HW 40th Anniversay Show

[Paul Mather]

On 20 Feb 2009, at 10:02 AM, Lost Johnny wrote:

> Mike ,I don't think I have ever seen a one person show with the one  
> man
> using anything but an acoustic guitar .


I remember one year at the Blacksburg Annual Summer Festival, Steppin'  
Out, seeing a one-person show called "That One Guy with the Magic  
Pipe" (http://www.that1guy.com) who played... a weird steel pipe.  (It  
wasn't just any old steel pipe.  It was rigged all over with sensors  
and such that were hooked up to sequencers and synthesisers, which he  
played all in real time.  He also had a couple of drum pedals and  
such.)  He got an amazing array of sounds and rhythms out of that pipe.

Also, perhaps tangentially Hawkwind-related, there's always Ed Alleyne- 
Johnson with his violin.  He plays through various delays and effects  
boxes to make himself sound like a whole quartet!  (E.g., http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nvv0lzjQQ8s) 
   I'd pay to hear that!

I've also seen a few other one-person performances that haven't been  
an acoustic guitar, e.g., one bloke who was playing a Chapman Stick.

Cheers,

Paul.

e-mail: paul at gromit.dlib.vt.edu

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