Episode Fixteen
The long wait is over. If you’ve been holding your breath or fasting for the last 18 months to convince us to release another episode, you can breathe/eat again! This one goes out to you.
The long wait is over. If you’ve been holding your breath or fasting for the last 18 months to convince us to release another episode, you can breathe/eat again! This one goes out to you.
This is the first episode of our 3rd season, and the guests are two of our favorite musicians, best friends, and fellow WSNC session players.
Michael Kinchen plays keys in Vintage Astronaut and Marvelous Funkshun, and is also a killing bassist and tenor sax player. He’s one of those musicians that pisses you off because he’s so good at everything… motherfucker.
Russell Kelly is the guitarist for our band RKIII, as well as the Martha Bassett Band. He is also featured on her podcast, the Martha Bassett Show! He only plays one instrument.
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Episode the 13th - Short!
Mr. Haircut is one year old! To celebrate, we are sharing a nice bottle of wine. If you want to celebrate with us, pour yourself a nice bottle of wine, pull up a crackling fire and listen to these musics.
Mr. Haircut is one year old! To celebrate, we are sharing a nice bottle of wine. If you want to celebrate with us, pour yourself a nice bottle of wine, pull up a crackling fire and listen to these musics.
Today John Ray hosts a short episode with two selections from John and Jonathan’s band RKIII.
Jonathan Greene, drums
John Daniel Ray, bass
Russell Kelly, guitar
Produced by John Daniel Ray
©2019 Mr. Haircut
Episode 9.5 - The Void Between Real Episodes
Yes, it’s been a while since we’ve released an episode, but we’ve got lots of excuses! Just listen to the variety and voracity of our excuses. Jonathan had this one excuse that was so avoidant that it brought tears to my eyes, and I daresay I’ve had a number of truly stunning excuses in the past few weeks, excuses that would make certain politicians blush and excuse themselves.
Yes, it’s been a while since we’ve released an episode, but we’ve got lots of excuses! Just listen to the variety and voracity of our excuses. Jonathan had this one excuse that was so avoidant that it brought tears to my eyes, and I daresay I’ve had a number of truly stunning excuses in the past few weeks, excuses that would make certain politicians blush and excuse themselves.
This is a filler episode, just so you don’t forget about your friends Mr. Haircut. John and Jon discuss a few new projects we’re working on and we bring you, once again, Tidal Motion for your listening pleasure. Check it out for free on the podcast, or download it from your favorite music-listening service.
Love,
John
Jonathan Greene, drums
John Daniel Ray, bass
Matt Sickels, guitar
Produced by John Daniel Ray
©2019 Mr. Haircut
Episode Niner - The Flow: (Emotive Energy pt 3?)
What do you get when you take the speed of a cheetah, the fearlessness of a wolverine and the chops of an old karate master, put those personifications into actual people, put those people together in a room and have them talk about subjects they have no business talking about? — Answers at the bottom of post.
What do you get when you take the speed of a cheetah, the fearlessness of a wolverine and the chops of an old karate master, put those personifications into actual people, put those people together in a room and have them talk about subjects they have no business talking about? — Answers at the bottom of post.
Russell Kelly joins John and Jon on this episode to talk about the Flow state, and if that’s a real thing and does it serve biscuits? They quickly stray from the subject and lose the thread of conversation completely, but the train wreck is fun to listen to in a tragic sort of way. In the midst of the rambling nonsense is interspersed some snippets of great progressive improv music though, so its worth listening to through the very end just for that.
Answers: A. George Washington died in 1799 B. The square root of 512 is 22.627416998 C. Yes, it serves biscuits
Jonathan Greene, drums
John Daniel Ray, bass
Russell Kelly, guitar
Produced by John Daniel Ray
©2019 Mr. Haircut
Episode Sevensies - Emotive Energy pt 2
Ryan Hsu, guitar wizardrer of the Fruit Smoothie Trio, Papa Panda and the Bamboo Shoots, and Nylon Lion graces us with his masterly presence on this second episode of our Emotive Energy series. John tries to convince Jonathan that there is some kind of communicative energy hitherto unexamined by science that connects all living things and communicates emotion between musician and audience. John calls it emotive energy, and tries to define it while Jonathan bashes him in the head with fists of logic and Ryan tries to mitigate the damage by expounding on John’s idea and then beating Jonathan with his spiritual nunchucks . Here it is.
