Lunch: Tuesday, June 8

[Brock]

Food:
A can of Hy Top brand potatoes. Topped with Tapatio hot sauce. The tea was Brooke Bond Taj Mahal.

I love potatoes. I even have an Idaho state potato tag on one of the vehicles. Here's someone else's:


G&L
I did a lunch report week years ago with Leo Fender patents. In this GbL 2.0 era, it's easier. I'll just send you to some pages that Craig must have dropped a bunch of time into. Great stuff (thanks). Here's the patent collection:
http://www.guitarsbyleo.com/GALLERY2/ma ... temId=5580

...and here's one I'll spotlight today. It's the Cavalier pickup patent:
http://www.guitarsbyleo.com/GALLERY2/ma ... temId=5597

Projects, projects, projects
I've been working on a project with my friend Matt Long in Lawrence, Kansas since 2008. It's called "Traveler". He does all the music, I do all the Lyrics. All the demos are done. All the lyrics are written (hopefully). 15 songs, 3 characters with 4 voices (?!). It's big. Songs currently range in length from about a minute to one over 10 minutes. It's a concept album with a story end-to-end. I classify it as a "Rock Tragedy". The main character does die twice, after all.

Two of the tracks on "Traveler" are instrumentals. Here's "Gone" ( (c)2008-2010 Matt Long, Brock Frazier ):
http://rickshawseason.com/MP3/gone.mp3

Writing instrumentals from a lyricists perspective sounds easy. It can be, and was here. There's two instrumentals in "Traveler". I placed them in the work as I was writing everything. The instructions for "Gone" were "A musical journey to the great beyond". Traveler will be completed later this year, or more likely in 2011.

Rickshaw
I still have my Chinese rickshaw, but I added a Main Street Pedicab earlier this year. It's the BMW of rickshaws. Here's an early look at my new (to me) ride:
[youtube]8PbgK4UcWUs[/youtube]

Here's the blog entry with that:
http://www.rickshawseason.com/main-street-pedicab/

I can't compare the two rides to bicycles, because a Huffy is much nicer than the rickshaw is. The Main Street is very capable, and very expensive new at $3400. Mine all beat up was $670. By the way, a Pedicab is just a really nice Rickshaw.

Anyone else have a three wheel ride?

More tomorrow.

-Brock

[GypsyHook]

Nice composition. Rickshaws, interesting. The ones I use to ride in were pulled by Honda 90's and 305 Dreams.

[repoman]

Mmmm potatoes.

Interesting read on the patents. I've always been attracted to the Cavalier but never played one.

Love the wording...."musical instrument having a plurality of stretched strings..."
You can tell they're dealing with a government agency

What's that ricksaw weigh? Gotta be a good workout pedaling that bad boy around town.


BTW - tried to listen to your sketchpad tunes from yesterdays post. But seems the mp3 links are all just sound effects of a page being turned.

jeff

[Brock]

You can hear all the song in Sketchpad down the page here:
http://www.rpmchallenge.com/component/o ... temid,296/
(there's some page turns missing)
...and the whole thing here:
http://f.rpmchallenge.com/ (Use the player on the right, not the incomplete links at the bottom)

A friendly reminder that these are rough demos. I didn't print up many CDs for a reason! I even sacrificed fidelity and mix for convenience on multiple occasions.

-Brock