Zig at the gig is a long-form interview-style show. The host Dave Deitke is a full-time Musician from Cleveland, OH. Who plays in an original band called C-level and teaches an adapted music class. Zig at the gig started as a podcast for Negative Space, a non-profit art gallery, promoting events and artists from the galley. The show has grown to include all facets of entertainment, including artist authors and musicians.
Episodes
Wednesday Jan 26, 2022
Wednesday Jan 26, 2022
Zig at the gig with Micki Free
Micki Free is a Grammy Award Winner & Five-Time Native American Music Award, Winner. Micki was discovered and managed by Gene Simmons of the legendary supergroup KISS. Micki was the guitarist in the R&B sensation Shalamar, boasting "mega-platinum hits" with songs like "Dancing In The Sheets" from the movie soundtrack "Footloose", our friend Eddie Murphy's smash hit movie "Beverly Hills Cop" (where Micki won his Grammy Award for "Best Album Of An Original Score Written For A Motion Picture"). Free’s buzz continued on the hilarious Dave Chappell Show, in Charlie Murphy's "True Hollywood Stories”, “Shirts vs Blouses MICKI FREE IS NOT A GIRL" skit with Prince playing basketball against Charlie and Eddie Murphy! Micki has been managed by, performed and or recorded with the following: Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley of the supergroup KISS, Bill Wyman of The Rolling Stones, Diana Ross, Janet Jackson, Shalamar, Little Steven Van Zandt of Bruce Springsteen, Prince, Billy Gibbons of ZZ Top, Carlos Santana, Cindy Blackman-Santana, Cheap Trick, Sam Moore of Sam & Dave Fame, Jean Beauvoir, Ramones/co-writer producer and member of the punk group The Plasmatic's with Wendy O Williams and the list goes on. Performing at Blues venues/festivals worldwide, Native American casinos, to Micki's four-year appearances at the massive "Hard Rock Calling" festival in Hyde Park, London The UK boasting 100,000 fans.
Hear Turquoise Blue, Here
Micki's Info
https://www.facebook.com/OfficialMickiFree/
Wednesday Jan 19, 2022
Wednesday Jan 19, 2022
SINE is an electronic band created by singer and drummer, Rona Rougeheart.
Rona's Info
https://sineofficial.bandcamp.com
http://www.facebook.com/sinebandofficial
Wednesday Jan 12, 2022
Wednesday Jan 12, 2022
So it is with giddy relief that we swing open wide our creaky doors to welcome the percussive bass bottoms, deftly lathed drums, and sinisterly insinuated guitar dissonance of Flood Twin to swoop in and rescue us all from this sensory deprivation chamber. And to announce their arrival, frontman and bass player Grant W. Curry reminds us in the album’s opening track, “People,” that: “There’s no in-between, that means a fucking thing.” It doesn’t matter how these three guys found each other, but it was a hallowed day when they did. Each man here wields his instrument with a distinctive panache. The drummer, and mono-appellatived Sterling, works his stripped-down tubs-and-skins with the reckless precision of a top-flight tail-gunner. He picks up where Wire’s beat man, Robert Gotobed, left off, playing only kick, snare, and high-hat from whence he veers into the realm of the industrial with recollections of Tom Waits/Latin Playboys found-object punctuation and carefully curated samples. There is not a lot of dazzle and flash here, just a sturdy undergirding for the band to ride on. Guitar man J. Leslie Hedberg weaves his way through the arpeggios of diminished chords with the skill of Dexter Morgan dissembling a rival. Don’t come here looking for scaly, wanky soloing though; you won’t hear it. What you will hear is adroitly integrated metallic guitar textures with the occasional dub-laced upstroke. Bassist/vocalist Grant W. Curry, who you will correctly peg as he of New Orleans bands James Hall, and Pleasure Club, reminds us what a bass should sound like: prominent in the mix, at that register right where menace melds with music.
