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  3. ***JSB on 102.1 The Edge Thursday Night***

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    well these bands won't get a chance to get radio airplay unless 'jammy' bands that have a more radio friendly sound like JSB, BNB and GTB can't get their music played...

    DO you remember when Phish's Heavy Things made it to the radio... we had a glimpse that maybe we'd hear some jammier stuff on the radio... but now I doubt that song would make it back into rotation anywhere...

    yeah maybe Wassabi's a stretch... but who knows what they are going to sound like on this new release...

  4. ***JSB on 102.1 The Edge Thursday Night***

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    It's so hard for a band to get radio play these days... it's really all about payola.. meaning, if you have some cash, sure radio stations will play it... Here is Canada, they monitor the playlists of stations across Canada and US every day, comparing their songs, and try to be a close as possible, but if one radio station starts playing a song consistently, then often another radio station will follow suit, then another, sometime it spirals like that... So please tune in tonight and email the station saying you would like to hear more... who wouldn't love to hear more Jimmy Swift Band , Grand Theft Bus, Jomomma, Nero, Blue Quater, Wassabi Collective on the radio? Count me in..

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    11PM THURSDAY, May 20th

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    LET's go to Town.....

  10. THAT ONE GUY INTERVIEW::: :)

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    You can also read this post on Jamhub.ca at

    Jamhub.ca that one guy interview link

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    “That One Guy,” Mike Silverman is a full-on one-man spectacle. Out of necessity to create an original one man live show, Silverman, an accomplished bass player from the San Francisco music scene, carved his own direction by conceiving an instrument of his own invention called the “Magic Pipe”.

    That One Guy Canadian Tour

    Satuday, May 22 Waterdown ONT - Come Together Music Festival

    Sunday, May 23 London ONT - Elements

    Tuesday, May 25 Guelph ONT - Trasheteria

    Wednesday, May 26 Toronto ONT - El Mocambo

    Thursday, May 27 Kingston, ONT - Elixir Nightclub w/The Mystic Caravan

    Friday, May 28 Hamilton ONT - Pepper Jacks Cafe

    Interview by Jay Cleary

    I had the opportunity to catch him opening for Ani DiFranco last fall in Buffalo, NY. His quirky, funky one man show was one of the most original and engaging acts I had seen in a long time. It’s a show that must be seen to be believed, as That One Guy unleashes sounds of a full band, using a combination of harmonizers, looping pedals, kick pedal, his secret weapon “The Magic Pipe.” Along with an oddball lyrical-delivery style, That One Guy will loosen you up and make you smile. I recently got a chance to speak with That One Guy about his upcoming Canadian Tour.

    Jay: Where are you calling from?

    TOG: I’m calling from just outside Baltimore, on my way to New York for a couple of shows before I head up to Canada. This is my first trip to Canada.

    Jay: How long have you been performing as a one man show?

    TOG: About 10 years, or so, “The Magic Pipe” was finished about 7 years ago. I had the idea for a one stringed instrument for about 3 years, and it came together really slowly. The idea for the instrument was a flash of inspiration, but I took a long while to put the idea into use.

    Jay: What exactly is the “Magic Pipe”?

    TOG: It’s made of two stainless steel pipes with two strings, first an upright bass string tuned to a low C, an octave lower than an actual bass, then on the other pipe there is a cello string tune to G for melodic stuff. I do a lot of bowing on that string, string pad stuff and I can pick it like a guitar. To make the whole thing really come alive I have a couple harmonizers and processors to fill out the sound.

    Jay: How has the instrument influenced the music?

    TOG: The basis of the material is quite simple, lots of single line stuff on the low sting and a counter line with the higher string. I’ve learned to push the limitations of the instrument and have found sounds I originally didn’t conceive were possible. It has inspired me to play very rhythmically. I tend also to let the songs evolve every night as I learn more about the instrument.

    Jay: How did this all come about?

    TOG: The material I was writing was very simplistic and very rhythmic. At first I was envisioning a 10-stringed instrument until I realized that the material and direction I was going in could go the other way… so I decided to go for the one string. More recently I added the extra string, drum triggers, looping effects (Echoplex digital looping unit). People thing that I’m doing some sequencing, but all of what I do it live,

    Well I had this idea of a one man show and being an upright bass player; I started performing live with a kick pedal, my upright bass and vocals. I was searching for a sound. Back in those days I was very much a purist; I shied away from midi and synthesized sounds. Then it was like stumbling on a whole new world of sounds when I learned about digital delay and drum machines. Basically I found my sound with lots of trial and error.

    Jay: Was the connection with you playing with Drums and Tuba specifically that you both did live looping?

    TOG: I though all along that Drums and Tuba was a like 8 piece group. I had their record and when I saw them I was really amazed with the sounds that they are able to get live with only 3 people. It was a total coincidence that we both play with live looping. Brian, of Drums and Tuba, has a great set up; it’s a very intensive rig.

