The long wait is over. If you’ve been holding your breath or fasting for the last 18 months to convince us to release another episode, you can breathe/eat again! This one goes out to you. 

This is the first episode of our 3rd season, and the guests are two of our favorite  musicians, best friends, and fellow WSNC session players. 

Michael Kinchen plays keys in the John Ray Trio and Marvelous Funkshun, and is also a killing bassist and tenor sax player. He’s one of those musicians that pisses you off because he’s so good at everything… motherfucker. You can check out his playing here: 

https://johndanielray.bandcamp.com/album/the-birthday-gig

Russell Kelly is the guitarist for our band RKIII, as well as the Martha Bassett Band. He is also featured on her podcast, the Martha Bassett Show! He only plays one instrument. You can check him out here:

https://rkiii.bandcamp.com

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ThisThis episode is brought to you by Brightwork Law Group, LLC. Brightwork Law helps musicians, artists, and other independent business owners make the right decisions with their business. Contact mer@brightlaw.us to find out more. 

Mr. Haircut is one year old! To celebrate, we are sharing a nice bottle of wine. If you want to celebrate with us, pour yourself a nice bottle of wine, pull up a crackling fire and listen to these musics.

Today John Ray hosts a short episode with two selections from John and Jonathan’s band RKIII. You can check out more of RKIII at www.therkiii.com 

Who is the man with no haircut? We haven’t a name for this one. This one slides through the universe with no haircut at all; slipping, squeezing through tight, funky spaces; inside the pocket, outside the harmony, implying chord changes where only diatonicism existed before. For the purposes of podcast, we shall call this one: Michael Kinchen. Michael joins your super podcast team Jahn and Jo’Nathan to talk about jazz, improvisation, and vocoders.

This episode is brought to you by our proud sponsors at CorpCo® – Where Corp is Our Way of Saying Hello!

The long awaited conclusion of Jonathan’s interview with Blake Richardson, drummer for Between the Buried and Me. If you’ve ever wondered how to be casually laid back, definitively cool, and also an extraordinary badass, listen to this man speak. Our very own badass drummer Jonathan Greene interviews Blake on topics such as practicing, touring and balancing relationships, and then brings the whole thing back to the studio so John can give a bassist’s perspective and make inane comments for your listening pleasure.

What Time is it? 1:25 pm. Nope! It’s Breakfast Time, all the time, every Time. In this episode, John and Jonathan talk to Michael Anderson, breakfast hero and piano virtuoso, about this new project Breakfast Time. The conversation spans from cats, kittens, tigers, all the way to Bartok and quantum computing, and in the midst of the rambling conversation they make some great music together.

This is a filler episode, just so you don’t forget about your friends Mr. Haircut. John and Jon discuss a few new projects we’re working on and we bring you, once again, Tidal Motion for your listening pleasure. Check it out for free on the podcast, or download it from your favorite music-listening service. Best of all, you can download it from our website at: www.mrhaircut.org

Love,

John

What do you get when you take the speed of a cheetah, the fearlessness of a wolverine and the chops of an old karate master, put those personifications into actual people, put those people together in a room and have them talk about subjects they have no business talking about? –– Answers at the bottom of post.

Russell Kelly joins John and Jon on this episode to talk about the Flow state, and if that’s a real thing and does it serve biscuits? They quickly stray from the subject and lose the thread of conversation completely, but the train wreck is fun to listen to in a tragic sort of way. In the midst of the rambling nonsense is interspersed some snippets of great progressive improv music though, so its worth listening to through the very end just for that.

Answers: A. George Washington died in 1799  B. The square root of 512 is 22.627416998   C. Yes, it serves biscuits

Jonathan Greene takes the lead on this episode. Jon and John interview the interview with Blake Richardson, drummer for Between the Buried and Me

Ryan Hsu, guitar wizardrer of the Fruit Smoothie Trio, Papa Panda and the Bamboo Shoots, and Nylon Lion graces us with his masterly presence on this second episode of our Emotive Energy series. I try to convince Jonathan that there is some kind of communicative energy hitherto unexamined by science that connects all living things and communicates emotion between musician and audience. I call it emotive energy, and try to define it while Jonathan bashes me in the head with fists of logic and Ryan tries to mitigate the damage by expounding on my idea and then beating Jonathan with his spiritual nunchucks . Here it is.

NOTE: This episode may be offensive to people with hair. The derogatory slur ‘bowl cut’ is used six times by members of the team, and they make open statements about preference of haircut vs. non-haircut.

However, the six members of this trio have a great conversation about energy, and almost come to an agreement about how to define and talk about this non-provable subject matter (no pun intended). The amazing, 600 (-300*x)lb man Ryan Hsu stops by to tell us what’s what. He also plays guitar, and brings six of them with him. At the end, we all sit down and have 6ex.

But seriously, all 6exual nonsense aside, we have a great and very intense conversation about energy, life, and spirituality with an amazing musician and person (Ryan Hsu), and I (John Ray) feel like I made some progress in convincing Jonathan that there is a communicative energy that we musicians use when performing.