Category: Video
0 Will Google+ Beat The Facebook?
Lookout Facebook: Google recently launched a new test version of their own social networking site – Google+. Currently available by invite-only (thanks Brad of Gypsy Space Caravan for the heads up), Google is currently ironing out the kinks and preparing for a full public launch. One has to wonder – just as Myspace finally met its day, will Facebook too soon be swept under the rug? With recent issues of privacy within Facebook and a ADD-like world consciousness, will Google+ be the next big thing? Search engines, Gmail, maps, docs – they do pretty good with these… but just how good is Google+?
Here’s a little review:
0 What We’ve Been Up To Lately
Good times in Jackson, MS last night. But so much has happened since then and when we last talked. Hmm, let’s see… where to begin?
The six of us (Me’n’Charlie’n’Bootsy’n’Jimmy’n’Matt & Clay) arrived homeless back in New Orleans at the end of June from our S/SE tour. Bootsy left for Europe for a month, and the remaining five of us found a nice, cheap, big place in the Marigny to lay low for a while. We now live at 1234 Fake St:
We’ve been getting by, hustlin’, bustlin’ & busking (catch us today in Jackson Square and on Frenchmen late afternoonish, getting a slow start) & playing club gigs when we can pick up a drummer (Dave Shirley from E Company has been a godsend ringer). Catch us at Moe’s BBQ in Daphne, AL this Friday, and at the Blue Nile on Frenchmen Street this Saturday with E Company and the Alex McMurray Band. This show is going to kill…
Also, we’ve picked up a manager – the venerable miss Jaime Coggins. From Holy Ghost Tent Revival (of whom she also manages) to P-funk to Jaco Pastorius to Roberta Fleck, her taste is direct and without falter, and her judgment – keen and sharp like Japanese folded steel. She’ll be handling most of our business end from now on, I’ve updated our contact section should you need to contact her regarding gigs, private parties for the Queen of Atlantis, etc. Here’s a little Leonard Cohen / Dr. Dog mash-up to honor our new union:
Looking forward, we’ve got some big things planned for the rest of the summer. Bootsy gets back from Europe at the beginning of next month, and then the 6 of us will be hitting the road hard (check the sidebar for dates ->) – got another South/Southeast tour (TX, LA, MS, AL, TN, FL, SC, NC, VA) this August, then, come September, we’re headed to Colorado…
Big things in the horizon my friends…
It’s a funny thing, how life moves at such an incredible pace.
Your Friend,
~ Noah Adams
P.S. Our 4th album is fully recorded and currently being mastered by Bhob Rainey (who also did Volume Two, a true gentlemen of sound). Me’n’Charlie just finished hand-drawing the cover art ourselves this weekend. Peep it:
0 Tonight! Three-Ring-Circus New Orleans Homecoming Show!
3 ring musical circus tonight in New Orleans!
Tonight prepare yourselves for the best damn free show you’ll see on Frenchmen all summer long. Hosted by the Maison de la Music & Openhouse Music, It’s going a little something like this:
10 pm (Front Stage)
Megan Jean & the KFB. Guit, upright, stompbox, banjo & washboard-slangin’ Charleston Gothic Blues duo. This shit will kick your ass.
11 pm (Back Stage)
Back (literally, today) from a month long tour of the S & SE, Dirty Bourbon River Show takes the stage. New, unheard songs, burlesque interlude, fire, whiskey pours & more, it’s going down tonight ladies & gents.
Midnight (Front Stage)
Atlanta, GA’s Blair Crimmins & the Hookers. Variety Hour Dixieland rock – stuff that makes you boogie. Don’t miss this one folks. The Maison (508 Frenchmen), 10pm tonight – and best of all, the show is free.Yur damn right.
0 Learn How To Play Flying Piano Like The Dirty Bourbon River Show!
Learn how to play the piano from new orleans gypsy style master Noah Adams
Learn how to play flying piano like the Dirty Bourbon River Show you say? Whaa? Yessir ladies and gentlemen, Mr. Noah was nice enough to make a set of 14 instructional videos explicitly detailing how to become a flying piano master – including the theory, technique, licks, runs, fills, trills and more that make up the unholy style that is the Dirty Bourbon flying piano.
Videos range from absolute beginner-level, like “How To Play a C Major Scale”:
And go all the way up to advanced technique, like polyrhythms at extremely fast BPM, like this video:
Check out the rest of our videos on the DirtyBourbonRiverTV Youtube Channel. There’s a lot of interesting stuff, like how to play New Orleans-style, rag time, boogie woogie, improvisations & more.
0 Late Night Piano/Kazoo Improvisations
Yeah, it gets pretty wild from here on out…
1 Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band
The Bonzo Dog Doo Wha? Band… yes, the Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band ~ It’ll spin you round ladies and gents, put a real dent in your sensibilities. Step right up, sip on this silly juice:
Was tipped off to these wild folk by Bob Boilen of NPR’s All Songs Considered, and they have had a smile on my face for the last few hours now. Friends of Sgt. Pepper and the Flying Circus, the Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band are all about The Show. Feeling down? This’ll spike up that frown:
Hope you enjoy! ~ Noah
1 Little Nightime Ditty
0 One of the Best Things Ever
Things like this, tomorrow…
0 Blues you ough’ta know with Big Charlie
Hows it going everybody, Big Charlie here. This is the first of many Blues you Ough’ta know segments so keep an ear out, and put on your stompin’ boots
Jack White and I share a favorite song. It’s good to know there’s somebody else out there still paying homage to the forefathers.
The video is from “It Might Get Loud” a fantastic rockumentary starring two incredible guitarists…and the Edge. Seriously though, go check it out, it’s some great Rock’N’Roll motivation.
Wanna know more about Son House? click on him (you want to)
~ Big Charlie
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