17:49:00.000-07:002006-07-30T01:12:26.386-07:00<b>Edith Piaf - La Vie En Rose - 1954</b><br /><object width="425" height="350"><param name="movie" value="http://youtube.com/v/2-sUzR71wpQ"></param><embed src="http://youtube.com/v/2-sUzR71wpQ" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="425" height="350"></embed></object><br>Found this link on one of my favorite music blogs, <a href="http://www.moistworks.com">www.moistworks.com</a>, where it was part of a post about Marlene Dietrich and Grace Jones with their versions of La Vie En Rose."Bob"http://www.blogger.com/profile/03665191979200618536noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20967665.post-1154030587739556912006-07-27T12:36:00.000-07:002006-07-27T13:03:07.913-07:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://covers.cdbaby.com/r/i/rickscott2.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px;" src="http://covers.cdbaby.com/r/i/rickscott2.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">La La La La La and La Tee Da</span><br /><br />I heard about LaLa.com a couple of months ago and figured I'd give it a try. It's pretty simple, a CD exchange site where you create a list of CDs you want and another of CDs you have but no longer need. I have shelves overflowing with CDs, many of them sent to me unsolicted by bands passing through town, some that I've picked up at yard sales or wherever. Just after I signed up a friend brought by a box he'd culled out of his collection. I posted a long list on LaLa, many of them CDs by bands I'd never even heard of, and put all of the CDs in a box stuck under a chair in my office.<br /> Turns out there are people who want them. Each time someone requests something from my list I slip it into a pre-paid mailer (supplied by LaLa) and give it to the postman. That earns me what they call karma, and in return I get some CD from my wish list. So far I've picked up a Gram Parsons disc, an extended rerelease of The Byrds' Sweetheart of the Rodeo, the first release by The Avalanches and a few others, all of them welcome addtions filling holes in my collection, but not things I would have paid $15 for. <br />LaLa gets $1 plus 75 cents for postage each time I get one, which apparently does not even cover their costs, but they have some grand plan and I'm sure they'll make money one day. Anyway, they came up with this html thingy below which I guess sends you to their site to sign up and possibly to request one of my CDs, not that you'd want any of them, since they are mostly totally obscure. <br />Then again, as I said, there are folks looking for obscure CDs. One guy, who picked up a three-song single by some band called You Am I, thanked me for saving him $75, which leads me to believe I should learn more about the business of selling music online... <br /><br /><br /><a href="http://www.lala.com/frontend/action/karma?userToken=14878@9800&offlala=flash">Click here to get any of my CDs for $1</a> <embed src="http://www.lala.com/frontend/0.0/static/flash/HaveList.swf" width="336" height="355" play="true" loop="true" quality="high" FlashVars="userToken=14878@9800&caption=My Have List&listid=havelist&setname=" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash"> </embed>"Bob"http://www.blogger.com/profile/03665191979200618536noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20967665.post-1153074190226212742006-07-16T11:23:00.000-07:002006-07-16T13:24:05.860-07:0010 questions for the Avant Gardeners<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7056/2115/1600/avants%20%40%20solar%20cook-off%20%2702.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7056/2115/400/avants%20%40%20solar%20cook-off%20%2702.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br /><p class="mobile-post">> Who Are you?<br />> We're the Avant Gardeners... the self proclaimed darlings of the <br />> mysterious underground backwoods Plumas County Funk Scene. the band <br />> consists of the following folks:<br />> Dave Willis ,Vocals and percussion<br />> Art Garcia ,Guitar<br />> Mary Lynn Risley, Bass and vocals<br />> Jimmy Leal, Drums<br />><br />> Where are you from?<br />> Dave- born in Yuba City, Ca. 20 year Plumas County resident <br />> (currently living in Taylorsville)<br />> Art-born in Los Angeles ,28 year Plumas County resident(currently <br />> living in Quincy)<br />> Mary Lynn-born in Colorado 16 year Plumas County resident <br />> (currently living in Indian Falls)<br />> Jimmy- born and raised in Greenville ,Ca(Plumas County)currently <br />> living in Lakeview,Or<br />><br />> What do you do? We have been together as a band since 1993 ,we all <br />> have day jobs...<br />> Dave- Cook/Custodian at a State Preschool<br />> Art- Mental Health case worker<br />> Mary Lynn- Prep-Cook at a local resort<br />> Jimmy-Fisheries Biologist out of Lakeview,Or<br />><br />> Why do you do what you do?<br />> We love playing music together but are not willing to sacrifice <br />> our quality of life and families to become FAMOUS. We love the <br />> music but aren't so sure about trying to "make it big". I think the <br />> reason we're still together and loving it is because we haven't <br />> tried to turn it into a serious business (though we would consider <br />> it if the opportunity presented itself). We do it 'cause we dig it<br />><br />> What are you working on?