Rob the Fiddler

Had a blast playing last night with The Barry White Stripes. The New music festival had a band scramble as part of their rock auction and raffle. Basically you take a pool of musicians, throw the names in a hat and mix em up to form random bands. Of course, im not sure how the whole fiddle/mandolin merged into it all…but it sounded neat from the monitors. The Barry White Stripes were me and

Dan Lehmann (vocals) from Big Iron
Josh Heidler (Guitar) from Valve
GI Sanders (guitar) from South FM
Spammie (Drums) from Daryl and
Nelo (Bass) from Porn Lab

Fiddle playing chicks. J’anna has a page too.

Funny Email from Shaggy and my response

– “Moore, Nancy” wrote:
> Way ahead of Emily Erwin…..
> I’m really tired of everybody crediting Dixie Chick Emily Erwin with
> popularizing the banjo as a pop music instrument. Kermit The Frog was WAY
> ahead of her….And he’s left-handed.
> -Shaggy.
>

Um…what about Bela Fleck?

And Alabama had Mountain Music which was
pretty much a pop song.

Dixieland was the Rock and roll of its day.
It had banjo
Bluegrass was the Rock and roll of its day
It had banjo
Folk music in the 50s was the rock of its day
It had banjo

Dont forget Steve Martin.

Banjo is an instrument that has VERY strong roots and any american music.

Its when you throw in something completely out of the cultural norm that there is an influence.

Example:
The Beatles can be mostly credited for introducing the Sitar to the pop culture/psychedelia of the 60s. (not the drums, guitar or even pot for that matter)

I would love to see what our view of psychedelia would have been if the Beatles had just gone to Peru!

test…for some reason…blogger aint working to my php stuff. I wish I knew what I was doing.

Best Onion Article EVER. EVER

My response to the claim that I am a rock star. HA. So I went on to describe a typical Thursday night.

Hmmm…its not that this was the plan…it just turned out that way. I suppose by most standards,my day yesterday was far from normal.

6pm - Drive to Waxahatchie for Radio Show.
7pm - Drink Beer in parking lot of Texas Theater
8pm - Play and plug our CD on one of the finest AM stations around.
8:34 - Scowl at JD for saying “ass” on the air.
10:30 - Eat Julie Millers last piece of pizza when I thought nobody was looking.
10:31 - Somebody was looking. Snider requests I save crust for Julie.
10:40 - See rock show - Drink more beer
10:50 - Julie eats whats left of her pizza.

12:30 - Try to talk to Heather Morgan (maybe flirt…I dunno)…someone who looks like her mom does not approve.

12:45 - Meet at Muddy Waters to pick up demo CD for goofy Cover band “Sham Parsons”. Drink Beer.
1:30 - Xpo Lounge. Drink Beer. Try and talk to girl. She seems friendly and I guess knows me. Im thinking I might get a date, instead I get invited to her wedding reception.

1:45 - Some strange guy does a great Kareoke redition of Spider Man. I think I might like this Kareoke stuff.

1:48 - Nude fat guy sings “Big Balls”… poorly. I need more Beer.

2:00 - Against better judgement…I leave Downtown Dallas.

This…suprisingly enough…seems to be an average night. Not rock star….but interesting.

Last Weekend, we scored all access passes to Hank3. I wanted to get a nice picture of me and Hank…but the first thing he did was flip off the camera…..A great Christmas card picture ruined. Oh well…guess Ill put a candy cane over the finger. After that we just ate his food.

Huh….well my compile is about done…so I gotta get back to work. But this little letter has given me a chance to analyze my nights. It seems to boil down to.

1. Drink Beer
2. Unsuccessful attempts to talk to Women.
3. Stealing food from backstage.

A far cry from Sex (getting none), Drugs (dont do em) and Rock and Roll (I play Country).