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November 30, 2004 10:24 AM   Subscribe

McRorie - One man band from the future
posted by mr.marx (23 comments total)
 
Future? *checks calendar*.

Interesting stuff, and - granted - I haven't seen McRorie live, but I still like That One Guy better.
posted by Ufez Jones at 10:34 AM on November 30, 2004


McRorie may have been posted as joke, That One Guy may have a catchy tune, but this guy is the real deal.
posted by mic stand at 10:56 AM on November 30, 2004


Seeing him perform in that video with Céline Dion just about made my head explode.

Anyway, Canada's true one-man band is Mayor McCA
posted by Robot Johnny at 11:01 AM on November 30, 2004


I found McRorie to be quite amazing, thank you. And the mullet just blows my mind.
posted by bob sarabia at 11:22 AM on November 30, 2004


this guy is way better.
posted by three blind mice at 12:00 PM on November 30, 2004


He's no Bob Log III.
posted by Guy Innagorillasuit at 12:29 PM on November 30, 2004


I like McRorie's little shuffle. Nothing says Rocking Out more than a midi keyboard and a waddle. Damn cool.

Guy-- Boblog! Wow. I am going to have Boob Scotch in my head for far too long.

/\llan
posted by allan at 12:36 PM on November 30, 2004


Yo, that Bob Log III video is NSFW. You may wanna warn peoples, Guy.
posted by Ufez Jones at 12:41 PM on November 30, 2004


I was not expecting War's "Low Rider".
posted by buddhanarchist at 12:48 PM on November 30, 2004


Sorry about the video, I forgot about it. There's some SFW audio there too.
posted by Guy Innagorillasuit at 12:52 PM on November 30, 2004


Anyone that appears in the same anything as Céline Dion is just bad and wrong; sorry. And I can attest to the true greatness of Mayor McCA. If there's any interest, I can repost a torrent of a short set he did on easytree.

I can't believe I missed a Bob Log III show where The Mayor was the support act.
posted by scruss at 1:15 PM on November 30, 2004


Along similar lines, cf. Rahzel (beatbox) or Don Ross (guitar)
posted by heavy water at 1:33 PM on November 30, 2004


McRorie crashed my browser. Firefox 1.0. McDamn you, McRorie!
posted by chaz at 1:43 PM on November 30, 2004


Worked fine for me on Firefox 1.0.

Also, if you like Don Ross, I highly recommend Tommy Emmanuel (Chet Atkins' protege/partner), Peppino D'Agostino, and Pete Huttlinger.
posted by The White Hat at 1:46 PM on November 30, 2004


He's doing the pee pee dance
posted by onkelchrispy at 2:17 PM on November 30, 2004


Peppino D'Agostino is really good-- and he's a really nice guy-- been around San Fran for a long long while.
posted by buddhanarchist at 3:50 PM on November 30, 2004


First off I've never tried to post a link here so I hope this works.

I'm down with the big ups for Bob Log III, saw him open once for Mr. Quintron (Audio warning) who is basically an awesome one man band as well, even though he always appears with his (wife?) Miss Pussycat. But all she does is shake her maracas (for real guys) and help with the puppet show. Definitely check out his Drum Buddy. But Bob Log is the man. One helluva musician and an incredible entertainer.

BLIII is on Fat Possum which is also the same label of the infamous Hasil Adkins. Another one man band original. If you can ever get a hold of the incredibly hard to find documentary "The Wild World of Hasil Adkins" I highly recommend it. (Might as well check out "The Dancing Outlaw" while you're at it.)

But they all kinda pale to my personal favorite: Corn Mo, the MP3s on his website, nor any of his recordings do his live show any justice, but if you have any sense of humor and wonder you should see Corn Mo if you get the chance. He's what happened when Freddie Mercury and David Lee Roth had a kid who never left Jr High.
posted by grandcrewno2 at 5:14 PM on November 30, 2004


Damn, none of my links worked. Anyone wanna help a newbie out here.
posted by grandcrewno2 at 5:15 PM on November 30, 2004


First off I've never tried to post a link here so I hope this works.
I'm down with the big ups for Bob Log III, saw him open once for Mr. Quintron (Audio warning) who is basically an awesome one man band as well, even though he always appears with his (wife?) Miss Pussycat. But all she does is shake her maracas (for real guys) and help with the puppet show. Definitely check out his Drum Buddy. But Bob Log is the man. One helluva musician and an incredible entertainer.
BLIII is on Fat Possum which is also the same label of the infamous Hasil Adkins. Another one man band original. If you can ever get a hold of the incredibly hard to find documentary "The Wild World of Hasil Adkins" I highly recommend it. (Might as well check out "The Dancing Outlaw" while you're at it.)
But they all kinda pale to my personal favorite: Corn Mo, the MP3s on his website, nor any of his recordings do his live show any justice, but if you have any sense of humor and wonder you should see Corn Mo if you get the chance. He's what happened when Freddie Mercury and David Lee Roth had a kid who never left Jr High.
posted by soundofsuburbia at 6:45 PM on November 30, 2004


Pointer: <a href="http://www.foo.com">foo.com</a>

Great posts all around!
posted by soundofsuburbia at 6:49 PM on November 30, 2004


I'm gonna catch hell for this: but (despite the mind numbing "Don't Worry, Be Happy"-- a sellout that will surely consign him to his own personal Plane of Hell) has anyone ever seen Bobby McFarrin improvise live (seeing as we're on the subject of one man bands)? I saw him over 15 years ago; he opened up for Brandford Marsalis-- he came out and played a *bop* number with him. McFarrin traded solos (by using his voice) with Brandford-- who is a remarkable jazz player when he wants to be. Brandford would be ripping away, then McFarrin would start his solo sounding like a trumpet in Miles-like sustained notes-- then start sounding (seriously) like Trane-- with that kind of speed and complexity- shifting into sounding like a tenor sax; he'd then move into making noises that were hard to categorize. At a certain point Brandford just looked at McFarrin-- and scratched his head: he had no idea how to come back at some of the ideas that had been thrown at him. I doubt many musicians could bring Brandford Marsalis to apoplexy. Check out some of McFarrins old live recordings (if you can find them)
posted by buddhanarchist at 11:42 PM on November 30, 2004


McRorie is awesome. I love this shit. Fantastic stuff.

And He's doing the pee pee dance made me laugh out loud.
posted by Dr. Wu at 12:36 AM on December 1, 2004


keller looks interesting & bob log iii is fabu. the king, though, is king louie one man band. yeah ... it's a crappy website but it's got the klomb aesthetic. i'm also partial to ratty scurvics (even though i can't find a real web site for him).
just fyi, miss pussycat IS quintron's wife. he's famous for saying 'you don't get me without her.'
posted by msconduct at 7:25 AM on December 1, 2004


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