<br />> We have been recording new songs for a new CD , it's been hard to <br />> get it all together though. Jimmy lives in Oregon and we don't get <br />> together often enough to keep up the momentum required to 'Get 'er <br />> Done'. We haven't considered throwing in the towel yet. We are <br />> still writing new songs and working on them when ever we can. We <br />> have a pact that we made years ago to continue to play till we <br />> physically can't do it anymore...so far so good!<br />><br />> What's next?<br />> Finishing our new CD and reprinting the old one(so far we've sold <br />> 1000 copies locally and at our shows! ('Untilled' our independently <br />> released in 1996). Actually establishing a Web-Site !!! Other non- <br />> fun business related crap to further our music careers. Adapting to <br />> major Global Climate change.<br />><br />> When will you be here? With who?<br />> Friday July 21 in Eureka @ Kelly O'Brien's w/ Big Earl and the <br />> Cryin' Shame<br />> Saturday July 22 in Orleans @ The Orleans Mining Co.<br />> Sunday July 23 somewhere in Humbolt Co. @ our drummer's brother's<br />> wedding!<br />><br />> Who's that?<br />> Big Earl and the Cryin' Shame is a local band that Jimmy's brother <br />> Johnny plays guitar in.<br />><br />> My Space? Web-Site?<br />> Someday soon,we'll keep you posted.<br />><br />> Anything else you want to add?<br />> In regard to our long over due 2nd CD... anything worth having is <br />> worth waiting for. Looking forward to playing Humbolt County!!! See <br />> you at the show(s)<br />><br />><br />><br /></p>"Bob"http://www.blogger.com/profile/03665191979200618536noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20967665.post-1152488273951402522006-07-09T16:37:00.000-07:002006-07-09T16:50:19.776-07:009 Questions for The Shondes<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.shondes.com/Images/Shondes_group02.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px;" src="http://www.shondes.com/Images/Shondes_group02.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br /><DIV><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><B>Subject:</B></FONT><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><B> The Shondes (from NY) </B></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV> <DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Hi Bob,</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">So sorry it's taken me so long to get back to you with the answers to your</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">'questionnaire' - we have been madly preparing for our national tour and are</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">now on the road.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>We answered these collectively... Temim, The Shondes</DIV></BLOCKQUOTE><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"></BLOCKQUOTE><BR><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span"><B>W</B><B>hen will you be here? With who?</B></SPAN></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR style=""></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Sunday, July 30</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">The Shondes</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Dark Side of the Cop</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">@ The Alibi</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">744 9th St, Arcata</DIV></BLOCKQUOTE><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><B>Who are you?</B></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Why, we're The Shondes, of course! We're a queer/trans rock quartet mixing</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">classical, feminist punk, and jewish music with radical politics to make you</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><a href="http://www.shondes.com/Shondes%20Pages/our_songs.htm#">dance and break your heart</a>!</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><B>Where are from?</B></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Brooklyn</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><B>What do you do?</B></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">We make passionate and radical political music about our world and our lives in</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">order to struggle, create change, and to be a force of exuberance that can help</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">sustain our communities.</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><B>Why do you do what you do?</B></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">We are four individuals who come from really different musical/political</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">backgrounds but have all found ourselves in a similar moment where we</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">desperately need the joy that comes from writing and playing together, and feel</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">an incredible passion for social justice struggles. Bringing all that together</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">is the project of the Shondes and in that way it meets all of our needs at a</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">really deep, visceral level.</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><B>What are you working on?</B></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">So many things! We probably spend equal time conceptualizing new songs, writing</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">and practicing, as well as working all day and all night on booking and</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">promoting a nation-wide tour and finding creative ways to make ourselves</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">accessible to and connecting with people in different artistic and activist</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">communities.</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><B>What’s next?</B></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Hopefully after this tour we will be in a position to record and release an</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">album. We have more than enough material and are incredibly excited about it!</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Besides that, we will certainly continue to organize events that are inspiring,</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">politically challenging and fun. For example, this fall we are planning two</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">benefit events - one for the Sylvia Rivera Law Project and one for Jews Against</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">the Occupation.</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><B>How do politics, both personal and global, affect what you do?</B></DIV> </BLOCKQUOTE><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">We make music about what we feel passionate about, whether that's about issues</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">like the Israeli occupation of Palestine or our own experiences of misogyny.</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">The sound of our music reflects our passion for our politics and our lives-</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">it's both intricate and raw, with intense dynamics of tension and release. We</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">make music that is integral and moving to our lives with the intention of</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">providing that experience for others, and that's political- getting or staying</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">in touch with the feelings that come up around all the personal and political</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">struggles we go through.</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"></BLOCKQUOTE><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><B>Your name, The Shondes, is a Yiddish word, which in and of itself says something about who you are, but it's also a word indicating rejection. Do you (can you) simultaneously embrace your heritage and embrace your rejection while rebelling against it?</B></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">It is deeply powerful to us to take a word that embodies this exact</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">contradiction for us and to use it with love, humor and conviction in our work</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">and our music.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>We talk about being Shondes because of the complicated</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">relationships we have to the places we come from and also because of our</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">commitment to putting out our politics and our passion into the world, even</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">when that's not always the most popular or easiest thing to do.</DIV></BLOCKQUOTE><BR></DIV>"Bob"http://www.blogger.com/profile/03665191979200618536noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20967665.post-1152116007517510652006-07-05T09:13:00.000-07:002006-07-05T09:30:00.036-07:00Questions for a former Pickle (from Bill K.)<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7056/2115/1600/sara%20felder%20-%20for%20brochure%202.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7056/2115/320/sara%20felder%20-%20for%20brochure%202.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br /><DIV><DIV>Begin forwarded message:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><B>From: </B></FONT><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">"Bill Kowinski"</FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><B>Date: </B></FONT><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">July 4, 2006 2:16:50 PM PDT</FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><B>To: </B></FONT><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">"bob doran" </FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><B>Subject: </B></FONT><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><B>Fw: interview for north coast journal</B></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV> <SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><DIV><FONT face="Arial" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px; "> Bob--I just got this from Sara Felder. Do you want to post it on your blog? </SPAN></FONT></DIV></SPAN></BLOCKQUOTE><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV>Okay, sure, why not?<BR><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><DIV><BR></DIV><DIV>Oh no! Oh no! Oh no! <span style="font-weight:bold;">Is it too late???</span></DIV><DIV>I've been on the road and I had it in the back of my mind to get back to you on this.... Oh no!!!!