Tomorrow Eve

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amazing feat of no-PRO performance 3/15
NPR story on ASCAP/BMI: The owner of the Bazaar Cafe has put a large sign on the wall, easily seen from the audience as the musicians perform. It reads, "ASCAP and BMI want my dough. If you play covers, out you go." But not me! I'll be playing a set of 100% covers there on Monday [...] […]
a troupe of aerialists
I love this shot. Check out the large size to really put yourself into the action. It's from Jon Udell's trapeze photoset. […]
Horace Weston’s Electronic Jig
I know this is obsessive, given that I've already done five, but I have two new versions of Horace Weston's Old Time Jig, this time dated March 3, 2010. I thought I was done with this tune but I happened to play it at a slower tempo that was just right and magic happened. The [...] […]
Horace Weston’s SF Jig
In this awesome gurdonark travelogue video using Horace Weston's Old Time Jig for the soundtrack, I especially like the canned Windows Movie Maker transitions from cut to cut. Very 2010. Today I finished my meetings in time to catch the BART back to SFO and my hotel. I was able [...] […]
how tater bug mandolins got their name
The Potato Museum on potato beetles: In the 1870s the presence of the beetle was so much a part of the Eastern scene that for a brief time ladies black and yellow-striped evening capes were the fashion. And a joke of the period had potato beetles studying mailing lists of seed companies to find out who [...] […]
homestyle mandolin sample pack
I have put together a sample pack of rootsy solo mandolin, a "matched set" to be used in different places in a long form podcast, radio show, or video. The set contains segments from a second or two up to about a minute, to be used for cues, hits, bumps, interstitials and voiceovers. The [...] […]
blues names
Blues musician names: Bat "The Humming Bird" Black Spider Dumplin' Wade (Monkey) Bolden Charles "Cow Cow" Davenport Albert "Tongue Tied" Allison Brother Hardup and Company Tye Tongue Hanley Mumbles Meat Head Johnson […]
home vaudeville & circus shots
These early vaudeville and circus photos: feel like family snapshots -- just pictures of the kids, really -- but from a family of circus performers: […]
aerialist #5
This reminds of me Barrel Full of Monkeys Thanks to gurdonark. […]
Three specially famous lady aerialistic stars
Hubba hubba. […]