Performing on a pick-up was usual for bands in America in the 50’s. That’s what we did at The 3 Brasseurs brewery/restaurant in Echirolles last thursday evening, on the pick-up truck parked inside the brewery. The TV sets in the room were broadcasting the basket-ball Lire la suite . . .
Auteur/autrice : Rev. Steff Alex
Unplugged rodeo at the Bastille / Rodéo débranché à La Bastille !
For the 3rd year in a row, from the beginnings of the festival « A La Bastille » organized by the theater group « Les Bleus de Sassenage » and its Great Helmsman Philippe Bazatole, on Friday 7th August we took the stage of one of the amphitheaters of Lire la suite . . .
Freewheelin’ at the Café Vélo / En roue libre au Café Vélo
Freewheeling ? Actually never when you’re on stage. We always sweat our notes, twanging, slapping and sliding out. But this time we stopped at the Café Vélo, a cyclists’ place in Grenoble as its name clearly states. It’s intended to be a shelter for cyclists Lire la suite . . .
Deadly gig on the campus / Concert « Mortel ! » sur le campus
Last saturday we performed a « deadly » gig! Not that we killed people by breaking their ears. « Deadly » (« Mortel ! » in french) was the title of the festival we played on the Grenoble campus with the partnership of Radio Campus Grenoble (home of Honky Tonk Live). Lire la suite . . .
T-Rodeo, the hot-rod Telecaster (« Rodeocaster »)
Here is the T-Rodeo, the hot-rod Telecaster! Historically this is the #3 Telecaster in the arsenal, another one built from scratch with Warmoth parts as done with Telecaster #002. It’s a stripped-down but sonically high-powered and highly customized (« hot-rod« / »bobber« ) Telecaster. This « Rodeocaster » is a combination Lire la suite . . .
Telecaster #002: Custom Barden Thinline
Historically this guitar is the second Telecaster in the closet (rather an Esquire which is the one-pickup version of the Telecaster) but also the first one built from scratch. Indeed this guitar was assembled in early 2009 from parts purchased from Warmoth, a supplier of Lire la suite . . .
Double trouble / Un weekend pour deux (concerts)
We’ve performed twice this weekend. Friday was our first time outside the city since 2013, back to where our music comes from : country! We were warmly welcomed at Le Relais des 7 Laux in the small village of Froges, at the bottom of the Lire la suite . . .
Beer drinkers and hell raisers / Buveurs de bière et fouteurs de merde
« Beer Drinkers and Hell Raisers », that’s the title of a ZZ Top song. That shambolic atmosphere is also well accounted in such classics as Carl Perkins « Dixie Fried » and Johnny Burnette « Rockabilly Boogie ». The rock’n’roll basis. It’s music of beer drinkers, whether they stand on Lire la suite . . .
Chopper-G, a hot-rod Gretsch 6120®
This Gretsch 6120® (s/n: JT05052758) was purchased with its cows and cactus inlays in 2005 and it is still one of the Dusty Rodeo favorites on stage. You can hear it on the « White Trash Blues » album tracks. Like all the Rodeo guitars, this Lire la suite . . .
Between bar and restrooms / Entre le comptoir et les toilettes
Between bar and restrooms, that’s often where everything happens for musicians. The stage or at least the room left for musicians to perform, is traditionally positioned there. The drunk guy who’s heading for the urinal by radar will inevitably collide with a guitar neck. At Lire la suite . . .