Bandana Blues, A Way of Life....

The Marconi Experience Returns!!!

2013-11-26T12:41:00.001-04:00

Spinner suggested we resurrect it... with him on-board .... so.... I did!! the first one being half of Bandana Blues last weekend at http://beardo1.libsyn.com/bandana-blues-with-1-2-a-marconi-exerience and future shows will happen about once a month. I need to do some math (YUK!!) to figure out if it will replace a Bandana Blues show or there is room for both.... stay tuned!!!

2013-01-07T21:20:00.002-04:00

Well, since those mind-farts yesterday.... I felt better.... perhaps I'll continue. Actually caught my self whistling while out running errands.... whodathukit???

2013-01-06T13:35:00.002-04:00

Okay here comes part one:
Let's get started, this is the beginning of my "opus". Free time is a relative term that's dictated by your actual age, which in my case, is 19 going on 61!

I've had time lately to reflect on my past life experiences with my new best friend, the voice in my head. Actually that statements wrong. That voice in my head seems to be my only friend lately, constantly talking to me in ways that I don't always appreciate. Uh-oh, here we go with stream of consciousness starting now. Most of these reflections seem to be predominantly negative. Events that had been negative, either by my inability to respond properly to life's situations or overthinking them and making mistakes.

This reflection has been brought on mainly by negative things happening in my life over the last few years, so I guess I shouldn't be surprised that my frame of mind isn't the best to reflect now. It's not as though I'm not depressed because I am. And depression is a very funny thing, and I don't mean funny ha ha. Permeates every thing you do every minute of the day. The burden of sharing this with people that are my friends is exactly that a burden. One can't be sure of their willingness to help you lift that load or of their actual ability to do so.

This short paragraph is for people who don't actually know me at all. This depression has been building for many years and just kept increasing from level to level to level with life. My life. It's been almost 4 years since the loss of a woman that was not only my wife, but my tether to sanity. More on that later, because the deterioration of my health is a daily pressing issue to boot. More on that later too.

I've always said that I wanted to treat people like I would want to be treated which basically means don't piss on my head I will not piss on yours. As I think back it looks like I was full of piss and spread it around indiscriminately. It seems this started as my life began heading into what direction I didn't expect. Failure at numerous endeavors helped avert my path and gave me tunnel vision. All I started seeing was escape from reality because my reality was very fucking unattractive. Spending years and years and years numbing myself with what ever was available became the norm.

Okay enough for now, more to come later. Check back for future missives for some laughs because this narrative won't always be this much of a bummer. Honest!!

overwhelmed.... again

2012-12-26T00:04:00.001-04:00

So, The fourth Christmas without Suze....I'm surprised it's been the hardest. I can't help but feel like I've been letting people down with my lack of energy and my inability to care about doing things. I actually care but I can't motive myself to get things started. It's funny but once I start it's easy but getting started is incredibly hard. I just want to be relevant........and not a burden. The holidays will never be the same!!!!!!!!

Petition Time

2011-07-29T12:43:00.003-03:00

Check it out ... we could actually change our country ....

http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/sanity/

I Got The Blues.....

2011-07-24T12:56:00.002-03:00

My outlook on life has been radically changed over these last few years. The loss of my beloved Susan on April Fools Day 2009 didn't start it ... but certainly poured gas on it and struck the match .... burning through all positive indicators of my future. Obliterating the hope of a radical change in politics that I'd hoped the congress would at least do its duty and support the new President.

Also, the loss of the physical ability to continue my job as a cook (chef is so imperial sounding) added to my ever growing list of negatives. Fighting (yes, not just applying) for help via a social security disability claim for damn near two years has left me even more depressed. A condition known as Fibromyalgia (PAIN!!!) was added to my Diabetes and Asthma. Chronic Fatigue Syndrome had been dogging me for many years and was unexplained until recently.

Stuck in the house for 98% of the time... I've have been watching much more TV than ever that caused addiction to political shows starting during the 2008 Presidential Campaign and continues today with the crazy tea bagger supported rethuglican "newbies" in the house of representatives and Governers.

