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Word has been trickling out over the past few weeks about a new Country music festival in Cincinnati, organized by Bunbury Music Festival founder Bill Donabedian. Today, the first four artists slated to appear at the inaugural Buckle Up Music Festival were announced. The festival is set for the weekend after Bunbury — July 18-20 — and will use the same grounds at Sawyer Point/Yeatman's Cove along the Ohio River. (Think of it as Bunbury's version of Coachella's Stagecoach fest.)
The lineup will feature "upwards of 80 performers" and include both modern, commercial Country acts and variations on the Country theme — "folk, bluegrass, Americana, roots rock and more," according to the press materials — something the initial lineup announcement reflects.
Legendary Country act Alabama (which for many years used the controversial Confederate Flag in its artwork, years before Kanye decided to reclaim it) and current Country hitmakers the Eli Young Band will be joined by up-and-comers J.T. Hodges (whose music has been described as "Country Soul with some Rock N' Roll") and eclectic Brooklyn-based Americana trio The Lone Bellow, which performed last November at Cincinnati's 20th Century Theater (read CityBeat's preview here).
Tickets for Buckle Up are on sale now here. Area artists interested in performing at the festival need to submit by Jan. 30 here. More Buckle Up lineup announcements are expected in the coming weeks.
Cincinnati crew The Ohms have built an impressive career over the past decade-plus, starting out in the '00s as a popular draw on the "Jam band" circuit as Four Ohms, before shifting gears and developing a surprisingly unique twist on the Rock-meets-Reggae hybridization, a pairing that everyone from Eric Clapton, The Clash and The Police to modern players like No Doubt, The Aggrolites and Matisyahu has flirted with and/or embraced since the '70s.
Changing the band name to simply The Ohms a few years back (and garnering some national industry attention), the now stripped-down three-piece is in top fighting shape, sounding better than ever, as their recently released second album, Press On, proves beyond a shadow of a spliff. They're a lean, mean skankin' machine with a fresh coat of Modern Rock paint glazed atop.
Press On succeeds through careful and crafty, yet very natural-feeling, mixology — the Rock and Reggae elements never get in each other's way, feel forced or fight for space in The Ohms' groove-driven mix, a testament to the musicians' abilities as arrangers and writers. The title track, for example, sounds like a perfectly natural jam session between Green Day and Rancid. A minute into the track, the Punk/Pop-like drive drops to a head-bobbing flow of buoyant, vintage Reggae rhythms, '70s-styled songcraft and Ska horns.
The album continues with that basic blueprint throughout, but few tracks are predictable and there are variations galore. "Vampire" is a voodoo strut that explodes into a huge, engulfing chorus, while elsewhere the band tinkers with the full range of Reggae sounds, styles and approaches (from Roots to Ska to Dub, grunting toasting to full-voiced, highly melodic melodies) and welds them together with the musicians' excellent grasp of Classic Rock and top-notch musicianship.
Reggae and Ska remain two of the more maligned genres in music (usually unfairly … and it always comes back around), but The Ohms have such an addictive energy, even the most hardened "Pfft — Reggae sucks" protestor won't be able to resist bobbing along to the contagious beats and rhythm.
Fresh on the heels of the release of Press On, The Ohms have been focused on this weekend's big Ohmstead music festival at Hannon's Camp America (hannonscampamerica.com) near Oxford.
Ohmstead is now entering its 11th year, which certainly puts the event amongst some of the longest running artist-built festivals of its kind in the region. For this weekend's (Friday and Saturday, plus a little Sunday morning/afternoon action) Ohmstead blowout, The Ohms have joined forces with Wham Bam Thank You Jam fest to help manage and operate a big "Ohmstead Wham Bam Thank You Jam" conglomo-fest, which once again features an impressively diverse lineup of inventive music makers, mostly from across Ohio.
The multi-act festival — with The Ohms performing both nights, as has become tradition — presents everything from progressive Psychedelic Jam Rock (Cincy's Mr. Brown's Mysterious Sounds), Kent, Ohio-based Ambient/Electronic/Industrial musician Pyrosonic, smooth acoustic guitarist Brian Henke (from Bay Village, Ohio) and fellow Reggae squad Soul Rebels (from straight outta Yellow Springs), promising Cincy Alt/Psych/Garage/Rock foursome Lemon Sky, retro-tinged local rockers Tattered Roots, popular touring "Hippie-Hop Jam Rock" outfit Boogie Matrix (Toledo) and Northern Ohio Jam band Aliver Hall, which showcases former Four Ohms member Alex Hall on guitar and vocals. Other artists slated to appear include Dayton-based Phish tribute band Oh Kee Pa, Dayton Funk rockers Magic Jackson, Oxford area Blues band Bad Men on a Mission and Nigerian-born/Cincy-based AfroBeat champ Baoku Moses.
Here is the most recent 2012 Wham Bam Thank U Jam and Ohmstead lineup (with "city of origin"), posted by the WhamBam folks (who add that attendees should check the info booth because times will "likely change"):
3pm - Trench Foot - Dayton, Ohio
4pm - Tony Herdman and Tracy Sax - Kettering, Ohio
5pm - Gild the Lily - Dayton, Ohio
6pm - Mr. Brown's Mysterious Sounds - Cincinnati, Ohio
7pm - Brown Street Breakdown - Dayton, Ohio
8pm - Tattered Roots - Cincinnati, Ohio
9pm - Subterranean House Band - Dayton, Ohio
10pm - Prophets Mire - Dayton, Ohio
11pm - Magic Jackson - Dayton, Ohio
12:30am - The Ohms - Cincinnati, Ohio
2:30am - Pyrosonic - Kent, Ohio
Saturday (in the Barn)
10am - Brian Henke - Bay Village, Ohio
Noon - Andyman Hopkins Band - Cincinnati, Ohio
1pm - Bad Men on a Mission - College Corner, Ohio
2pm - Soul Rebels - Yellow Springs, Ohio
3pm - Elementree Presents - Cincinnati, Ohio
4pm - Nine False Suns - Dayton, Ohio
5pm - M 8 7 - Dayton, Ohio
Saturday (Wham & Bam Stages)
6pm - S O L - Piqua, Ohio
7pm - Happy Lemmy - Birmingham, Alabama
8pm - Lemon Sky - Cincinnati, Ohio
Fire Celebration Ceremony - at Dusk / Sunset - in Middle Earth
9pm - Aliver Hall - Akron, Ohio
10pm - Oh Kee Pa (Phish trib) - Dayton, Ohio
11:30pm - Boogie Matrix - Toledo, Ohio
1am - The Ohms - Cincinnati, Ohio
2:30am - Baoku & the Image Afro Beat Band - Cincinnati, Ohio
2:30am - Pyrosonic - Kent, Ohio - In the Barn!
Sunday (in the Barn)
10am - Tracy Sax Therapy - Kettering, Ohio
Noon - Steev Inglish - London, England
1pm - The Finders - Cincinnati, Ohio
2pm - Troll - Cincinnati, Ohio
Three-day passes are only $35. Visit whambamthankujam.com for info on how/where to buy tickets, the full rundown of performer links and a list of the various on-site vendors, plus perks like "Ohio's Largest Fire Sculpture" and camping opportunities.
