Psycho Depot Issue 439 May 25, 2006 Current # of subscribers: 187 (daily and digest) Subjects in this issue: Deposition Lee Rolfes/Appalachian Festival/May 13th Dots on new Reds CD 'dots music at GAB! New stuff Deposition Enquirer article..... Cincy Post 'dots article ++ psychodots ++ Date: 14 May 2006 17:36:40 -0700 From: "Kevin McKeehan" Subject: Deposition From http://www.thebearsmusic.com/ this info: We are very excited to announce that Bad Bob Nyswonger will be releasing his first solo record, Deposition on May 26, 2006. The 10 tuned release features Bob on all instruments except drums as well as an instrumental he recorded in his home studio. Guest artists include: Rob Fetters (guitar) & Adrian Belew (drums) on one track, and Chris Arduser and Bam Powell drumming away on the other tracks. Discs will be available at the Dots' Southgate House show in May 26 or you may purchase the disc via CdBaby.com. If you'd rather skip the middleman, you can email Bob at nyserhomes.net and order it from him for $15 USD. And with this news of Bob's new release, we finally offer http://www.thebearsmusic.com/bobnyswonger/index.html BOB'S own page! Kevin ++ psychodots ++ Date: 24 May 2006 01:33:09 -0700 From: Mary Bosken Subject: Lee Rolfes/Appalachian Festival/May 13th Forwarding an update from Lee Rolfes. ____________ Hey Folks, Just letting you know that I'll be performing, along with Harold Kennedy and Cheri Fuller, this Sat., May 13th at The Appalachian Festival at Old Coney in Cincinnati, Oh.. We'll be playing on a small stage in front of Moonlight Gardens from 2-6pm. C'mon. Lee for more info: http://www.appalachianfestival.org/index.html ++ psychodots ++ Date: Thu, 11 May 2006 07:47:16 -0400 From: Jeff Burroway Subject: Dots on new Reds CD http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=3D/20060511/ENT/60511031= 4/1025 Area bands pitch in for Reds-themed CD BY LAUREN BISHOP / ENQUIRER STAFF WRITER The Reds hope a new benefit CD will be a winner with baseball and local music fans alike. Called "Clutch Hits," the album features original baseball- and Reds-themed songs from acts such as Blessid Union of Souls, Noah Hunt, Freekbass, the Psychodots, Screaming Mimes, Ryan Adcock, Jake Speed and the Freddies, And Andy, Greg Mahan, Kinsey Rose and Jen. The album includes Peter Frampton's version of "Take Me Out to the Ball Game," a song by Raquel Aurilia, wife of Cincinnati infielder Rich Aurilia, and an introduction from Hall of Fame Reds radio broadcaster Marty Brennaman. The CD is a follow-up to an eight-song CD put together last season by Jeff Pence of Blessid Union of Souls and Reds Community Fund adviser Vikki Rieger. All proceeds from the CD will benefit the Reds Community Fund, which sponsors baseball-related programs for kids. Fans can buy the album at the Reds Community Fund booth at home games at Great American Ball Park or online at www.reds.com in the RCF online shop for $15. The CD also is expected to be available at Buddy Roger's Music locations in Greater Cincinnati. Buddy Roger's is the project's main sponsor. ++ psychodots ++ Date: Thu, 11 May 2006 08:00:09 -0400 From: Mary Bosken Subject: 'dots music at GAB! City Beat Spill It by Mike Breen http://www.citybeat.com/current/musicspillit.shtml Rockin' Redlegs As Jammin' On and MidPoint have shown, the groundswell of support for local music has kicked up a few notches in recent years. For proof, look no further than Great American Ballpark and your Cincinnati Reds. David Storm of the local band Screaming Mimes gets the credit; working in the P.A. booth at the stadium, Storm has been known to play local bands' CDs between innings. Storm also had a big hand in putting together Cincinnati Clutch Hits, a new compilation CD featuring baseball- and Reds-themed songs from artists like psychodots, Ryan Adcock, Noah Hunt, And Andy, Freekbass, Jake Speed and the Freddies, Greg Mahan, Blessid Union of Souls and Screaming Mimes. The disc -- which also features cameos by Peter Frampton, Marty Brennaman and Raquel Aurilia, wife of Reds infielder, Rich -- will raise money for the Reds Community Fund, the team's youth outreach program. For more on the CD and the Fund, check out redscommunityfund.com. ++ psychodots ++ Date: Tue, 23 May 2006 00:16:40 -0400 From: "David Ash" Subject: New stuff Wow, the recent silence on the Depot is deafening, and there's actually quite a lot going on lately! Maybe some blabber on recent developments will stimulate some conversation: Nyswonger solo CD: If you haven't already heard, Bad Bob has finally realized a long-stated goal of his, to record and release a solo album. "Deposition" is its name (surely just a coincidence that the title almost invokes the name of our humble newsletter?), and it is supposed to be available at the Southgate House psychodots show this Friday (May 26). I already have my check to Bob for a signed copy to be mailed