Gutbrain Records
c/o Rob Price
[No P.O. Box at the moment]
rob@gutbrain.com

CDs available:

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I Really Do Not See The Signal
Rob Price, Ellery Eskelin,
Trevor Dunn & Jim Black

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Get Lost
Rob Price & David Grollman

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At Sunset
Rob Price, Ellery Eskelin,
Trevor Dunn & Joey Baron

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Providence
Mr. Dorgon & Laura Cromwell
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Blue Punctilios
Combination No. 10
(Rob Price, Victor Rice
& Ara Babajian)

Download:

http://www.amazon.com/Cawthray-price-zankowski/dp/B0017KQ4LG/ref=sr_f3_1?ie=UTF8&s=dmusic&qid=1208606374&sr=103-1(download)
Chris Cawthray, Rob Price, Ed Zankowski

Alice Bierhorst
Joey Baron
Sandy Bell
Martin Bisi
Jim Black
Shelley Burgon
Chris Cawthray
Jason Crigler
Laura Cromwell
Andrew D'Angelo
Mr. Dorgon
Trevor Dunn
Ellery Eskelin
Lee Feldman
Scott Friedlander
Pete Galub
Greta Gertler
Jen Gilleran
Michael Gomez
Curtis Hasselbring
Head vs. Wall
Dan Hewins
Chesley Hicks
Kayt Hoch
Wayne Kral
Briggan Krauss
Rebecca Martin
Lucio Menegon
John Mettam
Matt Moran
Now's the Time
Reuben Radding
Ted Reichman
Elliott Sharp
Ches Smith

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Curtis Hasselbring, Rob Price, Ches Smith, Trevor Dunn & Shelley Burgon
(photo by Alice Bierhorst)


Rob Price, Jim Black, Trevor Dunn & Ellery Eskelin (photo by Scott Friedlander)


Rob Price, Chris Cawthray & Ed Zankowski (photo by by Seven Stock)


Rob Price & David Grollman
(photo by Alice Bierhorst)

Rob Price is on other CDs:


Jubilee
Alice Bierhorst


Smell the Glove
Mr. Dorgon


Dim Sum Clip Job
Harmolodic Jeopardy


Game of Death
Reprisal

 

 

APPEARANCES

Saturday, 06 October 2007 11:00 pm
Rob Price (guitar) and David Grollman (drums) at The Living Theater, 21 Clinton Street, New York City (Manhattan)
Saturday, 20 October 2007 8:00 pm
Chris Cawthray (drums), Ed Zankowski (tenor sax), Rob Price (guitar) at Somewhere There, 340 Dufferin Street, corner building, one block south of Queen/north of King — entrance from Melbourne Ave — Toronto, ON, Canada

Thursday, 25 October 2007 9:00 & 10:30 pm
Rob Price (guitar) with Briggan Krauss (alto saxophone), Shelley Burgon (harp), Curtis Hasselbring (trombone), Trevor Dunn (bass) and Ches Smith (drums) at Tea Lounge, 837 Union St, between 6th and 7th Avenues, New York City (Brooklyn, Park Slope)

Saturday, 27 October 2007 10:00 pm
Rob Price (guitar) with Shelley Burgon (harp), Curtis Hasselbring (trombone), Ted Reichman (piano, accordion), Trevor Dunn (bass) and Ches Smith (drums) at The Lilypad, 1353 Cambridge Street, Inman Square, Cambridge, MA

Rob Price, Jim Black, Trevor Dunn & Ellery Eskelin
(photo by Scott Friedlander)
Rob Price, Chris Cawthray & Ed Zankowski
(photo by Seven Stock)
Rob Price & David Grollman
(photo by Alice Bierhorst)

Poster by Scott Friedlander

Saturday, 29 September 2007

There's only one current film critic whose work I read regularly, Mark Schilling. His reviews of new Japanese movies for the Japan Times are what interest me, though he writes for Variety as well. I met him last night at the Japan Society, where he introduced the first film in a series of Nikkatsu action movies. He has a book about these movies coming out in December, but those of us at the A Colt Is My Passport screening last night were able to buy one then and have Schilling sign it.