For even more details, as well as info on The Ohms' new Press On release, visit www.ohmsmusic.com. Here's a sample of the new material.
Friday Evening, Apr 27: MerleFest Festival Grounds
After lunch, I was ready for something a little more upbeat, so I headed back to the Americana stage to check out The Lost Bayou Ramblers. I caught these guys last year at the same stage, and they brought the place down. I suppose most Cajun and Zydeco is infectious — that constant backbeat and sing-songy lilt of the melodies, but done well, it can be a bit mind blowing.
The Lost Bayou Ramblers hail from Lafayette, La. and their Zydeco is the real deal. Not quite as hard hitting as The Bluerunners, they still bring an enormous drum sound to an already rhythm-heavy beat. Fiddle, accordion, electric guitar, double bass, acoustic guitar and drums — the fiddle, accordion and electric guitar feed a triple-stack tone attack to every melody. It's like Lynyrd Skynyrd ca. 1975 without the volume, hair or rednecks. It's really something to behold and listen to. The fiddler sings and works the crowd in both French and English, the bass player holds his big acoustic bass like he's ready to swing it over his head, while the electric guitar player stands at the front of the stage arena rock style and the acoustic player runs back and forth behind everyone. These guys are regulars at the Blue Moon Saloon in Lafayette and I suspect a trip to catch them in such intimate surroundings would be life changing. Check YouTube for some of their videos.
I left the Americana stage a bit exhausted and headed over to see what was going on in the Traditional Tent and found Phil and Gaye Johnson in the middle of their set. Long time radio host of various roots music programs, Phil and Gaye do tight harmonies and Roots-based acoustic music. Easy to listen to, they move from original to traditional and without a little bit of knowledge of traditional music, it would be easy to confuse what's original and what's not. Phil's a fantastic acoustic and dobro guitar player moving easily between slide, flatpicking, various forms of fingerpicking and sometimes both. The music is not something I generally sit and listen to, but like everything you see at MerleFest, the playing is top notch and professionally presented.
I slipped out of the tent and as I walked past the picking area, I could here the strains of Peter Rowan and the Free Mexican Airforce moving though the air. Like a lot of kids brought up in the 1970s, Peter was my first real introduction to Bluegrass music though the Old and In The Way LP. My dad had a few Bill Monroe LPs, but my mom wouldn't let him play that "hillbilly" music while she was around, which was pretty much all the time.
I wasn't planning on heading back to the Watson Stage, but I was intrigued. As I got closer, Peter was doing an slow acoustic version of "Panama Red." Frankly, I thought he was mailing it in, but I was still pretty far from the stage, so I kept moving in. By the time I got close enough to the stage to take pictures, which is basically standing in the front in everyone's way, he easy doing a song called "The Raven" and it was mesmerizing. It's probably Bluegrass heresy, but off all the Bluegrass I've heard over the last 35 years, his is the tenor I associate with "that sound" and, man, he's still got it. It rises and floats and breaks in all the right places.
I took some pictures and grabbed a seat near the back of the reserved section where the sound would be optimal. His band was outstanding. Peter on acoustic joined by a electric guitar player playing shimmering notes, a lap steel player doing pedal licks and swells, acoustic bass and drums. The lap steel player was especially amazing. Every swell and fill felt like a feather in my heart. They launched into a 20 minute version of the Rowan classic "Land of the Navajo" and by the time he started doing the falsetto calls, I was awash in transcendent tears. Peter Rowan has still got it all and I'm a big baby.
Next up I headed up to the Heritage Tent to converse with another of my favorite MerleFest craft exhibitors, bowl maker Larry Kearson of Marion, NC. And not just bowls, but dough bowls. As a boy growing up in NJ, we always had a wooden bowl mounted up on the wall. Occasionally my dad would take it down to kneed some bread dough in. I never thought much about it till I started making bread in earnest in my 20's. Then I wanted it. Desperately. It was a large bowl, about 18"-by-12" and had been hand carved from a piece of black walnut from the family farm in Tennessee. I finally claimed it 10 years ago or so and now it's a regular kitchen tool in our kitchen. Larry hand carves dough bowls from single pieces of wood. Some small and decorative other huge and highly desirable. The Zeke Bowl is one such bough bowl. About two feet long and 18-inches across, it was carved from a single piece of maple from Larry's neighbor's tree. His neighbor's dog, Zeke, laid by the downed tree for days and then growled and whined the day the tree was cut up — Zeke's Bowl. It's a beauty. Dough bowls shouldn't be stained or varnished, and Larry's aren't. You need a dough bowl carved the old way, hit Larry up.
From the Heritage Tent I headed over to the Dance Tent to check out Asheville's contribution to Hot Club-style Jazz — Viper's Dream. I guess I'm spoiled by Cincinnati's Faux Frenchman, Viper's Dream didn't quite cut it. Yes, you got to be one hell of a musician to pull off Django tunes, but the sound was shrill and I wasn't digging the fiddle player. Paul Patterson of the Faux Frenchmen is without doubt a Cincinnati treasure.
I quickly jumped to the Traditional stage to see Wayne Henderson. With him was a fiddle, frailing banjo and acoustic bass players. Wayne has done three tours with the "Masters of the Six String Guitar" as well as received a National Heritage Award for his instrument building prowess. Wayne is one hell of a fingerpicker, easily one of the best living and funny as hell to boot. Very humble and unassuming. The quartet ran through some Carter Family songs, traditional mountain ballads and fiddle tunes, each played with great dexterity and devotion. What a thrill.
Following dinner, I headed up to the Hillside Stage for a set from Donna The Buffalo. A MerleFest favorite, this band has seemingly been on the road for twenty years. I'm a bit baffled how I've never seen them before. Another one of those alternativecountryrootsrockamericana band with some serious jam band leanings, Donna the Buffalo has been a perennial favorite on the tour and festival circuit. They have a loyal following among MerleFest attendees and the tie dye and swirling dancers were out in force tonight. They played a crowd pleasing set, leaving their fans wanting more. Not much more then you can ask for then that.
The inaugural Bunbury Music Festival — three days of top-shelf Alternative music at Cincinnati's riverfront Sawyer Point Park — is just two days away. All this week, CityBeat's music blog will be featuring samples from some of our "sleeper picks" for the fest, artists who some may not be as familiar with as they are Weezer or Death Cab for Cutie or Jane's Addiction.
Our next "sleeper" is Detroit's Child Bite, performing Sunday at noon on the Bud Light Stage.
Like an anxious jam session between Nick Cave's Birthday Party, ProgCore's Reduced and the more avant garde side of early Sebadoh, the Detroit area's Child Bite is definitely the most outrageously adventurous act to grace any Bunbury stage this year. The group's latest release, Monomania, is a neck-snapping, time-changing, shape-shifting beast of inventive, disjointed riffage, raw, natural Punk power, rhythms somewhere between Free Jazz and experimental Electronica and bug-eyed vocals that often sound like something captured on a field recording made inside the halls of an insane asylum. In other words, the perfect way to start off your Bunbury Sunday (after church, of course).