</DIV><DIV> </DIV><DIV>Please let me know if you can get it in. </DIV></SPAN></BLOCKQUOTE><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><DIV>I so appreciate you putting out the good word for us and I hope that you have not already gone to press. (Oh no!)</DIV></SPAN></BLOCKQUOTE>Sorry Sara, we went to press yesterday...<BR><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><DIV> </DIV></SPAN></BLOCKQUOTE>Here are Bill's questions and Sara's answers...<BR><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><DIV><FONT face="Arial" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px; "><span style="font-weight:bold;">What's your show about? </span> What will we see?</SPAN></FONT></DIV><BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid"><DIV><FONT face="Arial" size="2"></FONT> <FONT face="Arial" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px; ">Out of Sight is a vaudevillian's attempt to understand both her mother and the Israel/Palestine crisis. To do so, she revisits how her mother became blind -- by staring at a solar eclipse as a child -- and her own visit to Israel in the 80's. It's a comedy with content.</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT face="Arial" size="2"></FONT> </DIV><DIV><FONT face="Arial" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px; "><span style="font-weight:bold;">When did you write this show? Is this the first performance?</span> (If not, some idea of performance history.) </SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT face="Arial" size="2"></FONT> </DIV><DIV><FONT face="Arial" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px; ">Out of Sight was commissioned by the National Performance Network and premiered in Spring 2006 at the Painted Bride Art Center in Philadelphia. It has since been performed at the WomenSpeak Festival in Harrisburg, PA. This is its third venue. It usually takes me about a year of touring before the show settles in so I very mch consider these performances in Blue Lake as part of my process of creating the show.</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT face="Arial" size="2"></FONT> </DIV><DIV><FONT face="Arial" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px; "><span style="font-weight:bold;">What's your background? Where are you from, etc?</span></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT face="Arial" size="2"></FONT> </DIV><DIV><FONT face="Arial" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px; ">I'm from a little shtetl in Brooklyn called Brighton Beach. I lived in San Francisco for 20 years before my partner got in the crazy notion to go to rabbi school. We moved, with our son, to Philadelphia three years ago and are counting the days (many) till we can return to the holy land of San Francisco. Or somewhere relatively close to San Francisco. Or at least in the same time zone.</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT face="Arial" size="2"></FONT> </DIV><DIV><FONT face="Arial" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px; "><span style="font-weight:bold;">Prior relationship to Dell'Arte or the North Coast?</span></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT face="Arial" size="2"></FONT> </DIV><DIV><FONT face="Arial" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px; ">Arcata was a favorite stop of the Pickle Family Circus when I was with them in the early '80s.</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT face="Arial" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px; ">I also brought my solo play, "June Bride: the story of a traditional Jewish lesbian wedding" to the Mad River Festival in, gosh what year was that? (8 years ago or so??). Then I brought my next show here too: "Shtik: a queer play on Jewish vaudeville" about 4 years ago. It's wonderful here. I love Dell'Arte, the redwoods, the bagels. </SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT face="Arial" size="2"></FONT> </DIV><DIV><FONT face="Arial" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px; "><span style="font-weight:bold;">Where did you learn to juggle? How much is that part of your show here?</span></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT face="Arial" size="2"></FONT> </DIV><DIV><FONT face="Arial" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px; ">I learned to juggle in college at U.C.L.A. in the late 70's. Juggling is my best voice in theater work. I love using objects and circus in metaphorical ways. In this show there is mucho mucho mucho juggling. In fact, the whole show is a balancing act between trying to understand "my mother's Israel" which was created to protect Jews from antisemitism and the tragic consequences of creating a country in a place inhabited by a native population. Yes, there's three ball (actually three lemon) juggling, contact juggling, glow-in-the-dark juggling, devil sticks, scarves and knives. </SPAN></FONT><FONT face="Arial" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px; ">And for the first time, I also do a bit of shadow puppets to tell the story of my mother's blindness - shadows to tell the story of shadows. </SPAN></FONT></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></SPAN></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR>"Bob"http://www.blogger.com/profile/03665191979200618536noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20967665.post-1152038632527484572006-07-04T11:40:00.000-07:002006-07-04T11:43:52.546-07:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.zzzsss.com/images/Zs.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px;" src="http://www.zzzsss.com/images/Zs.