Mother Feather.
Rockwood.
Music.
Hall.
Mid.
Night.
Mwah!
M
P.S. Tomorrow I’ll be playing with the fantastic Kris Gruen at Union Hall.
P.P.S. His dad took this awesome photo …
P.P.P.S. Keef’s book is kinda depressing.
P.P.P.P.S. Also happening tonight … Mr. Casey Shea is playing Washington DC at a place called The Rock And Roll Hotel.
Hi,
This morning I woke up to the following digital representation of a sideways email …
Come tell me how jealous you are tonight when I’ll be at The Living Room playing a double header with Shanna Zell at 9pm and Kris Gruen at 10pm.
And, just in case all the bands fortunate enough to be performing at the Brooklyn Indie Fest haven’t been promoting their pretty little band butts off, later this week you’ll have the chance to go to Little Field in Brooklyn for the aforementioned Brooklyn Indie Fest. Once you’re there you’ll be invited to pay anywhere from $23 to $55 to see a bunch of bands that usually play at Rockwood Music Hall for FREE. Now, if that doesn’t sound like business acumen, I don’t know what does.
Mwah!
M
P.S. Speaking of business acumen …
P.P.S. By special invitation Mr. Andy Fitzpatrick will once again grace the stage of the aforementioned Rockwood Music Hall this Sunday at 10pm.
P.P.P.S. There’s a pretty good chance you’ll see me playing double bass at that show.
P.P.P.P.S. Holy crap.
Hi,
Below you will find one of the cooler videos I have ever seen, compliments of Mr. Tony Hawk.
Go Skateboarding Day, Kabul 2011 from Skateistan on Vimeo.
And yes, since you asked, I own an original Tony Hawk mini deck from 1983. Not the actual one I owned when I was 12. But it reminds me of the one I owned when I was 12. Which reminds me of things like Not Having Fear.
And yes, since you asked, tonight I will be performing again with the great Kris Gruen. This time at Bruar Falls. Which reminds me … do they have a bass amp there?
And yes, tomorrow you can see Mother Feather. I promise, we look better than our website.
And yes, since you were wondering, the great(ish) Andy Fitzpatrick will be back at Rockwood Music Hall this Sunday at 10pm.
Enough about me … how have you been?
Zzzzzzzzzzz …
Mwah!
M
P.S. Someone totally just farted.
Hi,
For those of you looking for more hi-brow cultural explorations as a follow up to “a certain someone who will go unmentioned here’s” latest foray into reminding everyone that some people are better not being mentioned by name, let me encourage you to forget your worries over “the white population” that “will shrink” as “Mexico is moving north” and read the latest “issue” of Interview Magazine whereupon you will be reminded that “the Indian Summer of our civilization” is in fact filled with people who are either using their “power for good and not for evil…” or just “always wanted to get dressed up and prance around on stage.”
In related news, last night I had the pleasure of performing at a birthday party for the great Bob Gruen. You may remember him from such memorable photos as this one called “Matt Basile performing with Kris Gruen at Bowery Electric”:
He’s also taken some lesser known photos as well. Like this one of an unknown British folk singer from the 70’s.
Anyway, it was really fun to play at R Bar. Nothing says “I’m a classy joint” like a stage with a pair of stripper poles. Gosh, I’m so glad the Bowery hasn’t lost it’s edge.
Mwah!
M
P.S. Tomorrow night is the last show of the Dred Scott residency at Rockwood Music Hall.
P.P.S. You should go.
P.P.P.S. At Midnight.
P.P.P.P.S. Yes …
P.P.P.P.P.S. I’ll be there too…
P.P.P.P.P.P.S. Because he rocks…
P.P.P.P.P.P.P.S. At playing jazz.
Hi,
Today is pretty cool. Having reached the goal of killing and or enabling over 100,000 Iraqi deaths in the last decade-ish, the US is withdrawing the last of it’s troops today. Behind, we will leave a lot of friends.
