My goodness, I have NOT been a good blogger since Baby Flapjack was born! Whilst you would have thought that a lot of our music would have suffered after having a baby…we managed to do a tour and record a new live album in the process! We played with some of my favourite musicians…such as Todd Reynolds and Neil Alexander and the whole experience of touring with a baby was amazing and difficult and humbling all at the same time. We realised how lucky we are to have a baby who thrives on new people and new situations, and how the help of wonderful friends along they way is indispensable. So please check out Live So Far and Steve’s posting on it is here. It’s pay what you want, or rather what you think it’s worth…and no matter what, we just want you to have a copy of it! Also there is a BEAUTIFUL live video, shot by Brian Wilson using 2 Canon 5D Mark 2’s and and another fixed camera. More news soon, I promise!
Steve has just about put the finishing touches on our Live In Nebraska Album on Bandcamp. This has been just about sold out since we made it (and we did make lots of copies!) but now you’ll be able to pay what you want for this amazing CD. It’s truly one of the best recordings I’ve ever been a part of….partly due to it being the last show on our US tour that year and us playing really well….and partly due to the amazing Dan Kane at Power Base Studio really knowing how to capture live sound. It also doesn’t hurt that his studio is perfect either. (It’s only $500/US per diem, you really should go and record there sometime!) We’ve never played the song Rain like this since. It’s breathtaking.
So download like crazy, share with your friends. Pass it on and let us know what you think! xo Steve and Lo.
What time is it? My internal body clock has stopped. Not on the one that goes…”hey honey, lets make a baby!” or the one that says..”Don’t you think it’s time to settle down?” but the one that tells me to wake up at 8am every morning and then lets me go back to sleep ’til 11. I usually fly from California, back to the East coast, and then back to the UK. That makes it a lot easier. This year it was the hardcore 10 hour flight from San Francisco over the Canadian wilderness. The real clock says it’s 3:47am, and I just ate some crisps and a larabar. Hellooo breakfast.
Random Facts
I’ve been getting all these requests for random facts about myself on facebook. Why am I acquiescing and doing your bidding? Cause I’m jet lagged and don’t yet have the brain capacity to do some real work. I could barely spell acquiescing. Hell, I could barely spell barely. Read the rest of this entry »
January Post Tour Update (House Concerts, NAMM, Fecking Airlines, and the Continuing Sonicbids Saga)
Hi there all! This’ll be a long one as I’ve got a lot to say. :D Hopefully you’re itchin’ fer an update so you won’t be snoozing by the end. If not, treat each part like a chapter…bookmark my RSS feed and come back every day!
House Concerts and the Like
I know that I’ve been a bad person and haven’t been blogging of late. Truthfully, I find it hard to be on the web much when I’m on the road. I just don’t have the constitution for it, and am likely to be more concerned with when/where I might find something I can eat. (I’m endlessly concerned about food when we’re touring) I have tried to keep you all updated via facebook and twitter…and if you’re following Steve, then none of this matters because you’ll have known our every move for sure as he lives his entire life on the web….well, almost.
So having a tour that was almost exclusively house concerts this year was a blast. There’s nothing like getting to play to groups of under 40 each night, the connection you can achieve with your audience is astounding. There’s a real conversational banter that opens up between you and your audience and it makes me realise how much I always hated playing club dates…and why I was always happier playing places like the Yellow Door and Ginglik. Aside from that, getting to stay somewhere cool each night, rather than some overpriced rat trap with someone else’s hair on the sheets was amazing. Aside from that, people letting me use their kitchens….personal tours of new cities….and just an all round feeling of welcoming into new/old groups of friends was stunning.
Thanks to everyone! Here’s some great pics from the shows!
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- Bob knows the Obama makes the world a better place for blind cats.
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- Steve and I with Holly and Victor Wooten
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- Being filmed at the house concert in Nashville.
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- Lovely Rachel Dyer and Sarah Masen Dark
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- Rachel and I at the Nashville House Concert
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- My hero Corey and I having fun and being silly!
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- Duquesne Uni in Pittsburgh Masterclass
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- YAY! It’s one of my fave drummers/friends Kevin Quickle!!!!
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- Steve and Owen from the Roots, in Philly
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- LA Future of Music Masterclass
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- Ah, sweet boys. Peter Murray and Steve
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- Claudio Zanghieri and Alain Caron
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- Steve and Claudio at Looperlative, Michael Manring to the left
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- David Torn, Moi, and the lovely Bryan Lawson
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- Two great bassists…Lee Sklar and Arianne Cap
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- Me learning some new skillz
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- How cool is this…I’m so proud to be a part of a whole new America
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- Kerry Getz’s fabulous house concert and inaugural party! She’s amazing!
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- Yes, I am still attempting to be cute sometimes.
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- The brilliant Vicki Genfan.
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- Seth Horan. He’s all about bass and strepsils.
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- How lovely is the California sky?
There are way more photos to post and lots more here if you’re interested. Read the rest of this entry »
Hi lovelies. So everyone knows that I’m crazy about looping. I think it’s the most fun one can have outside of hog rasslin’ and whittlin’. So I thought I’d post a couple of the latest vids in case you haven’t seen them. Why? Because I like sharing. Why else? Cause I’m in desperate need of your approval. But seriously, we’re gearing up to do a nice little tutorial video on looping and using the Looperlative, which is the most amazing looper in the universe. Designed and built by one of the coolest and nicest people in the known universe as well. Do you know what that means? It means that looping has never been nicer, or more amazing.
So enjoy the videos and as always, speaking for frogs and rutabagas everywhere, I’m Lobelia. Good day.
This is a new song called The Sound of a Breaking Heart. I started the looping out on mute….which is a dangerous thing..cause not only you can’t hear what it’s going to sound like…I can’t either!!! Also, a nice example of what happens when you get an extra beat in the loop live. You just go with it and point upwards. 
This is a song called In, which I wrote for bass and voice when I was 19. I’d never done it live as it needed to have tonnes of harmonies and what not to work on stage. And only a short 249 years later Voila! Modern technology!