Four stringed salvation
My friend Peter Carey, who you may remember from such adventures as We Went On a Road Trip Even Though We Met Like Two Weeks Ago or Uh-Oh, You Smashed the RV shot a bunch of pictures for my band, The Castaways. We play ukulele music, it’s not what you think, and damn, we look …
Here‘s an incredibly stupid and annoyingly catchy pop song that I think we might have to learn. Left to right: Ed Viars, Jim Abernethy, The Girl in the Band, Mark Bader, Pete Harris Photo by my pal LLY. Mad props, she caught me leaning back into it.
Several months back, I had dinner with my friend Lisa. I whined at her about how I was having a terribly hard time with a story I was — am still — trying to write about a a week I spent in Hawaii at music camp. Actually, I whined at a lot of people about …
I snapped a string on stage last night. The Castaways were playing Loverboy’s Working for the Weekend. It’s a fun song to play, it’s fast and drives, and even though I don’t know how to do the fancy chord progression, I feel like I’m part of it because of the beat underneath. I was hammering …
My soul feels completely intact after my band played a fantastic show at Seattle’s Greenlake Forza Coffee. The Castaways were the supporting act for a Team in Training/Leukemia Lymphoma Society fundraiser. We played three solid sets of music and while, yes, mistakes were made, even our normally understated bass player admitted to being all whacked …
When I first heard the song “You’re Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go,” I could barely sit through it while it played on the radio. It’s the saddest Bob Dylan song ever, which is saying something, though it is also my favorite. I learned how to play it on the uke once I could …