Flood Twin's Info
https://www.facebook.com/Flood-Twin-107508074466680/
https://www.floodtwin.com/about
Wednesday Jan 05, 2022
Wednesday Jan 05, 2022
David and Ben of The Chewy Center join Zig to talk about their new EP L.LC available now on all streaming platforms.
The Chewy Center is a jam-infused, space rock band from Cleveland, OH comprised of members, David "D. Flo" DeFlorentis (vocals/guitar), Nate "Vegas" Vagase (bass guitar), Stephen Fabec (keyboards), and Ben Fasciano (drums). Chewy plays with aggressive rhythms, funky bass, inventive improvisations, and catchy hooks.
Eager to expand their reach, the band is making a mark in the region. The original trio met in spring of 2011 at a high school talent show and played together in various groups before formalizing the band in summer 2016. With the addition of Fabec in summer 2020, the band has evolved into a four-man powerhouse of Northeast Ohio rock. Feeling like a welcomed outsider in the jam band world, the band enjoys a sense of creative freedom to break outside the walls of conventional jam/festival sound, incorporating elements of metal, prog, and various others that typical jam festival goers may not expect. Every song tells a story, through unique lyrical themes and ideas that provoke introspection and emotion. Regardless of subject matter, the band is primarily focused on one thing: making music that you will have fun listening to. TCC pride themselves on their live performances, flowing between genres and songs.
The Chewy sound is a space-exploring mix of rock, funk, prog, and disco, with a few sprinkles of electronic music and AOR rock. Something different from the jam scene, with a little something for everyone.
Chewy Center's info
https://open.spotify.com/album/0JnhiynoWwQdgubiKpxhsF?si=Mc7nvS-MTLOFZ29hMl89Lg
https://thechewycenter.com/music
Wednesday Dec 29, 2021
Wednesday Dec 29, 2021
Harpist Cassie Watson Francillon Talks about her new album e.g,rhapsodic !
Shakespeare & the Blues makes instrumental experimental music drawing on Jazz and Hip Hop influences featuring Cassie Watson Francillon on concert harp, Smith on drums and electronics and Webre (Lost Bayou Ramblers and Michot’s Melody Makers) on bass and electronics. The songs on e.g,rhapsodic are uninhibited explorations of genre blending, tied together by futurist grooves and virtuosic syncopating. They are composed around a startling selection of samples and soundbytes enmeshed in the trio’s visionary instrumental experimentation.
The debut release from Shake
https://shakespeareandtheblues.bandcamp.com/album/e-g-rhapsodic
Wednesday Dec 22, 2021
Wednesday Dec 22, 2021
Sarah McQuaid is a singer, songwriter, composer, and multi-instrumentalist. She has recorded six solo albums: When Two Lovers Meet (self-released, 1997), I Won't Go Home ’Til Morning (self-released, 2008), The Plum Tree And The Rose (Waterbug Records, 2012), Walking into White (Waterbug Records, 2015), If We Dig Any Deeper It Could Get Dangerous (Shovel and a Spade Records, 2018) and The St Buryan Sessions (Shovel and a Spade Records, 2021)
In January 2021, McQuaid began releasing a series of singles and videos entitled The St Buryan Sessions, recorded and filmed live in July 2020 in the church of St Buryan, Cornwall. The full collection was released on 15 October 2021 as an album and as a concert film.
