Jan
13
2008

Esta John

(Add / View Comments) (0)Sunday, January 13, 2008 - 03:48:21 pm
(Posted Under: Music Music)
This video from Steve Larson is hilarious. Particularly because of the Marc Norman show I was at when Steve apparently brought an Estaban guitar.

... he's (Thomas Laufenberg) like that guy...what's that guy who sells the guitars on TV? Esteban. *laughs*. For 99 bucks you get like a video cassette, a guitar, this little mini amp which looks like what one those monitors. And Larson swore to me it sounded great. And I played with him like two Sunday's ago, and I played the thing, and it was a piece of craaap. He just liked the idea that it was Esteban. And he pretty much got it because it was such a neat commercial. The guy really pitches you - "if you buy this guitar, you can play like this"... It's nuts.







Funny shit. Steve Larson is so cool! [smile]
Jan
13
2008

Turbo Ocho - Day 9

Persephone

(Add / View Comments) (0)Sunday, January 13, 2008 - 02:30:01 pm
(Posted Under: Tempe Music Scene Tempe Music Scene, Music Music)
Final day of Turbo Ocho, and ocho songs have been reached, only one day over. Pretty impressive effort I must say, and somewhat gutsy to put such limits on the writing and recording process.

The last song is a slow one, and is really nice. Quite different to anything else they've done, and actually quite basic. I do like it though, and if the other songs are anything to go on, it will probably grow on me over the next few days. But certainly at this point, I like it, and kinda works really well as a the last song of the sessions.

I just read a review of the show, which was today, and by accounts, it sounds like it was great. Katie and I were discussing it today, and it'd be great if they'd streamed the show over the net. It would have been a great finale to the past week, but admittedly it's a big ask, and with what they've currently done (the videos, and posting the songs) it's not like this has been lacking in any way. It turns out that Jason Boot's did record the show. Not sure if this is going to a bonus DVD or what, but it's cool to know they may do something with it.

We'd also talked about how much you'd want the show to be Turbo Ocho focused, rather than a typical Peacemakers show. Particularly that if I was there I'd want to see all the new songs together, rather than interspersed through a 4 hour (typical Mexico show length) double set. Apparently they played all the new songs except for Persephone, and then did a fairly long set of the old songs. Sounds awesome to me.

A post game wrap up (like I haven't blogged about Turbo Ocho enough already! [wink] ), will follow as I should keep this limited to day 9, but let me say, 2008 is looking for a fucking great year to be back into Roger Clyne & The Peacemakers! Turbo Ocho has rocked!
Now Playing: Roger Clyne & The Peacemakers - Persephone

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