Here's the Monomania track "Wrong Flesh."
Tickets and full info on the Bunbury music festival can be found here.
The release of the self-titled debut album from Cincinnati trio Tweens is just about a month away now. The music site Stereogum recently premiered the trio's first music video for new album single, "Be Mean," a great introduction to the band's classic-Pop-meets-classic-Punk style (or "Trash Pop," as they like to call it).
The buzz around Tweens, which scored the "New Artist of the Year" award at the 2014 Cincinnati Entertainment Awards, continues to grow across the nation, with more and more music press and online outlets heaping praise on the both the band's recordings and live shows. That buzz should be almost deafening when Tweens' debut LP is finally released on April 8 through Frenchkiss Records. The band's usually packed tour schedule is about to get extra-busy with the new release just on the horizon, beginning with a head-spinning six performances during next week's South By Southwest music fest/conference in Texas.
Click here to read CityBeat's most recent interview with Tweens.
I started out the second day of the Forecastle festival in Louisville by getting caught in the rain and being picked up like a hitchhiker by the Everest band van on the way to setup for their set on the main Mast Stage of the festival. The band agreed to let me hang for "A Day in the Life" photo series as they prepped to play the 10th Anniversary of Forecastle. They were laid back as the rain moved in and gear was unplugged and wrapped in saran wrap.
Click here to check out the "A Day in the Life" photo series featuring Everest.
Everest has been on the road promoting their third album Ownerless. On Ownerless, you can hear a refined sound in which the band speaks about powerful issues as they took their time to record and find their true voice, writing from the heart and soul. The band consists of members Russell Pollard (vocals/guitar/drums), Joel Graves (guitar/keys/vocals), Jason Soda (guitar/keys/vocals), Eli Thomson (bass/vocals) and new addition Kyle Crane (drums).
Everest are rising stars in the alternative music scene and have toured with My Morning Jacket and they will be heading back on the road with Neil Young this fall.
It turned out to not be such a typical "day in the life" as the show was held back because of lightning in the area but the band unloaded and prepared to play even as heavy rain descended on the festival. The festival opened an hour late due to rain delays but they did make time for all the planned acts to perform (albeit with shorter set lists).
Everest played loud and rocked the crowd as it gathered to hear this band singing my favorite track on the new album as the opening song "Rapture." Founding member Pollard's raspy vocals were captivating and I instantly became a fan of this band as they sang older tunes and new record songs like "Into the Grey." The Watson Twins joined the band for a few songs on backing vocals to round out their set.
Overall it was a great day to play music in Louisville as fans gathered to celebrate 10 years of the fest, which self-defines itself as being all about "music, art and activism." The Preservation Hall Jazz Band took the main stage by storm and had fans dancing in the grass; special guests onstage including Jim James and Andrew Bird playing classic tunes with the legendary jazz musicians from New Orleans. James' band (and hometown heroes) My Morning Jacket played over two hours to close out the night while Girl Talk played on the second stage and had a festival rave in full action on the banks of the Ohio river.
The MidPoint Music Festival countdown is down to just 3 days, kicking off this Thursday. Here are our daily MidPoint Music Festival 2012 picks …
Freelance Whales (Queens, NY)
Baroque Indie Electro Pop
Frontman Judah Dadone founded Freelance Whales in 2008 and recorded much of the band's lauded, self-released debut album from late 2009, Weathervanes (reissued by Frenchkiss and Mom + Pop in 2010). The band not only scored a lot of fans based on the album, but also a ton of licensing (for a variety of films and TV shows). The band's consistent international touring, external exposure and word-of-mouth PR has built anticipation for its new album, Diluvia, to a fever pitch. The LP is set for an Oct. 9 release (MPMF serves as the opening date on the band's tour behind the record). Freelance Whales' mix of electronic sounds and Chamber Folk ideals has led them to be compared to everyone from The Postal Service to Sufjan Stevens.
You'll Dig It If You Dig: Sufjan Stevens making a Postal Service album; Postal Service making a Sufjan album. (Mike Breen)
Freelance Whales (their name, if you're wondering, was inspired by the huge amount of "freelancers" working in NYC) performs Saturday in Washington Park at 7 p.m. (taking the slot vacated by Sleigh Bells). Here's a new track from Diluvia, "Spitting Image."
Leogun (London, UK)
Rock & Roll
With "big breaks" today mostly coming in the form of internet exposure, London trio Leogun's big-time entry into the music biz was decidedly old-fashioned. Singer/guitarist Tommy Smith snuck into an Eagles of Heavy Metal show in London and met an industry heavyweight who introduced him to Elton John's Rocket Music Management. From there, the band became the first band signed to instrument-maker Yamaha's new record label. Leogun went to Nashville to lay down some of their timeless, passionate Rock & Roll, the first results of which are set for an EP due Oct. 16 (a full-length is planned for 2013). Leogun's transcendent take on vintage Blues-inspired Rock & Roll is strong enough to earn them one the "bands most likely to return soon for an arena show" awards from this year's MPMF.
Dig: Wolfmother, Pearl Jam, Queens of the Stone Age. (MB)
Leogun performs at The Drinkery Saturday at 12:30 a.m. Here's the band's new single and video, "Let's Be Friends," which just premiered on MTV.com.
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MPMF news and musings: Kick-ass longtime MPMF sponsor Dewey's Pizza is giving away a trio of special "Next Level Experience" passes for you and two of your closest friends (or, I suppose, you could give them to people you hate, though that would just be kinda weird).
If you win, you'll receive a three-day wristband and one night at the Dewey's Pizza/Grammer's stage in the best seat in the house (which appears to be a couch positioned very close to the stage). For more on Dewey's Next Level Experience contest, click here.
And now, with the countdown down to just 13 days, here are our daily MidPoint Music Festival 2012 picks, today featuring all Ohio artists …
Cloud Nothings (Cleveland, OH)
Punk Pop
From his parents' basement, Dylan Baldi created and released several acclaimed lo-fi recordings as Cloud Nothings before his 2009 EP, Turning On, pinged the critics' radar and scored positive reviews on all the right blogs. Almost immediately, Baldi had to assemble a band to play the gigs that were offered to him, resulting in lots of touring and his slightly shinier 2011 self-titled full-length. This year has seen the release of the even more expansive Attack on Memory and a string of upcoming opening dates for Silversun Pickups. Not a bad three years for a Hardcore obsessed kid from Cleveland.
You'll Dig It If You Dig: The idea of Tommy Keene and Kevin Seconds stirring up some Pop and some Punk for a Husker Du tribute. (Brian Baker)
Cloud Nothings perform at Midnight on Friday, Sept. 28, at the Cincinnati Club. Here's the official music video for Cloud Nothings' "No Future/No Past."