Sarah's info
https://www.youtube.com/c/SarahMcQuaidMusic
https://www.facebook.com/sarahmcquaidmusic
https://twitter.com/sarahmcquaid
Wednesday Dec 15, 2021
Wednesday Dec 15, 2021
Lilli Lewis is an American folk and Americana singer, songwriter, and pianist based in New Orleans, Louisiana. She is sometimes known as the "Folk-Rock Diva
Americana, her third full album for Louisiana Red Hot Records. The album was co-produced by Lewis and iconic indie producer Mark Bingham (Peter Stampfel, Hal Wilner, Allen Ginsberg…). Notable guest artists include cellist Rick Nelson (Afghan Whigs, Polyphonic Spree), folk favorite Gina Forsyth, and Seattle Blues Legend Lady A. The album will be released on CD and across all digital platforms on October 29th. Thanks to the perils of five pandemic-era hurricanes, Americana was recorded across more than twice as many spaces, with the bulk of the load performed in New Orleans at Marigny Studios (recorded by Rick Nelson), and at Bingham’s own Nina Highway in Henderson, Louisiana. After performing for a full house at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Foundation’s last show before lockdown, Lewis conceived the album amid quarantine conditions that imposed an indefinite pause in an otherwise booked-out performance year. Without the pressure of upbeat, danceable shows on the agenda, Lewis turned to a bag of story songs that she felt didn't fit the New Orleans club scene.
Lilli's info
https://folkrockdiva.bandcamp.com
http://www.folkrockdiva.com/2020/
https://twitter.com/folkrockdiva
https://www.facebook.com/lillilewismusic/
Wednesday Dec 08, 2021
Wednesday Dec 08, 2021
Weasel Walter is an American composer, improviser, multi-instrumentalist, producer, and founder of ugEXPLODE Records. Walter's work has been informed by techniques and traditions of music including no wave, free jazz, extreme metal, punk, noise, new music, and free improvisation.
Weasel's Info
http://nowave.pair.com/weasel_walter/
https://weaselwalter.bandcamp.com
https://twitter.com/ugexplode?lang=en
https://www.facebook.com/people/Weasel-Walter/100063482259824/
Wednesday Dec 01, 2021
Wednesday Dec 01, 2021
Zig At The Gig With Marky Ray
A native of Cleveland, Marky emerged from its fertile punk seen in the early Eighties, back when the Cleveland Heights/Coventry neighborhood served as ground zero for local rocker misfits. As Marky knows better than anyone, the business of rock isn’t for sissies.
He’s seen it from every conceivable angle – guitarist, bassist, keyboard player, singer, roadie, show producer/coordinator, tour manager, emcee, stuntman, publicist, consultant… I won’t share his entire resume, but following are just a few highlights:
As a performer: Johnny Action and the Treadmills, Johnny Clampett and the Walkers, the terrible parade, Death on a Stick, The Lyres, The New Salem Witch Hunters, Death of Samantha, The Jim Rose Circus, 3D, solo artist. As a road crew member and auxiliary performer (guitar/bass/vocals): Nine Inch Nails, Ministry, Butthole Surfers, Toadies, Die Warzau, Lollapalooza Tour (’91-92 – backing vocals), Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, emcee for Jesus and Mary Chain and Lush.
Marky's Info
https://www.youtube.com/user/crazymanthirteen
https://www.linkedin.com/in/markyray
Return of Death On A Stick OCT 24th
https://www.facebook.com/events/928853291047195/?ref=newsfeed
Saturday Nov 27, 2021
Saturday Nov 27, 2021
John San Juan Singer songwriter/ guitarist of The Hushdrops
Hushdrops are a three-piece rock band from Chicago featuring current and former members of Veruca Salt, Liam Haye, Plush, The Waco Brothers, The Webb Brothers, Josh Caterer Of Smoking Popes, Kevin Tihista, and NRBQ, The band's 2004 debut album Volume One was followed in 2014 by the double album Tomorrow. Drummer Joe Camarillo died unexpectedly in January 2021, just as the group were completing their third album. In August 2021, it was announced that Pravda records would release that album in November of that year, in tribute to Camarillo.
John's info
https://www.facebook.com/johnsanjuanmusic
https://www.facebook.com/groups/93495721346
https://hushdrops.bandcamp.com/
Hushdrops music here
https://open.spotify.com/artist/6vtjW7uompIOvGq6kYdZjo
https://hushdrops.bandcamp.com/
https://hushdrops.bandcamp.com/album/the-static