It may be lame, but your humble narrator is SUPER EXCITED about the new release of the Rolling Stone’s “Exile on Main Street”…
Category: Tin Pan
Alaska…
Alas Dear Reader!!! i have returned from my pilgrimage to the land of Giant Salmon, Bald Eagles, Totem Poles, Sasquatches, & large quantities of beer that shall hither-to be known as “Alaska”… Now why did your humble narrator journey to this mythical land of the Read More …
Brecht and Weill were not kidding around.
I’m really really late to the party on this one. Maybe because the only versions of these songs that I’ve heard had so much gaudy, transexual camp on them that it glazed over the cold, hard, vile, scabrous truth to this complex and brutal music. Read More …
Reverence and Soul
Last week the mighty Tin Pan was asked to perform a set at a wake. I spoke at length to the person who was helping put together the ceremony. It’s a tough, emotionally charged time for certain. I asked him what it was that the Read More …
My Heart and I Agree – A Manifesto
It’s been a pretty rough couple of months for me personally and I want to talk about here on these pages. Hopefully this story will inspire you to focus on living out your dreams starting right now. This story has three strands that run with Read More …
Blue Nature
One of my favorite parts of working on the Wonderneath show was hearing different cast members singing melodies that I’d written. Even more special was hearing them singing the melodies to themselves while they were doing their make-up or getting into costume. The ear worm Read More …
A Little Bit O’ Wonderneath!
For those of you that may or may not know (doesn’t matter), THE MIGHTY TIN PAN recently rocked the Wonderneath Show at the House of Yes… A swirling good time of flying women, giant human eating plants, silk tentacles spewing scantly clad girls overhead, and Read More …
Sweet Molasses
Last weekend opened up a whole new category of gigs for us. We were introduced formally to the world of Blues Dance festivals at the Sweet Molasses Blues Workshop 2. It seems as though we might have found our niche in the dance world. The Read More …
Boots Hughston, a rare kind of legend…
It wasn’t till I had successfully created the Flame-O-Phone (thanks to the brilliant expertise of Ben Bartelle) that I started digging into the real history of pyro-instruments. It was in this mysterious and sordid history, buried deep in the annals of the internet, that I Read More …
Jerry Thomas…
In 1887, Jerry Thomas wrote one of the 1st published collections of cocktail recipes in the United States. In 2009, the fantastic friend & cellist, Joel Noyes, asked the all-knowing Lucinda (of Little Branch fame) for a “refreshing whiskey based drink”…and our little posse of Read More …