Cloud Nothings - "No Future / No Past" Official Video from Urban Outfitters on Vimeo.SLEEPER PICK
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CityBeat spoke with bassist Elijah Thomson about the group's unique vision and feel and also where he feels the band is going in their evolution. Everest will be playing the Bunbury Music Festival at Cincinnati's Sawyer Point/Yeatman's Cove on Friday alongside fun., Walk the Moon, Devotchka, Tegan and Sara and many others. Everest plays the Bud Light Stage at 5 p.m. Friday.
CityBeat: What have you guys been up to since I saw you last summer at Forecastle in Louisville?
Elijah Thomson: We took a little break. We were touring with Neil Young at the end of the year, which was really fun. We were a little beat down from a year of touring. We took probably about six months off. We did a little tour in April with Minus the Bear, so we sort of violated our own hiatus to go out with those guys, but that was better. We just did a couple weeks' run from L.A. to Chicago, so we went out there to do a couple dates.
CB: I know Neil Young personally picked you guys to go on tour with him and open his shows. What was the highlight of playing with him?
ET: It has been pretty sweet over the years getting to tour with Neil and obviously a total honor to be able to play with an artist of that caliber and a living legend, as far as I am concerned.
On a certain level, it is still a gig — you know, driving and loading in and out and all that kind of stuff. I think for me personally, watching a guy like Neil night in and night out, it sort of proves that sort of mystical thing in music, what is compelling about somebody that can sustain them for so long.
People are coming out in droves to see Neil and for me it is a personal study on art and what it is that enamors people with art. With Neil, I think it is primarily an honesty with his art. He will put it out there. The first song on his new record is like 27 minutes long. That's the kind of bravery that comes from having nothing to prove and I think for them, like us, we have to understand why that is important and to find a formula that works, but also (be) true to ourselves and true to our own desires musically. That is a process. It has not been instantaneous, but I think we are sort of on the verge of realizing that ourselves.
CB: Did Neil give you any advice?
ET: I think if there ever was, it was just (to) absolutely do whatever you want and don't make any apologies and don't play it safe. It was the kind of real world wisdom that is important. It is not about playing some game. We should not be concerned where we will be classified in a musical genre. It is more about making what you feel and letting other people classify it.
CB: You guys toured pretty consistently the past few years. Do you have any crazy tour stories on the road?
ET: One of the main things we talked about from last year, we seemed to be pretty slippery when it came to crossing paths with law enforcement. We were slippery, we had no issues. I don't know how we did it. We had a couple close calls, but were able to talk our way out of it every time.
CB: Are you working on any new music right now?
ET: Yeah, the biggest change in Everest is a slight personnel change. Jason Soda, a founding member of the band, decided to resign. I don't know if I should say why, but ultimately he needed more normalcies in his life.
His replacement — I hate to put it that way — his name is Aaron Tasjan, an amazing guitar player who we met while we were on the road with Alberta Cross. He was kind of filling in for guitar and when it came up that J was going to resign, Joel and I were talking about it.
I think it was a sensitive thing — who were we going to collaborate with and how were we going to take this opportunity to improve the internal chemistry? We had a really great rapport with Aaron and when we were on the road he watched our set every night. He would open the shows doing solo stuff and we would jump on stage with him and jam with him. His spirit has been really amazing since he has been playing with us, bringing a freshness and newness that we have really desired and I think interpersonally it has been good and natural.
Also, the drummer chair has been in rotation the last year and a half or so since Davey, our original drummer, stopped playing with us. Our drummer now is a guy named Dan Bailey, a guy I have known for years. I really respected his drumming. He is an absolutely astounding drummer. It was very easy to ask him to join. Bass players and drummers generally want to choose who they are going to play with. He has known this band for a while, since I have been in it, and he has been chomping at the bit to jam with us, so we are on this new plane that we have never really experienced. It is really sort of a beautiful and fun creative discovery.
I am excited to bring this to Cincinnati. There is a great spirit going on. The plan right now is to finish out this summer touring, a couple weeks in July and a couple weeks in August on the West Coast. Then we are going to go back in the studio. The sound checks for our shows have gone into much more depth with the music; I don't like the word "jamming," so we will say "spontaneous musical landscapes." It is something we have been wanting to do for a long time and it is really amazing to go on stage and just not have it all pre-programmed, even calling out set lists on the stage, stretching songs out, kind of taking our time with things, letting things be different night after night and really encourage our creative flow together. We are really excited about getting in the studio and experimenting with this.
CB: What is your favorite bass to play?
ET: I play a Gibson Les Paul Recording bass (from) 1973. I have been playing it exclusively for about 12 years. I do own several basses. The first bass I ever had was a Gibson Les Paul Recording bass. My Dad was a bass player and he gave it to me. It was kind of his junker bass and I didn't even like it but it was something.
It sounds really stupid and mystical, because it was the bass I learned on and I kind of wore it out and it was an awkward bass, but I was always coming back to it because it was familiar.
I was playing with a guy named Richard Swift (producer, singer/songwriter and current member of The Shins), still do, a really dear friend. Right around when we first started playing together, he said, "That is the raddest bass I have ever heard. You should only use that bass when you are playing with me." I was like, "OK no problem." I basically decided that was my thing and I was going to stick with it.
I haven't played any other bass for years and years except in a studio, and even then it is only one song, maybe.
CB: Did you always want to be a musician?
ET: Like I said, my dad was a musician and so I grew up on the road and around music. My uncle owned a studio, still does, and we still work out of there a lot. I have been recording bands since I was 17 years old and have been playing music since I was 12 years old, always had guitars around. When I was a little kid I thought I was the talentless one in the family because I didn't pick it up before the age of 10. I eventually found my way. This was always what I was meant to do, in a way.
CB: Somebody the other day said that the best way to become a successful musician is to not have a backup plan.
ET: I'd say so, and I'd say most true artists would rather downgrade and live in a shack and still be doing what they are passionate about. It really plays into the artist mentality. I am no spring chicken, so I certainly decided I was in for life. I don't have a retirement plan. I don't ever want to stop. This is what I do. I get into other things outside of music so it is not a total obsession. I found a way to make it this far. I don't know why that would change in the future. If it does, it does, and I will figure it out. This is what works for me; there is no backup plan.
CB: Where did the band name come from?
ET: The story … I wasn't in the band when they named it and maybe I wouldn't have picked that name, but that is for another conversation.
From what I gather, Russ and Jason had named their studio Everest Recordings because of a pack of cigarettes that Geoff Emerick had. He was an engineer on a lot of the Beatles stuff and supposedly Abbey Road was originally going to be named Everest and they were going to do a photo shoot in Nepal. It became a logistical nightmare and, as the legend goes, Paul or somebody said, "Let's shoot a picture out front and be done with it." So the name Everest has significance to them, however it is sort of a common thing for something to be named.
It is hard to Google something like that. That is something you have to think about nowadays and maybe it gets lost in the shuffle a little bit.
CB: What can the fans look forward to at Bunbury seeing you guys for the first time?
ET: As a band we are really relaxed and comfortable. Every new show is an adventure. Every show we have had with this lineup has been over the top amazing.
