David Bromberg and DS Guy at Telluride

Two guys from New York. Both play guitar. One real well. Really really well. That guy has a beard. Photo taken in the street below Elks Park right after Dave's incredible afternoon set with Gillian Welch, David Rawlings, and what was her name again? O yeah, Emmy Lou Harris. I taped it all, yeah!

My new Budget Mobile Recording Setup - it Works!!

Here's my new Mobile Recoding Setup - I've gotten lots of emails about how good the quality was in the Telluride shows - this was the setup. First the equipment and then the staging. The staging btw was hilarious and fun. You can right-click and open these pics for a bigger view.
In the bottom pic you can see me in the red shirt holding my trusty iRiver ifp-795 for a recording device. I bought a stereo lavalier mic set from Sound Professionals: SP-BMC-3. I got em with extra sensitivity and little clips on them. I wore them clipped on my running shirt for the 5K show, but I needed to get them on a stable platform for the festival. I found a video camera tripod in a closet that will collapse to about 14" high so fits in a backpack easier. I set that up and took a regular wooden paint stirring stick about a foot long and attached that to the flat bed of the tripod using an old rusty C-clamp. Now I have a horizontal platform a foot wide. I then clipped the 2 lav mikes to either end of the wooden stick and faced them forward, but angled out about 30 degrees for a better stereo sound. Voila!
In the bottom pic you can see the tripod. Look carefully and you can see the edge of the stick and the 2 black mikes at either end. In the top pic, it is a side view and you can see the C-clamp and the top of the tripod and the near mike aimong to the right of the pic. People would see my setup and laugh. They are so used to the 'serious' tapers with their 15' mikestands and huge mike arrays. Mine seemed like a joke - but I am all about the fun, and I bet I got 75% of the quality they did.

Telluride posers

Posers! DSGuy does the acoustic version of rocking out with Dr. Dawg Eye on harp and David (SonofaDawg). In our campsite at Telluride festival. This is my Guild D-40 guitar which I have had since 1976. . . . it is probably a 1971 or 72. I am a fingerpicker using 3 fingerpicks so I need a guitar that stands up to a pretty firm workout and this one does it well.

Telluride

Here I am. Dreadful Snake Guy in Telluride, Colorado. This is the main drag and yes those are real mountains behind me. I will post a bunch more pictures soon. The festival is about 6 blocks behind me to the right - closer to the mountains. I can't tell you what a great town this is - and I have been all over Switzerland and lots of other mountainous regions. . . way cool.

Let's get this new Blog rolling! Crawling? Rattling?

OK, so my idea was to have a place to have more text, and pictures and other stuff that doesnt fit neatly into my regular podcast site at http://dreadfulsnake.com -- That site is acutally hosted at libsyn.com - Liberated Syndication. Get me right tho - I LOVE that service - so easy - I wouldn't know an RSS standard from a Les Paul Standard. I wouldn't know an XML syntax if it fell in my lap - so I just record the best podcast I can and they do the rest. Way cool. But I don't really know how to add a lot of other content so I am trying this....... Stay tuned as I get this going. What do you want to see here? Lots of pictures? More descriptions of Snake Adventures? Let me know.