The Buskers Blog

Band Name History

Driving back from a gig the other night we shared band name histories.  Paul had one called "Gone" which I think rocks.  He'll list the rest for us here once school is out and he has a little time again.  As for me, I can't remember my earliest--that would have been 7th grade--any more (hmmm...), but here is what I do remember, not that it's anything to brag about:

Flatrock Plains; Stony Lonesome (both from my country rock/NRPS/The Byrds/Flying Burrito Brothers and the Band phase);  Household Word (I liked it when people in the house shouted "Word!" "Word up!" when we went onstage; Storm Warning (I don't think they ever played an actual gig);  The Deadbeats (had to turn drunken drummer's mic off after the first set so no one could hear his rambling crude jokes) , The 5 O'Clock Shadows, Route 66, and I played for several years with the Rusty Rockstar Roadshow, whose leader modeled the band on the Blues Brothers, dark golassies and all

...what else?  Oh, how could I forget Bojun Hence!   Wait,  Was that an actual band or just a name we threw around?  Am I dreaming?

 

Who's the Dude in the Chinchilla Boa?

Thought you might enjoy this pic of Paul's other band, back in the day.  The accordion (no doubt here just used as a prop) was a bit prophetic, though, I have to say.

On The Marquee

"they know that they'll never see

their names lit up on a marquee

they'll always be completely unkown...

   

Capitol Center for the Arts, Concord, NH 5/12/11

 

...and no one says you have to throw those dogs a bone

but what else in this world but love is free?"

Essex, MA 5/14/11

 

2011 Season Three State Kickoff. Woo-Woo!

Friday, May 6. The Buskers, arriving separately to maximize fossil fuel use--no, it's just that we came from four directions-- met at the South Woodstock, VT firehouse to play for a community get-together.  100% down home.  And memory lane for me, who went to high school just across the street at the Woodstock Country School, which closed in 1980 (that kind of gives away my age bracket; so what).  The main building, once a barn, now belongs to the Green Mountain Horse Association and is a barn again; and the smell of fresh manure from the fields around provided good rural context for our no doubt equally pungent sound.  The next building over (once the school library where I won the spelling bee--sorry to keep bringing that up, Henry) is now the Vermont Horse Company, a huge equestrian store jam-packed with cool  stuff, run by fellow Country Schooler Laura Spittle. It was her community-mindedness that came up with the event to lure people out of their winter lairs for some good food and music. Thank you, Laura. We had a blast.

Next up, a little more upscale: Thursday, May 12, The Spotlight Café at the Capitol Center for the Arts in Concord, NH.  We've been practicing like fiends since KZ arrived in town.  Going to trot out a lot of new tunes: some of the band's best songwriting and I wish we could afford to haul into the studio right now and record them so they can get out there.  sigh.  Then on Saturday  the 14th we play another new venue for us, The One World Coffeehouse in Essex, Mass.  We'll do that one as a trio, and be a little more singer-songwritery. But I'll stomp on a tambourine and KZ will play that cajun triangle if the urge comes up.  And it probably will.