out as soon as he gets them; I assume he'll get to keep more of the revenue from the CDs he sells directly. For instructions on ordering directly from Bob yourself, see psychodots.com. Lots more on the album, including lyrics and liner notes, is at the Bears web site: http://www.thebearsmusic.com/bobnyswonger/index.html. On a personal note I'm thrilled that Catherine The Great, long one of my favorite Bob tunes, is finally surfacing, and Don't Bury Me as well, which seemed like such an appropriate anthem for psychodots but hasn't been played live in recent years. Note that these songs were recorded for the never-released 1996 "live in the studio" psychodots album, but Bob told me that he didn't use those recordings on this album. #1 is also on here, which was played live by the Dots in the early 90s and revived one year in the early 21st century for the annual reunion shows. The track Dust Devil was recorded during the Bears' Car Caught Fire sessions -- this is the one that Rob and Adrian appear on. Your Gun, Water Song, and Kill Me Now have previously surfaced to the lucky fans who saw him perform them at Allyn's songwriter nights in the late 90s, or heard copies of some of Bob's 4-track demos from the early to mid-90s, but these are new versions save for guitar and mellotron parts on Kill Me Now. And it just occurred to me that Water Song was done by live by Bob with his daughter Carmen assisting during the Raisins reunion shows at Topcats in 2000, which featured a solo segment for each band member. Recent psychodots gigs: I made it up for the Canal Street Tavern show last Friday the 12th, first Dayton show I've made in years, and I'd forgotten how different a live music experience can be in such an intimate venue. I was right in front of the stage for both sets, and it's so cool seeing the show from a few feet away. The band was tight, the setlist was similar to the Thanksgiving shows, no huge surprises, just a very solid performance for an appreciative crowd. I'll be there for the Southgate House show this Friday, hope to see more of you there. I missed the Zoo gig (there was some reference onstage and in the audience at Canal Street to the Zoo show, something about a screaming girl?) and the Indy 500 show, can anyone enlighten on these? If you missed the Canal St. show you can catch a whiff via Internet video (more on that below). Random humorous show moment: Rob requested that photos of the show featuring his not-so-resilient neck skin be "enjoyed in the privacy of your own home" rather than emailed to him. WOXY appearance: I see on psychodots.com that the band will appear live on woxy.com Tuesday May 23 at 1:00, which is later today as I write so it's probably over by the time you're reading this... but for what it's worth, the last time they visited the "station" (it's a web-only broadcast) just about a year ago, the guys were in good form musically and in usual good (smart-assed) humor. WOXY has an unusually high quality sound stream, but I just discovered that you now need to pay $9.95 for a month's worth of access to this, seems they are in some financial straits, but you can hear the low-fidelity stream for free. Concert video at youtube.com: Jeremy Sewell is a professional videographer who has documented concerts by Les Claypool, Bob Weir's Ratdog, Adrian Belew, and others, and he's taped recent psychodots shows such as Southgate House last November and the recent Canal Street show. You can see some brief but very enjoyable excerpts of these videos at Jeremy ( a.k.a. "staunchy")'s page on the YouTube website (http://youtube.com/results?search=psychodots&search_type=search_videos ). Leave some feedback for staunchy so he knows we appreciate his efforts to make these available (are you out there Jeremy? Not sure if you're a Depot subscriber). Also, there's a psychodots page at myspace.com that claims to be "official" though there's not much there-- see http://profile.myspace.com/psychodots Reds charity CD: There is a new psychodots song available on CD! It's part of a benefit release for the Cincinnati Reds Community Fund, called Clutch Hits. The disc features local artists and the songs are all baseball-themed; the psychodots contribution is called gimmetheball. I ordered my copy at http://cincinnati.reds.mlb.com/NASApp/mlb/cin/community/rcfshop.jsp for $16 including shipping a week ago and received it today, and the song is a hoot -- a very clever throwaway, it sounds like Rob taking the main riff from Bob's ancient Raisins composition Creep Like Me (dig out Everything And More to refresh your memory) and adding a lot of his studio gimmickry to it, plus the Bob/Chris rhythm section -- very entertaining! Since I don't live in town and haven't attended a Reds game in years, I wonder if they're playing this at the games -- has anyone heard it there? Bears album: Bob told me he doesn't know when the new Bears CD