I understand we had a two party system for over a hundred years but that has changed. Right wingers signing Grover Norquist's pledge should just tear it up and refute the "not one penny of tax increase" horse shit that has congress and the President in a phony debt ceiling battle because they are adding on a ton of shit to it when it normally is considered house cleaning. A one line paper that usually took a show of hands in Congress because it was needed to pay for programs that had already passed the congress and needed to be paid for. you know, a couple wars,bailing out wall street and the banks, unemployment, and a bunch of other things.

Now they want money from social security (that pays for itself and when it has a bonus it lends it to the government (pay THAT back) and Medicare, that has exploded due to shitty medical expense explosion that must be brought under control.

Congress is REALLY broken this time. Bills that we have piled up for 12 years suddenly need to be payed for by senior citizens, school children, teachers, firemen, policemen, etc., etc., etc.?

Do I need to move to another country? Do you? I got the blues....BIG TIME!!!

Gotta Revolution!!

2011-04-28T01:22:00.003-03:00

This blog was about blues music.... right now it's about my personal blues. Well... yours too.. if you paying even minimal attention to what's happening in the USA ... you hafta be depressed. All the robber barons of our past have sardonic grins on their dead faces ... we are returning to their reality... the hard work done to undo all the terrible shit they inflicted on this country are being repealed!! If you have young children... get ready... they will be workin' in unsafe factory jobs soon. We are just pawns of the rich and their multinational interests.

Reaching retirement age? guess again. Paid social security your whole life? Tough shit!! Sick? Curl up and die! The only chance to reverse this trend is:
1. No more lobbyists
2 campaign finance reform
3 term limits
4 machete bearing crowds of pissed off Americans storming congress
5 tax billionaire people and their corporations (maybe that should be number 1)

My life sucks and doesn't look like it's gonna improve ... give me a machete!!!
Listen to the music at Bandana Blues and meditate .... it helps me ... for an hour or two.......

What do you think??

nauseous

2011-04-26T09:50:00.002-03:00

Nausea! Not caused by something ingested, but by watching TV shows about the fascist take over of our country by Repuglicans financed by large corporations. Everything I believed about this country is turning out to be wrong. The last 11 years have proven that we (normal Joes) are just cannon fodder and consumers (it was obvious for over a hundred years but I'm usually the last to know anything). Kept fat and dumbed down by the true leaders of this country. Even the founding fathers knew that human beings are intrinsically evil and out to grab your wares and keep them for their own without a hint of regard for fairness or compassion. They tried their best to create a document to help prevent what has happened to this country, I am however, sure that they knew it was an impossible task.

Wanna join me in this Nauseous state, or do you prefer to keep your blinders on? Get ajolt in the groin that will open your eyes by watching Terrorstorm by Alex Jones. If you have Netflix .. it is watchable for free... but you will pay a price ... your cherry will be popped and you'll wanna tell everyone about it.

Watch it and let me know if you are nauseous.

Obama Speech 04.13.11

2011-04-13T16:15:00.000-03:00

I felt equally buoyed and dismayed by the Prez speech.... it was great... but the republican machine will grind it to pieces with spin, alternate baked "financial numbers" and opinions told to them by rich despots like the Koch Bros. that the play-dough minded subscribers to Fox News will eat up like candy and IGNORE the facts.

I wish him luck... along with the aging baby boomers that I am one of.

Listen to some blues and feel better...... you could be Libyan.

WTF?

2011-04-07T11:07:00.003-03:00

The world is in such a state that it is depressing to even follow news stories about it. It doesn't help my personal outlook on life in general. There isn't enough positive things happening to make me feel remotely optimistic about our spinning (out of control) planet.

Just something to cause me to spontaneously smile does not happen on a daily basis. However, about the only thing that affects my mood in a positive direction is my love of listening to great music ... I can still do that. If I became deaf I'd end my life.

