SANTA CRUZ, CALIFORNIA
After playing a show at Bocci's Cellar in Santa Cruz w/ Hod Hulphers I filmed Eric, Erica and Hod trying to find a girlfriend on my phone.
JOURNAL
A trio of old friends take to the road to play music in the towns along the Pacific coast....
Mon Oct 31 - Oakland, CA - The Hatch - 8pm
Tues Nov 1 - Los Angeles, CA - House Show - 8pm
*email me for details.. (((michaelmusika@me.com)))
Wed Nov 2 - Laguna Beach, CA - The Marine Room Tavern - 8pm
Thurs Nov 3 - Laguna Beach, CA - KX935, Deep Cuts w/ Johnathan Tufano - 6pm
Fri Nov 4 - Santa Cruz, CA - Bocci's Cellar w/ Hod Hulphers - 8pm
Sat Nov 5 - San Francisco, CA - Amnesia ***Loving Cup Presents*** w/ Bob Thayer - 9pm
Sun Nov 6 - Petaluma, CA - Ernie's Tin Bar w/ Camp Bud - 5pm
Mon Nov 7 - Talent, OR - Flywheel, 7:30 pm
Tues Nov 8 - Election Night. (off)
Wed Nov 9 - Portland, OR - The Laurelthirst - 8pm
Thurs Nov 10 - Olympia, WA - Le Voyeur w/ the Mona Reels - 10pm
Fri Nov 11 - Seattle, WA TBA
FORESTVILLE, CALIFORNIA
I used footage of recording vocal takes and dancing in the room where I was living to make a commercial for the record “You Can if You Want to.” The song I’m excerpted here is called “Anna.”
TALENT, OREGON
My friend Kenny Taylor helped me make this commercial. I wanted an excuse to play baseball again. The song that plays is called “Yana Dee.” This was the fourth commercial in a series I made to promote the record “You Can if You Want to.”
PESCADERO, CALIFORNIA
This is Indianna Hale and Annie Laufman's recorded voices singing on a song that's a real life story. Indy was singing with the band FPODBPOD on the song "Sugar High, Sugar Low." It was a house party and the microphone was a telephone plugged into a speaker. I was struggling with inner goblins. So afterwards I elected to ride a skateboard down Balboa Street's steep hill to the ocean. I was terrible at it, crashed twice, and broke my collar bone.
Annie and Indy are in this movie with our friends Sterling and Brendan. The black and white picture is of the recording night in Forestville, CA.
MEBANE, NORTH CAROLINA
Tia is the middle name of an old friend who told me that it came from a Martian cartoon character which I never fully understood. She was beautiful and sharp witted. In the commercial movie below we have edited out my singing and show Eric recording tracks at Duck Kee Studios in Mebane, North Carolina. Our engineer was Jerry Kee. He was patient, kind, and wise through all the hot summer days we spent there at his studio. Thank you Jerry. You can see pictures and read more about recording in North Carolina here.
