Archive for July 2008

From the blog of Lucio Menegon, Kingtone Music...

Albany, CA is a sleepy little city that is part of the East Bay just north of Berkeley. A mostly ‘middle class’ (for the SF Bay Area) kinda place where people raise kids without the fears of many modern urban dwellers. It has a conservative 1950s feel to it, and from what I hear the cops there like it that way. Strangely enough, it is home to some amazing talent and subversiveness. Maybe that is not strange at all.

Here’s some examples I have experienced.

This past weekend I played on a session with Drag City artist, Edith Frost. It was a nice song titled, My Euphorbia and was recorded for a possible future DC comp that apparently has something to do with the tracks being performed live. Those in attendance were Edith, Wil Hendricks on standup bass, myself on guitar, Val Esway and Heather Davidson on backup vocals. Edith and Wil (via Chicago) live in Albany. [...]

• Applied OpenDNS #’s 208.67.222.222 & 208.67.220.220 to all our computers & router. I’m going to use that from now on, it’s safer that way. #

This is Val Esway's blog. She and Heather Davison did some super-cool spooky backups on a tune I recorded the other day.

... which will be here too soon... which is why I can't even stop to tell you about my recording session with Edith Frost... or the amazing set that Joe Rut played tonight at the Bazaar Cafe.... there is more, more, more, ...

• The song is recorded, ::whew:: I think we all (w’all?) did a great job but we’ll see what DC thinks. I really really hope they can use it! #

• I’ve moved my site to @harper space. DNS is propagating; the old version says “closed for maintenance” and the new one is open like normal. #

• Recording tomorrow @ Myles Boisen’s, w/ Wil on upright, Lucio guitar, me & Val & Heather singing. One song live in the studio for Drag City! #

• Let’s give a great big hello to the beautiful new twins Helen and Francis Prekop! Congrats to Sam and Bettina, such wonderful news. #

• Got mad at my webhost for not supporting SFTP in this, the year 2008. So Harper gave me some space to play with. I can move there, free! :-o #

• Somebody’s about to post a video on YouTube of me in Houston opening for the White Stripes. I’m scared & excited to see it, whatever it is. #

• Lucie left today, we had tons of fun. She got funny t-shirts for her boys, i.e. “Guns don’t kill people. People with mustaches kill people.” #

At the Musee Mechanique in San Francisco

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• I got lei’ed tonight at the Tonga Room! #

• Also: I didn’t need a pedometer to tell me that I am a walking person. 6000 steps without trying; 7 or 8000 if I’m actually doing something. #

• Why so quiet? Well I’ve been working my ass off, quite literally. Lucie & Mama get here tomorrow, I’m so excited! Have to clean off my desk. #

Led by guitarist Nathaniel Braddock — also of Edith Frost, The Zincs and Ancient Greeks — the group started off covering the best of traditional Congolese musicians. They’ve since gone on to create their own signature blend while ...