    I toured with Drums and Tuba in the fall of 2002 for two months straight, it was pretty intense. And in the fall of 2003 I toured with them for about a month and a half, until I was called to play some shows with Ani DiFranco.

    Jay: How did that opportunity to play with Ani DiFranco come about?

    TOG:The Drums and Tuba guys made Ani aware of what I was doing. I guess she really dug it. It was really that simple. Ani is a very inspiring and considerate person. It was great to work with her. I did about 10 dates with her at the end of 2003, and there maybe some more dates to come. Her record label “Righteous Babe Records”; is home for Drums and Tuba and she may put out my next CD.

    Jay: What is the lyrical message of your show?

    TOG:Lyrically, I approach things very improvisationally. I don’t really sit down and write the words or think about them too hard. I let them write themselves, basically. I tend to let them fall into place. I can’t really justify them or explain them. I like leaving the words open-ended, and so they mean different things to different people. I don’t even try to justify the words to myself.

    Jay:What do you want people to know about “That One Guy”?

    TOG:I want people to know that my show is really different. I tell people to check it out, I only get around the country about once a year, and I say give it shot you won’t be disappointed.

    Jay: What are your influences? What music has inspired you forge your own direction?

    TOG: I’d say Captain Beefheart, Frank Zappa… I’m a huge Rush Fan; they’ve been my favorite since I was 10 and still are today. Ornette Coleman, Charles Mingus, Miles Davis… You know all types of honest music has influence me, I pick up things from everybody. I had my own lyrical thing going, and then someone turned me on to Captain Beefheart, who has a similar style, so I gravitated to the sounds that I like. Melodically, I think I draw heavily from Ornette Coleman.

    Jay: I hear some Primus in what you do.

    TOG: Funny you should say that, because I grew up in the Bay Area, where PRIMUS formed, and that sound that they tapped into, the Punk-Funk rock sound of San Francisco of the 80’s was around the time I was growing up. In high school my friends and I used to go downtown and check them out every opportunity we had…Primus, Limbo Maniacs, and a really great band Go Mungo … I think also the improvisational aspect of the Grateful Dead had a big influence on San Francisco’s history of breaking lots of different styles of music. That and Weird Al Yankovick really pushed me in some wacky direction. I’ve just been drawn to music that is different and makes you smile

    Jay:What are your future plans?

    TOG:I have a new album due around the first of the year. A live DVD in the works as well. An international tour this fall and after the new CD/DVD next year.

    That One Guy is currently touring in support of “Songs in the Key Beotch” and will be touring Ontario at the end of May. Visit That One Guy website for more details.

  14. Kate Holloway's new Tuesday night electrobreakbeat

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    Kate Holloway Presents...

    Leisure Suit Larry & Asstek

    electro-breakbeat-funk

    A new Tuesday night at Bar 254 [254 Adelaide St. W.]

    $2.54 Tuesdays - only $2.54 cover and then cheap drinks and great electro-breakbeat-funk

    also, they have ABSINTHE!

    come on down!

    tonight, DJs Leisure Suit Larry [leisuresuit productions] and Asstek [Chicks Dig It, Omfestival]

    also check out....

    Thursday, May 20th - OUTBREAK (Breaks/Drum and Bass)

    Breaks, Broken Beats and Drum and Bass

    w/Infinity 3, Dirt Bike Kid, Big Mack w/Steve and Komplex Optik with DJ Satisfiction

    El Mocambo UPSTAIRS, College/Spadina, $5

  17. East Coast Rocks Party - May 21st @ The El Mocambo

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    THE JIMMY SWIFT BAND and special guests RIFF RAFT

    Friday, May 21, 2004

    El Mocambo, College/Spadina

    Toronto, ON

    "...with quick pulsing bass and feel good swipes of guitar

    strums. Their heavy jam sounds combine what is best

    about jam music in general - overriding the overdone

    folky Dead-style jams by taking funk and slight

    traditional rural choruses along with late '70s disco

    keyboards, then futuristically adding a unique

    techno-dance approach... There is much promise to this

    increasingly popular band - their music acts like a

    vehicle - driving upwards and gliding in high gear and

    on cue at any given moment, they turn on the thrusters

    and explode into uncharted musical territory."

    -Exclaim Magazine

    JSB WEBSITE

    Riff Raft has been a staple of Kingston live music for over four years. Combining elements of funk, R & B, jazz and rock, Riff Raft have consistently filled the area's top clubs with dancers and music lovers.

    Riff Raft Website

  19. Grand Theft Bus & e4: Evolve Film Toronto May 15

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    IN NOW MAGAZINE>>

    http://www.nowtoronto.com/issues/current/music_dvdtip.php

    E4 (Farmhouse Productions) Rating: NNN

    There's something wonderful about watching people when they don't know they're being watched. If they're doing something self-involved like dancing about like soma-dosed rag dolls, it's that much better. E4 provides plenty of that sort of remote viewing: people in silly makeup, hula hoop orgies, people laying down the sweet sweet white funk. But that's not what the DVD is really about. E4 is the record of the fourth year of Canada's hugest granola-rave, the Evolve festival. In that, it does a pretty good job.

    It's no Burning Man, but the camera work is nice. The documentation of the various live trance-political musical acts (including Grand Theft Bus, High Plains Drifter and Wasabi Collective) and the mood of the shows is reasonably compelling – a little too earnest, but compelling. But while this may be just my wrong-headedness, I can't see people wanting to buy E4 unless they feel that somewhere down the line they'll want to show their kids the "happening" where they were conceived

  20. Grand Theft Bus & e4: Evolve Film Toronto May 15

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    [color:"blue"] FROM EYE MAGAZINE: pg.40 - May 13/04

    SATURDAY, MAY 15 E4 SCREENING/GRAND THEFT BUS

    Try as the punks did to kill off hippie culture, the recent crossover between jam-band and raver scenes virtually guarantees the good vibrations will keep reverberating for generations to come. For the past four years, Nova Scotia's Evolve Festival has been encouraging this convergence with eclectic lineups combining Djs with improv-jazz acts like Medeski Martin & Wood, twang-rockers like Luther Wright and the Wrongs, and funk-hop trpes like The Wassabi Collective. These artists and many more are featured in e4, a new DVD documentary of the 2003 festival that recieves its premiere Toronto screening at the El Mocambo (464 Spadina Ave.) at 10:30pm; the film will be followed with a show by one of the film's acts, Maritime Blues-funksters Grand Theft Bus.

  23. This sounds like a *crazy* party!

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    JUST ANNOUCED

    LORIN BASSNECTAR - San Francisco

    HEADLINER DJ FOR EVOLVE Music and Awareness Festial

    Deep, hypnotic freak-hop, mashed-up breaks, massive basslines, all rolled up into a quivering sonic spliff... strictly for bass nymphos.

    Lorin Bassnectar plays with Spearhead sometimes and jams with Michael Kang (SCI). He is the rock-star of DJs.. he's totally into the tunes, dancin', freakin' out.. it was quite a show, his set the highlight... the venue was a Art Studio, and what a time.. it was so much fun... and a sea of freaky kids that looked like fairies. I had a blast. Best Electronic show I've seen in a long time. He is known for playing Shambala and Burning Man Festivals. His CD has a whole bunch of Noam Chomsky spoken word. it's wicked

  24. Grand Theft Bus & e4: Evolve Film Toronto May 15

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    I'm going to show some of the film between sets, so that The Evolve Fillm gets out a little more exposure... Showing 20 mins at set break seems to work the best... and it's just enough of a tease to get people to buy the DVD. (which will be on sale for only $20!)

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    I'm getting very excited about this one...

    I'm asking people to submit some requests:

    I'm hoping for:

    Don't Treat me Like That

    Birth Of Confusion

    Lake Wallow

    anybody else have some requests?

  25. Resinators at Come Together Fest Saturday

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    Thanks to all that came out... It was filled with mostly dreaddies... and hotdamn! some beautiful ladies.. Some other very interesting guests in the audience: Canadian electro-pop artists ESTERO was there, as were members of Punjabi By Nature and JAHMALAMA (popular toronto world beat groups). We had a good crowd dancing, and the crowd was comprised of a lot of the people and players of TORONTO's Reggae Community, which is a testament to the respect these artists garner. The night when late too... like 3:AM.

    First Resinators kicked it with some great stuff... Downtempo DUB, heavy bass jams they also had some special guests vocalist. Lead singer Ra Lion sounded sweet, he has great voice that compliments the other singer in group drummer Raffa Dean. Cometogether Fest Look out!

    Sellasie I Power were in Top Form.. There was a great lead guitarist rippin' it up, lead singer Kwabena Reuben was decked out in some colourful clothes and was full of energy... he was bouncin' around like a little kid. They encored with Bob Marley's "Exodus" and "War" jammin' it out hard... bass player Uncle Dropsi and another member of the crowd freestyled some vocals over some beat-boxing... a nice way to end the night.

    All in all a great night... and we're doing it all again on on May 27th : Hot Reggae Nights Upstairs at the El Mocambo

    Hosted by Toronto's #1 Live DUB Experience

    RESINATORS alongside Version Xcursion (CKLN 88.1 fm)

    DJs Sassa'le & Aram Scaram

    THE EL MOCAMBO

    http://www.elmocambo.ca/

    Show starts @ 9PM

    $5 before 10PM - $8 after 10PM

    RESINATORS w/ special guest Michael Garrick & The Posse

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    I hung out with reggae legend Bernie Pitters after the show and we chatted for a while, he's an amaizing keyboardist and legendary reggae player/producer. He's played on recordings of Bruce Cockburn, Toots and The Maytals, Tony Curtis and get this... Fire on the Mountain Reggae Tribute to the Grateful Dead.

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    c-ya'll next time

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