The "O" stands for "Oh", the "C" stands for "See", and the "B" stands for "Bananas", which is what we see - a whole big nasty pile of the yeller fellers if we can get these boys out to their rightful audience! Actually we made that up. The band's name is derived from the lyrics of a song by their Musical God, Neil Young. Guess which one? You could win a banana-daq-soaked-ride in the record company limo if you get it right!
Ed Atwell and Nathan Sloniowski have wrapped their cucumbers in foil, tied on new guitar strings, brushed up their Stetsons and are headin' out into the indie musical yonder to perform a bunch of tunes they've been making up since meeting just outside Blakeney, Ontario, in a box-car, mere moments before it crashed into the icy rapids of the Mississippi.
Learn about gigs and all that at the minty-fresh OCBurning Faceobook Group! And before you go over there have a listen over to the left to the live-off-the-floor recording that we, the cheap chimps at the record company, put together at one of the boys' recent practice sessions. See ya in the musical yonder!
BroadcastLane Studios and Chris (Lurch) Rudyk garner great reviews and props in Tape OP Magazine from Atam Franklin of Swerve Driver for recording drums and bed tracks on his new CD http://www.toshackhighway.com/
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Lurch toured with Swerve Driver on monitor sound a few years back, and is a big Fan of Adam Franklin as well – a very cool guy and great lyricist as well.
Jezz is the bomb on drums as well as another gearhead like Lurch.
The band (Swerve Driver is one of the best early examples of the newer British wall of sound, one of the loudest things you will ever see) Bring Plugs.
Swerve Driver offers a melodic melt down of SPL that you will not see anywhere else quite as good!
It's all in the pedals!
The Canadian alt-country band Stinger Lake out of Toronto is out with their self-titled debut CD recorded at Broadcast Lane Studios Pittsburgh PA with Chris (Lurch) Rudyk producing. The band's getting airplay in North America (including CBC radio coast-to-coast), Australia, New Zealand and throughout Europe.
With a wide-range of influences – from Gram Parsons to Sam Cooke and the Soul Stirrers, from James Taylor to Led Zeppelin, from Ricki Scaggs to Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young– Stringer Lake is creating music that will bring new life to (and inevitably shape) the North American music scene.
The creative genius behind Stringer Lake’s music comes from the collaboration of two Stouffville, Ontario musicians, Allan Reesor-McDowell and Aidan Boyd – each bringing a different set of musical skills and experiences to the table. Songwriter Reesor-McDowell has the ability to tell a story through an irresistible combination of down-to-earth lyrics, brilliant melodies, alongside haunting harmonies. Couple that with Boyd’s unique knack at shaping and developing a song with pedal steel, dobro, lap steel, electric, and twelve-string guitars and you have a sound that you won’t soon forget.
For this debut album, Stringer Lake hooked up with Producer Chris "Lurch" Rudyk to record at Broadcast Lane Studio in Pittsburgh, PA. With a career in the music business under his belt as a Sound Technician, Road Manager, and later a Producer and Engineer (having worked with bands/musicians such as Feist, Rush, REM , Ron Sexsmith, Rufus Wainright, Barenaked Ladies, The Tragically Hip, 54:40, Jeff Healy Band, Oscar Peterson, The Cure, Lyle Lovett, Bruce Cockburn, Blackie and The Rodeo Kings, The Band, Driveway, Skinny Puppy & Fred Eaglesmith), Lurch provided Stringer Lake with the perspective and experience they needed to be successful in the studio.
To record the album, Stringer Lake was joined by a number of accomplished musicians: Bob Banerjee, Brad Yoder, Clarence Grant II, Heather Kropf, Jason Rafalak, Randy Venturnini, ‘Shay’, and David Throckmortin.
Check out Stringer Lake at www.stringerlake.com!
A woman goes into Bass Pro Shop to buy a rod and reel for her grandson's
birthday. She doesn't know which one to get so she just grabs one and goes
over to the counter.
A Bass Pro Shop associate is standing there wearing dark shades. She says,
Excuse me, sir. Can you tell me anything about this rod and reel?"