will be released, and he seemed a bit frustrated about it. Sounds like it's in Adrian's control, and he's busy with solo activity at the moment. Bob says the album is really good. For what it's worth, I created an entry for the Bears at Wikipedia, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bears_%28band%29 -- if you're not familiar with Wikipedia, it's a very cool concept, a web-based encyclopedia completely written by the general public, and it's become a fairly prominent Internet reference resource. Anyone can write or edit an article, though your submission is likely to be changed or deleted by others if it's not accurate or of value. I would have liked to create a psychodots entry there, but articles on bands are supposed to be limited to those with national impact. Love, scooob ++ psychodots ++ Date: 25 May 2006 03:54:38 -0700 From: Mary Bosken Subject: Deposition Enquirer article..... Cincinnati Enquirer May 25, 2006 By Chris Varias http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060525/ENT03/605250327/1025 Solo disc connects Bob Nyswonger with psychodots comrades By Chris Varias For the past 30 years, Bob Nyswonger has manned the bass guitar for numerous rock bands in Cincinnati, including a few of the more notable ones like the Raisins, the Bears and the psychodots. But one band Nyswonger has never been in is his own. Like his psychodots and Bears buddies, Rob Fetters and Chris Arduser, Nyswonger is now a solo recording artist. The CD, titled "Deposition," is set to be released Friday, when the psychodots perform at the Southgate House. It will be for sale at the show for $15. The 11-song CD is a roundup of Nyswonger compositions earmarked for one of his bands and unreleased tracks he transformed from demos to finished cuts. Fans of the psychodots might recognize the titles "Catherine the Great" and "Don't Bury Me." "It's all over the map. It has the different styles I like, the power pop that the 'dots do, ballads and trippy stuff. The kind word is eclectic. The critical word is unfocused," jokes Nyswonger. His bandmates' solo projects weren't necessarily the reason Nyswonger did one himself. "There's always competition of some sort between people, but I didn't set out with the intent that it's gonna be better that those guys' records. To me a solo record is a personal statement. I just wanted to see if I could do it, to push myself to do the whole thing," he says. Nyswonger sings lead and plays most of the instruments himself on "Deposition" with the exception of drums. "I've played with too many good drummers that I didn't want to hack my way through. That's one thing I don't do," he says. One of the drummers playing on the record happens to be one of the world's most celebrated guitarists, Adrian Belew of the Bears, who appears on the track "Dust Devil." The song was recorded during a late-'90s Bears session in Nashville when drummer Arduser was sick. "We were just messing around. Rob was doing something on guitar, and Adrian got on drums. It's a chordal, fast-moving thing - kind of prog- ish," Nyswonger says. "Nobody intended to use it as a song, so Adrian was overplaying a bit, but it fit really well. He's a very good drummer. He was a drummer before he was a guitar player." As for the Bears, Nyswonger says the band has an album completed and are waiting for word from Belew regarding its release. "(Belew's) Web site says later this year," Nyswonger says. "We'll see." If you go: What: psychodots with Staggering Statistics When: 9 p.m. Friday Where: Southgate House, 24 E. Third St., Newport; (859) 431-2201 Tickets: $10 advance, $12 day of show; ages 18 and older ++ psychodots ++ Date: 25 May 2006 12:44:05 -0700 From: Mary Bosken Subject: Cincy Post 'dots article Cincinnati Post http://news.cincypost.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060525/LIFE01/605250394/1006/LIFE dots rock by Rick Bird Cincinnati's veteran power trio, the psychodots, hold what has become their twice-a-year concert at 9 p.m. Friday at the Southgate House, Newport ($12, non-smoking show). Opening, Staggering Statistics. The three 'dots - Rob Fetters, Chris Arduser, Bob Nyswonger - find themselves on "Adrian" time these days, eager to reconvene their other group, The Bears, formed when they hook up with Adrian Belew. A new Bears album is essentially done. Fetters said Belew, the celebrated Nashville-based guitarist and music producer, has not yet cleared his calendar to finish the project, a follow-up to their 2002 release "car caught fire." Both Fetters and Arduser released solo albums in the past year, with Nyswonger this week releasing his first ever solo CD, "Deposition," which will be available at Friday's show. ++ psychodots ++ End of Psycho Depot 439 May 25, 2006 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://p-dots.home.insightbb.com/ 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