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">7 questions for Zs</span><br /><br />yo -- s -- zs<br />here are some answers...<br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Who are you?</span><br />sam hillmer, charlie looker, matthew hough, ian antonio<br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Where are from? </span><br />news york city<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;"><br />What do you do?</span><br />Zs was formed in 2000. Zs makes music that is variously categorized as no-wave, _post-jazz, brutal-chamber, brutal-prog, and post minimalist. Zs' music is _angular, repetative, and either very loud or very soft. <br />While Zs has gone through several incarnations ranging from trios to sextets, the group presently consists of Charlie Looker(synthesizer/guitar), Matthew Hough(guitar), Sam Hillmer(saxophone), and Ian Antonio(drums). <br />Zs is often recognized for it's dual function as chamber ensemble and rock band. As a result of their cross-over ability Zs has worked with a diverse roster of performers and composers. <br />Zs has worked with Animal Collective, Gang Gang Dance, Orthrelm, The Flying Luttenbachers, and Big A little a (Aa), as well as Joe Maneri, Christian Wolff, Louis Andriessen, Petr Kotik and Earle Brown. <br />Zs also inhabits a diverse assortment of venues including lofts, galleries, rock clubs, and concert halls. <br />Zs has recorded for labels Troubleman unlimited, Planaria Recordings, Folding _Cassettes and Rice control. Their new studio album "Arms" will be out in _January on Planaria Recordings. <br />The members of Zs have started a family of side _projects including Seductive Sprigs, Extra Life, Moth, Regattas, Hunter Gatherer, Yarn/Wire, and the Scenery Ensemble. <br />Zs curate and DJ the monthly avantgarde music and art party "from B to Z" under the moniker "the B-Keepers". <br />The activities of "the B-Keepers" as well as all Zs side projects is being documented by Zs' in-house CDR label FuckingA Show Releases. <br />In the next year Zs will tour north america three times and travel to Europe and Japan to perform.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Why do you do what you do?</span><br />Zs is part of an ongoing conversation between rock based bands all around the world that have adopted some of the sensibilities of "classical", jazz, and various folk forms... we make music for each other through shows and records that are exciting and engaging to watch or listen to. We want to share this music with as many people as we possibly can and to be part of a community that supports musicians and artists that take risks.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;"><br />What are you working on?</span><br />we are working on our new set, a 25 minute group written piece called the hard EP... we're touring on it right now and are tweaking it and making little changes all the time...<br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">When will you be here? With who?</span><br />we will be there on july 9th (The Alibi) by ourselves...<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;"><br />Anything else you want to add?</span><br />no"Bob"http://www.blogger.com/profile/03665191979200618536noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20967665.post-1151250338612651512006-06-25T08:45:00.000-07:002006-07-01T12:38:17.960-07:00Fwd: For his thoughts as paddles served him,<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://images.encarta.msn.com/xrefmedia/sharemed/targets/images/pho/t043/T043424A.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px;" src="http://images.encarta.msn.com/xrefmedia/sharemed/targets/images/pho/t043/T043424A.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br />poetry embedded in a spam message....<DIV><DIV><DIV><BR><DIV>Begin forwarded message:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><B>From: </B></FONT><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">"Rene.A" </FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><B>Date: </B></FONT><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">June 25, 2006 9:03:24 AM PDT</FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><B>To: </B></FONT><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">"Journal" </FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><B>Subject: </B></FONT><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><B>For his thoughts as paddles served him,</B></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV> <DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Whatever you're looking for...</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><A href="http://wb">http://wb</A>>...</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">From the land of the White Rabbit! Through the tangle of his whiskers, You will fade away and perish! By the heartless Mudjekeewis. "'T Is enough!" then said Mondamin, Of his tall and graceful figure, Filled with joy was Mudjekeewis Every human heart is human, The hereditary hatred, Where the trail of deer and bison That in even savage bosoms "Who is this that dares to brave me? In the melancholy marshes; Only once he paused or halted, From the kingdom of Wabasso,</DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Mudjekeewis?</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV>Mudjekeewis was Hiawatha's mystical father the West Wind, Spirit Keeper of the West in some Native American tradition -- symbolized by the bear, the cedar tree and soapstone...