Music can get a little weird here.Byline: BUZZWORTHY by The Register-Guard Several people who definitely march to different drummers will march into town this week. Guitarist Scott Huckabay will play at 9 p.m. today at Cozmic Pizza. Huckabay's made-for-Eugene life story includes a serious motorcycle accident on Harmonic Convergence weekend in Arizona, turning to acoustic guitar as therapy and recuperating for a year in Hawaii, with whales and dolphins as muses. Huckabay's been known to use a violin bow or an e-bow, and once used a meteorite meteorite, meteor that survives the intense heat of atmospheric friction and reaches the earth's surface. Because of the destructive effects of this friction, only the very largest meteors become meteorites. as a pick. But he's won the Bay Area Music Award as best guitarist, and his "Alchemy" won the Independent Music Award as New Age album of the year. That 1 Guy is back in town (7 p.m. Sunday, Cafe Paradiso) to sing weird songs about turbo snails, meat storms and weasel weasel, name for certain small, lithe, carnivorous mammals of the family Mustelidae (weasel family). Members of this family are generally characterized by long bodies and necks, short legs, small rounded ears, and medium to long tails. potpies accompanied by his one-of-a-kind (we hope) instrument: a 1 1/2 -inch galvanized gal·va·nize tr.v. gal·va·nized, gal·va·niz·ing, gal·va·niz·es 1. To stimulate or shock with an electric current. 2. steel pipe with a single string attached. Sounds like a washtub bass, until you hit the specs: "three DigiTech Whammy pedals, two Oberheim Echoplexes, two Lexicon MPX-100 processors, a DOD (1) (Dial On Demand) A feature that allows a device to automatically dial a telephone number. For example, an ISDN router with dial on demand will automatically dial up the ISP when it senses IP traffic destined for the Internet. envelope filter, an Alesis 12R mixer, Crown K1 1,000-watt power amp, two giant Community 2x15 PA cabinets ...' Triple Grammy winner "Weird Al" Yankovic will be at the McDonald Theater at 7 p.m. Wednesday to sing parodies of numbers by Eminem, Avril Lavigne and the Backstreet backstreet Noun a street in a town far from the main roads Adjective denoting secret or illegal activities: a backstreet abortion backstreet n Boys. If all this leaves you longing for something not so far Northwest of normal, your best bet is probably Harry Connick Jr., who looks good, sings well and will mess with your heartstrings but not your head (Cuthbert Amphitheater, 7 p.m. Tuesday). If you want to background yourself on one of the chief contributors to Connick's Great American Songbook, the new Cole Porter biopic bi·o·pic n. A film or television biography, often with fictionalized episodes. biopic Noun Informal a film based on the life of a famous person [bio(graphical) + pic(ture)] `De-Lovely' opens today at Cinema World. Kevin Klein stars as the dapper Dapper lawyer’s clerk; swindled into believing himself perfect gambler. [Br. Lit.: The Alchemist] See : Dupery songwriter known for his nifty lyrics and messy love life; Ashley Judd plays his De-Voted wife. |
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