Aside from music and computers (I build web sites to put food on the table) I like cooking, a good red wine, good conversation and a good laugh, shooting pool, getting out of Dodge now and then... Politics, philosophy, current events - fun to explore those things with people that can make you think... Biking, Racquetball, Frisbee... things like treadmills do nothing for me! Maybe someday I'll get another motorcycle but haven't had one in years - used to love playing in the dirt on two wheels!
Music
Seems it was about '73 that that bands like Pink Floyd, Steely Dan, Yes, Supertramp, and the like made really great albums on analog equipment and then started pumping out more commercialized offerings in the years that followed. Contrast Crime of the Century with Even in the Quietest Moments or Can't Buy a Thrill with Aja (gag). The Brits had a big influence on me... Beatles, Stones, Jeff Beck, Rod Stewart and that lot... I had a lot of early country influences too but it's all starting to sound like twang to me today. When it comes right down to it, I can listen to about anything but opera, and even then I can have an appreciation...
Movies
About anything really - Dead Ringers was a memorable one because of how Jeremy Irons portrayed these two bent brothers. Strange little flick, haven't seen it in awhile. American Gun because my daughter got a bit part in it (and an interesting movie - James Coburns' last...)
Television
Tend to watch it late night before bed and flip around between news and sitcoms in syndication (never saw Will & Grace until it hit the late night circuit). Actually, I must admit I watched Rockstar Supernova fairly religiously this season. Love Nip/Tuck and the Dirt that replaced it, and Damages has become my new "must see TV". The FX network is doing some really edgy stuff and I like it!
Books
Mostly PDF's and web formatted material. It's really been awhile since I crawled in a book. :-/
Heroes
Guitar heroes like Frank Zappa, Jeff Beck, Tommy Bolin... Daughter Devon - what a trouper! My half-sister and her husband saved my can when I was younger...
TUNE'S WE'VE COVERED
House of the Rising Sun - The Animals People People - Tommy Bolin Wild Dogs - Tommy Bolin Diamond Dogs - David Bowie Golden Years - David Bowie The Jean Genie - David Bowie Rebel, Rebel - David Bowie Space Oddity - David Bowie Young Americans - David Bowie Ziggy Stardust - David Bowie Wasn't Born to Follow - The Byrds Badge - Cream People Who Died - The Jim Carroll Band Sitting in Limbo - Jimmy Cliff Smoke on the Water - Deep Purple The Cover of the Rolling Stone - Dr. Hook and the Medicine Show I Just Want to Make Love to You - Foghat Signs - The Five Man Electrical Band Funk #49 - The James Gang Freeway Jam - Jeff Beck Celluloid Heroes - The Kinks Low Budget - The Kinks Lola - The Kinks Bron-Y-Ur Stomp - Led Zepplin Hey Hey What Can I Do - Led Zepplin That's the Way - Led Zepplin Your Time is Gonna Come - Led Zepplin Dixie Chicken - Little Feat Oh Atlanta - Little Feat Sailin' Shoes - Little Feat Willin' - Little Feat Is This Love? - Bob Marley Stir it Up - Bob Marley Waiting in Vain - Bob Marley American Pie - Don McClean Jack and Diane - John Cougar Mellencamp Pink Houses - John Cougar Mellencamp Faith - George Michael The Story in Your Eyes - The Moody Blues Last Train to Clarksville - The Monkees You Wreck Me - Tom Petty I Want to be Sedated - The Ramones Dirty Boulevard - Lou Reed Night Moves - Bob Seger Angie - The Rolling Stones Dead Flowers - The Rolling Stones Beast of Burden - The Rolling Stones Brown Sugar - The Rolling Stones Far Away Eyes - The Rolling Stones Happy - The Rolling Stones Jumping Jack Flash - The Rolling Stones Miss You - The Rolling Stones Monkey Man - The Rolling Stones The Last Time - The Rolling Stones Sad, Sad, Sad - The Rolling Stones Saint of Me - The Rolling Stones Satisfaction - The Rolling Stones Spider and the Fly - The Rolling Stones Sweet Virginia - The Rolling Stones Sympathy for the Devil - The Rolling Stones Wild Horses - The Rolling Stones You Can't Always Get What You Want - The Rolling Stones Let Me Up - Kenny Wayne Shepherd Bad Sneakers - Steely Dan Bodhisattva - Steely Dan Brooklyn - Steely Dan Daddy Don't Live in that New York City - Steely Dan Dirty Work - Steely Dan Doctor Wu - Steely Dan Everyone's Gone to the Movies - Steely Dan Kid Charlamagne - Steely Dan Midnight Cruiser - Steely Dan Pretzel Logic - Steely Dan Rikki Don't Lose that Number - Steely Dan Wild World - Cat Stevens Every Picture Tells the Story - Rod Stewart Maggie May - Rod Stewart You Wear it Well - Rod Stewart People Get Ready - Rod Stewart/Jeff Beck (Curtis Mayfield) Give a Little Bit - Supertramp Sister Moonshine - Supertramp Bang a Gong - T. Rex End of the Line - The Travelling Wilburys Heard it in a Love Song - Marshall Tucker The Wizard - Uriah Heep Stealin' - Uriah Heep Comes a Time - Neil Young Field of Opportunity - Neil Young Human Highway - Neil Young Sugar Mountain - Neil Young Bobby Brown - Frank Zappa Lawyers, Guns, and Money - Warren Zevon Werewolves of London - Warren Zevon La Grange - ZZ Top The 12 Days of Christmas - Traditional (Ziggy Jagger arrangement)
ORIGINAL TUNES
The Last Chance - Ziggy Jagger No Revolution - Ziggy Jagger Song for Gibbon - Ziggy Jagger From a Ram to Uranus - Ziggy Jagger
Plus whatever I failed to keep track of! :-/
Seems that each evening there's always the spontaneous thing that happens too... Improvised tunes with a title suggested by the bartender, a guest in the house that can belt out Me and Bobby McGee or Long Haired Country Boy... I haven't included those....
