Comedians

I went to two comedy shows in one day! Here are my drawings.

There was a graduation celebration for Leigh Anne Josheway’s comedy writing class. Jeff, Bernie, Susan and Bethany were all doing comedy for the first time!  Susan is an aerobics instructor and had us cracking up with her stories of her childhood.  Bethany claimed to be a “feminist flight attendant” who enjoys keeping people from accessing airline bathrooms with the beverage cart. The pepper haired man in the bottom right is Jeff Jaesch.

Then I went to the wayward lamb for “The Best F*cking Comedy Show Ever” with Alex Rios, Seth Milstein, George Baltzer, Caitlin Weierhouser and Beth Pinkerton.


George recently returned from New Zealand.


Beth tells erotic stories and claims to “love offensive humor.” She won Eugene’s best stand up comedian in 2015.


Caitlin is a total pro, full of silliness, rage and absurdity. She creates her own genre of performance art comedy. She is unique and ferocious.


Alex is Portland based. He’s not afraid to weird an audience out and make us laugh out of awkward embarrassment. His Twitter is @RiosHoneybear

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Evan Greer, Ari and her Banjo, Beat Alice

Evan plays intelligent folk music: about unions, the importance of sharing, environmentalism and peace.  They played a Phil Ochs cover, “love me, love me, love me, I’m a liberal.” I have had that song stuck in my head ever since, especially the chilling final line, “now I’m older and wiser, and that’s why I’m turning you in.” Check them out online at evangreer.org  

I enjoyed Ari and her banjo, she is playing at my vaudeville show In April. She plays fingerpick style with great control! Beat Alice was a very confessional and humorous songwriter.
 

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Ska music: The Toasters, Israelites, the Bandulus, Heavy City, The Longshots

I’m so lucky to live where great musicians play ska music! Here are a few drawings. The Toasters are from New York City. You may have heard their hit,”Don’t let the bastards grind you down.”

   
 
The Israelites are from Portland, Oregon.

   
    

The Longshots are from Eugene and Portland.

  

Heavy City are from Portland! they have many of the same members as the sentiments, and their drummer organizes a ska big band!

  

  Here are some pencils for The Bandulus, Heavy City and The Longshots.
    
    
    
    
 

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Summer Twins, Pancho +the Factory, VCR

 The Summer Twins play beautiful dream pop. They remind me of Tennis, Shannon and the Clams, She and Him, the Shivas, and the Beach Boys. They were such a tight band, with dynamics and beautiful harmonies! Chelsea can solo impressively, and the whole band plays as a cohesive ensemble.  
    
VCR play fuzzy power pop, very fun and some amusing stage antics and between song banter. You can tell they really love what they are doing.

 
Pancho + the Factory were a super enthusiastic party band! Four vocalists! Needs keyboards though. I drew this in pen and I wasn’t happy with the drawing of Jen so I drew her over again. Abbie said, “aw, look how pretty I am!” They dressed up in wild costumes and put on a real fun show. There was a fifties Elvis/rockabilly style to Pancho’s vocals, and a disco vibe to their costumes. Everybody oozed sexuality and the music was pleasantly minimalist, room to breathe. I dug it.

   
 

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Three for silver, Cigarettes and Milk

   

   

    
  

“Iceberg Social Club” live from Eugene, Or.

 

I played a show here in Eugene at the Wandering Goat, opening for Eleinvaders, an indie jazz swing band.  Thanks for watching! I’m so lucky to have Shane Connor from the Longshots on tenor sax.

 

and as a bonus, here we are playing “Stanford Prison Experiment”

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Kneedalus and Naytronix

   
  

I have been drawing many saxophones lately and they are very hard. What I usually do, is just pencil in a rough outline and then “cheat” looking at a photo at home for reference.  

  
This band was very good. Sounded like the Neville Brothers and Paul Simon sometimes. Check them out online.

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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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