Then To Reappear…

Saturday (MIDNIGHT on New Year’s Eve), Dec 31: ‘Jeff Taylor’ at Rockwood Stage 1. We’ll be joined on stage by our good friend Jason Lindner. (Joined..? FleshChain™..?) Anyway it’s a free show and we’re very excited to begin 2012 on stage. Steve Wall regrets not be able to attend, but his soul & essence have been bottled up and shipped to us for use at this event. Jason Lindner will manipulate Steve’s Mojo with his Own.

Happy Holidays from everyone at DumpsterHunter.com

Love,
Jeff

p.s. – Murmurs of a Mark Guiliana’s Beat Music set at Rockwood Stage 2 on Thursday have me seriously considering going out into the town – a couple nights before my planned emergence – to sit in and wreak havoc on MG’s stage…

Wall-a-thon: A Benefit for Friends in Need.
Mercury Lounge Saturday, December 17, 2011.
Featuring Chappo, Jeff Taylor, Monogold, & Lucius.

Steve Wall and his family lost their home in the flood caused by Hurricane Irene. To help the Walls get back on their feet, all proceeds from this show will be donated to their family. Additionally, Blackbird New York and Brooklyn Royalty will donate their services and provide on-site screen printing of event t-shirts. All proceeds from the t-shirts will go to the Wall family. Check out a preview of the shirts and donate directly to the Wall Family Relief Fund here.

Tickets: http://www.mercuryloungenyc.com/event/72895
$10 adv, $12 day of show.

To donate directly to the Walls’ relief fund via a secure PayPal account, click here.

Don’t know what to do. The stuff won’t stop wrapping around table legs… it’s hopeless. We’ve got big plans, though. Pretty soon the others’ll be back with supplies. Then these fuckers will be sorry. Keep a good head, if you can.

Rockwood Music Hall Stage 2
THIS FRIDAY, November 25 2011
10:00pm. Free.
We need your help.
P
lease.

Below is a video of me starting up a whistle melody with Feist, her band, and a whole bunch of cool audience members at Brooklyn Academy of Music. The New York Times reviewed the show and describes, “a proper two-way ritual: she sang the folk song ‘Sealion,’ accompanied by weirdly powerful two-part whistling from the audience…” No namedrop in the Times, but see it for yourself!

As if that moment wasn’t wild enough for me, it wasn’t the first time I’d turned whistling tricks for Feist. Below is a photo from June 2007, when Leslie F. called me on stage at Town Hall. I warbled, She chirped, We Made Loops.

Our (me & my band, not Feist…) record, ‘Frustration In Time Travel,’ is almost done. Want to hear a song ready for the presses? Stay tuned.

We play Rockwood Music Hall Stage 2 at 10pm on Friday, November 25 (Black Friday) … Free Show! See you there.

Jeff

p.s.- Both the Town Hall & (more recent) BAM gigs were truly wonderful. Leslie Feist puts on guitar clinics every night and writes some really beautiful songs. I am not worthy.

Today, after a long wait, the two of us listened to the new album of one of our favorite musicians – they’re streaming their latest full-length record on the web.

I could have heard a leaked copy weeks ago, but as I considered this option, I remembered being a teenager. How many times did I wait for months, weeks, days, then hours – with bated breath – for the release date of the new _________ album..? Remember that?

How about hunting through stacks and stacks of ‘used’ cd’s & tapes just to find singles and b-sides from your favorite bands’ records. Remember that? It wasn’t always as easy as typing in the artist name and scrolling through a list of every full-length and EP release a band had ever done.

There was a luck-of-the-draw involved. You had to get to the store before it closed, or you had to wait until the next day, when there was still only a 50/50 shot you’d score the CD you were looking for. If they didn’t have it, you had the clerk put the item on back order. “It should get here next Monday. Give us a call that morning; if we haven’t gotten the UPS delivery, we’ll call you back and you can pick it up later that day or the following morning.” Oh, man. REMEMBER that?!

Something about that hunt made the music I acquired pulse warm in my hands like a heavy idol from deep in a lava pit: It stuck out as more beautiful than anything else on the radio, but I had to wait for it to cool and cure before handling it. With more and more records leaking before their release date, they no longer retain that heat and beauty they once possessed…for me, anyway.

I’m gonna try to do something about that.

Jeff

p.s. – Confirmed: ‘Jeff Taylor’ performing at Rockwood Music Hall Friday, November 25th. RockwoodMusicHall.com ‘Jeff Taylor’ performing at Mercury Lounge on Saturday, December 17th, 2011. Also performing that night: ‘Chappo,’ and ‘Lucius.’ More info TBA. MercuryLoungeNYC.com

We are performing as a full band twice more this month.

- at Littlefield in Gowanus, Brooklyn on Saturday, September 17th. Our set begins at 5:30pm. Brooklyn Indie Fest Website

&

- at Rockwood Music Hall Stage 2 in Lower East Side, NYC on Saturday, October 1st. Our set begins at 10:30pm. Rockwood Music Hall

By coming out and supporting live music, you can:
- make new friends

These shows will feature Steve Wall (Voice, Keys, Guitar), Mark Guiliana (Drums), Chris Morrissey (Bass), and Sarab Singh (Drums).

Give it a shot and make our day!

Jeff
DumpsterHunter.com

Performing with me: Mark Guiliana, Steve Wall, Chris Morrissey and Sarab Singh.

More to Come.

Jeff