The weekend of October 20 marked the 24th meeting of my one-day-a-year pseudo-band, the Monkey Power Trio. For those of you who might not be familiar with our origin story, it all began back in 1995 with a promise between old friends one hot, summer afternoon in Brooklyn. Without much in the way of any […]
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68 hours in Manzanita…. The Monkey Power Trio’s 24th day as a band
Posted in Art and Culture, Mark's Life, Monkey Power Trio, Shadow Art Fair, Uncategorized Also tagged 1995, aging, alimony, ankles, appendix, bonfires, cancer, Carroll Gardens, Cheez-Its, Cleveland, contemplating the end, crumhorn, Dan Richardson, Dave Miller, Death, divorce, drinking, fire, fleas, fog, Hasil Adkins, Hazel, ironing board, Jeff Kay, jellyfish, Jody Bleyle, laughing, Low Sack, Manzanita, Matt Krizowsky, mayonnaise, McMenamins, meteor shower, Mike Bell, napping, naps, Newton High School, nicknames, Oregon, Oregon Historical Society, Pacific Ocean, Pantless, Pantless Dan, Pear Hawthorn, Pete Holmes, Portland, pranks, recording, recreational marijuana, Reno, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, scallops, Scrabble, SeƱor Wences, Skull Island, The Sand Flea, timber, trumpet, wills 15 Comments
The Monkey Power Trio makes considerable headway despite serious challenges
I forgot to mention it, but The Ballad of Christian Wolfcock, the most recent record by my one-day-a-year pseudo band, the Monkey Power Trio, debuted on the college charts a few weeks ago, which I think might be a first for us. [While we’ve always gotten played quite a bit by the likes of WFMU […]
Posted in Art and Culture, Monkey Power Trio, Uncategorized Also tagged Atlanta, Bad Monkey X, Canada, Christian Wolfcock, Cleveland, college radio, Feed Your Hunger, Hillary Clinton, Jep Clayton, kayaks, origin story, Prehensile Monkey-tailed Skink, Prehensile Monkeytailed Skink, radio charts, Toronto, WCBN, WFMU 12 Comments
The Ballad of Christian Wolfcock
[above: The author’s son is impressed into service.] My one-day-a-year band, the Monkey Power Trio, has a new record out. It’s a 10″ called The Ballad of Christian Wolfcock, and it was recorded over two sessions – our 20th day as band, which was spent in the godawful exurbs of Atlanta in 2014, and our […]
Posted in Art and Culture, Mark's Life, Monkey Power Trio, Uncategorized Also tagged Atlanta, Cleveland, Feed Your Hunger, Monkey Power Trio 6 Comments