Self Playing Guitar

This is strange, bizarre and not quite right. It is a very cool piece of animation and a nice musical piece.

From 2006-2007

This is interesting.

A drummer that doesn't over play

My brother e-mailed me this clip. I thought about doing this myself years ago when I drove a tractor in a filbert orchard. These guys did it better than I would. It is actually listenable.

As promised. . . I saw the Police!

I thought that ticket prices would be prohibitive but I bought a ticket of Craig's list for $30. Elvis Costello opened. It was a good time and I am glad that I got to go. Here is a cell phone video from the show. There is a little bit of the new percussion intro to "wrapped around my finger". It was pretty cool.

A blast from the past

I remember seeing this and thinking "this is all that is right with Rock and Roll." I felt like Conan at the end.

The Pre-War Marine Band

Some harmonica folks wanted to see the other side of this so I am posting it.

This is obsession

http://www.astromech.net/

The Star of the County Down

I really like this song. There is nothing special about this arrangement but I really like the singers voice. It is also a little bizarre that it is from Serbia.

MMMM. . .Bacon

http://www.baconsalt.com/
They seem to be serious folks.

Interesting

Pre-War Marine Band Harmonica

I have wanted Pre-War Marine Band for some time. I recently obtained one that is basically the same construction as the current model. It does have the back edges bent in and it sounds great. Thin I stumbled on this one on E-bay. It is from at least the 20's. Note the "mouse ears" where the nails are found. The harp is in pretty decent shape and is quite playable. It sounds really good. I don't know if it is the tuning, construction or just nostalgia but I like these much better than the current models.

I've never heard of this guy

They don't do it like they used to.

Great Site for Decent MP3s

I was poking about on the Gibson Guitar web site. I found this link.
There is quite a variety and they are free. The "Gibson Recomends" tab also has some reviews that have some good free MP3s as well. Wilco, Neko Case, Otis Taylor, Mavis Staples and some other cool folks.

My Vintage Harmonicas

Here is a old Hohner Old Standby that I recently purchased. I got a set of four in E, A, G, and D. They are all in relatively good shape. These sound wonderful. I was going to keep them as collectibles but they sound to good, so they may end up replacing some of my new harps. Click on the picture to see more pictures of these as well as my Hohner Up To Date and Magnus Plastic Diatonic.

Hazmat Modine

Muddy Water's Harmonica Player

Great Song

Usually these big super group things are a little flat but this is pretty cool. I actually heard this song last week in a Goodwill. I just remembered it. Here it is.

What do you want to read?

OK. After just publishing a post on a Sharpie pen, I have come to the realization that this blog is pretty shallow. Is there anything that you want my position on, or should I just go on talking about harmonicas show some more clips of Bulgarian Bagpipers?

Most Useful Computer Tool

After sorting through about 200 un-labeled CD-Rs, I have decided that everyone who owns a computer should have one of these. I don't know how many copies of SUSE Linux I had (none of them actually worked by the way). I am thinking about putting a pen holder on the side of my computer so I will never be without one. I hear they come in colors now.