Zig At The Gig podcast

Eddie Shaw of The Monks

Interview with Eddie Shaw bassist of The Monks and Author of the book Black Monk Time. 

The Monks, referred to by the name monks on record sleeves, were an American rock band formed in Gelnhausen, West Germany in 1964. Assembled by five American GIs stationed in the country, the group grew tired of the traditional format of rock, which motivated them to forge a highly experimental style characterized by an emphasis on hypnotic rhythms that minimized the role of melody, augmented by the use of sound manipulation techniques. The band's unconventional blend of shrill vocals confrontational lyrics, feedback, and  guitarist David Day's six-string banjo baffled audiences, but music historians have since identified the Monks as a pioneering force in avant-garde musicThe band's lyrics often voiced objection to the Vietnam War and the dehumanized state of society, while prefiguring the harsh and blunt commentary of the punk rock movement of the 1970s and 1980s. The band's appearance was considered as shocking as its music, as they attempted to mimic the look of Catholic monks by wearing black habits with cinctures symbolically tied around their necks, and hair worn in partially shaved tonsures.

 

The Monks Info 

https://www.the-monks.com

Hackedepicciotto (Alexander Hacke and Danielle de Picciotto) Part 2

Berlin-based avant-garde duo hackedepicciotto have returned with Keepsakes, their fifth full length studio album. 

Keepsakes is the duo’s second album released on Mute, and was recorded at one of Europe’s oldest recording spaces, the Neapolitan studio Auditorium Novecento. Inspired by the space, which was home to Caruso and Morricone, the new compositions feature tubular bells and a grand piano within their signature sound of a symphonic drone.

 

hackedepicciotto are Alexander Hacke and Danielle de Picciotto. Both are legends of their own making: Danielle de Picciotto moved to Berlin in 1987, to become the lead singer of the band „Space Cowboys“, the co-initiator of the Love Parade, a collaborator of the Ocean Club with Gudrun Gut, and Alexander’s partner in crime. Alexander Hacke is founding member and bass player of Einstürzende Neubauten. The artist couple, romantically married in 2006, has creatively interacted with countless international projects for almost 2 decades now besides regularly releasing their own compositions. 

 

 

Hackedepicciotto's Info 

https://www.hackedepicciotto.de

https://twitter.com/hackedpicciotto

https://www.instagram.com/hackedepicciotto/

https://www.facebook.com/hackepicciotto/

http://mute.com/

 

Tony Cuchetti

Interview with Tony Cuchetti

Tony Cuchetti came by his skills as a singer, writer, and performer the hard way – from extensive road work from an early age. “My parents decided to start a family act in the late 60s and started playing malls, fairs, conventions, and even Vegas in the era of the Jackson 5 and The Osmonds. We had the bus and the costumes. When I came along, I was born into it and toured for the last ten years of the group. That’s pretty much how I grew up, on the road for ten or eleven months out of the year. I remember it fondly. It was a pretty tight-knit production, and we were self- contained as a family.” Cuchetti continues to be a tireless gigging musician playing north of 200+ shows a year both solo and with his full band. The songs from Freer Street touch base with core values and core questions to reach out to audiences, but in the end, Tony Cuchetti builds songs in the hopes of finding those of like mind. He concludes, “What sounds good and what makes me feel good, that’s how I operate.”

www.tonycuchetti.com 

Facebook/tonycuchettimusic

Instagram - tonycuchetti Youtube - @tonycuchetti7012

Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/artist/4ZBfX6BKy28zdtaEEHqTem?si=wuZ-- 0RHTneTOkhkO_Hh0Q

Apple Music - ‎Tony Cuchetti on Apple Music

Rooms To Let : Lady Bug AV Club Radio Interviews

Lady Bug Av Club ran a pirate radio station for Rooms To Let 2023. I interviewed artist Owen Lowery, Charlie Malta "Guice Mann" (Juice Man), Meryl Engler, Cara Gaetano Kate Snow, Stephanie Stewart, Kyla Decatur, Mary Defer, Brian Schultis, Emily Liptow, Marisa Herman, Jeanetta Ho, Jimmie Woody, Eric Tuck-Macalla, Jacob “Archie” Liptow, Clifford Benjamin 

roomstolet

https://www.instagram.com/ladybug.av.club/

 

