by Andrew Frisicano

Bob Log III @ Mercury Lounge 5/17/09 (The Mightiest Crumb)

Bob Log III brought his slide guitar/human cannonball act to the Mercury Lounge last night (5/17). The one-man-band reprises tonight (5/18), again with opener Willem Maker, at Brooklyn's Union Hall. Tickets are still on sale. All dates HERE.

I only caught a small fragment of Maker's more subued, slide-guitar set. His newest release, New Moon Hand, out now on Big Legal Mess, recently got a favorable write-up in the NY Times, part of which is excerpted below.

At the Mercury Lounge, Bob Log III took the stage in a motocycle helmet and a full-body suit and played for over an hour. The jokes cracked throughout were crass and entertaining, but the music was riveting too. Log kept time with a kick drum, cymbal and sampler while burning through lightning fast slide riffs and soliciting the crowd for beers. Live, the distortion came way down to reveal the chops behind the helmet. No one made a "Boob Scotch" (that I could tell), but Log did succeed in provoking some crowd participation during "I Want Your Shit on My Leg."

Similar "I Want Your Shit On My Leg" antics from a show last summer (video), with that Willem Maker review from the times, below...

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by Andrew Frisicano

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Bob Log III is an American, Slide Guitar, One Man Band. During performances, he plays old silvertone archtop guitars, wears a full body cannonball man suit, and a helmet wired to a telephone which allows him to devote his hands and feet to guitar and drums. The spectacle has been described as a guitar dance party, full of sweaty smiles, jumps and kicks. [Wikipedia]

Bob Log III and country/bluesman Willem Maker are on tour through May. That trip includes a Sunday, May 17th stop at the Mercury Lounge (Tickets are on sale now.) And a show the next night (Monday, May 18th) at Union Hall.

Bob Log III's new disc, My Shit is Perfect, came out March 31st on Birdman Records. Maker's newest, New Moon Hand, came out in March as well, on Big Legal Mess Records and Fat Possum Records.

New videos by both Log and Maker, with all tour dates, below...

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