Star Jo Shishido also wrote a letter to the film's audience. It was projected on screen before and after the movie.

It says:

A Letter from Jo Shishido to Tonight's Audience:

Nikkatsu produced great action films in the 60s, and in over 300 films that I starred in, I had the leading role in 54 of them. Of all of these films, A COLT IS MY PASSPORT is my favorite.

I had always wanted to be in a film like Hollywood's classic gangster films. I fell in love with my COLT character of a hit man who aims at a shiny Mercedes, and I wanted to make it a great film.

When we shot COLT, I was in a TV show and also performed in theater, so I could only go to the film shoot late at night. I only had an hour of sleep everyday.

COLT turned out to be absolutely the best film out of my hard boiled trilogy. Even today I receive letters from young viewers saying they love COLT and that they cannot believe it was made in 60s.

I hope people in New York will enjoy it as well.

— Jo Shishido

 

Monday, 17 September 2007

This book arrived in the mail for me today. That's not usually a big deal. I frequently order books, CDs, DVDs and who knows what else and they show up sooner or later. This is an extreme case of later, though.

When Tim Lucas started taking pre-orders for his biography of Mario Bava, I sent him a check. That was sometime in the last century. Looking back over my records, I find a cancelled check from November 1999 that could have been my Bava book pre-order. I can't remember, though, and it doesn't matter. It's here now!

As a result of shelling out the cash on faith — the price was around $100 — I and many others are included in a list of "Patrons" at the back of the book.

My only concern now is with its size. The thing is huge, as you can see if the jars of cumin and other spices provide a useful reference. It weighs about twelve pounds and is too big to fit on most book shelves. Will I be able physically to read this book? To pick it up and hold it?

It brings to mind Martin Amis's review of Isaac Asimov's two volumes of autobiography, "considerably longer than War and Peace". "I went along to meet Asimov having just let In Memory Yet Green crash to the floor, and having just winched In Joy Still Felt on to the lectern."

Friday, 07 September 2007

The All About Jazz website is featuring Scott Friedlander's photographs right now. Check them out! There are a couple of photographs of yours truly on page 30 of the gallery.

Thursday, 06 September 2007

Furthermore, I can remember eating all three: Big Wheels, Ding Dongs and King Dons. Here's a drawing from life I made when I was a teenager.

But where are they? I've been to over a dozen stores and found only Ring Dings, no Ding Dongs. Is there a new Ring Ding/Ding Dong conflict? Perhaps the story is one for which the world is not yet prepared.

Wednesday, 05 September 2007

I've just read the Wikipedia entry on Ding Dongs. Fascinating. The best part is this paragraph:

The Ding Dong was first marketed by Hostess in 1967. The name was given to coincide with a television ad campaign featuring a ringing bell. The company marketed the snacks on the East Coast as Big Wheels, to avoid confusion with the Ring Ding, a similar (and pre-existing) treat by Drake's Cakes. The names were consolidated in 1987, when a short-lived merger of Drake's with Hostess' parent company (then Continental Baking Company) briefly resolved the Ring Ding/Ding Dong conflict. When the merged company broke up, however, Hostess was forced to cease, once again, using the Ding Dongs name in areas where Ring Dings were available. The compromise sound-alike name King Dons lasted until Interstate Bakeries Corporation, which had recently merged with Hostess' parent company, bought Drake's in 1998. The Hostess product is now sold under the name Ding Dongs throughout the United States. However, the snack is still sold as the King Don in Canada.

I will fall alseep tonight thinking of the phrase "Ring Ding/Ding Dong conflict".

The Wikipedia entry includes some television shows and movies in which Ding Dongs have been mentioned but fails to include the Ding Dong motif in Bill Griffith's Zippy the Pinhead. It's been going on for decades! Maybe I'll edit the entry to include this.