Listen Up - Four on the Floor Edition
Date of Listen: April 08, 2020
They are from Maine.
I believe this is the first session with the four fellows that would do this just about every week for the next couple of years (and counting) through outbreaks, lockdowns, attacks by fascists, a failed coup, cancelled holidays, re-openings, reclosures, Those four fellows are:
Jerr Faustus* - plays viola
Jack Bang* - plays guitar
Ace Luxor* - has a very nice voice
and myself
As far as their musical inclinations, there is a real fun Venn diagram that may make someday. If I do, I will share it.
Until then, here is what we listened to a month into the pandemic and a few observations on it.
The band is from South Portland, Maine. They have made a lot of recordings, so if you are digging them, you are in luck. If you haven’t clicked through to start playing, other bands that were brought to mind(s) were: Nurse with Wound and Third Ear Band . Maybe that’ll tempt you.
If you are listening and you think you might get curious about why the album is titled 1905-1917, here are the links Wikis for 1905 and 1917. Maybe something will stick out or make sense. Not feeling going down that rabbit hole? Here are some of the highlights that caught my eye.
1905
Einstein has a good year, publishing four smaty-pants papers
Russia loses the Russo-Japanese War, a colonial pissing match that had stated the year before. The treaty is signed in Portsmouth, NH, which is just down the street from South Portland, Maine.
Russians also make headlines for staging a revolution
Mata Hari takes to the stage in Paris
Las Vegas is founded
1917
Love Field in Dallas opens as a training facility
Russia has another Revolution
Russian has yet another Revolution
Puerto Ricans become US citizens
Original Dixieland Jass Band release the first commercial Jazz record, Livery Stable Blues
And a lot of WW1 happens