I guess what fans can expect is the unexpected. They can expect to see some sort of fine but not some self-congratulatory musicianship, people making themselves vulnerable in front of people and making up stuff on the spot and really trying to live in that spirit of Jimi Hendrix and Zeppelin and the kind of feelings those shows had when it was a beautiful thing of stream of consciousness. I think that is something rarer these days in music. I am happy and proud to be in a band that values that part of live performance.
Everest performed at Lousiville's Forecastle fest last
summer. Check out the "A Day in the Life" Forecastle photo series with
the group here.
Everest – Let Go from Everest Channel on Vimeo.
MPMF news and musings: ArtWorks/Springboard Cincinnati is once again handling one of the cooler aspects of the "MidPoint Midway" (the fairgrounds-like area connecting Main to Vine streets, with food vendors, a music stage, poster expo and lots more). Last year's MidPoint Music Festival saw the introduction of the "Box Truck Carnival," where numerous local artists and organizations turned nondescript moving trucks into their own little worlds (last year, there was a theater, a skate park and a Putt Putt course).
This year, Springboard is profiling the trucks on its website leading up to the big event next week. So far, they've introduced the Art for All People truck, "Art and Music Box," where you'll be able to add your own creative paint job, and the truck by OTRimprov, which will feature improv games and "on-the-spot workshops" for aspiring UCB comedians (or just the curious). Click here to check out these and other "fun in a box" experiments.
• The other big news of the day is that one of the bigger headlining acts, Sleigh Bells, has been forced to cancel its appearance at Washington Park during the festival. The band was slated to headline the park stage at 7 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 29. The full lineup for Saturday is up in the air, but will be retooled with additional acts. Expect an announcement soon.
If Sleigh Bells was the only act you wanted to see at the festival and you'd like a refund, here's the official details: "Customers who have purchased the Washington Park Saturday Ticket may choose to either keep their tickets, or may receive a refund by contacting firstname.lastname@example.com by the end of the day Sept. 21st. If you elect the refund, only the cost of the ticket is refunded, not the shipping or service fees. No refunds will be issued for All Music Access Passes."
Sleigh Bells guitarist Derek Edward Miller tweeted that he fractured his arm while skateboarding in Florida recently, causing the cancellation of MPMF and a few other dates.
And now, with the countdown down to just 9 days (single digits!), here are our daily MidPoint Music Festival 2012 picks …
The Walkmen (New York, NY)
Indie Rock
A dozen years since members of Jonathan Fire*Eater and the Recoys coalsced into the formidable Walkmen? It hardly seems possible. But then, neither does the band's almost supernatural string of confusingly brilliant albums, all crafted by the same line-up that began at the dawn of the new millennium; the sparse, atmospheric jangle of Everyone Who Pretended to Like Me Is Gone, the intense and visceral Bows + Arrows (featuring their signature "The Rat"), the quiet beauty of A Hundred Miles Off, their weirdly wonderful cover of Harry Nilsson's Pussy Cats, the powerful You & Me, the fabulous Lisbon, and their latest, Heaven, widely acknowledged as their best album to date, a phenomenal accomplishment for a band in their 13th year. Long may they walk.
You'll Dig It If You Dig: The Strokes if they'd been guided by Bob Dylan, Bob Dylan if he'd been backed by The Strokes. (Brian Baker)
The Walkmen perform Saturday, Sept. 29, on the Grammer's/Dewey's Pizza Stage at 9:15 p.m. Here is the band's music video for "The Love You Love."
Holy Ghost Tent Revival (Greensboro, NC)
Folk Rock
When a band lists the Rolling Stones and Glenn Miller as primary influences, there's a good chance their musical pegs don't fit the standard genre holes. So it is with Holy Ghost Tent Revival, a North Carolina sextet that redefines eclectic, veering from Ragtime and Hot Jazz to an electric brand of Swing and the kind of funky, rootsy Country Rock that would have made Levon Helm grin and stomp. You don't often see the Charleston breaking out in the middle of the mosh pit, but anything is possible at a Holy Ghost Tent Revival gig. Be prepared.
Dig: Squirrel Nut Zippers explore their secret love of the Band, Blood Sweat & Tears and Burt Bacharach. (BB)
Holy Ghost Tent Revival performs Saturday, Sept. 29, at Japp's at 11:30 p.m. Here's a preview of the band's just-released album Sweat Like the Old Days.
You, You're Awesome (Cincinnati, OH)
The duo You, You're Awesome has been the Cincinnati Indie music scene's go-to Dance music favorites for the past few years, blending live drums with quirky, playful soundscapes that call back to earlier electronic music pioneers. As EDM and other forms of Electronica have grown in popularity, a lot of artists seem to have a hard time figuring out how to distinguish themselves. But You, You're Awesome doesn't have that problem, emerging with a versatile sound that isn't based on any one trend. The group released several EPs before last year's debut full-length, but YYA is most fun to experience in a live setting. You can dance if you want to — everyone else will be.
Dig: Daft Punk reborn as Saturday morning cartoon characters. (Mike Breen)
You, You're Awesome are slated to play at 5 p.m. on the Washington Park stage on Friday, Sept. 28.
Here's the track and visuals for YYA's "Yippee Ki Yay Mister Falcon." Click below for a playlist featuring numerous YYA clips.
Click here for full MPMF details via the official MidPoint site.


