shakeygraves

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It feels like I have been playing guitar for a few days, but it has been about 13 years. And as far as finding my "sound" it really came down to letting in the ghost. I believe that there is music in the air, when I hear a good song I usually feel some type of emotion on par with someone domesticating a rare animal and giving it a proper name. I forcibly wrote music for years, imposing my ideals and words on the notes and what would come out was just plain old songs, and some dude singing them. The moment I found my sound was when I could hear something that I recorded and not believe that it is actually me. The live show that I play right now is astonishing to me, I never intended to play dirty bluesy guitar like this. I mean I was a huge deathcab fan in highschool, I went through a huge hardcore/scream phase and listened to lots of Saetia and unheard 90s bands, all of this sort of came together in odd ways but really the sound simply developed. My hands do the talking now, and playing can feel like consciously blacking out, craning my head back, and the "it" sings.

Long story short, find the ghost you like and give it a little party, the sound will find you.

The fact that it has become a job

Originally I was doing the one man band with a kick drum and a high hat which was a pain in the ass to carry around and would wear out my legs in no time.

In 2011 A friend of mine got a job working as the official blogger for the Mumford & Sons/Edward Sharpe/Old Crow Railroad revival tour, apparently at every show they would ask a local musician to busk outside of the front gate to set the scene and get the hobo juices flowing and she asked if Id like to fill the position.

I had already been working on the one man band deal and really wanted to be able to do it in a portable way, so I asked my craftiest friend Sir William Wolfe if he could fashion me a device to my specifications. He whipped that thing up in like two hours and it has been in my act ever since

Here is a picture of me outside of the railroad revival tour in 2011: http://imgur.com/CYmQ6

It is designed with a seat and originally I sat down when I played but after a margarita disaster I ended up standing during a show and my energy doubled. Ever since then standing in front of it has been the way to go....its been rather evolutionary. Its amazingly fun and enabling to play, Ive been working on the design ever since, reinforcing it with fiberglass and changing my kick pedals.

But im looking forward to Shakey kick drum 2.0

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