So,... join me in smiling when I play music for us on the provided link ... email me if it helps you smile too.... that would make my smile wider. Just click on WTF?

Just a moment....

2011-02-25T11:11:00.002-04:00

Hey Y'all!!
Here is the link to hundreds of podcasts of blues and r&b from me & Spinner. No getting bored with this mega-source of great music. Remember?

Lotsa NEW CDz sampled on this weeks show with a blast from the past from a vinyl LP....

Check'er out and spread the word........

B

jesus key- ricest

2010-09-06T21:01:00.001-03:00

Anybody still look at this? I have changed in dramatic fashion. No longer the perpetual smile or desire to.
I'll be back if anyone wants....

playlist:B&S Show#213

2007-10-21T18:51:00.000-03:00

show#213
10.21.07

Artist Title Album Label Composer
Bullfrog Brown Wicked Grin Tundra Andres Roots

Spinner's Section:
playing (with) the ladies
Angela Strehli: still a fool (Strehli) (Deja Blue, House Of Blues, 1998)
Deborah Coleman: don't start the car (Kevin Bowe) (Time Bomb, Ruf, 2007)
Sue Foley: two moons gone (Foley) (Time Bomb, Ruf, 2007)
Roxanne Potvin: hittin' on notin' (Potvin) (Time Bomb, Ruf, 2007)
Bonnie Raitt: gnawin' on it (Raitt, Rogers) (Silver Lining, Capitol, 2002)
Barrelhouse: walking in time (Schoemaker, LaPorte) (Walking In Time, Munich, 2002)

Back To Beardo:

Artist Title Album Label Composer
Susan Tedeschi The Danger Zone Hope And Desire,Verve
Etta James Spoonful At Last!,Chess
Renee Austin U-Haul Right About Love - BPCD 5099 Blind Pig Austin,

Reneé/Kevin Bowe
Bo Diddley Bo Diddley 20th Century Masters: The Mil MCA Bo

Diddley
Rockin' Jake Band baby what you want me to do 5 pm breakfast
Little Milton If Walls Could Talk (Single V Rockin' The Blues,MCA

#VALUE!
Smokin' Joe Kubek Feat. Bnois Worst Heartache Take Your Best Shot,

Bullseye
Jason Ricci & New Blood Dodecahedron Rocket Number 9
Walter Trout Mercy Relentless,Ruf
Otis Redding Mr. Pitiful I've Been Loving You Too Long

http://www.aworldofblues.com for 24/7 blues...... Beardo 10am to 1pm EST of America

Sunday, Monday and Wednesday

thebeardo@gmail.com

http://www.bandanablues.com

Hurry Up!!!

2007-04-30T17:07:00.000-03:00

H.R. 2060, The Internet Radio Equality Act was introduced by Representatives Jay Inslee (D-WA) and Donald Manzullo (R-IL ) to save the Internet radio industry. Please call your congressperson to ask them to co-sponsor H.R. 2060.

whoo-boy

2007-03-26T09:39:00.001-03:00

Check 'er out!!

http://www.youtube.com/v/utNo8BX8V2A

JLW Fund Info

2007-01-28T18:02:00.001-04:00

Joe Louis Walker Fund

C/O Dave Jones

5520 Mission Rd

Fairway KS 66205

913-262-4898

JLW NEWS

2007-01-28T12:56:00.001-04:00

I was on the cruise and talked to Joe just before his removal to medical help. He was in a wheelchair and in extreme pain. Just the night before he tore everyone a new one with Tommy Castro at the all night jam.

Don't just wish him well... send him cash money here:

http://www.soul-fixin.com/donate.html

It's fast and easy... you can use a credit card through paypal even if you don't have an account.

I urge you to check out what Soul Fixin' is all about. The work they are doing now and future projects urgently need your tax deductable contributions. Professional volunteers are also in demand. Step up to the plate...NOW!

Contributions made by cruisers during Watermelon Slim's set brought tears to the eyes of battle hardened M.C. Chip Eagle, who was heard muttering, "I LOVE these people!"