</DIV><DIV>In fact evrything in the message seems to come from <a href="http://www.theotherpages.org/poems/hiawatha.html">Longfellow's epic poem</a>...<DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV></DIV></DIV>"Bob"http://www.blogger.com/profile/03665191979200618536noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20967665.post-1150907824258125412006-06-21T09:37:00.000-07:002006-06-21T09:50:40.526-07:00Re: Dave Ross Macdonald *#* "Knuckle Brass & Bone"<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.davidrossmacdonald.com/downloads/dave1.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px;" src="http://www.davidrossmacdonald.com/downloads/dave1.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br /><DIV>On Jun 20, 2006, at 10:52 PM, David Ross Macdonald wrote:</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Hi Bob</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Dave Ross Mac here with a followup howdy to those I posted my the latest release "Knuckled Brass and Bone" to. I trust it arrived OK.</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">US radio response has been very satisfying with over a 100 additions & 40 stations inviting me in to do 'instudio' performances this Fall which is just fine by me.</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Anyways, if you feel this release is good for review then I thank you for time in advance and I will be in touch with my US Fall tour details once the tour is all lined up.</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR style=""></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">All the best and thanks for your time</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR style=""></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Dave</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">-----------------------------------------------------------</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">visit: <A href="http://www.davidrossmacdonald.com">www.davidrossmacdonald.com</A></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">listen: <A href="http://www.cdbaby.com/all/davidrossmacdonald">www.cdbaby.com/all/davidrossmacdonald</A></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE><BR>David, <DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Good to hear from you. Hope all is well in your world. I was just thinking about you after listening to your album over the weekend -- my wife and I took a road trip to see my son graduate from college in Santa Cruz and I brought it along. I'd been listening to the record off and on since it came by mail, it's another fine piece of work displaying your talent for songwriting. I was especially glad to see that you included your version of "Waltzing Matilda," which, as you may or may not recall, we discussed briefly when you played it at The Red Radish last time you were in town. It's a song we learned in school as emblematic of Australia and Aussie speak -- with much annotation regarding unknown terms like billabong and tucker bag -- but I had not recognized the social/political side of the story until I heard you sing it as a lament.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>On the way home from our trip we had some car trouble, ended up having to stay the night with my old friend Gregg McVicar, who just happens to be a longtime public radio programmer. He currently does a 5-hour-a-day feed called UnderCurrents (<<FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><A href="http://www.airos.org/undercurrents/">http://www.airos.org/undercurrents/</A>>)</FONT> that's sent out to a few dozen radio stations across the U.S. - most of them on Indian reservations (via Airos Radio). We had a little ripping session with the CDs I happened to have in the car. He loved yours and will be adding it in rotation. He was particularly taken with "Waltzing Matilda."</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>One of the reasons I'm sharing all this is because of something that happened when we were in ripping mode. We put your new CD in his computer and it searched Gracenote for track info -- found none. I don't know if this is something you personally would handle, or if it had to do with the fact that the CD you sent was a promo, at any rate, Gregg typed in the track info, then showed me how to upload it, which means anyone else who puts your CD in their computer will get the same info (he uploaded via iTunes I believe). Sounds all well and good, right? Here's the rub: I just slipped my copy of the disc into my computer and viola, the track info came through from Gracenote just as planned -- and just as typed, including a typo -- Gregg inadvertently misspelled Waltzing as Waltzine. Whoops. Don't know if it's something that can be undone. So, be prepared for notes from those who think an Aussie doesn't know the proper spelling of his homeland's most famous song. Feel free to blame it on me. Sorry. </DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>On another note, I see The Waifs are coming back to Arcata for a show at the Van Duzer on August 28. It'll be good to see y'all again. I hope you are coming back this way for the fall solo tour too. Keep in touch...</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>'til then -- Bob</DIV><DIV><DIV></DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV>"Bob"http://www.blogger.com/profile/03665191979200618536noreply@blogger.com0