Brian Krumm of The Great Crusades

Vocalist/guitarist Brian Krumm formed The Great Crusades more than 20 years ago, following
his tenure with The Suede Chain. The Great Crusades’ debut, The First Spilled Drink of the
Evening was released in 1997, earning the praise of Rolling Stone’s David Fricke: “The Great
Crusades look at life through a shot-glass lens, mixing anger, muscle and minor-key remorse like
a roughneck Tindersticks with the bonus of a singer who’s got the tubercular pipes of Tom Waits
and Axl Rose’s love child.”
In 2000, Damaged Goods was released by Glitterhouse Records in Europe and Checkered Past
Records in North America. Next, the Never Go Home tour was presented by Musikexpress
Magazine and the band appeared on the legendary TV program Rockpalast. (The band also
played Rockpalast in 2015—one of only a few bands to play the show twice.)
Welcome to the Hiawatha Inn, Four Thirty, Keep Them Entertained, Fiction to Shame, Thieves
of Chicago and Until the Night Turned to Day followed, each providing a new focus for
Krumm’s ever-evolving songwriting and storytelling. Two songs from Keep Them Entertained
appeared in the season 4 finale of the HBO vampire series True Blood.
In 2020, as the COVID-19 pandemic put music venues on hold worldwide, Krumm focused on
solo work and began writing the materials that’d wind up on Just Fade Away. With the album
set for release, Brian Krumm and His Barfly Friends plans to tour in 2023.

http://www.briankrumm.com https://www.instagram.com/barflykrumm/https://twitter.com/BarflyKrummwww.facebook.com/briankrummandhisbarflyfriendshttps://www.bandsintown.com/a/15518730-brian-krumm-and-his-barfly-friendshttps://www.songkick.com/artists/10264541-brian-krumm-and-his-barfly-friends/calendarhttps://pravdarecords.bandcamp.com/artists

 

Joe Cannon of Resurrectionists

Interview with Joe Cannon of Resurrectionists

Resurrectionists were originally formed by lyricist, guitarist, and banjo picker Joe Cannon and bassist Jeff Brueggeman from the locally revered trio WORK with drummer Josh Barto and pedal steel player Gavin Hardy. On the group’s 2019 debut album What Comes In -- a collection of everyman trouble tales delivered with dark wit and piquant Midwestern tang -- Gavin’s mournful, swelling steel work helped steer songs into Gothic-country territory. On Now That We Are All Ghosts, Hardy has been replaced by multi-instrumentalist Gian Pogliano. Gian’s penchant for more adventurous, wider-ranging sonic discourse inspires Resurrectionists to branch out into unexpected stylistic experimentation. The material here is informed equally by the meticulous melodic abstractions of pre-punk icons on Television as the Old Weird American sounds of Dock Boggs and Bascom Lamar Lunsford. Now That We Are All Ghosts – SW031: Seismic Wave Entertainment   

Resurrectionists Info https://www.facebook.com/resurrectionistsmke

https://www.instagram.com/resurrectionists_mke/

https://resurrectionistsmke.bandcamp.com/

https://open.spotify.com/artist/7iirX41ABvqvjz7YGGylJo?si=dyvZFLKaRxa4EKsM_MCevg

https://www.youtube.com/@resurrectionistsmke4624

 http://seismicwave.net/

https://www.instagram.com/seismicwaveent/

https://twitter.com/seismicwave

https://www.discogs.com/label/905311-Seismic-Wave-Entertainment

 

Brandon Hardesty of Bumpin Uglies

Interview with singer-songwriter Brandon Hardesty of Bumpin Uglies 

Bumpin Uglies is an American punk reggae band from Annapolis, Maryland. 

The band's music features a "melody-driven, free-spirited blend of ska, reggae, and punk with a strong focus on lyrics and crowd-pleasing grooves.

The band's influences are a mix of ska-punk and reggae drawn from pioneering bands Sublime Bad Religion, Reel Big Fish, and Goldfinger.  