Me too....

Beardo

Gore weighs in

2006-12-06T14:45:00.000-04:00

Check this out...from the today show this morning:
http://thinkprogress.org/2006/12/06/gore-iraq-bush/
It has a transcript if you don't have the bandwidth to view the clip....

Iraq

2006-12-06T14:22:00.000-04:00

Looking forward to the Baker Plan being revealed, I started looking for info and found this informative artice by Chris Dickey of Newsweek Interntional:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16072946/site/newsweek/

It paints a picture that makes Bushspeak just that..... get the troops the fuck out of there...

Surprise!!!

2006-12-04T08:11:00.000-04:00

What we have here is a failure to communicate! Thanks to Struther Martin for that oh-so-trueism. Hi boys and girls. I see there have been so changes around Blogger since the last time I was here (JUNE!!).

Lotsa changes around the old homestead too. I no longer am affiliated with Highway 49 booking agency, Beau is in college, and my diabetes medicine sucks ass. Hopefully, we will get a better handle on that with today's DR. visit. I sent him a letter with all my bitched on it a couple weks ago, so cross your fingers that he gets it right this time.

To more pleasant news, I will be on the BIG BLUE BOAT again this year and can't wait. Look for a wrap up of that mess late January on Blueswax and our podcast with Beardo & Spinner.

Ya know, if you STILL haven't figured out how to subscribe, to automaticly get the weekly show downloaded to whatever mp3 device you choose.... listen to this:
Feedburner will send you an email with a link to the show whenever there is a new one. What's this mean? It means once you sign up here (only takes a minute and no spyware or selling of your address or other emails) the show can be played or downloaded right from the email.
WOW!! If you are into it... sign up some friends!!!

Ok, this posting will hopefully continue now that I have some time...

Beardo has left the building!

Michael Powers

2006-06-24T06:51:00.000-03:00

Shit.... I forgot to tell you that MP is playing NXNW in Philly tonight!!!!

So what?

2006-06-03T08:35:00.000-03:00

Yeah teah yeah...... I know. long time no post. As you get older time really fuckin' flies...

Just a note hear to remind you of our annual gig, The 16th Annual Bandana Blues this August 5th... go to the website for details AND a short audio file you can download thet speaks of what is going on this year and some music from the artists playing.... it shoiuld be up and running by next week.

Also, mark your calendar for June 34th as Michael Powers appears at NXNW just outside Philly. More about that as it gets closer...let's rock the house that night...I'll be there...how 'bout you??

Beardo

Jason Ricci

2006-05-11T04:32:00.000-03:00

Wow!

It's been way too long....

Finally saw Jason Ricci last Sunday. Great guy and one-of-a-kind harp player. You really need to check him out... he is featured on show#142 and more on the all live show #143 this week.

WOW!!!!!

2006-04-24T12:58:00.000-03:00

Damn,
As the wheel of Life picks up even more speed I find my posts here lacking. Something must really move me to break the inertial sloth of the last few weeks. After watching this years first episode of IFC's Henry Rollins Show I was impelled to post.

Man, watch this sucker!!! You may have issues with Rollins' music, but he has that laser focus working overtime on socio-political issues...and with a sense of humor to boot!!

Just listen to his show's mission statement and tell me you're not interested!!!

Fuckin' Amazing!!

I want to interview him for The Blueroom...

Stuff!!!!!

2006-04-17T11:43:00.000-03:00

Man,
It's been a whirlwind of horseshit called life lately. I've been swamped with too much input and not enuff output for the last 3 weeks or so.

How've you been? Haven't heard from many of you for a while either. New shows are up for podcast, Easter has come and gone(thank Loki)and I'm taking a day off to fuck around with some new software. Thanks to the few who have donated to the cause via the tip jar or througn the t-shirt purchase. Thank you very much.

I'm going to catch up on some e-mail and update the webpage too. Drop me a line or call with Gizmo.

Type to you later...