Bob Log III at Purple Turtle - Reading Live Music & Concerts

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The one-man crown prince of punk-blues; US slide-guitarist BOB LOG III, live in Todmorden.

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Nothing can stop the Bob Log guitar party juggernaut!

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"And then there's this guy named Bob Log, you ever heard of him? He's this little kid - nobody ever knows how old he is - wears a motorcycle helmet and he has a microphone inside of it and he puts the glass over the front so you can't see his face, and plays slide guitarIt's just the loudest, strangest stuff you've ever heardYou don't understand one word he's sayingI like people who glue macaroni on to a piece of cardboard and paint it goldThat's what I aspire to basically" - Tom Waits

Bump Pow! https://youtu.be/HSy0HUbh48U

Shake The Boot https://youtu.be/EMoIbua-Ids

Bob Log III, Fat Possum recording artist and one man band crown prince of punk blues from Tuscon, ArizonaWitnessing Bob Log live is an unmissable and unforgettable experienceBy rights he should be a punk blues stadium super starHe takes to the stage with his face masked in a crash helmet with a black visor and a telephone wired in it for a mic and wearing a blue jump suitBob then unleashes a torrent of hardcore Mississippi Delta blues, hip hop beats and punk rockThe crash helmet telephone distorts the vocals and his hands, arms, legs and feet become a blur of jump suit clad limbs as he plays slide, triggers drum machines and drums with his feet simultaneouslyBob then adds extra ingredients to this punk blues bouillabaisse with his unique version of audience participationMore often them not he'll bounce a couple of audience members on his knees while playing, and then bring on the infamous Boob ScotchThe audience are invited to literally stick their boob in his scotch which he then drinksIf Bob feels satisfied he will then launch into his anthem Boob Scotch!

Bob Log's identity and history is shrouded in mystery and rumour, probably helped by his stage get up and also when his record company Fat Possum put out an early press release claiming Log had a monkey's paw grafted on to his wrist after a boating accident as a childHere's an excerpt....."When Bob Log III was a child, he lost his left hand in a boating accidentIt was soon replaced with a monkey paw, and a new guitar style was born'It's my own personal style, see,' Log says, 'the paw moves much quicker than a normal hand, so my real hand has to flop around a lot to compensate.'" When asked to explain Fat Possum's insistence that his right hand is a monkey's paw, Log replied to an interviewer that, "My hand is just hairyVery, very hairyIt is NOT a PAWFat Possum was drunk." Log further clarified the monkey paw myth in an interview with Bizarre Magazine: "I've got all my limbsIt's just that when I'm playing my guitar my hand moves so fast it looks like a monkey paw, a hairy pawMy hand moves really fastFaster than a normal human hand"

In fact Bob Log III was born in Tucson, Arizona and is a virtuoso slide player who plays with extremely thick strings tuned very loose that gives him his unique "floppy" soundGrowing up, Log listened to artists such as Chuck Berry, Bo Diddley and AC/DC, later commenting that "That's what rock'n'roll is to meYou take a guitar, turn it up and have a good time...everyone else can go listen to Pearl Jam if they want to." Bob Log got his first guitar at the age of 11, and by the age of 16 he had become smitten with Delta Blues, modelling his slide guitar style on that of Mississippi Fred McDowellLog began his music career recording with Mondo Guano, a four-piece metal-blues band based in ArizonaUpon leaving Mondo Guano, Log went on to perform as one-half of seminal early Delta punk blues duo Doo RagBob Log III was born when Bob was in the middle of a US tour with Doo Rag and his drummer quitWith necessity, ever the mother of invention, Bob donned a helmet he had picked up in a thrift store, took to the stage and kicked his guitar case for percussion and thus the legend of Bob Log was bornBob Log eventually found his spiritual home on maverick Mississippi blues label Fat Possum in 1998 and released a trio of classic records: School Bus, Trike and Log Bomb

In this current world of homogenised and mass marketed music, we need true mavericks like Bob Log III more than ever

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Date(s)18 Mar 2023
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VenueThe Purple Turtle.
Address9 Gun Street, Reading, Berkshire,
RG12JR

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Event Details

Date18 Mar 2023
Time(s)7:00 AM - 11:00 PM
CostGeneral Admission: GBP 15.00
VenueThe Purple Turtle.
9 Gun Street
Reading
Berkshire
RG12JR
Phone02072673939
CategoryLive Music & Concerts


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