 Tickets for Bumpin Uglies, C-Level, Joint Operation at Westsidebowl 

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/bumpin-uglies-w-c-level-joint-operation-tickets-590696538247

 

Bumpin Uglies Info

https://www.bumpinugliesmusic.com

 

 

Hoag & Bonesaw Kepner Of Two Player, & Full Service

TWO PLAYER IS AN AUSTIN-BASED POWER DUO FEATURING BROTHERS HOAG (DRUMS/LEAD VOCALS) AND BONESAW (GUITAR). FORMED IN 2018, THESE FORMER FRONTMEN OF FULL SERVICE COMBINE PROGRESSIVE RHYTHMS WITH EXCITING, COMPLEX LEAD GUITAR WORK AND DULCET VOCAL ACROBATICS, ALL DISGUISED AND PACKAGED INTO LEAN, SAVORY ARRANGEMENTS. IT'S A TOUCH OF MATH ROCK AND A SPOONFUL OF POP, WITH A LIVE PERFORMANCE THAT SHOWCASES THE BROTHERS' DEEP AND UNRIVALED CHEMISTRY AND MUSICAL ECCENTRICITY.

 

Two player's Info

https://www.twoplayermusic.com/

 

The Dream Recording Studio Info

https://www.thedreamrecordingstudio.com

 

Full Service's Info 

https://www.youtube.com/fullserviceband

 

Tracy Nelson

Iconic roots singer Tracy Nelson, who burst onto the Rock and Roll scene in the mid-1960s as lead singer in the San Francisco-based group Mother Earth and her legendary vocals on the classic “Down So Low,” will release her first album in over 10 years,  Life Don’t Miss Nobody, June 9^th on the BMG label. Joining Tracy are some of her favorite musical friends, including Willie Nelson, Charlie Musselwhite, Irma Thomas, Marcia Ball, Jontavious Willis, Mickey Raphael, and Terry Hanck. Life Don’t Miss Nobody was produced by Roger Alan Nichols with Tracy Nelson and recorded in Nashville and several other studios.

Tracy Nelson possesses one of the most powerful voices in American music and has emerged from a lengthy recording hiatus with the album of a lifetime, a musical self-portrait spanning her entire career. Life Don’t Miss Nobody is a 13 track collection that stretches back to her start as a guitar-picking Wisconsin teen playing coffeehouses, through an unparalleled career now in its sixth decade, singing blues, country, New Orleans R&B and gospel, and performing in storied music meccas in her epic, genre- busting musical journey.

 

Tracy's Info 

http://www.tracynelsonmusic.com

 

Kenny Werner

Kenny Werner has been a world-class pianist and composer for over forty years. His prolific output of compositions, recordings, and publications continues to impact audiences worldwide. In 1996 he wrote his landmark book Effortless Mastery: Liberating the Master Musician Within.

Werner has since created videos, lectured worldwide, and authored many articles on how musicians, artists, or even business people can allow their “master creator” within to lift their performance to its highest level, showing us how to be spontaneous, fearless, joyful and disciplined in our work and our life.

Kenny was awarded the 2010 Guggenheim Fellowship Award for his seminal work, No Beginning No End. No Beginning No End is a musical journey exploring tragedy and loss, death and transition, and the path from one lifetime to the next. Utilizing over 70 musicians, Kenny’s third album for Half Note Records is an expansive composition featuring Joe Lovano, Judy Silvano, Wind Ensemble, Choir and String Quartet.

Born in Brooklyn, NY on November 19, 1951 and then growing up in Oceanside, Long Island, Kenny began playing and performing at a young age, first recording on television at the age of 11. Although he studied classical piano as a child, he enjoyed playing anything he heard on the radio. In high school and his first years of college, he attended the Manhattan School of Music as a classical piano major.

 

Becoming the Instrument

Kenny Werner has been a world-class pianist, composer, and teacher for 40 years. In 2010, Werner received the Guggenheim Fellowship Award for his seminal work, “No Beginning No End,” a musical journey exploring tragedy and loss, death and transition, and the path from one lifetime to the next.

Now he has coalesced his knowledge into Becoming the Instrument, the highly anticipated sequel to his landmark book, Effortless Mastery, which revolutionized how musicians approach their craft.

In Becoming the Instrument, Werner shares how anyone can experience mastery, drawn from his experience as a musical master. It’s the guide for seeing the highest in oneself and others.

This new book is for anyone who wants to understand the fine art of mastery and how it applies to their own life. He brilliantly yet simply expresses how to lift one’s perceptions from the mundane to a higher plane and does it with a sense of humor.

The next level is attainable.

“Mastery is not perfection, or even virtuosity. It is giving oneself love, forgiving one’s mistakes, and not allowing earthly evidence to diminish one’s view of oneself as a drop in the Ocean of Perfection.” ‒ Kenny Werner

Kenny's Info 

 

https://kennywerner.com/