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text: World View: Wall Street Goes Parabolic on Russian Troop Pullback Print article Send a Tip by John J. Xenakis 5 Mar 2014 post a comment This morning's key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com Wall Street goes parabolic on Russian troop pullback While gaining in Ukraine, Putin now goes after Moldova Russia Today anchor Abby Martin criticizes Russia in Ukraine Spam of the Day - from Ukraine, with Love and Care Wall Street goes parabolic on Russian troop pullback Early on Tuesday morning (ET), Russian troops along the border with Ukraine were recalled to barracks. That set Wall Street stock futures rising. Then, a few hours later, Russia's president Vladimir Putin gave a news conference saying that Russia had no intention of invading Ukraine. That sent stocks parabolic, with a 228 point surge in the Dow Jones Industrial Average. According to Friday's Wall Street Journal, the S&P 500 Price/Earnings index (stock valuations) on Friday (March 4) morning was 17.87, which is astronomically high by historical standards. Here are some things that bubble-happy investors presumably didn't pay attention to: Russian troops continue to mobilize in Crimea. In his press conference, Putin shook his finger and said that Russia reserves the right to use military force at any time to protect Russians. Many people believe Putin's conquest of Crimea is a fait accompli, in that Crimea is now completely under control of Russia. Russian troops in Crimea fired warning shots at Ukrainian troops during a shouting match. In an apparently show of power, Russia's military test-fired an intercontinental missile in Central Asia, near the border with Kazakhstan. Putin said that there were no Russian troops in Crimea, which is absurd. The rest of the day was filled with tough talk from Western leaders, including President Barack Obama and Secretary of State John Kerry. Very little has changed since yesterday. Nobody has fired a shot yet, but even an accidental "incident" could occur at any time and spiral into a military conflict. FxStreet and BBC While gaining in Ukraine, Putin now goes after Moldova Russia's president Vladimir Putin used the 2008 invasion to prevent Georgia from joining Nato, and with the recent invasion of Crimea, Putin has prevented Ukraine from signing an Association Agreement with the European Union. Now Putin is trying to prevent one more former Soviet republic from signing an Association Agreement with the European Union -- Moldova. Moldova is a small country on the western boundary of Ukraine, while Russia is along the eastern boundary. The Moldovan government has been pro-European since 2009, and they're prepared to sign an Association Agreement with the EU in August. Putin has been using money and persuasion, funding anti-Europe referendums, pointing out the hardships borne by countries in the European Union. Putin has convinced Moldova's population to begin to turn against integration with Europe, with only 44% now favoring it. Russia is particularly focusing on the breakaway republic of Transnistria, a region in the form of a strip of land along the border of Ukraine, which strongly favors Russia, and has a similar role to that of Crimea. Transnistria separated from Moldova in 1992 in a civil war, and Russia has been subsidizing the region with $30 million per year. Spiegel Russia Today anchor Abby Martin criticizes Russia in Ukraine At the end of her Monday tv broadcast on Russia Today's program "Breaking the Set," American-born RT anchor Abby Martin criticized RT's "misinformation" on the Ukraine crisis, and made an editorial comment criticizing Russia's military intervention in Ukraine: "Just because I work here, for RT, doesn't mean I don't have editorial independence and I can't stress enough how strongly I am against any military intervention in sovereign nations' affairs. What Russia did is wrong. I will not sit here and apologize or defend military aggression. Furthermore, the coverage I've seen of Ukraine has been truly disappointing from all sides of the media spectrum, and ripe with disinformation. All we can do now is hope for a peaceful outcome for a terrible situation, and prevent another full-blown cold war between multiple superpowers. Until then, I'll keep telling the truth as I see it. ... 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Beloved pets also lost, displaced by mudslide
[Only now, after the human death toll has been tallied up, do we hear about the no-human casualties of the Oso slide.]
By MANUEL VALDES, Associated Press Published: Mar 31, 2014
DARRINGTON, Wash. (AP) – After a rescue worker called her animal clinic saying dogs had been extracted from the destruction left behind by a massive mudslide, veterinary assistant Cassna Wemple and her colleagues raced to this small Washington town near the debris field.
They found one of the dogs at the fire station among a flurry of rescue workers and townspeople. Bonnie, an Australian shepherd, was wrapped in a comforter. She was muddy and had a broken leg in a splint. One of Bonnie's owners had just died in the slide. The other had been pulled out.
"She was just very much in shock," Wemple said.
In this rural community north of Seattle, Wemple said it's common for residents to have plenty of animals, including pigs, horses, rabbits, chickens, dogs and cats. When the deadly slide struck March 22, beloved pets and livestock also perished.
The full number of pets and livestock killed may never be known. Authorities also don't have a clear number of how many pets are missing or displaced by the slide, incident spokespeople have said. There are at least 37 horses displaced and at least 10 dogs that were missing, according to different animal services helping the recovery efforts.
"To know that their animals are lost and may or may not be found. It's heartbreaking. It's heartbreaking for the people and the animals," said Dee Cordell of the Everett Animal Services.
Wemple said rescue workers could hear horses crying from the debris hours after the slide, but because of the unsafe conditions, rescuers couldn't go in.
For those animals that survived, the community and outsiders have rallied in support with donations. Bag after bag of food for dogs, cats and chickens have filled up the rodeo grounds outside Darrington, which are serving as a makeshift shelter. At last count, it totaled nearly 45,000 pounds. On Saturday alone, 27 tons of donated food from Purina arrived.
Lilianna Andrews's seven horses are now at the rodeo grounds. Their house wasn't buried in the mud, but the displaced earth formed a dam, backing up the Stillaguamish River into a lake that rose waist-high in the house and as high as 10 feet in the barn.
"We got them out before they got any water on them," the 13-year-old said after helping unload hay at the rodeo grounds on Saturday. "But they would have drowned. So we just had to evacuate them from the water, and they've been staying here ever since."
The Andrews were in Seattle when a friend called to check on their whereabouts. When they realized it wasn't just a small mudslide blocking the road, they hurried home. Their dog, cats and chickens are fine too, Andrews said, although they haven't been able to get in to feed the chickens.
Volunteers are also tending to 20 horses that belonged to Summer Raffo, a farrier who died in the slide.
Wemple's clinic, Chuckanut Valley Veterinary, treated three dogs hurt from the slide. One of those dogs, named Blue, had to have one of his legs amputated last week. His owner is still hospitalized. The owner's daughter has visited the dog daily.
"He'll be happier in the long run. No more pain in that leg," Wemple said.
Bonnie's owner was Linda McPherson, a retired librarian. She was in her living room reading newspapers with her husband, Gary "Mac" McPherson, when the slide hit. She died. He lived. Bonnie has been kept at the clinic for rehabilitation. At night, one of the staffers takes her home.
A memorial is planned for next week for Linda McPherson. Wemple said the staffer will bring the Australian shepherd to the memorial for a reunion with her surviving owner.
Associated Press writer Jonathan J. Cooper contributed to this report.
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Kentucky: Don't Let Abusers Cover Up Cruelty!
Just a few weeks ago, The Humane Society of the United States exposed horrific cruelty at a major Kentucky pig factory; including pigs locked into cages so small they couldn't turn around and mother pigs being fed the remains of their diseased piglets. But instead of cleaning up their act, the state's big meat producers are now trying to silence whistleblowers. The industry and its backers in the legislature are trying to sneak through an "ag-gag" law aimed at criminalizing anyone who exposes food safety violations or animal abuse on factory farms. Even worse, they have attached this poisonous provision to a formerly pro-animal bill.
Please call your legislators right away and ask them to oppose this undemocratic effort. Look up your legislator's phone number here. You can simply say: "I am outraged that an ag-gag provision was sneakily attached to HB222. I urge you to stop the ag-gag provision, which would threaten animals and consumer safety."
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If you eat chicken or pork, you're supporting extreme animal abuse on factory farms;
If you eat beef, you're supporting the livestock industry that kills bison, elk and wolves;
If you eat fish, you're supporting the demise of our living oceans;
If you hunt, your selfish food choice robs a life and cheats a natural predator;
If you eat meat, you're part of the problem instead of the solution;
Mom Left Kids In Frigid Car To Go Hog Hunting: Cops
A Florida mom was arrested after police say she left her two young children inside her car in near-freezing temperatures so that she could go hog hunting.
Kayla Shavers, of New Port Richey, was charged with child neglect on Thursday, WTSP reports.
The 31-year-old who said she went after the hogs because they had been tearing up her property, allegedly left her 9-year-old and 8-month-old alone in the car, which was not running, around 7 a.m. on Thursday. The temperature was 38 degrees, according to WPTV. The 9-year-old did not have a coat.