Tom Irish (lead vocals, acoustic and electric guitars, harmonica, maybe even some keyboards) Will Hagenlocher (drums, lead and background vocals) Jeff Poremski (lead guitar, background vocals) Jared Johnson (keyboards, background vocals) Chris Johnson (bass guitar, background vocals)
Ziggy Jagger came about at the behest of Three D's Bar Manager, John Browne, who approached Will about getting a band behind Tom who had been doing some solo acoustic open mics at the bar. After a year of Sunday nights, Jeff and Chris had had enough and four months later the rest of us threw in the towel. Monday mornings were just gettting too difficult at our real jobs and it was time!
Since then, we've been playing once or twice a month. Everyone but Tom is in other bands so it's difficult to book us with any more regularity than that, but it's so much fun that we all have an interest in keeping it together at least on that level! A number of people have sat in with us or offered to make themselves available should a replacement be needed and we're grateful for thier involvement. Jeff is a member of Duane Carelton and the Backwoods Messiahs, and after July 18, everyone in that band but the keyboard player will have done an evening with us. Ben Butterworth spent several months filling in at the beginning of our second year, and Duane himself sat in a couple of times. Drummer Ross Edmunds is up next this Friday... Another drummer that has filled in throughout when Will couldn't make it is Ross Vumbacco.
We're very lucky to have such a talented bunch assembled, even if it's on a limited basis. One should never expect a fully polished evening from this group as old habits die hard and the band was founded on the premise that they were never to rehearse, never create set lists, and always have fun. Still, coming up on two years, it's getting pretty damned tight! If you get the opportunity to come out and party with Ziggy Jagger, you should take yourself up on it!
As promised too long ago, here's some of the tunes that we recorded LIVE in December... It's raw by design - no punching in after the fact - it is what is :-) We'll have some stuff from the anniversary party up as time permits.
I've got a "Mick schtick" that doesn't get out with Ziggy Jagger too much, though with the addition of Chris, that's changing. My friend Terry (who's not on myspace) shot some DV at The Wobbly Barn Halloween night and put together this little compilation... Here's a taste of what Halloween was like in Killington with Joey Leone's Chop Shop... (The guy in the tights is me!)
Who I'd like to meet:
Other musicians, friends old and new. On the musican front, I'd like to meet someone that could pull off the whole Keith thing (look, tele, and tunings!).
This whole myspace thing has really evolved. I've met some other musicians, writers, flashes from the past... connected with my daughter and some of our mutual friends... connect with real life friends in ways I haven't outside of myspace, and people I have yet to meet outside of myspace. It's fun. I like meeting interesting people, and most are interesting on some level! :-) And while it would be great to meet folks like Moses, Jesus, and Mohammed, I'm guessing that's not going to happen on myspace. :-)
Hey Ziggy Thanks for accepting my add request - I really appreciate this. Well you can read a bunch of reviews of my new CD release in my blog (I'm afraid there are only german reviews available up to now) - and of course you can listen to the songs on the profile. And only if you really, really like what you hear, you know the easiest way to get the CDs is directly from us! :-) I'd love to hear from you soon! -- Beat / BBTD
Hey Star! Star! What's shaking? Any nastigrams to the media that I may have missed? What are you passing out for Halloween? I am strategizing where to go after I eat all of Jared's and Clara's stuff....
Soooooo BUSY! Last week of field hockey this week and my computer at home has been off-line so I can only check my mail at lunch time from work... UGH!!!
I'll update you next week when I finally have my FREEDOM!!!!
Hello, love. What's that rumble I hear? That rumble, in the underground...
"Vt. music spirit alive and well" Artistry and community take precedence over profit at year's festivals October 2, 2008
By CLARA ROSE THORNTON, Herald Correspondent
"An intricate trellis bent into an archway shimmers with strings of lights against a dusky, late summer backdrop.
Stepping beyond this — through what feels like a portal, protecting some sacred secret within — a bouncing playground of sounds and sensations emerges. Children spin hula hoops in front of a stage wafting tinkling guitar sounds into the evening. Adults line up with plates at an overwhelming organic buffet. Musicians laugh over cups of lager in an outdoor bar constructed of wood and draped with colorful tapestries. There is a feeling of camaraderie. There is an air of creativity. There is a whisper of endless summer.
Am I vicariously living through one of my parents' acid flashbacks, one may ask? Am I describing some sort of Human Be-In where Allen Ginsberg's ghost is about to roam through, banging a gong and looking on approvingly?
The truth is better than fiction. I'm describing Harvest Moon, an annual music festival tucked away in Middletown Springs that is very representative of the vibrancy of Vermont's festival scene. Harvest Moon has been put on, out-of-pocket, for the past eight years by couple Tom Moon and Corey Best..."
To read the rest of the Harvest Moon review and analysis of Vermont's music world, click on:
