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I don't know if I've mentioned here that I've started to play the accordion. I've been playing the melodica for a couple of years, but I was convinced I didn't have the manual dexterity to play a keyboard with one hand, push chord buttons with the other, and drive a bellows with both arms. Then one night in Seattle a drunken accordionist dragged me out onto the sidewalk, strapped an accordion onto me, and gave me my first accordion lesson.
So a year later, I finally bought one when I stopped for coffee in Eugene, Oregon, and a few months after that I pulled it out from under a shelf and started getting familiar with it. Since then I've played out with it a few times, mostly with Philip Rodriguez (several of his songs, and we did a quietly menacing cover of Johnny Cash's cover of the Nine Inch Nails Song "Hurt") and Meredith Edgar (originals again, plus the happiest version ever of a Smiths song about being killed by a bus). BTW, I just learned from Dan Tripp that Meredith's CD is now on CDBaby.
Last night I went out to Lisa Dewey and the Lotus Life's CD release party. The first opening act was Tub, about the rockingest accordion-based band I've seen. I'm not sure whether it was a normal accordion being run through effects or some kind of cyborg accordion synthesizer, but it was very cool. There are a bunch of MP3s on their site; my favorite is the live one, "Promise", despite some glitches toward the end.
So a year later, I finally bought one when I stopped for coffee in Eugene, Oregon, and a few months after that I pulled it out from under a shelf and started getting familiar with it. Since then I've played out with it a few times, mostly with Philip Rodriguez (several of his songs, and we did a quietly menacing cover of Johnny Cash's cover of the Nine Inch Nails Song "Hurt") and Meredith Edgar (originals again, plus the happiest version ever of a Smiths song about being killed by a bus). BTW, I just learned from Dan Tripp that Meredith's CD is now on CDBaby.
Last night I went out to Lisa Dewey and the Lotus Life's CD release party. The first opening act was Tub, about the rockingest accordion-based band I've seen. I'm not sure whether it was a normal accordion being run through effects or some kind of cyborg accordion synthesizer, but it was very cool. There are a bunch of MP3s on their site; my favorite is the live one, "Promise", despite some glitches toward the end.
cool
Mum (electronica) use accordion, but they also use saws, and various odd instruments I've never seen or heard of. So I don't know how interesting this is. They're better live than on CD, it turned out.
Re: cool
I expect I will never learn to play the saw.