The 9-year-old called 911, saying he was cold and "a police car would be warmer," according to Bay News 9. Police say they aren't sure how long the children were alone in the car, but after arriving at the scene it was about 40 minutes before Shavers emerged from the woods, clad in camo.
"Kudos to that little 9-year-old boy," Sheriff Chris Nocco told WTSP. Nocco says the boy may have saved the baby's life.
Authorities say Shavers claimed she was close enough to the car to respond if her children needed help. She also allegedly said she left the keys in the car for the 9-year-old to turn it on if needed, but he apparently wasn't able to do so.
Sick Second-Grader Wants to Make Others Suffer
Hopefully he–and his victims–won't have to suffer much longer.
Aiming for a bear: 7-year-old Alto boy goes on hunt of a lifetime
By Sue Thoms January 06, 2014
ALTO, MI – Seven-year-old Wyatt Fuss has already enjoyed a Hunt of Lifetime – a bear hunt in the woods of North Carolina.
With help from an organization that arranges hunting and fishing trips for children and teens facing life-threatening illness, Wyatt recently spent a week at a hunting lodge with his brother and grandfather.
Alas, they saw no sign of bears. The animals were scarce because the weather was unseasonably warm for the area — near 80 degrees.
"All I got were three pigs and a deer," Wyatt said. Still, he says he had a lot of fun: "I had the best time, even though I didn't get a bear."
"It was quite an experience," said his mother, Jennifer Fuss.
Wyatt, a second-grader at Alto Elementary School, has battled a spinal cord tumor since he was 1 year old. He has undergone two surgeries to remove as much of the benign ganglioma tumor as possible and has received dozens of MRIs. The tumor causes, among other things, numbness in parts of his hands and arms.
But it doesn't affect his aim.
"He's quite a good shot – that's what they tell me," his mother said.
Wyatt lives on his family's beef cattle farm in Alto with his parents, Jennifer and Gerald Fuss, his sister, Sophie, 11, and his brother, Dalton, 15. He began hunting at an early age, and it's one of his favorite things to do, his mother said. He dreamed of going on a big-game hunting trip.
The family learned about Hunt of a Lifetime through a social worker with Hospice of Michigan's Early Care program, which helps children with serious, chronic illness.
Hunt of a Lifetime Foundation was started by Tina Pattison, a Pennsylvania mom who was unable to get her son's wish for a moose hunt arranged through another wish-granting organization. Hunting outfitters and the tiny town of Nordegg in Alberta, Canada, came forward and provided a hunt of a lifetime for her son, Matt, six months before he died of cancer.
The organization went all-out for Wyatt's trip, Jennifer Fuss said. Wyatt, Dalton, and their grandfather, Doug Klahn, spent a week at Buffalo Creek Lodge near Clinton, N.C. Before the trip, Wyatt enjoyed a $400 shopping spree for hunting gear at Cabela's. (Photos here: http://www.mlive.com/news/grand-rapids/index.ssf/2014/01/hoping_for_bear_7-year-old_goe.html )
The hunters stayed in a lodge at a couple's farm from Dec. 16-21, were served hearty meals and were brought to a hunting blind each day. Also staying at the lodge was another boy on a Hunt of a Lifetime trip.
Neither boy saw a bear. Jennifer Fuss wonders if her son would have been scared if he did. After he shot a boar in the hind quarters, his grandfather told him, "If you shoot a bear in the butt, we need to run."
"I think that scared him a little bit," she said.
But Wyatt said if he saw a bear, "I would have shot it."
The three boars he shot weighed 45, 80 and 92 pounds. A taxidermist has volunteered to stuff the boars at the Ultimate Sport Show at DeVos Place in March.
Overall, Wyatt's health is good, his mom said. His biggest issue now is dealing with sleep apnea, caused in part by the tumor. But his latest MRI in October showed no sign of growth, and the doctor said he can wait a year for the next scan.
"That was really good news," she said.
Sue Thoms covers health care for MLive/The Grand Rapids Press.
Feral Pigs Trapped and Sold to Canned Hunts
[As usual, no mention that the feral pigs situation is the result of humans introducing them onto game farms for hunting to begin with. Instead they blame the pigs.]…
Oklahoma weekend hunting news:
Feral hog hunting is becoming big business in Okla. The hogs continue
to overrun Okla. and they can be found in all 77 counties.
An Okla. hunter states that he would feel uncomfortable about shooting
a whitetail deer behind a high fence. But he has no ethical dilemma about
feral hogs. "All of them should be blindfolded and executed for crimes
against nature."
The feral hogs have caused millions of dollars in property damage across
the state and can spread disease. The Okla. state Dept. of Agriculture
has cautioned hunters to wear gloves when cleaning feral hogs and to
cook the meat thoroughly.
There have been pastures uprooted by wild hogs and they frequently
destroy golf courses and ravage corn and hay fields. A pack of wild pigs
have even toppled the headstones of a rural cemetery. [Oh my.]
They have become such a menace that Okla. has even legalized hog
hunting from helicopters.
Wild pigs are good for one thing. They are fun to hunt a/w the owners
of a wild hog hunting company. The Okla. residents, both avid big game bow hunters, were looking to satisfy their hunting appetite when the big game season closed and so
they started hog hunting in Okla.
One of the co-owners states "What we enjoyed most about it was you
can do it year-round."
They had so much fun hunting hogs that they decided to open their
hog hunting business.
The co-owner states "We were looking for ways to get involved in
the hunting business for several years because that is what we love to
do. It is our passion."
They bought 120 acres in Okla. and put a fence around it. They are
now building a clubhouse so their customers will have something to do
between morning and evening hunts.
They buy feral hogs from Okla. trappers and keep around 300 on the
grounds. This number insures a good chance of success, but still feels
like a hunt. The co-owner of the business added "There are so many pigs in the
southern half of our state, we literally have people beating our door down
trying to sell pigs."
They persuaded a friend, who used to chase hogs with them on his
visits to Okla., to give up guiding for bear, elk, and mountain lions in
Idaho and move to Okla. to manage the business.
The guide added that wild hogs are not the most difficult animal he has
ever hunted, but they are more challenging than most people think because
they are a lot smarter than people think they are.
He added "They are a lot harder to kill, especially for a bow hunter.
It is just the way God made them. They are a tough animal." [Meaning, they suffer longer than most animals these psychos like to kill...]
NY bans boar hunting
By Associated Press
October 23, 2013
ALBANY — New York wants to head off a potential rampage by wild, Eurasian boar by banning their import and use in so-called "canned hunts."
Gov. Cuomo signed a bill on Tuesday that outlaws hunting Eurasian boars, now done in fewer than 20 commercial hunting facilities statewide.
The new law prohibits not just hunting, but importing and breeding the animals and releasing them into the wild. They can weigh up to 300 pounds. By 2015, possession of a Eurasian boar will be a crime.
The effort is intended to end the destruction of farmland by boars and their threat to pets. They're considered an invasive species and have created havoc in Southern states, where they go by the names razorbacks, Russian boars, and feral swine.
