I was checking out 1man bands today on utube and found this guy hes good,I dont know who he is but i checked a few of his videos out and they all sound great.
---------- Hobostubs
Last Edited by on Jun 30, 2012 1:39 PM
way cool i think i need a homemade lapsteel that hammer on glissando is cool. im getting used to playing a chrome in my right hand so it may be good to do since i hate a rack in my face. i had an idea once for a mechanical post on a D bow to hold the 4. via gravity or a pedal and go to the 5 actually using the harp as a slide. did you see my vid with the one string coffee can?
No ive been away for over a week house sitting for a friend who went on vacation,And couldnt use the computer,So Im just now getting back online,I did buy a mini hi -hat this week trying to firgure out some beats and get my right and left foot in time,Im using a suitcase with a tamberine mounted in a hole I cut in it,I taped a couple small egg marocos onto the bass pedal hammer,Now If I can get the hi-hat thing worked out there tricky,Ive never been a drummer and I didnt relise a hi hate can make a few different sounds,IS your video on here?I like to see it.
Last Edited by on Jun 30, 2012 2:26 PM
yea I never thought about a lap steel untill,I saw him,I think that a cool guitar and sound,does some good stuff,And lots of harp ---------- Hobostubs
Last Edited by on Jun 30, 2012 2:40 PM
that is pretty cool Billy,like the vocals,and the one string is cool,this weekend I had my 3 string with me,and the neighbor kid by the house I was watching he,s 20 well,He really liked the idea of a CBG,I let him play it and he,said he wanted to build one,He showed me a guitar he had painted a strat that he added a humbucker,He said Ill give you a extra single coil,that he had,,I said well if your going to make you one,You need a good cigar box,i have a few nice wood ones,i said Ill trade you a nice box for the single coil.So I guess theres another converted player fixing to go the CBG route;-)Im fixing to take the single coil and I have a old neck that is messed up so im going to take the frets out,and build me a fretted 4 string with a pickup,been wanting one for awhile now. its looking like I might have to build her ---------- Hobostubs
Last Edited by on Jun 30, 2012 5:05 PM
He´s good, certainly. The problem often is though, with him and many more one man bands, what´s the next tune gonna sound like? Probably quite a lot like the the one just played ... I´m still waiting to be surprised there. Yes, I scrolled down and there was another one, minimal variation. My impression is that it doesn´t help a whole lot even if you buy all sorts of gadgets, most OMB´s are a bit of one trick ponies. (That one trick can be a good one, of course, which makes it more interesting.) Theresa Andersson might be a counter example, there are probably a few others.
yea i was wondering that myself,Martin after listening to a couple songs,But I still like em,I like how he builds up the energy gathers a crowed and the dynamics he uses ,although he does go, all out on the harp,alot,But he plays it well while hes doing it,But the pecusive foot stuff,is great,He builds it up changes it up,lets it fade off ,builds it again and all using stuff I never thought about for foot drums,and hes very tight,His slide is great and full of energy that he twists and turns,But I do believe your right in that he probelly should add maybe a regular guitar and change it up some,But then again he might if he was doing a show rather than busking,
---------- Hobostubs
Last Edited by on Jul 01, 2012 8:38 AM
yeah you do too many things something will suffer. thats why i developed mindless drums. like the dbow highat, the wrist morocco (maraca singular) the piezo heel. like the machine gun was based on wasted energy. theres alot of wasted body movements that can trigger drums. and drums do get a crowd going. and minimal movements at that. as for tricks it only takes one to be famous chuck berry, bo diddley, elmore james,john lee hooker. and all are widely imitated.
Yea i myself feel like the drums are probelly the most important thing for a 1 man band and the hardest to pull off with out sounding monotonous,I never been a drummer and trying to learn to do footdrums is driving me crazy,I havent checked out alot of ,but a few footdrum players,And not to sound like a kiss up,But Walter Tore and Mr Satan are 2 I really like they sound like real drums,Alot including mine sound like thump thump thump and just to monotonous even if I can keep the time(sometimes hard;-) ,I really like this guys percusive sound it has dynamics is simple,but looks kind of complicated,or at least planed out well,whats neat is that he dosent seem to be using alot of equipment for it. ---------- Hobostubs
Last Edited by on Jul 01, 2012 10:13 AM
well i put a peice of lamp pull chain inside two bottle caps and a piezo the effect was like a train or a box car full of scrap metal clunking in a really small device. i was going to put in in the heel of a shoe with a jack hole. i dont toe tap i heel tap and on my right foot. if i did it on my left it would annoy me while trying to slide a dbow or lapsteel. but i know the foot thing would work with my highat. i may have to make the cymbals bigger from larger coffee cans. a wrist maracca really helps for bo diddley on a guitar i havent tried it on d bow yet.
that was cool,hell Ive thought about getting or building me one of those shell bracelets that fit on your ankle ,Ive heard some cool stuff with them and there would be easy to carry with a guitar and harp.Your shoe thing sounds cool.that was a cool D bow, ---------- Hobostubs
yeah i think its the aluminum from the sardine can but i tried dbow with a baby food jar as a slide and it had more growl. this guy:
uses ankle bells but you cant really see him do it in this vid. but he plays TOOMBI/TAMBOORA upside down. the toombi/ektara is strings but more like drums like a banjo/cajon combined. you can see he has a finger banger like a d bow he doesnt pluck. but if i could somehow put a harmonica on the body thats the exact angle i need to play at that a neck rack wont give me. maybe a harp will fit on a cigar box better. have some type of mic inside
oh i forgot john lee hooker not only stuck bottlecaps on his soles and heels with chewing gum, but he also strung them on his shoe laces like one of those bottlecap snakes.you could prolly make a bottle cap snake with a piezo in one cap (you can drill a hole in a piezo it will still work) and have the jack in the cork head end and just plug the rattle in.
yea i never thought about that,i might have to try one,except Im getting cords going every where,I got the hi-hat miced with a egg static mic,and the guitar cords,the vocal mic,and was micing the base drum but decided it didnt need it.Im having trouble today with firguring out how to place the base pedal ,the rp155 pedal,and the high hat pedal where I can reach all 3 without trouble.I practice in a small room,and firguring out how to get my new stuff worked out is about to drive me nuts;-) ---------- Hobostubs
Last Edited by on Jul 01, 2012 12:00 PM
yeah im trying to reduce everything to two guitar lead cords. ive seen old harps in boxes shaped like classical harps to resonate better. so im thinking a 1 string D bow that i can play sufi style or american slide style with a harp inside the box like issac did.
Juzzie Smith; yep, way cool. I disagree about his being a one trick pony and all his songs sounding the same. He has put out a few albums which have some great stuff on them, and they dont all sound the same. As well as harp, guitar, vocals and percussion, he does this amazing Mogolian harmonic throat singing, which sounds like nothing else. Thats gotta make him at least a five trick pony. ---------- Lucky Lester
