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Here’s another one of us playing the Douglas County Democrats picnic, this time doing “Skinny Woman”.
Couple of interesting notes here. First of all, we did kind of an experimental stage rig at the picnic. Rather than use a PA we tried out our ultralight performance rig. I’m singing, playing guitar and working that porchboard all through the guitar amp… which is a Vox battery-powered DA20. Its about the handiest amp I own. I use it all the time now. You can plug a guitar into it, also a mic and one other sound source (in this case the porchboard). Jack played his box without amplification, and used his little Epiphone Valve Junior. I thought it sounded pretty good. This is the way we play small gigs now, and also when we play on the street.
Now the other interesting note about this gig was, during this song, I was amost killed by that juggler.
At about 2:15 of that video, he spun around real fast and threw a damn juggling pin at me. It happens fast cause he was a sneaky bastard, but he missed, he only hit my porchboard and the mic stand. He disappeared before I could settle up with him after the set. He was obviously an undercover Republican operative, an assassin posing as a juggler, but the plot failed.
Also, an old dog named Barlow, who had been getting fed BBQ all day, wandered by later and pooped on the grass in front of Jack.
Quite an afternoon. :)
Posted on December 4, 2008 ()
Todd Mauldin is a blues philosopher living in Reno, Nevada, who performs solo, as well as with his partner Jack Doyle as The Hellbusters.
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