Washboard
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…
I know you rider with Washboard
28 July 2010
Not much info about these guy besides that it’s a Grateful Dead tune… Great washboard playing though!
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…
Willie the Weeper By The How Long Jug Band
19 June 2010
Ladies and gents, direct from Portland, Oregon: The How Long Jug Band!…
Swamp Train - Rollin' & Tumblin' - Little Red Rooster
27 May 2010
Well, here it is: Swamp Train as seen last Saturday night @ the Blues Club Fribourg! Sorry the sound isn’t any better but it’s what you get with today’s automatic level technology…
Sonny Terry's Washboard Band (With Bones!)
22 May 2010
There I am trying to find information on the web for Washboard Doc, see my Doc, Flash, Lucky & Red - Pretty Woman post, and re-reading the *Early Morning Blues* record credits the following stands out: "His first recording was with bluesman Ralph Willis about 1950. About two years later he cut with Sonny Terry for a Folkways LP, playing washboards and spoons". So I whip out my Sonny Terry's Washboard Band CD and once again go through the pdf file wondering if I missed anything…
I've Been Treated Wrong!
20 May 2010
A great video of the Washboard Chaz Blues Trio playing "I've Been Treated Wrong" at the French Quarter Festival in New Orleans, from PatPeeve416’s channel (lot’s more fine music to check out over there…
Bulldog Blues @ The Red Turtle
10 May 2010
As I’ve probably already written here, I’m finally comfortable with my washboard playing enough to begin working on my nonexistent drum technique. Plus having a snare drum these last two months has also put more pressure on getting some decent bass drum action. So it’s been practice, practice and practice some more which may have been okay if I hadn’t overdone it; but I did; Thursday an unexpected pain in the knee added a high octane dose of anxiety to my stage fright. Still there is never much choice, if you can get out of bed than there it is…
Electric Washboard
20 April 2010
Piezo mic, volume pot, guitar output jack, a bit of work and presto: electric washboard!
But why? you may ask. Because… why not? For fun? A spark of the old punk spirit? Perhaps. Last fall, friend Blaise gave me a piezo mic that he had soldered via some wire to an output jack. A fun thing to have around since you can stick it on to whatever you what with a piece of tape and see what sounds you can make. And it was to put on my washboard but till now, the nagging question: then…
Jeff Golden - Time of the Season (Zombies)
11 April 2010
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