Meaningful Labor
Uh-Oh, A Rubbed Through Zinc King
23 August 2010
Uh-oh, this week I noticed that I had rubbed through a few ribs of the Zinc King 703’s! Not surprising if you use them like I do but unfortunate nevertheless… Still this isn’t the first time, and probably not the last, so to prevent it from getting worse I took it apart – easy:
- Pull out all 4 nails
- Remove the zinc rubbing surface and wash off whatever limestone sediment and gunk there is with fine steel wool soap and water
- Apply two composite epoxy glue for metal on the areas that have been rubbed through on the back side of the rubbing surface…
David Holt Interview: Percy Danforth playing the bones
22 August 2010
“David Holt interviews Percy Danforth in 1988”
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Homemade Jamz' Blues Band Ottawa Bluesfest 2009
3 August 2010
Their guitars are wild, they groove and it's not that often that I really enjoy an electric guitar blues solo. Hope you do to!
The Homemade Jamz' Blues Band (and also: http://www.myspace.com/homemadejamzbluesband)
PAUL Octopus!
8 July 2010
Octopus predictions…
A) Not much to say about this silliness…
B) The mind boggles at the implications!
Choose your side…
Washboard Gloves With Thimbles
3 July 2010
At first I had thimbles on all my fingers and also had made aluminum “whackers” for my thumbs, but when I started to play with brushes too, I had a hard time not losing the thumb whackers so they ended up remaining in the box. Then since thimbles on my pinkys never seemed that useful I gave up on them too. With three thimbles on each hand I can pretty much get all the sounds I want, plus I can still hold things between the two non thimbled fingers. I should add that I’ve never been that good at tapping and don’t really use each individual finger separately; I kind of rub and tap with one or more thimbles depending on how thick the sound should be…
Cedell Davis - Bull Dog
2 July 2010
Another album picked up 16 -17 years ago in the sales bin was Cedell Davis’ “Feel Like Doing Something wrong”…
Steve Tibbetts - Villanova Junction
20 June 2010
I’ve been a fan of Steve Tibbetts since I randomly chose his album “Northern Song” in the 1/2 price on these unsellable LP’s bin in I don’t know which San Francisco record shop sometime in the mid eighties. I now own all his records which is probably somewhat due to the fact that he doesn’t make that many. In fact I had completely forgotten that I had signed up to receive news since the surprised notification that came this morning about his new record, Natural Causes, was the first I’ve ever received; it being his first album in 8 years!…
Willie the Weeper By The How Long Jug Band
19 June 2010
Ladies and gents, direct from Portland, Oregon: The How Long Jug Band!…
Do It Yourself @ The MEN
17 May 2010
In preparation for the “Night of the museums”, a yearly event when many European museums stay open on a specific Saturday evening until the early hours of dawn, I spent last Friday afternoon at the Musée d'Ethnologie de Neuchâtel with friends Bill, Thomas & Jacques preparing a make your own "La Sonorie" instrument workshop that was to take place the following day.
For this event the different museums rival in offering entertainment of all kinds, in our case we where sharing a space with a “make your own electronic instrument” workshop organized by the diy makaway group from Zurich.
Three instruments were to be proposed: Bongoboites, Pailleasax (see picture) & Tonatems; which you regular readers already are familiar with I’m sure. And since each instrument was to be made from scratch in accordance to the participant’s fancy, we had a lot of raw materials to carry and set up in an convenient way: boxes filled with different sizes of plastic tubing, cans, coat hangers, broom & bamboo sticks, curtain rods, styrofoam, liquid laundry detergent jugs and other containers of various kinds.
Friday Evening At The Red Turtle
3 May 2010
Next Friday Dave & I will be playing at the Red Turtle Club here in town. It’s a bar that recently reopened and that actually has a real stage, not very deep but quite wide, that has already seen a good amount of musicians in the first three/four months the place has been opened. We stopped by a couple of days ago to confirm the gig, I had sent a picture for the flyer but had not heard from the organizer.
I asked about the bar’s name since “Turtle” is pretty hard for french speakers to pronounce and was wondering if there was a story behind it and sure enough…
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