July 2010
Le Bar King au bord du lac
1 July 2010, 14:06
In the summer, the Bar King set up an ice cream stand on the lac side in downtown Neuchâtel and invite groups of all different musical horizons to play. For the whole program check out the Le Bar King au bord du lac website.
And for those folks interested in the Blues, please take not that the Crawfish Blues Band concert has been moved to July 14th 2010.
Cedell Davis - Bull Dog
2 July 2010, 15:23
Another album picked up 16 -17 years ago in the sales bin was Cedell Davis’ “Feel Like Doing Something wrong”…
Special 2-day T-shirt sale starting July 7!
3 July 2010, 09:56
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Washboard Gloves With Thimbles
3 July 2010, 18:10
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…Vampire Wedding Cake Adornment
6 July 2010, 13:05
It’s has been a while since I’ve made it back to the states, unfortunately, especially since there have been a number of events that I’m really sad to miss. A recent one was a niece’s wedding over in the dark lands of far away Vermont, (shudder) and although this blog usually avoids subjects like family going ons I couldn’t help but want to share the fantastic vampire couple wedding cake adornment that her sister made for this special occasion!PAUL Octopus!
8 July 2010, 11:56
Octopus predictions…
A) Not much to say about this silliness…
B) The mind boggles at the implications!Choose your side…
Wacom Cintiq 12WX
9 July 2010, 21:58
I’ve been using an Intuos 3 8×6 for the last couple of years and really consider it the most useful tool for working at a computer so I guess it’s no surprise that I’ve been looking at the Cintiq series screen tablets with some curiosity and desire since I focused on them a few months ago. It also seemed that my mom, who is also an artist, could profile by using one. She tried a Intuos 2 way back when, but drawing on the pad while looking at the screen didn’t work for her so after some hesitation I suggested she try one… Which is why she asked me to install it on her Mac a couple of weeks ago, which I quickly tried to do (being in a bit of a hurry at that time), but wasn’t able too. Which led to it coming home with me so I could figure it out first… So here I am adapting, kind of, to a Cintiq 12WX.
Sticking it onto my Windows 7 machine worked fine and it didn’t take long to figure out that it had probably also installed perfectly on my mom’s Mac. The issue was simply that since it’s screen was set as an extension of her main screen I hadn’t realized that unless you set the “display toggle” to “pen display” and “force proportions”, when you switch between the two screens you can end up with the mouse pointer on the main screen but off to one side of it… As it was I couldn’t set anything up since whenever I toggled over to the main display the mouse pointer disappeared. So I’m like “where’s the pen? This isn’t working…” :P
Which is why “what I dislike about it” gets listed first.
CRUDE GREED
10 July 2010, 13:43
Just a happy reminder, least we forget, that crude oil continues to “leak” into the Gulf of Mexico at a speed that in fact, it’s pretty hard for the human mind to grasp. Think about the whys of this disaster when you use your car to go to the corner store…
The David Wilcox Music Video Channel
Dot Earth's Continuing Coverage Of The Oil SpillCutthroat Shamrock / Muddy Roots Festival 2010
12 July 2010, 11:40
The occasional search for bands with washboard players sometimes brings forth the coolest bands, and although I couldn’t find a video in which Johnny Hyena (credited for congas, bongos and washboard) is actually playing a washboard I’m posting this one anyway! Bluegrass meets punk with a head of celtic, or was it the other way around? No matter! These guy rock!
I (heart shaped guitar) The Blues
14 July 2010, 12:04
Don’t forget to join us (The Crawfish Blues Band) tonight down at Neuchâtel’s lakeside for a wild evening of old and new blues tunes! Hopefully we’ll get a few decent recordings of a song or two to replace the dusty and poorly recorded one we have on our band website. As far as promotion’s is concerned this band has a lot to learn… but anyway… what can you expect of a bunch of old geezers. Which got me thinking of just how male/macho the whole blues scene is….
The Magnificent Vuvuzela!
16 July 2010, 11:25
Now that the world cup is over, it’s time to get back to something a bit (excuse me) more serious…
A Very Windy Evening Of Blues
16 July 2010, 19:34
It’s been a while since we’ve all played together so it was nice to have what was supposed to be a relaxed informal outdoor lake side café gig to get things going again at the King Du Lac. And it was pretty much that if you remove “relaxed” from the list since there was a storm wind blowing Wednesday evening that threatened gobs of rain which didn’t come – fortunately – but which did make it very hard to set up the sound an actually hear what we were playing. Before you knew it the music was blown away over the waters never to return leaving me, for one, struggling to hear the little that was left. I’ve probably gotten too used to playing in a cellar in which my little drum set is far to loud too; fireworks! Outdoors it’s like a cheap little firecracker, pthiip…, did you hear something? Not sure, can you turn up the guitar?
And then the wind would change and I’d only here the bass or the harmonica, just bizarre… and not the best to all be together now…
A steam boat ride on the Lac Léman
18 July 2010, 11:54
St. Gingolph
A few picture from yesterday's boat ride around the east - upper lac - side of the Lac Léman (lake Geneva). We were...Swamp Train In Concert...
24 July 2010, 13:16
Swamp Train’s first concert (a marriage party) is later to day so I’ve been getting ready for it, as well as spend time helping friend Bill build speakers – more about that soon – two reasons among others the bogging has been slow… Hope everyone’s enjoying their summer…
I know you rider with Washboard
28 July 2010, 20:37
Not much info about these guy besides that it’s a Grateful Dead tune… Great washboard playing though!
Personas For Firefox
29 July 2010, 10:34
Had some fun making a few Rattlebrained Firefox Personas.
These, if you don’t know, “let you personalize the look of your Firefox browser!” I think you need Firefox 3.6 for this as well as installing a little add on extension. It’s cool and there are more to come so check back soon.
