Saturday, November 18: Jeb Bishop Sextet

First Set:
Shot x Shot
(Dan Cappechi, Matt Engle, Bryan Rogers, Dan Scofield)

Second Set:
The Jeb Bishop Sextet
(Peter Brötzmann, Jeb Bishop, Frank Rosaly,
Tim Daisy, Ingebrigt Flaten, Kent Kessler)

Doors: 9PM, Music: 9:30PM
$10 suggested donation

Monday, November 20: Ben Miller

Ben Miller/degeneration (perpared guitar/sax/spoken word)
Neil Jendon (a guitar, an amp, and a chair)
Zeropoint (Jason Soliday & Robb Drinkwater - electronics)

Doors at 9PM, Music at 9:30PM
$5 suggested donation



Ben Miller/degeneration: Miller's solo performance explores the "prepared guitar" as a form of auditory degeneration. The guitar is placed on its back with its six strings strung about one fifth below standard tuning. The strings are occasionally "prepared" with small clamps, large paperclips, ace bandage fasteners, and other found objects. A conventional guitar pick is almost never used. The strings are primarily excited by fingers and hands while using/abusing various metal slides, combs, springs, screws and bolts, a lint trap, a restaurant-style salt shaker, touching the strings against the pickups, a violin bow, an eBow, etc. with the occasional addition of electronics i.e. an Electroharmonix Big Muff Distortion and Frequency Analyzer, a stereo Boss Delay unit and the liberal use of a Bixby tailpiece. Besides sounds generated by the strings, the instrument also makes use of string-sounds below the bridge, above the nut, and sounds from the guitar body itself. The neck and frets are almost never used as "a neck with frets". The instrument (a deconstructed Gibson Kalamazoo) has two humbucker pickups and two contact pickups (one on the headstock and one on the body). First constructed in 1982, "The Zoo" was converted to stereo by placing the second pickup facing down over the first fret by means of tinker toys and a strip of metal.

more on Ben Miller here: http://www.benmiller.info/index.html

November Shows

Saturday, November 18

First Set:
Shot X Shot
(Dan Cappechi, Matt Engle, Bryan Rogers, Dan Scofield)


Second Set:
Peter Brötzmann, Jeb Bishop, Frank Rosaly,
Tim Daisy, Ingebrigt Flaten, Kent Kessler

Doors: 9PM, Music: 9:30PM
$10 suggested donation

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Monday, November 20

Ben Miller (ex-Destroy All Monsters)
Neil Jendon
Zeropoint (Jason Soliday & Robb Drinkwater)

Doors 9PM, Music: 9:30PM
$5 suggested donation

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Saturday, November 25

Crippled Insectual (collaboration between Vertonen & Insect Deli)
I Love Presets
Others TBA

Doors 9PM, Music: 9:30PM
$5 suggested donation