Psycho Depot Issue 407 Mar 24, 2005 Current # of subscribers: 188 (daily and digest) Subjects in this issue: Rob solo Bucket on the Web! finally, stumblingham Stumblingham City Beat review.... ++ psychodots ++ Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2005 11:04:29 -0500 From: "Kevin McKeehan" Subject: Rob solo Hey all, Just a quick run down of last night Rob Fetters gig. Rob played for about 45 minutes and let loose one totally new tune. Here's a snapshot but by no means the set list: As you are Malcolm & Marjorie (from his new solo disc) Under the Volcano My Friend the King (sounded great solo and acoustic!) Idiot in the Sky (from the new Bears disc) History You Can Buy Friends I'm a Clown (from his new solo disc - lyric highlights include: "I wanted to be a rock star, I wanted to be black" and "my sister she's a dancer, my brother he's a pimp, they made move together and it starred zippy the chimp...I'm a clown" I may not have this verbatim but you get the gist, also had a funny lyric about his haircut, but alas the Boddingtons has slurred my memory) Moaner Oh yeah, enjoyed JohnnyA too. See ya Kevin D. McKeehan Assistant Vice President Branch Manager/Loan Officer 321 West Spring Street Oxford, Ohio 45056 Phone: 513.523.7711 Fax: 513.523.7375 ++ psychodots ++ Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2005 11:08:21 -0500 From: Mary Bosken Subject: Bucket on the Web! This just in from Lee Rolfes........ Check it out! Revamped Bucket website.... www.ohmybucket.com Mary ++ psychodots ++ Date: Monday, March 21, 2005 2:49 PM From: George Cunningham Subject: finally, stumblingham Graveblankets & Faux Frenchmen Friends, Acquaintances, Adversaries, and the Like: Pike 27 bandmate Dave Purcell called it the record longer in the making than Smile. After decades of tepid anticipation, like Bill Wyman, Joe Perry, Wendy and Lisa, and Bill Wyman again before me, I now step shyly in to the glowing, blinding, unforgiving, glaringly uncomfortable spotlight with my first solo CD, Stumblingham, produced, co-written, coddled and tolerated by Chris Arduser. Said event has generated the following hoopla: This Saturday March 26, at noon: George Cunningham and the Flammables (John Schmidt, Jesse Feister, Arduser) introduce Stumblingham to the world at large on the Music With Brian O'D show, WNKU FM, 89.7 or streaming live at WNKU.org. Brians guests also include Over the Rhine. Then, at 3pm at Everybody's Records, Montgomery at Ridge in Pleasant Ridge, we'll knock out a one hour-or-so in-store performance of Stumblingham material. Your first chance to buy the damn thing. Shortly thereafter, buy it at Cincinnati area record stores including Everybodys, Shake It, and Phils, at CD Baby.com, or through www.graveblankets.com. To those of you who may owe me favors, this would be the time. Trepiditiously, George C P.S: Faux Frenchmen every Monday at Tinks in Clifton, 6:30-9pm. Swinging like crazy. ++ psychodots ++ Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2005 14:07:21 -0500 From: Mary Bosken Subject: Stumblingham City Beat review.... City Beat March 23, 2005 Journeys With George http://www.citybeat.com/current/musicspillit.shtml By Mike Breen Guitarist George Cunningham releases his first solo album, Stumblingham, this week. Cunningham -- who plays with locals like The Graveblankets, Pike 27 and The Faux Frenchmen -- will do some promo work on Saturday to push the disc. At noon, Cunningham and his band, The Flammables (John Schmidt, Jesse Feister and his partner-in-crime on Stumblingham, Chris Arduser) will play live on WNKU (89.7 FM; wnku.org). At 3 p.m., the group heads over to Everybody's Records in Pleasant Ridge for an in-store performance. Cunningham doesn't stumble at all on Stumblingham, a mostly all-instrumental adventure that showcases his versatile guitar work and arrangement abilities. It's a quite finessed album, actually; Cunningham and the album's producer/co-writer Chris Arduser have done an amazing job creating an actual "album" that flows wonderously. The twosome's sense of humor (read Cunningham's column, "A Guitar Case," at graveblankets.com for hysterical examples) is evident in the playfulness of the album, with clever samples and a general jauntiness on some of the tracks. Despite being essentially a "guitar album," this is no hack-fest; the track programming and diversity of the material keeps your interest from start to finish. How many modern instrumental albums can you really say that about? Not limited to one particular style, Cunningham touches on forms of Surf ("Missiletoe"), Celtic ("Debussy Fields"), eccentric Pop ("The Upturned Face," featuring vocals from Arduser), Jazz ("The Last Biscuit") and Latin (the vinyl-static-muffled "The Mourning Tango"), and instead of trying to totally ape the greats of a genre, he gives each his own spin. There's also a large chunk of finger-style guitar showcases, which show Cunningham can more than hold his own with other innovative masters of the neo-acoustic guitar music brigade. Don't let the tomfoolery fool you -- Stumblingham is a top-shelf Roots music elixir. ++ psychodots ++ End of Psycho Depot 407 Mar 24, 2005 Comments, suggestions, postings, and administrative or the switch between digest and daily versions of the Depot (or be on both!): Mike Brown depot @ psychodots.com To order psychodot merchandise: contact Stan Hertzman of Umbrella Artists and Strugglebaby Records shertzman@cinci.rr.com 513 871-1500 Voice 513 871-1510 Fax and Hal Bernard Enterprises, Inc., 2612 Erie Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45208 For back issues (2 ways): Email: Tony Nowikowski tony@nowikowski.com or Web Site: http://home.insightbb.com/~p-dots/ Check out the psychodot Home Page at: http://www.psychodots.com Check out the graveblankets Home Page at: http://graveblankets.com Check out the Bears Home Page at: http://www.thebearsmusic.com Check out the Ricky Nye Home Page at: http://www.rickynye.com