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We're still alive.
Just wanted you to know that.
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Helping with a White Winter?

Hey folks -
It's a short one but that doesn't mean there isn't a handful to explore...






Please check the new music selections to your right----------->

And one of my favorites... a beautiful song that hopefully, if you all play it at the same time, will bring northern Minnesota some SNOW in the new year of 2012!



Hope you all have a new year filled with peace and happiness.

Oh, and keep your eyes peeled for BEARDwatch2012.... it's going to be FunTastic!

3 Finds of the Week - Boner Dollar, Sled Dog Trucker Hat & a 1974 Alvarez 12 String Acoustic Guitar!

Hey folks -
Last week was one of those special string of days where you can't help but get lucky... mine went a bit like this....
A student at work comes to me and says "hey, do you have change for a five?" I say, "Why yes, I think I do." And so he proceeds to count out five dollar bills, and says, "Hey, look at THIS!", the dollar had been defaced - from reading "ONE" on the back to this....

Needless to say, I kept this dollar and still have it today... careful not to spend it... I have to pick a good place to pass this baby along... certainly not at WalMart or in a soda machine...

Second nice find was a new sweet trucker hat that came to me at Goodwill... yeah, I frequent Goodwill... they have some nice stuff - like dogsled trucker hats... and cheap-ass stuffed animals that work great for dog toys among other things... need a can opener - go to Goodwill... it'll cost you 50 cents rather than 8.99.
Anyway this is the kind of hat you just don't find ANYWHERE else...

It's all silvery too.

And the BIG FIND OF THE WEEK goes to the vintage 1974 Alvarez 12 string guitar I scored off of Craigslist from Jim in Superior for a ROCK BOTTOM price of just  $100... that's right $100. She plays like a dream, has a straight-as-an-arrow neck, beautiful finish with nearly 40 years of patina and even came with a case! I'll try to get some audio/video up here soon so you can hear the chorus of angels that come out of the thing when you pluck a string!
Check it out...

Hope all is well with everyone reading this... Keep DellMarie in your thoughts - she's going through yet some more crappy medical stuff... as if the gall bladder and hysterectomy within a few months last year wasn't enough... she's a tropper though - battling through.

Alright... hope you all get a few good finds come your way soon!

Meanwhile you can rock out to some Wild Flag from a recent Letterman broadcast... some interesting rock n roll...

~peace~

Dave Van Ronk & Drive By Truckers

Music Post # 113
Two tunes I've listened to about 47 times in the last week.
Thought they were worthy of a blog post.
Hope you enjoy.
Dave Van Ronk - you MUST check this one out... some great growls in here.... and when you're done dial up Charlie Parr's version on the 12 string resonator guitar live from Terrapin Station on YouTube... dare I say it's better???


And Drive By Truckers doing their tune "Used to be a Cop"... the vid is nothing to look at so if you're at work hit play and go about your bidness... and let it rock... it's a 7+ minute jam... love the bass line...


It's mid December in Minnesota and we don't have any snow on the ground... all you folks out there reading... run outside tonight at midnight in your underwear and do a snow dance under the full moon! You ROCK!

COMING SOON!
MONTHLY BEARD-A-THON...Stay tuned!

So You Wanna Play Drums Like Pepe eh?

Hey people.
Sorry for the blog inactivity - DellMarie hasn't been feeling well and we've been back and forth to the docs trying to get her pointed in the right direction... so that's what has been occupying our time as of late.

Hey... check out what's diggin musically over in the side bar... you can click on them to bring you to a YouTube vid of that music selection! ------------------------->>>>>>>>
Anyway, have you ever wondered what it would be like if you could play the shit out of a dusty old drum set that has been laying around in a storage trailer for a few years? Probably thinking to yourself that you could make that baby ring and pop and bang! And then when you run into your buddy on the street you could say something like "Hey man... WANNA PLAY DRUMS!?!"
Well check this out... None other than Mark "Pepe" Macham rockin' it...


Didn't that rock your socks off...

The other news is that Chris "Sid" has the home studio set up and rarin' to go... so all you music types that might want to record something for an alien life form to find in the year 2412... if your cd or digital file survives that long.... dial him up - or me and we'll get ya goin. Hopefully I'll have a sample of the crispy clean recordings he's capable of here in the next few days.

Keep on rockin'!

Bigfoot or Sasquatch in Carlton County - Finding Bigfoot with Ranae Holland & Buddy Knox

So apparently Carlton County - where we live - is a hotbed of Bigfoot - or Sasquatch - activity. So much so it has attracted the Animal Planet show "Finding Bigfoot" to little ole Carlton County. They conducted a town-hall meeting regarding Bigfoot sightings/experiences -filmed an episode and were quoted as saying the town hall meeting drew the largest crowd they had ever seen with well over 100 folks attending - including many first-hand accounts of Bigfoot experiences. Kind of make you Tomten campers a little on edge eh?

All this went down in late August... here is a link to the local articles posted on the Finding Bigfoot blog...
http://bigfootevidence.blogspot.com/2011/08/finding-bigfoot-minnesota-town-hall.html

So to go right along with that like bacon and eggs... here is a tune called "I STILL BELIEVE IN BIGFOOT"


I just couldn't pass this one up... seems to be the original of any of the Bigfoot songs out there...
By Buddy Knox... Bigfoot Song - even though it says copyright 2009 - I'm pretty sure that's a load of bullshit.
Enjoy - and keep an eye out for the Sasquatch!

David Mayfield's mom had sex with Jimi Hendrix, Zach Galifianakis and Jim Croce

David Mayfield... Schizophrenic Folk-a-fatized music... I found it.. had to post it... don't know what else to say but WOW!