I got to see Katee Sackhoff at the Portland comic con. She talked about Battle Star Galactica and had a real sense of humor. What a charmer! I must look up her work on robot chicken and the Big Bang theory.
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Sourdough’s Dreams and Granddad At the downtown solstice fair
Rock and roll with some fretboard tapping.
Granddad call themselves an emo punk party band. They have some charming affectionate lyrics, “you are all my very best friends!” They use a vocal pedal that ads harmonies for choruses, which sounds pretty good with the bare bones guitar and drums combination. I think both members were once in ” Eating for Two.”
The Wolf ad
This heavy band played Danzig covers… I think. I didn’t color it to be more punk rawk.
Almost a Minion at fairbanks folk fest
This group, though they remind us they are not all Jewish, love to play traditional Jewish music. Two clarinets and a midi breath controller making trumpet noises provided the harmonies, and two vocalists sang lyrics in English and Hebrew. I liked a line about, “I’m in love with the guy who says yes to the boss’s assistant’s assistant.”
The Avery Wolves
I’m so excited that the Avery wolves now have PJ on drums. He plays fast! Many years of experience in the frantic punk band PJ Franco and the burnouts have turned him into a drum monster. They played with Wolf AD and Green Tara at the hub. They also will play the fair in August.
Stand up comedy at Forest Web in the Axe and Fiddle in Cottage Grove
If you want to see a video of me doing stand up comedy: check this out. I warn you it does have an Fbomb and a couple of naughty words about human sexuality, (cum, masturbate x2 and clit) but thats quite common in a stand up comedy set, and just a part of the beauty of the human experience, right? But I can and usually perform this set for kids totally clean. I was just super excited about my drawings and wanted to show them off to the nice eco-friendly folks at Cottage Grove Forest Web.
I am available to do children’s parties and bar comedy gigs. I think I’ll soon do a house party show in Fairbanks, and I’m always looking for more gigs!
Dutchess
Saturday I got to see Dutchess (Anchorage) open for The Scurvies and The Mythological Horses.
They played heavy riff based rock and roll like ACDC or The Darkness. Great solos, and some fun queer lyrics.
They have a four song ep free on the web here. There is a female vocalist on the record too.
I drew the drummer Johnathan and Katie who were dressed as if attending a Ren Faire.
Clucking Blossom: Harm, Barcelona Boys Choir, Dangerlot and more!
Clucking Blossom X was held in June in Fairbanks at the Dog Mushers hall. Here are a few photos of me playing taken by my dad, Todd Paris.
This last one is taken by my pal Nick Meurlott with a wide angle lens!
See the pretty stage? I helped Elliot and Mike put it together and used a screw gun to attach the fake flowers to the front. Thank you Kendra, Jody, Jack, Elliot, Matt and Donald for putting it together! If you have more photos I could share here, let me have them please! Here are some more photos of drawings I made.
Milk and the Honeys played as a three piece.
Laila O’Sullivan rocked a solo set with her piano.
(this photo by Nick Meurlott) Chris from the Scurvies played a few solo songs.
Toasty Tristan and the Crispy Mother F$&$^@ played a silly, funny set. I’m so sad they can’t play the fair!
Barcelona Boys Choir contain’s zero boys from barcelona, they play energetic country rock and roll and have a trombone! I love the bands “Naked Men” and “Not Enough Flannel” and this seems to be the bearers of the torch
Dangerlot is a fun new band that plays positive happy punk music. Nick is so talented and wacky, I love his energy on stage. He said, “there’s a totally legal and safe way to get your friend high, you just put them on your shoulders!” Here is a link to his blog.
Harm played a beautiful set. If you haven’t caught them yet… uh, go see them sometime.
This photo is not by me, its by megatronmchugh. I should note that the band harm was missing two of its key members, and Hannah (from Bacuntry Bruthers) was subbing in for bass.
This band didn’t play at clucking blossom, its just a bonus! I happened to ink and color this like 6 months after they played.
Cherry Poppin Daddies
Awesome show, especially, ” you can beat me daddy, but you’ll never beat me!” This band always has fantastic horn riffs.