In other news about today, you may be interested to know that I am not only wearing a cool new tie because it makes me look, er, cool, but also because it’s part of the requested attire for one of my gigs today. One of my gigs today? Oh yeah, I have three. That’s my version of a humble brag. Just, you know, nonchalantly mentioning that I am so sought after that I have three professional bookings in one day. Oh, and did I mention that said three professional bookings are for something called the “Double Bass.” That of course means I have two bass that I have to play simultaneously. The same part. Doubled. More bass. Mucho Bella Basso!
Anyway, the first and third of my gigs today are with the formidable Kris Gruen. He’s the kind of guy you wish would run for president, or at least city council. He probably will someday. For now I get to listen to him sing while I stand next to him mostly just playing the root note of whatever chord he happens to be playing at any given moment of whatever song we happen to be performing. It’s pretty fun, especially since he’s such a good singer. We play at The Richardson at 4pm. That’s in Brooklyn. Then we play at 2A at 8pm. That’s in the East Village.
In the middle of those two gigs, I’ll be playing my first gig with Mr. Jon DeRosa. He has more tattoos than me and a very racy set of playing cards mounted to his living room wall. Last week we recorded some songs for his next album. The very good drummer Mike Pride was there too, playing the drums. We’ll be playing, minus Mike, at The Richardson at 5pm. That’s still in Brooklyn in case you forgot.
Incidentally, The Richardson is owned by one of the guys that made the movie this part of this sentence links to.
In more news about today, my stomach still feels like crap, I’m still in a bad mood and yes it has started to interfere with my general happiness as it relates to other living things. Fortunately there are only three and a half weeks until my privatized medicine doctors appointment.
Mwah!
M
P.S. The Misty Boyce extravaganza band thing is playing on Tuesday at Glasslands.
P.P.S. Any website that has pop-ups asking me to join a mailing list is lame … Yes, even if the website is promoting one of my friends.
P.P.P.S. In case you don’t wanna go out on New Year’s Eve, the Casey Shea Band will begin self destructing on Stage One of Rockwood Muzak Hall at 11pm.
Hi,
Today I don’t have a lot of time so I’m gonna do this thing called “cut and paste” with an email I got this morning from one Ann Courtney. You should read it and follow the directions. Because I said so.
“I’ll say it. Most of these year-end “best of” lists decided by “tastemakers” are whack.
Power to the people! The Deli Magazine is putting you in charge of voting for your favorite emerging NYC artist of 2011. Mother Feather is in good company on this list of nominees. If we win the most votes they’ll stick our pretty mugs on the cover of the spring issue and you’ll be able to read about us in any rehearsal space bathroom in the five boroughs! I. WANT. THIS. And I don’t deal well with disappointment.
We have a ton of exciting sh!t in the pipeline. I’ll keep you posted. In the meantime…vote, motherfeather!
xxMFxx ”
In unrelated news, I’m pretty sure you can buy tickets for the February 10th Mother Feather show at Mercury Lounge starting tomorrow. You should remember to do that.
In the meantime, you can come down to Rockwood Muzak Hall tonight when I’ll be demonstraing how at 30somethingorother years old I have, to quote my new doctor, Dr. Jonnie, “the blood pressure of a teenager and the pulse of a professional athlete” by playing the 7pm set with one of my favorite singers, the indestructible Kris Gruen, and then running back to The Nunnery to drop of the double bass I use to play with Kris and pick up my electric bass and go back to Rockwood to play in the 9pm set with someone named “Shwa,” whose claim to fame of course is that the former drummer from Cinderella played on his album Chop Chop.
Cinderalla is the first band I ever saw. And I still think this song totally rocks and if they ever need a bass player I would totally play with them for at least, oh I don’t know, $100 a show and maybe 25 per rehearsal if they can swing it.
Lastly, for all you insomniacs out there, The Casey Shea band will be simultaneously putting everyone to sleep and earning me some live performance songwriter royalties tomorrow night at Madison Square Garden. See you there.
Mwah!
M
P.S. The new Casey Shea album “In Your Head” is conveniently located at places where people buy albums.
P.P.S. It’s also available as a record record, meaning an LP, or vinyl if you’re nasty.
P.P.P.S. He promised me that if I got a lot of people to buy it, he would retire next year.
