April 2008

Microstoned (check out some soundbytess done and we had a nice record release and going away party in Seattle in March. We also we're happy to play in New York at the Big Apple Blues Fest with Hugh Pool, Willie McBlind, and Elliot Sharp. Hoping for another gig or two here in New York and hopefully some gigs in Europe next year.

February 2008

Happy New Year!!  We're busy working on some new things, currently finishing up work on our New release Microstoned featuring instrumental versions of blues and jazz classics, re-arranged for 12 tone ultra plus guitar and fretless guitar in just intonation, as well as a few originals.  The Multimedia has two songs loaded in the mp3 player.  Todd Zimberg has been nice enough to play drums on the recording and will be joining Forrest and Chris in New York for a performance on April 4th with Jon Catler's band Willie McBlind, with our old drummer Lorne "the docteer" Watson on drums. 

Chris has recently finished his manual on the 12 twelve tone ultra plus guitar available through the guitars inventor Jon Catler's website.  Chris will be staying in New York throughout the summer and plans on heading to Italy in September.  Chris visitited Italy in the late fall where he accompanied John Sinclair for a few performances and is looking forward to spending an indefinite amount of time there. 

We'll be having our last Seattle gig for a while on March 8th at the Red Onion.

2007

We haven't been that active this year.  Our drummer, Lorne Watson moved to New York to play his Percussion group LOOP 2.4.3.  While we miss him a lot we're excited for him to have more opportunities to perform with his exciting group and hope to visit and play some gigs with him in New York soon.  Lorne is also playing in New York Microtonal Blues Band Willie McBlind with our good friend Jon Catler and his partner Meredith Borden.

We did play a couple of blues festivals this summer with Brandon McInstosh playing drums.  Here's a couple of images from the Rock Cut Blues Festival and the blues stage at Snoqualmie Railroad Days.

While the Stone Crazy Blues Band plays much less frequently Chris will be playing guitar in the Groove Messengers in and around Seattle.

We're currently taking a break from gigs working on material for an instrumental all microtonal blues recording to coincide with the release of a teaching manual on the Twelve Tone Ultra Plus Guitar that Chris plays. Check back for more details soon.

2006

We had a great time in August backing John Sinclair at this years HempFest and are looking forward to hanging with John again. Here's some photos from the event.

We had a great time at the Microtonal Guitar Fest Chris organized here in Seattle, July 20 at the LoFi, we should have some pictures up soon.

June found us at the Pike Street Market street festival and benefit for the homeless and we got a great reception and great time as our good friend Wuddha sat in with us for a few tunes.

In March we performed live on BluesToDo Television hosted by Marlee Walker and had a great time.

Barndyard Boogie is currently receiving quite a bit of airplay on internet as well public radio stations throughout the country and overseas.  Help Me (as of May 15) has been on RadioWaveMonitors Internet Blues Charts for the last 11 weeks is currently #5 . 

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