He says, "Ma'am, I'm completely blind; but if you'll drop it on the counter,
I can tell you everything from the sound it makes." She doesn't believe him
but drops it on the counter anyway.
He says, "That's a six-foot Shakespeare graphite rod with a Zebco 404 reel
and 10-LB. Test line. It's a good all around combination; and it's on sale
this week for only $20.00."
She says, "It 's amazing that you can tell all that just by the sound of it
dropping on the counter. I'll take it!" As she opens her purse, her credit
card drops on the floor.
Oh, that sounds like a Master Card," he says.
She bends down to pick it up and accidentally breaks wind. At first she is
really embarrassed, but then realizes there is no way the blind clerk could
tell it was she who tooted. Being blind, he wouldn't know that she was the
only person around.
The man rings up the sale and says, "That'll be $34.50 please."
The woman is totally confused by this and asks, "Didn't you tell me the rod
and reel were on sale for $20 .00? How did you get $34.50?"
H e replies," Yes, Ma'am. The rod and reel is $20.00, but the Duck Call is
$11.00 and the Catfish Bait is $3.50."
I mean, you could make a bad movie out of this story! Priceless...
Now that I'm over the ripe old age of thirty, I can't help but look around and notice the youth of today. You've got it so easy! I mean, compared to my childhood, you live in a dang Utopia! And I hate to say it but you kids today you don't know how good you've got it!
1. When I was a kid, we didn't have the Internet. If we wanted to know something, we had to go to the dang library and look it up ourselves... In the card catalog!! (Do you even know what a card catalog is? Didn't think so!)
2. There was no email!! We had to actually write somebody a letter... With a pen! Then you had to walk all the way across the street and put it in the mailbox and it would take like a week to get there!
3. There were no MP3's or Napsters! If you wanted to steal music, you had to hitchhike to the dang record store and shoplift it yourself! Or you had to wait around all day to tape it off the radio and the DJ would usually talk over the beginning and mess it all up!
4. We didn't have fancy crap like Call Waiting! If you were on the phone and somebody else called they got a busy signal, that's it!
5. And we didn't have fancy Caller ID Boxes either! When the phone rang, you had no idea who it was! It could be your school, your mom, your boss, your bookie, your drug dealer, a collections agent, you just didn't know!!! You had to pick it up and take your chances, mister!
6. We didn't have any fancy Sony Playstation video games with high-resolution 3-D graphics! We had the Atari 2600! With games like "Space Invaders" and "asteroids" and the graphics were horrible! Your guy was a little square! You actually had to use your imagination! And there were no multiple levels or screens, it was just one screen forever! And you could never win. The game just kept getting harder and harder and faster and faster until you died! Just like LIFE!
7. When you went to the movie theater there no such thing as stadium seating! All the seats were the same height! If a tall guy or some old broad with a hat sat in front of you and you couldn't see, you were just screwed!
8. Sure, we had cable television, but back then that was only like 15 channels and there was no onscreen menu! You had to use a little book called a TV Guide to find out what was on!
And there was no Cartoon Network either! You could only get cartoons on Saturday Morning. Do you hear what I'm saying!?! We had to wait ALL WEEK for cartoons!
9. And we didn't have microwaves, if we wanted to heat something up, we had to use the stove or go build a fire . Imagine that! If we wanted popcorn, we had to use that stupid JiffyPop thing or a pan with HOT oil and Real popcorn kernels and shake it all over the stove forever like an idiot.
10. When we were on the phone with our friends and our parents walked-in, we were stuck to the wall with a cord, a 7 foot cord that ran to the phone - not the phone base, the actual phone. We barely had enough length to sit on the floor and still be able to twirl the phone cord in our fingers. If you suddenly had to go to the bathroom - guess what we had to do..... Hang up and talk to them later.
That's exactly what I'm talking about! You kids today have got it too easy. You're spoiled!!
You guys wouldn't have lasted five minutes back in 1980!
Regards,
The over 30 Crowd