Ryan Hsu, guitar wizardrer of the Fruit Smoothie Trio, Papa Panda and the Bamboo Shoots, and Nylon Lion graces us with his masterly presence on this second episode of our Emotive Energy series. John tries to convince Jonathan that there is some kind of communicative energy hitherto unexamined by science that connects all living things and communicates emotion between musician and audience. John calls it emotive energy, and tries to define it while Jonathan bashes him in the head with fists of logic and Ryan tries to mitigate the damage by expounding on John’s ideas and then beating Jonathan with his spiritual nunchucks. Here it is.
Jonathan Greene, drums
John Daniel Ray, bass
Ryan Hsu, guitar
Produced by John Daniel Ray
©2019 Mr. Haircut
Episode 6ex - Emotive Energy, pt 1
Ryan Hsu, better known as Ryan, the guy from Fruit Smoothie Trio that plays the guitar, brought us coffee this morning and we invited him to talk with us about one of the most serious topics we’ve discussed this month. It just so happens Ryan is a guitar player, and so he brought his guitar and ring modulator pedals into the studio and we grilled him about his deepest, darkest fears, basic philosophy and worldview, and hair color.
Ryan Hsu, better known as Ryan, the guy from Fruit Smoothie Trio that plays the guitar, brought us coffee this morning and we invited him to talk with us about one of the most serious topics we’ve discussed this month. It just so happens Ryan is a guitar player, and so he brought his guitar and ring modulator pedals into the studio and we grilled him about his deepest, darkest fears, basic philosophy and worldview, and hair color.
Jonathan Greene, drums
John Daniel Ray, bass
Ryan Hsu, guitar, ring modulator pedal
Produced by John Daniel Ray
©2019 Mr. Haircut
Episode $4,050,612.99
Matt Sickels, aka The Hard Part, is our guest this week. We feature the second half of our conversation with him (check episode 3.x for the first part of the Hard Part) and Extra Special event today is the release of our new tune, Tidal Motion at the end of the podcast! We talk and jam in the studio with Matt for a while, about topics ranging from our cover bands to penguins to sex. Sometimes all three.
Matt Sickels, aka The Hard Part, is our guest this week. We feature the second half of our conversation with him (check episode 3.x for the first part of the Hard Part) and Extra Special event today is the release of our new tune, Tidal Motion at the end of the podcast! We talk and jam in the studio with Matt for a while, about topics ranging from our cover bands to penguins to sex. Sometimes all three.
Episode 3.x – The Hard Part
On today’s episode we have the fabulous Matt Sickles, aka. the Hard Part. He’s used to go with a faux hawk, but has recently shifted to a hard part to minimize setup time, and he usually plays the hard part on guitar with his many bands. Including, as we have recorded here, Mr. Haircut. We got some pretty nasty improvisations this episode, and some deep, inspiring, thought provoking, raucous conversation. I wrote out a script for Matt to follow, but once again, forgot it at home… so this episode is improvised. I think my squirrel already chewed on my script for next week, so we might have to improv that one too. You are in for a treat– biscuits, grandma guitars, speed picking, and cross sticking all make an appearance in this week’s Mr. Haircut.
On today’s episode we have the fabulous Matt Sickles, aka. the Hard Part. He’s used to go with a faux hawk, but has recently shifted to a hard part to minimize setup time, and he usually plays the hard part on guitar with his many bands. Including, as we have recorded here, Mr. Haircut. We got some pretty nasty improvisations this episode, and some deep, inspiring, thought provoking, raucous conversation. I wrote out a script for Matt to follow, but once again, forgot it at home… so this episode is improvised. I think my squirrel already chewed on my script for next week, so we might have to improv that one too. You are in for a treat– biscuits, grandma guitars, speed picking, and cross sticking all make an appearance in this week’s Mr. Haircut.
Here is a video of our first improvisation of the morning; I think we titled this one ‘Out of Time,’ a reference to the license plate on the car in Back to the Future.
Throughout this episode, I used a live recording of our band Hifi-Wifi playing John Coltrane’s Giant Steps at a live show in Winston-Salem, NC. This is Jonathan and I on bass and drums with Daniel Seriff on guitar.