Gigs!

By admin | Published: March 2, 2010

Smell The Glove Utah was a blast!  Hursty, me and my awesome friends had good turns, good times, good tunes and a shitload of laughs.  I am now in search of a Trace Elliot Velocette in the $300 range to replace my 65WATT Blues Deville.  If you have one I’d like to try.

We have gigs booked so now I can start filling this site with some content outside of the treats I jam on youtube.  I hope my bandmates start to contribute too.  Also, you fans can comment on any page or post on the site.  We have not played together in at least a month so I’d like to kick off fan participation by posing a question:  Should we practice the night before the show and BUST so we don’t go out with a loaded gun on THU ~ OR ~ should we RETAIN and blow our month-long load on you at the show unpracticed?  Please comment BUST or RETAIN if you have an opinion one way or another.

Upcoming Shows:
Joclyn’s THU March 4th 10PM

Riddle Ale House April 3rd 10PM

Posted in Uncategorized | 1 Comment

Snow

By admin | Published: February 12, 2010

Well there has been a cloud of snow over me for most of the winter here in PA.  It even caused my band-mates to bag practice and not call me to let me know that was what they decided.  I sat there alone waiting and when I called Bundy he hit the ignore button on his phone.  He’s so funny!  We will only be able to get one practice in now before our gig THU 03.04.2010 at Joclyn’s in Media because I am going to Utah next week.  I really hope this snow cloud follows me there.

Van Snowden

Van Snowden

And when I get back I will get my van fixed.  The snow should have it clean as a whistle.

Posted in Uncategorized | Leave a comment

2010 Snow Storm

By admin | Published: February 11, 2010

DAVID BOWIE – First TV appearance 1970 – SPACE ODDITY
Some classic Bowie

John Frusciante Interview VPRO 1994 (4/6)
This used to scare the shit out of me. This dude is one of my most favorite musicians and pretty much made me not be able to watch people fix in any form of media. John Frusciante is still alive and I am really happy about that. Bowie segue.

Red Hot Chili Peppers – Under The Bridge
More music from that domain.

Amsterdam Acoustics – the XX : Crystalised
This is how I got here.

More the xx
Live drum machine operator.

Posted in Uncategorized | Leave a comment

Getting By

By admin | Published: February 1, 2010

So I have some new installents to the youtube dj action.

John Lennon, Keith Richards, Eric Clapton and Mitch Mitchel
First in from Burlingame, CA- my bro-law sent me this clip while I was chatting about him and sharing some of his photos from NoCAL camping trips. He looks happy and has made me happy with this slice o history.

Toots And the Maytals – I’ve got dreams to remember (Cover)
When I first moved to Utah I swear 4 out of 5 bands, when asked about what their music was like would say, “Early Talk Talk/Jeff Buckley”. My friend and neighbor is in Haiti right now covering the tragedy as a journalist. He honestly confessed to me that Talk Talk, the early stuff, could de-throne the Beatles in his heart’s castle. I asked him to send me this one video of Talk Talk he was showing me when he said that and this is what he sent me…from Haiti. Be safe friend and neighbor, and thanks for the Toots.

Posted in Uncategorized | Leave a comment

Beach House

By admin | Published: January 29, 2010

I really like this, but Baltimore is not for me:

Posted in Uncategorized | Leave a comment

Boots

By admin | Published: January 29, 2010

Been working on this number for at least a week. Bob was doing a counter melody on the right hand that pushed my right eye to the left. Swinging it out is what’s up.

Posted in Uncategorized | Leave a comment

Good Music

By admin | Published: January 20, 2010

It’s always fun to kick it with some audiophiles and youtube for great audio files. People do this a bunch on face book but while we don’t have much to report from day to day with the band I’ll try and share some of the good stuff I have been picking up on R3Band.com.

Sukiyaki – Ue wo muite arukou – Kyu Sakamoto
I first found this song a long time ago on the Golden Jew web site Gene Ween used to have. I saw it on my neighbors links page and he had a great story about how he popped it on the record player when his oldest daughter was small and she reacted and approached him for a dance.

Beach Boys – God Only Knows a capella – no music, just vocals
Before that we were listening to this collection of Beach Boys tracks from Pet Sounds with the music tracks backed out. They were like 24 and such badasses.

Sham-A-Ling-Dong-Ding – Jesse Winchester Spectacle
Last week another neighbor introduced me to Jesse Winchester. How could I not know this guy who makes Neko Case cry like that?

Gene Clark – Silver Raven
On my way out to jam with some friends over the weekend I listened to a documentary on the Byrds on the radio. What a ride for a band. The stories of kicking out David Crosby were amusing but I latched on to the Gene Clark stories. His departure from the Byrds happened when he had a nervous breakdown and had to get off an airplane. Roger McGuinn told him he couldn’t be a Byrd if he couldn’t fly and that was it. So I am trying to take in all his songs and learn something.

Roky Erickson And The Explosives – Austin, Tx. 1980
I came across some Roky Erickson videos in the wake of an East Coast gig last week and just needed to pick things up here.

Posted in Uncategorized | Leave a comment

I Found the Simple Life Ain’t So Simple

By admin | Published: January 16, 2010

So people die and never were there a truer fact. We can’t all stay here forever …[so I'm going to write my words on the face of today(Shannon Hoon)]. Losses in 2009 hit me hardest with Soupy, Michael Jackson and Britney Murphy.

This week Philadelphia’s Teddy Pendergrass died and so did Memphis’ Jay Reatard. I like his music and he was a hell of a performer. I heard more about him then I heard his music. In this documentary I had mixed feelings about his acting as if the apple pie with melted american cheese was genuine. That is what Robert Deniro in Taxi Driver orders at the diner with what’s her face from Moonlighting.

David Lee Roth is still alive. And so are you. Do what you gotta do.
david-lee-roth




Posted in Uncategorized | Leave a comment

UTAH!

By admin | Published: January 13, 2010

So last year was my second time back to Utah in the 10 years I since I left. Its easy to keep track of that number based on the age of my son, having moved home on an even year for all that. Last year I was in Las Vegas for a work conference and hooked up with 2 of my former colleagues. It was a blast reminiscing about the old days and Brown decided to motivate organizing a weekend where the old crew would reconvene.

In the tradition of breaking tradition we are making it tradition. The weather in SLC has been reported one of the worst inversions ever. My last post was in sympathy of that on one level. It started snowing right before we went up last year and continued until after we left. Here is a video from that week:

Utah, hold on hope. The boys are coming back in February.

Posted in Uncategorized | Leave a comment

Good Times

By admin | Published: January 10, 2010

So after 2 nights of gigs I am ready to hit the road but ya know I got mouths to feed. During the past 2 shows strangers have approached me to buy cds and tell me we reminded them of Big Star and Blues Traveller.  Friends told me that the new shit is too soft for them and others told me that the old shit was too hard and that they love the new stuff.  Music is all about constant growth and constant contact with a receptor  and I am totally grateful for everything it has done for me in life.

Here’s my newest song:

Posted in Uncategorized | 1 Comment