A great big tip of the porkpie to GW for a mid-day alert yesterday to last night’s Brave Combo show. Brave Combo is one of those handful of bands I’ll see any time I can. The first time I saw them was in Wyoming. To close the show, they capped…
When I was a young man and lived in Boston, I played in a band called The Zinnias, later reconfigured as Buffalo Rome and finally as The Magnetic Fields. I played on the first Magetic Fields album, The Wayward Bus, way back in 1991. Since then they have become somewhat…
After her recent post on Robert Newton, Maggie asked me to find some more movie pirates. Of course, Errol Flynn is probably the most famous, in the role of my noted ancestor Peter Blood – Captain Blood. In addition to him and Johnny Depp there are such natural swashbucklers as:…
I’ll be participating in another multimedia extravaganza on August 23 and 24 at 1512 62nd Street in Emeryville, featuring text, film, theremin and of course tuba. It’s 7:00 Saturday and 3 pm Sunday. It’s a benefit for the La Casaita Preschool, so the admission is a rather steep $35 for…
I’ll be playing the tuba and reading a piece by J.C. Brunner of the Brothers Twain next Saturday night, June 14 at 8:00. The performance is at 1512 62nd St. (at Hollis) in Emmeryville. The suggested donation is $10. More information (and pictures) here