The Buffalo News reported the wild boar populations are growing mostly because of hunting preserves that attract hunters with a guarantee of getting their game in a fenced-in area.
Also see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monster_Pig
The HSUS has more on canned hunting here: http://www.humanesociety.org/issues/captive_hunts/ and here: http://www.humanesociety.org/news/press_releases/2013/10/ny-gov-signs-wild-pigs-legislation-102213.html
Rodeo man killed in hunting accident in Mendocino National Forest
[Any resemblance the victim might have had to a wild pig was purely coincidental, yet that's exactly what he was mistaken for by another hunter who shot him from 70 yards away]…
Friday, 18 October 2013 23:56 Lake County News reports
NORTH COAST, Calif. – A Rodeo man died on Thursday when he was shot while hunting in the Mendocino National Forest.
Edgardo A. Godoy, 52, was hunting near Covelo when another hunter shot and mortally wounded him, according to a report from the Mendocino County Sheriff's Office.
At around 3:30 p.m. Thursday the Mendocino County Sheriff's Office was dispatched to mile post marker 11.2 on Road M1, located in the Mendocino National Forest, near Covelo, regarding the hunting accident, officials said.
Upon arrival sheriff's personnel learned from a witness that a member of a hunting party saw a wild pig approximately 70 yards uphill and across a ravine from his location. Not seeing Godoy, the hunter shot at the pig.
When the hunter went to the area where he last saw the wild pig, he located Godoy, who had suffered a single gunshot wound, officials said.
The witness – whose name is being withheld as the investigation is continuing – immediately rendered aid to Godoy and called for help on his handheld radio. Other hunters quickly arrived at which time they assisted in rendering first aid as well, according to the report.
Godoy was moved to the M1 Road where first aid was continued until medical personnel from Cal Fire US Forest Service arrived. Sheriff's officials said medical personnel from Cal Fire and the US Forest Service rendered aid to Godoy for at least 10 minutes, at which time a medical team from CalStar landed to assist.
When the medical flight team arrived, Godoy was pronounced dead, the sheriff's office reported.
Upon further investigation it was determined that Godoy received a single gunshot wound to the lower abdomen, officials said.
The agency said the names of the witnesses and other involved parties to this incident are currently being withheld as the investigation into the shooting continues.
[Another] Teen shot in hunting accident
[Bad enough that so many fathers are out to corrupt their young teen's natural affinity toward animals, but at least they could be sure to unload the weapons at the end of the day just so no one gets shot while packing them back into their vehicle.]
A 13-year-old Fort Worth boy is expected to recover after being shot in an apparent hunting accident near Whitney over the weekend.
The teen was packing up after hog hunting with his father and another father and son in the 300 block of Hill County Road 1263 around 9 p.m. Saturday, September 21, when the shooting occurred, according to Hill County Sheriff's Office reports.
A weapon apparently discharged as the group was loading gear into the back of a vehicle, according to Lieutenant Kyle Cox. The boy was struck by a bullet in the lower abdomen.
He was transported to Cook Children's Medical Center in Fort Worth by CareFlite air ambulance and is reported to be in good condition, according to Lieutenant Cox.
Whitney Fire Rescue first responders were called to the scene, along with Sergeant Adam Tovar of the Hill County Sheriff's Office and Game Warden Doug Volcik.
Everyone in the group resides in Fort Worth but owns property locally, according to sheriff's office reports.
Lieutenant Cox said the shooting is currently being investigated as an accident and no charges have been filed at this time.


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Supposedly beaten Pakistani Taliban regroup and strike back
After bin Laden, militants flood net with threats
US drone targets two leaders of Somali group allied with al-Qaeda, official says
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ISAF airstrike kills senior Haqqani Network commander involved in Kabul hotel attackIsmail Jan provided "material support" to the suicide assault team that attacked the Intercontinental just two days ago. ISAF also confirmed the assault was carried out by the Kabul Attack Network.
On reports that bin Laden wasn't really running al Qaeda
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Taliban suicide assault team attacks hotel in KabulA suicide assault team penetrated security at the Intercontinental and has opened fire on guests. Foreigners are the target of the operation.
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I was beginning to wonder if this lecture would be worth my time when the instructor went off on a tangent about rocking. He shared some pretty interesting information that I thought I'd pass along. First, mothers rock their infants at the same rate at which they walk. Since rocking is a familiar motion to babies from their in utero experience, it only makes sense that they would be most calmed by being rocked at the same speed at which their mothers walk. What I find more fascinating is that mothers unknowingly rock their babies as fast (or as slowly) as they walk. And yet, that is precisely the most calming speed for their babies.
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This is very interesting! We still don't own a rocking chair and I never had one while my son was little....but his balance seems to be outstanding compared to other kids. I am sure I got up and walked with him to calm him sometimes, but he never was too much of a crier, so it didn't have to happen too often. It leaves me to wonder.ReplyDelete
My friend is an OT and she mentioned similar info while I was pregnant-at first we decided against the rocking chair since we didn't have space, but after learning about the benefits we found the space!ReplyDelete
I dropped everything and rock her, i will remind myself it's as important..ReplyDelete
Thank you very much for sharing this information with us. I never knew that there is more to rocking my baby than just swinging around with her in my arms until such time that she either calms down or falls asleep. Now I know better than to get irate whenever my baby cries and I had to rock her. As it turns out, I am not only calming her down, but I'm also helping her develop well.ReplyDelete
LOVE this...I rocked both my kids. Still do! (Even though my oldest is 6, he still sits in a chair and rocks with me every now and then while we read books). All those books about sleep training-- I just ignored them. And rocked away. :)ReplyDelete
The times my babies have fussed and I'd tried everything I could think of to calm them down. My babies love to be swaddled and to be rocked. I know better than to get irate whenever my baby cries and I had to rock her. As it turns out, I am not only calming her down, but I'm also helping her develop well. kids educational toysReplyDelete
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Crying babies are sometimes scary. You need to try everything you know to make the baby comfortable. They are really cuties, anyway. So, all hard works are well paid.ReplyDelete
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Apr 26, 2012The Block Brochure, ponderous though it may be, is curated carefully and put together in a way that will actually hold up over time.
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Apr 26, 2012Capping it off is the giant, bright soul that fuels "Sidewalk Memorial," and while that's a worthy exit for a project so impossibly huge, everything between the bookends is thrown about.
Apr 26, 2012Even when things pick up on volume three, which includes choice collaborations with California stalwarts like Snoop Dogg, Too $hort, Kendrick Lamar, and Hieroglyphics, Block Brochure feels like too much of a good thing-way, way too much.
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May 13, 2012"The Block Brochure" is a series of three CDs simultaneously released by rapper E-40. The trilogy is more than three hours of solid music in various forms and styles - from gangsta rap by hip hop and west coast combined with electronic samples. Each of the discs contain up to 18 compositions on which appear artists such as: Richie Rich, Twista, T-Pain or Snoop Dogg. It's really hard to pick up some of the songs that are particularly distinctive, as all are on a really high level. For fans of the above mentioned genres, a must-have.… Expand
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