Category Archives: music

Wil Blades Trio

Wil Blades quartet played us some funky jams at cozmic pizza!

  

 
Skerik sounded great on sax.  Simon brought the funk with his phat beats, and Andy played some killer solos and provided a skeletal structure for it all to rest on. Wil uses repetition like a master. Songs are over twelve minutes long, but no complaints when they sound solid from start to finish, with dynamics and a perky, zip-in-your-step feel! They call San Francisco ” home” thought the band is from all over! Check out their tour dates if you like jimmy smith, Medeski Martin and Wood, or… Good, jazz influenced funk jam bands! On this tour they played some David Bowie covers such as “Life on Mars.”

  

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Jargon and Cambrian Explosion

Jargon is a garage rock band from Eugene. They mix it up by sampling familiar music sometimes but playing it live on their guitars and bass. They played a theremin without a volume antennae, just coming near it sometimes. 
Didn’t I make their lettering look awesome? Cambrian explosion is a drone noise sorcerer music post rock band from Portland. They also play a theremin. 

  I recall some of their songs had oriental and Egyptian sounding scales, and others had a very heavy dub sound like Dub Trio. I apolgize that this drawing is not up to snuff. This really isn’t as good as my usual stuff. For one thing. There is just a red square shape where a guy’s torso should be, the words are illegible and so much of the image is just filled in black. I’m sorry guys, I let you down.  I pledge to make the next 100 better.

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Built to Spill

Boise, Idaho’s most famous band shared their epic rock jams with us in Eugene at the Wow Hall.

   

  
   
Doug Martsch played “The Plan,” “Carry the Zero” and a few other old songs. His solos are long and weird but sound really cool! “Strange” and “You were Right” were unfortunately not on the set list, but it was great. 

   

I drew them several years ago in Austin Texas.

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House of Tarab

This band plays music from old Egyptian films. They have belly dancers dance live while they perform! They are based in Seattle and their keyboard player plays a synth and makes it sound like a dozen middle eastern instruments. 

    
   

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“You don’t need money to have fun” at No Shame Eugene.

http://youtu.be/qLSBirLt2sk
Here I am playing banjo and singing a funny song at the atrium building in Eugene. It’s a fun theatre, anything goes performance space. I’ve made some good friends here. They post sketches, bellydance,  musicians and the rantings of angry people at their YouTube channel.

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Black Magdalene

Black Magdalene have a bass and guitar player, a drummer, and three belly dancers. They also have a sexy vocalist and decorate their mic stand with swag. Combining world music with electronics and live instrumentation they put on a special show.

They call themselves organic dark wave with middle eastern sounds. They have a bandcamp page where you can listen but of course, the fun is in seeing the band play and dance live!

   
  
    
    
 

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Llorona

Llorona play haunting ballads: jazzy, touching, personal beautiful.   

 I’m embarrassed that I drew the violinist with such a prominent nose, so I redrew her as a full body pose.  

Here is the black and white, if you are interested.

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Malcolm Kuntz

 Rockstar Malcolm Kuntz played a set at the hifi music hall lounge. With originals about death, vampires and crime he will make you laugh and think. When he plays Iggy Izaleas and Justin Timberlake covers, all the ladies strip their clothes and gyrate suggestively. 
 

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Eleinvaders

Eleinvaders played Hi-Fi Lounge jan 8.they bring some swing and ska grooves into the jam band sound. There were some real cool ‘call and response’ riffs between the clarinet and the guitar. When they said, “this songs about paradise, that turns out to not be so great.” “I said, hey I saw that Star Trek…and that Twilight Zone!”

  

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