I want one of these and I want to put it in my guitar.

I saw a preview of one of these units a little while ago and kind of forgot about it throughout a busy schedule. It is an analog synth made by Korg called a Korg Monotron. Rather than explain further, here is a three part video on what this little monster can do:







Crazy, right? Not as crazy as the price for one of these. $59.99!!! Are you kidding me? That is quite the feature packed little toy for that cheap. With that being said, I had refinished a cheap electric guitar a few months back and I hope I can route out a spot somewhere on the Peninsular Axe to be able to dock this thing in there. That would be a wild ride indeed. I still haven't done anything on refinishing/replacing tolex on that 4x12 amp cabinet since I last posted about it, so we'll see how soon this one gets done. Just got a little excited about the notion is all. Although I haven't measured to see where I would be able to fit this little guy in the guitar, in a perfect world it would look a little something like this:

Life is good.

 I wanted to show this excellent pointillism piece that I saw at Artprize. I didn't want to group it in with all of the others as I took a series of photos stepping back from it. It is made entirely of wine corks. The artist(I can't recall his name, but I intend on going back to it to vote a thumbs up on it) has a television set up next to it that plays a looping time lapse video of him plucking corks one by one off of shelves arranged by color and placing them on the portrait. Fascinating.

Prospecto Weekend

Well, the weekend of Prospecto flew by in a blur and I was fortunate to catch several great acts despite playing two out of the three nights. All of the bands really came together to make this thing the best it could be in it's inaugural year. Here's a list of the groups I got to see in chronological order:

Thursday: 
Walden Pond, then performed with Chance Jones, Mustard Plug(just a couple songs), Baths(a couple of songs), Ozenza, El Ten Eleven.

Friday:
Pistolbrides, then performed with Heavier Than Air Flying Machines, Night Toucher

Saturday:
(Being that I was not playing this night, I was trying to cram in as much as possible.)
Shores(Caught the last song only, unfortunately.) Bowery(partial set), The Contours w/Joe Billingslea(Joe was one of the original founders of this killer motown group. Look them up if you don't know them. You know at least one hit song for sure.) Ghost Heart, and a couple of songs from the group Bump. We were going to go see Victor! Fix The Sun, but they canceled. Huge bummer seeing as how it was their last show ever.

There were so many groups that I missed due to playing and scheduling, which is incredibly unfortunate, but I had a great time catching what I could. My extreme gratitude goes out to the bands and especially the organizers of this event for showing what music in this town is all about. With a few tweaks and new-found knowledge applied, next year will be amazing as well. 

I was able to get my picture taken with and meet Joe Billingslea and The Contours after their set Saturday night. What a hilarious and great group of guys.

On Sunday, the Prospecto guys threw together an artist luncheon at The Intersection and I got to hang out with various friends in the local music community as well as thank the organizers for their hard work. After that, The Concussions were playing a street party downtown, so I got there in time to catch the last two songs of their set. Those guys are unbelievable in every respect.

I can tell you right now that I got nowhere close to a healthy amount of sleep for the last 4 days and I'm fine with that. I just need to go home and sleep for 12 hours, I guess. Life is good.

Prospecto and more Artprize pictures

As promised, here are some pictures from Prospecto as well as more from Artprize. The first pictures in particular would be the amazing two piece band called El Ten Eleven hailing from Los Angeles. They played at Founders last night and absolutely killed it. I also was able to catch local band Ozenza who ripped it up with some sludgy rock n' roll. I'm sure there will be a lot of great high quality photos around from Prospecto, as I saw people with cameras at every show who were volunteers. As soon as I find out where all of those will end up being, I'll be putting up a link to them. Anyway, here's a few quick shots of El Ten Eleven,then Artprize. Enjoy: