tonguing

Tuesday, June 28th

2011-06-23T13:01:00.000-07:00

No gigs for the group are confirmed, but you can see fragments of it on Tuesday, 06/28/11, when Bbob Drake and Nate Scheible perform as a duo at Now That's Class on a bill with Huggabroomstik (NY), Err... (Ypsilanti, MI), Dead Peasant Insurance, and Jason Rodriguez, and Andrew Klimeyk performs in duo with Alex Henry (saxophone and EWI) at the AllGoSigns Warehouse, on a bill with the Oblique Orchestra.

Now That's Class is at 11213 Detroit Avenue, Cleveland, 44102

All Go Signs Warehouse, 1936 W. 96th St., Cleveland (north of Madison)

Tonguing, Tit, and Forget the Times (from Kalamazoo)

2011-05-26T11:39:00.000-07:00

Tonguing at 8 p.m., Saturday, May 28th, at Bela Dubby, with Tit and Forget the Times, from Kalamazoo, Michigan.

Next Tonguing gig is Saturday, 04/02/11 at Now That's Class

2011-03-02T17:49:00.000-08:00

Sat. Apr 2nd 9pm

$5 donation

Nate in percussion duo shocker! This Saturday, 01/22, at the Happy Dog

2011-01-19T18:31:00.000-08:00

Nate will be doing ~~a percussion~~ an electro-acoustic duo with Scott Pickering this Saturday at the Happy Dog,

along with Terminal Lovers and Melted Face Constitutional...

$5.00

5801 Detroit Avenue
Cleveland, OH 44102-3001
(216) 651-9474

All Go Tonguing (Obliquely)

2011-01-18T17:53:00.000-08:00

Tonguing's next gig (concert, show, etc.) will be Tuesday, 01/25/11*, at the All Go Signs Warehouse, 1936 W. 96th St., Cleveland (north of Madison), along with the Oblique Orchestra. It's a loft space but with a decent P.A.; it's free and BYOB (not to be confused with Bbob).

(I like this picture because of the spacing of the three bald-headed gentlemen.)

*01/25 is the birthday of Witold Lutosławski,

Speedy West, Terry Chimes, and Andy Cox

Weirdly enough, it would not have been impossible for one of the members of Tonguing to be brothers-in-law with one of those musicians (not likely, just not impossible)...

Scott Walker turns 68

2011-01-09T10:25:00.000-08:00

Scott Walker, born Noel Scott Engel on January 9, 1943, to German parents in Hamilton, Ohio, 43 years before it became Hamilton! with an exclamation point.

In 1968 Walker threw himself into intense study of contemporary and classical music, which included a sojourn in Quarr Abbey, a monastery on the Isle of Wight, to study Gregorian chant.^[3] His own songs gradually coursed into Lieder and classical musical modes.

he lyrics insert for the album clearly feature the technique, albeit with a black text on a white background.

harking back to earlier pop. Their failure to reach

numbers had a driving beat

Between Syd Barrett and Elvis Presley

2011-01-07T15:57:00.000-08:00

Yesterday was Syd Barrett's birthday (also Epiphany, which comes right after the Twelfth Day of Christmas), tomorrow is Elvis Presley's. In an alternate universe, Elvis dropped out of music and devoted himself to upholstery, and Syd Barrett starred in a series of wacky exploitation movies...my favorite is "Flaming (Star)."

What do you expect from catgut and horsehair?

2010-12-21T18:09:00.000-08:00

As many (!) of you may know, Bbob is a creator of instruments, many of them electronic in nature (you can go check out fluxmonkeydotcom/electronoizedothtm for more info), but he has also made some a bit more instrumental in a somewhat traditional sense, such as the 'cellhole, which was a kind of 'cello built on the body of an old acoustic guitar (a Harmony?). There was also a metal potlid involved, and a pickup. The tones tended to be a bit harsh, but some sweet sounds could be coaxed from it.

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Anyway, back in the 80s, when Bbob was Luigi and I was thin, we had a duo called the Whistlepigs from Zenar which specialized in old-timey music (Bbob on banjo and me on acoustic guitar). After one of our gigs, Bbob and this sad-faced young old-timey fiddler of our acquaintance came over to my house to hang out. The fiddler was, you could say, a tad more serious about his old-timey music. I loved the stuff, though my playing of it was spastic, but I was also interested in a slew of other musics...So, I put on this record by Polly Bradfield, and the young old-timey fiddler exclaimed "I've been trying to make the 'cellhole sound like a violin, and she's making her violin sound like the 'cellhole!"

Click on the header to hear some Polly Bradfield...

Guerilla Toss

2010-12-18T14:51:00.000-08:00

Guerilla Toss out of Boston is t'other band we'll be playing with on 01/10/11...this is not a picture of them, though, because I didn't find one:

Why do I have the feeling that we should add a sax and/or a trombone for this gig? (I wish I still had my trombone...)

Herculaneum

2010-12-18T14:34:00.000-08:00

One of the bands that we'll be playing with on 01/10/11:

Herculaneum, out of Chicago.

A less sensible image:

Tonguing salutes Beefheart

2010-12-18T14:21:00.000-08:00

RIP, Don Van Vliet.

Welcome, Noble Customers

2010-12-10T10:17:00.000-08:00

...reads a sign on the desk at the Coventry Library in Cleveland Heights. First off, I'm bothered that the traditional term for a library's clientele, "patrons," is being replaced by "customers." The sign refers to the Noble Road Library being closed for renovation. Click on the link for another Noble person.

Chien, Chien, Chien?

2010-11-25T10:13:00.000-08:00

Tonguing: no gigs at this time.

Miss Thing, there is no guestlist TONIGHT!

2010-11-22T08:49:00.000-08:00

Bbob Drake, d/b/a Fluxmonkey, will have performed at Now That's Class

(TUE, 11/23/10)

ARVO ZYLO (Mister Fuckhead, Chicago) / Murderous Vision / Fluxmonkey / Black Mayonaise / Node

11213 Detroit Avenue
Cleveland, OH 44102 UNITED

Start Time: November 23, 2010 at 9:00 PM
End Time: November 23, 2010 at 11:30 PM

"One 'cello will do. But two vould be better."

2010-11-22T08:27:00.000-08:00

Fred Lonberg-Holm, of Ballister, which also includes Dave Rempis on sax and Paal Nilssen-Love on drums.
They played at Now That's Class, 11213 Detroit Avenue, Cleveland, OH 44102.

Start Time: November 22, 2010 at 9:00 PM
End Time: November 22, 2010 at 11:30 PM

Along with the Alex Henry-Nate Scheible duo. Hey, Nate's in Tonguing...

Poster by John G.

http://ninepanelgrid.blogspot.com/2010/11/pachyderm-deity.html

Two 'cellos are better than one.

2010-11-17T20:48:00.000-08:00

Oddly enough, my public musical debut was playing 'cello, in a high school performance of John Cage's 4'33".

Baritone Saxophone Tongue War

2010-11-13T20:02:00.000-08:00

Red Silk Skin Tongues

2010-11-13T09:13:00.000-08:00

Tonguing's new stage wear is modeled on this. Be sure to see our next gig!

a n e c h o i c

2010-11-13T09:03:00.000-08:00

L-R Bbob, a very young Nate, & Andrew.

Concrete.

2010-11-12T06:40:00.000-08:00

Lipograms are where it's at.

2010-11-12T06:34:00.000-08:00

Living in he pas, but only mosly.

I am a wee bit tired of making up ridiculous anagrams.

2010-11-12T06:28:00.000-08:00

I am not sure why this photo came up while I was doing an image-search for "Luigi Bob Drake," but I suppose that it is an electronic instrument, and the different colored buttons control different parameters, and the candles ranked along the left side are like Theremin antennae. I could be wrong; stupider things have happened.

ingotung

2010-11-11T12:57:00.000-08:00

This is one pretty graphic, but don't forget, you can prove anything with facts...

G In On Gut

2010-11-10T16:53:00.000-08:00

FOR A DRUMMER

(For Eric) 1966. Drum on something you have never drummed on before / Drum with something you have never drummed with before.
1966. Fluxversion 1. Performer drums with drum sticks or drum brushes over the surface of wet mud or thick glue until brushes or sticks get stuck and can't be lifted.
1966. Fluxversion 2. Performer drums with sticks over a leaking feather pillow making the feathers escape the pillow.
1966. Fluxversion 3. Performer drums over drum with 2 ends of slightly leaky water hose.
1966. Fluxversion 4. Performer drums over drum with rolled newspapers until the rolls disintegrate.
1966. Fluxversion 5. Performer dribbles a ping-pong ball between a hand-held racket and drum skin.
1966. Fluxversion 6. Performer drums with mallets or hammers on a helmet worn by another performer.
1966. Fluxversion 7. Performer drums with brushes inside a vessel filled with cream until cream is thick.

by George Brecht

On Tuggin

2010-11-10T16:35:00.000-08:00

Nate's drums after a heavy set.

U Tin Gong

2010-11-09T08:49:00.000-08:00

Going Nut

2010-11-09T08:33:00.000-08:00

Crackleboxes, also known as Kraakdoos, conceived by Michel Waisvisz and Geert Hamelberg.

GUI not NG

2010-11-09T07:02:00.000-08:00

Charlotte Moorman

GN Outing

2010-11-09T06:53:00.000-08:00

Albertine, Levene, and Jones...what they wear is dangerous gear

Nug Ingot

2010-11-09T06:43:00.000-08:00

Various inspirations...

Mary Halvorson

Tingo Gun?

2010-11-07T12:54:00.000-08:00

Gino Tung

2010-11-07T12:48:00.000-08:00

spy, gym coach, obstetrician

Ut Noggin

2010-11-07T09:21:00.000-08:00

Bbob Drake was born in Interzone...

Go in tung

2010-11-07T08:30:00.000-08:00

Gin unt Go

2010-11-06T23:51:00.000-07:00

Gginnotu

2010-11-06T22:55:00.000-07:00

Not in ugg

2010-11-06T22:49:00.000-07:00

Tngouing

2010-11-06T22:20:00.000-07:00

Outnging

2010-11-06T22:19:00.001-07:00

Tngoiung

2010-11-06T22:13:00.000-07:00

Tonguing

2010-11-06T22:10:00.000-07:00