Podcast!

Supraluxe appears on Phil Coyne's new show, Midsweep, on Rhubarb Radio.

http://www.rhubarbradio.com/programmes/midsweep.aspx

Podcast!

Supraluxe appears on the new Artist Review podcast! Catch it at: http://tinyurl.com/nf8p84

There's life in the old tunes yet..............

Snowboarding. A good fit I think?

New CD almost done

We're putting the finishing touches on the new CD, and we're aiming to make it available shortly. Jim is finalizing vocals, Bob is busy producing and arranging, I'm singing some background vocals, and Bill will be working on CD layout, etc.

Stay tuned here for details.

Captain Beefheart's 10 Commandments of Guitar Playing

1. Listen to the birds.
That's where all the music comes from. Birds know everything about how it should sound and where that sound should come from. And watch hummingbirds. They fly really fast, but a lot of times they aren't going anywhere.

2. Your guitar is not really a guitar Your guitar is a divining rod.
Use it to find spirits in the other world and bring them over. A guitar is also a fishing rod. If you're good, you'll land a big one.

3. Practice in front of a bush
Wait until the moon is out, then go outside, eat a multi-grained bread and play your guitar to a bush. If the bush dosen't shake, eat another piece of bread.

4. Walk with the devil
Old Delta blues players referred to guitar amplifiers as the "devil box." And they were right. You have to be an equal opportunity employer in terms of who you're bringing over from the other side. Electricity attracts devils and demons. Other instruments attract other spirits. An acoustic guitar attracts Casper. A mandolin attracts Wendy. But an electric guitar attracts Beelzebub.

5. If you're guilty of thinking, you're out
If your brain is part of the process, you're missing it. You should play like a drowning man, struggling to reach shore. If you can trap that feeling, then you have something that is fur bearing.

6. Never point your guitar at anyone
Your instrument has more clout than lightning. Just hit a big chord then run outside to hear it. But make sure you are not standing in an open field.

7. Always carry a church key
That's your key-man clause. Like One String Sam. He's one. He was a Detroit street musician who played in the fifties on a homemade instrument. His song "I Need a Hundred Dollars" is warm pie. Another key to the church is Hubert Sumlin, Howlin' Wolf's guitar player. He just stands there like the Statue of Liberty-making you want to look up her dress the whole time to see how he's doing it.

8. Don't wipe the sweat off your instrument
You need that stink on there. Then you have to get that stink onto your music.

9. Keep your guitar in a dark place
When you're not playing your guitar, cover it and keep it in a dark place. If you don't play your guitar for more than a day, be sure you put a saucer of water in with it.

10. You gotta have a hood for your engine
Keep that hat on. A hat is a pressure cooker. If you have a roof on your house, the hot air can't escape. Even a lima bean has to have a piece of wet paper around it to make it grow.

Nerds never throw away their Topps cards

Kona

Goodbye old friend.

Another Supraluxe Christmas

The sweetie on the right oughta give you necrophiliacs a boner.

Why I like Wikipedia

From the Peanut Butter entry:

"Many people derive amusement from feeding peanut butter to their dog. While most dogs appear to like the taste of peanut butter, they appear to lack the ability to eat it with anything resembling traditional social grace."

The Future Is Now

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Roll Tape

New Supraluxe sounds are on the way.

I woke up this morning

with Shandi stuck in my head. That may be the only time anyone has ever uttered those words. I must be regressing.

I cannot believe

the Mountain Goats are a sincere band. I expect they'll issue a press statement one day to that effect. We'll all have a good laugh and people will pretend they were in on the joke all along.

World's Tallest Woman

Sandy Allen has died at age 53. She stood 7'7" tall. I knew who she was only by virtue of the Split Enz song Sandy Allen, from Time and Tide. RIP

Oates

He's Mustachioed.

It's not really happening. Wait, yes it is.

New Bees Kiss Ice Cream Cheeks

Tolkien Teenager

Long Ago

Super Mario Drums

Super Mario Brothers 2 was a great game, a classic. One of my favorites. An Italian drummer named Andrea Vadrucci apparently likes it too, enough to figure out how to drum to the soundtrack.

Bert and Ernie Go Brutal

Richard Hawley

Tonight The Streets Are Ours.

Jim Risser Sings

Hole in his pocket. Twiddle dee dee.

Genuinely Interesting Dept

Runnin' With the Devil vocal take, isolated.

Bob gets a new computer

"It's got 4K of magnetic core memory!" he says excitedly.

Something new / Something old

Supraluxe has finally finished construction on the new (yet to be named) studio and we're excited about the next batch of songs. In revisiting some of the material that didn't make it on the last release, we re-discovered Sunday's Not So Bad (there were other shiny happy gems that got orphaned too). It will remain unreleased - we've moved on to new material. Sometimes good stuff is elbowed out by better stuff, but everyone has a couple "C" kids. They all come from the same place though and we love 'em.

The web is a baby

As ubiquitous as it is and as reliant as we've become on it, it's easy to forget that it is not that old.

Flashback 1986

Two bands that helped me survive the 80's

Shoes

The saying is you can tell a lot about a person by their shoes, but there are better indicators. Ex: How someone plays their instrument speaks to their self image and social skills. How they draw faces - 2D, 3D, perspective, angle - tells you how they process and express ideas. And how they say they feel about these is most telling of all. Of course, how or whether we choose to analyze others says something about us.

Panflute

None of these will be harmed in the making of the new CD

Unless Jim springs for one.

Let's go

OK, Jim, Bill and Bob - I'm getting itchy to get ensconced in the new digs with you guys and start committing things to tape. Time's a wasting.

!!!!!!!